Contents

2 Diary of Events 19 Food at the Festival

3 Banff Mountain Film Festival 20 Wilderland Wildlife Film Festival

4 Thursday Events 21 Barefoot In The Park

7 Friday Events 22 Spring Concerts and Events

10 Saturday Events 23 Perthshire Plays

15 Sunday Events 24 Artist Development

18 Literary Lunch Menus 25 Summer Season 2020

19 Book Fair

Winter Words is programmed by Anna Day and Bob McDevitt

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Shades of Tay Scotland’s Most is supported by Welcoming Holy Trinity Theatre, 2015, Scottish 2016, 2017 & 2018 Episcopal Church

Pitlochry Festival Theatre is a Company Limited by Guarantee Registered in Scotland Number SC029243 at the below address. Scottish Charity Number SC013055 Pitlochry Festival Theatre, Port-na-craig, Pitlochry, PH16 5DR Administration: 01796 484600 | Box Office: 01796 484626 Email: [email protected] | Website: www.PitlochryFestivalTheatre.com Saturday 18th Jan 12.45pm – 2.15pm 3.00pm – 4.00pm LITERARY LUNCH Chris Brookmyre and Saturday 18th January Banff Mountain Richard Frazer Marisa Haetzman aka. Film Festival World Tour A Pilgrim's Journey to Ambrose Parry Blue Screening Santiago de Compostela The Art of Dying 2.00pm - 5.00pm 3.00pm – 4.00pm Red Screening 3.30pm | FREE event Trevor Royle 7.00pm - 10.00pm POETRY COMPETITION Scotland and the Cold War LAUNCH Thursday 13th Feb 4.30pm – 5.30pm 4.30pm -5.30pm Professor Chris Whatley Val McDermid with 10.00am – 11.00am Pabay: An Island Odyssey Alan McCredie Mary Miller My Scotland A Life of Love and Courage 6.00pm – 7.00pm Professor Angela Gallop 6.00pm -7.00pm 11.30am – 12.30pm A Forensic Scientist’s Search Sir Tom Devine for the Truth Esther Rutter The Clearances and The Golden Fleece: A Journey the Through Britain's Knitted 8.00pm – 9.00pm History Gavin Esler 8.00pm -9.00pm The Truth About 12.45pm – 2.15pm Paul Murton The Viking Isles LITERARY LUNCH Saturday 15th Clare Hunter © Ben Tibbetts A History of the World Through 9.30am – 10.30am Sunday 16th the Eye of a Needle Kenneth Steven 10.00am – 11.00am Writing the Tay 2.00pm - 5.00pm (Blue Screening) | 7.00pm - 10.00pm (Red Screening) 3.00pm – 4.00pm at Port Na Craig Rehearsal rooms Pip Hills Doddie Weir The Founder’s Tale The World According to Doddie 10.00am – 11.00am 11.30am – 12.30pm Banff Mountain Film Festival World Tour James Hunter £16.50 concessions available | £28.00 for both film programmes 4.30pm – 5.30pm Insurrection: Scotland’s Sue Lawrence Sue Armstrong Famine Winter Food Secrets from The Banff Mountain Film Festival returns There’s also The Imaginary Line where, in the Scottish Islands The Science of How and for a fifth awe-inspiring year with two an act of political solidarity, a team from Why We Age 10.30am – 11.30am CHILDREN'S EVENT (ages 4 - 10) 12.45pm – 2.15pm different screenings. Embark on a thrilling Mexico and the USA come together to set LITERARY LUNCH 6.00pm – 7.00pm Mairi Kidd and Tom adventure with a brand-new collection of up a slackline across the border between Alistair Moffat Morgan-Jones Ghillie Bassan short films bringing together the world’s them. In troubled times, they hope the A Journey to Lindisfarne Spirit and Spice Strong Brave True: Great Scots best adventure film-makers and cross- highline will symbolise something bigger, 7.15pm | FREE event Who Changed the World . . . 3.00