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DAME Judi Dench Matthew Parris Andrew O'hagan Neal Ascherson DAME JUDI DENCH CaRDINAL VINCENT NICHOLS MATTHEW PARRIS GOGGLEBOX’S MARY & GILES ANDREW O’HAGAN ANTHONY HOROWITZ NEAL ASCHERSON ALEXANDER MCCaLL SMITH MAGGIE O’FARRELL SALLY MAGNUSSON JUDY MURRAY MICHAEL HEATH FINLAY WILSON JACKIE KaY WHO’S WHO Director: Caroline Knox Operations: Daphne Parlour WELCOME Marketing and PR: Carol Carr How James Boswell, who delighted in the theatre, would have approved of the Volunteers: Ghislaine Kennerley presence of the fabulous Dame Judi Dench to open the festival celebrating Children’s: Vivian French MBE, Dr Karen Alexander his life and achievements as a writer. Dame Judi’s Opening Night appearance Schools Day: Sheila McIlwraith launches a treasure trove of talks and activities for every age over the Festival Dumfries House: Louis MacCallum weekend. Huge thanks to the many friends who volunteer Now in our eighth year, this is the most ambitious programme yet, spilling their time to make the Festival possible. Also over with riches and diversity from poets, cartoonists, intrepid reporters and thanks to the Dumfries House Education team, courageous women to obsessive monarchs, war veterans and professional TV CONTENTS Dumfries House staff and the Army Cadet Force watchers - and with speakers and audience rubbing shoulders, I predict that for their invaluable help. creative sparks will fly as the power of the written word is let loose in one of WHO’S WHO 2 Scotland’s great Enlightenment houses. Trustees: James Knox (Chairman), Margaret WELCOME 3 Boswell Eliott, Peter Kennerley, Caroline Knox, So this leaves the all-important thank you to our invaluable sponsors without FESTIVAL AT A GLANCE 4/5 Gillian Watson, Dr William Zachs whom I wouldn’t be writing this welcome - most particularly, Creative Scotland, The Great Steward of Scotland Dumfries House Trust, East Ayrshire Council and THE BOSWELL PROJECT 5 The Boswell Book Festival is an event inaugurated Baillie Gifford. And of course, thank you all who come to hear the talks. Please and staged by The Boswell Trust, a charity help spread the word and bring your friends. FRIDAY’S CURTAIN UP! 6 registered in Scotland number SC041655 and SCHOOLS’ DAY 7 a company limited by guarantee registered in Caroline Knox Scotland SC380815 SATURDAY’S PROGRAMME 8 -19 Festival Director SUNDAY’S PROGRAMME 20 - 31 Registered office: Auchendrane, By Ayr, KA7 4TW. The Trust is established for the advancement of ROYAL DRAWING SCHOOL 32 heritage, literary arts and education, specifically BECOME A FESTIVAL FRIEND 33 the restoration of James Boswell’s Mausoleum in Auchinleck Churchyard and the creation of a CHILDREN’S FESTIVAL 34 - 37 visitor attraction in the adjoining Boswell Aisle. LOTS TO DO 38 The Boswell Trust has done its best to ensure the accuracy of all statements mentioned in this BOOKING INFORMATION 44 programme. Any errors are inadvertent. SPONSORS MERY O NTG O PHONE: Box Office: 01563 554 900 N M ONLINE: www.boswellbookfestival.co.uk O T S MEDIA SPONSOR MEDIA PARTNERS IN PERSON: Waterstones, High Street, Ayr N OH Tickets will also be available from the Festival Box Office at Reception IGN: J during the weekend. Pre-book to guarantee your place! S DE 2 BOSWELL BOOK FESTIVAL 2018 WWW.BOSWELLBOOKFESTIVAL.CO.UK 3 OPEN MORNING TICKETS & EVENTS The Boswell Project ALL TICKETS £9/£7c EXCEPT WHERE INDICATED. EVENTS ARE ONE HOUR LONG. and Graveyard Trail Sunday 6 May 2018: 11:00 - 13:00 Free Mausoleum and Graveyard, Auchinleck • Project display Friday 4 May Pop-up Studio in The Rothesay Room • Experts on hand to answer questions Suitable for all abilities. Age 8+ OPENING EVENING • Ancestry Advice Tickets £9, £7c, Children 8-16 £5 Dame Judi Dench 19:30 • Graveyard Tours Limited to 2 tickets per person. Drinks available from Pick up a pencil and draw with the Royal Drawing Boswell authority Dr Gordon Turnbull of Yale the Bar 18:00 until 19:15. Guests must be seated by 19:30. School! Sessions will be led by practising artists University will be talking about James Boswell, his and tutors, supported by a model and technician. family and the graveyard from 11:15 to 11:30 Saturday 5 May All materials are provided free of charge. Dame Judi Dench Screening 10:00 Plans and funding are in place to transform Andrew O’Hagan , Candia McWilliam & Alan Taylor 10:30 Saturday 5 May & Sunday 6 May Auchinleck graveyard into an all-year-round Alexander McCall Smith 12:00 visitor attraction. An application for planning Drawing the Body Clothed 10:30 - 11:50 Angus Roxburgh 12:00 ENGINEERING CENTRE, DUMFRIES HOUSE EState permission has been submitted, and it is hoped that Drawing the Head 13:30 - 14:50 Mary Killen & Gordon Turnbull 12:00 All tickets £2 and events are one hour long except where the restoration and enhancement of the historic Drawing Out and About 15:30 - 16:50 Jayne-Anne Gadhia 13:30 indicated. No unaccompanied children. Under 2s who do and atmospheric graveyard with its rich array of Neal Ascherson, Allan Little & Matthew Parris 13:30 not need a seat are free. Ages in listings are for guidance only. handsome tombstones, many dating back to the early Cardinal Vincent Nichols 14:00 eighteenth century, will commence later this year. Julian Glover 15:15 Saturday 5 May Shaun Bythell 15:15 Nicola Davies 10:00 Venues for 2018 Jackie Kay 15:30 Vivian French 10:00 Michael Heath 16:45 Eilidh Muldoon 10:00 Neal Ascherson 16:45 Our events over the weekend will take Christopher Lloyd 11:30 place in 5 venues: Matthew Parris 17:00 Gary Northfield 11:30 Michael Hall 18:15 Anthony Horowitz 13:30 • Pavilion Robin Yassin-Kassab 18:15 Nicola Davies 13:30 • Baillie Gifford Marquee Andrew O’Hagan 18:30 Eilidh Muldoon 13:30 • Tapestry Room Judy Murray 20:00 Vivian French 15:00 • Rothesay Room (Royal Drawing School) Naval Heroes 15:00 • Engineering Centre (Children’s Festival) Sunday 6 May Entrance to ALL Main Festival events will be Over the past few years, The Boswell Trust, which Finlay Wilson 10:30 Sunday 6 May through the Box Office at Reception. The venue runs the book festival, has been working towards Chai with Tony Singh 10:30 Gary Northfield 10:00 for each individual talk will be clearly marked the creation of a tourist attraction, to celebrate Christopher Lloyd 10:30 Chae Strathie 10:00 on the website on the evening of Friday 4 May. James Boswell’s life and work. Open Morning, Auchinleck Graveyard 11:00 Nicola Davies 11:30 Information Boards will display venues as you ‘The James Boswell Graveyard Trail’ will apply the David Craig & John Patterson 12:00 Vivian French 11:30 approach Reception. latest digital technology to the exploration of the Helen Pankhurst 12:00 Eilidh Muldoon 11:30 graveyard providing a biographical trail allowing David Clark 12:00 CHILDREN’S FESTIVAL AND CHILDREN’S BOX Christopher Lloyd 13:30 visitors to identify the headstones of the notable Joseph Farrell & Belinda Thomson 13:30 OFFICE WILL BE AT THE ENGINEERING CENTRE. Gary Northfield 13:30 people of Auchinleck through history as well as Struan Stevenson & Tony Singh 13:30 Vivian French, Eilidh Muldoon & Chae Strathie 15:00 their own ancestors. Users will be able to upload Maggie O’Farrell 14:00 their own images and descriptions. Darren McGarvey 15:15 InteRActive Activities Gordon Turnbull 15:15 New seating, sweeps of seasonal bulbs and an Janette Benaddi & Helen Butters 15:30 SAT 5 & SUN 6 May avenue of yew trees will transform the graveyard Chris Mullin 16:45 into a place of contemplation and enjoyment. Average time 15 minutes Stuart Kelly 16:45 A contemporary orientation point has been Mary Killen & Giles Wood 17:00 STONE MASON’S YARD commissioned to celebrate the literary brilliance of Biography’s DNA 18:15 11:00 - 13:00 & 14:00 - 16:00 James Boswell and his legacy – the first anywhere. Anthony Horowitz 18:30 HARMONY PLAYPARK Substantial funding from Ayrshire LEADER has been granted Sally Magnusson 20:00 11:00 - 13:00 & 14:00 - 16:00 for phase one. “The European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development: Europe investing in rural areas” 4 BOSWELL BOOK FESTIVAL 2018 WWW.BOSWELLBOOKFESTIVAL.CO.UK 5 Image: Sarah Dunn / www.sarahdunn.com. 19:30 / £15 Curtain Up with Nicola Davies Prize winning author, zoologist and former presenter Dame Judi Dench, CH, DBE of BBC’s The Really Wild Show, Nicola Davies explores the issues surrounding biodiversity, the health of the Limited to 2 tickets per person. Drinks available from the planet and our role in conservation, through the true Bar 18:00 until 19:15. Guests must be seated by 19:30 stories which inspired her books including those in which children find solutions to problems through A unique opportunity to hear one of our greatest actresses conservation rather than killing. talking about her life and career – from her early days in theatre Tales she will tell include The Lion who Stole my to Oscar-winning film stardom. Arm, based on a true story about man-eating lions in Mozambique, The Leopard’s Tail, a mountain Born in 1934 in Yorkshire, Judi Dench was brought up and educated as a Quaker and went on to study adventure with Caucasian leopards based on a real at the Central School of Speech and Drama. She made her professional debut as Ophelia in the Old Vic’s conservation project and The Variety of Life, a glorious 1957 production of Hamlet and over the next twenty years established herself as one of the greatest celebration of diversity within the animal kingdom. actresses of the post-war period, taking on all of Shakespeare’s leading female roles, from Cleopatra to Lady Macbeth, of which one critic wrote: “It will astonish me if the performance is matched by any in this Dumfries House actress’s generation”.
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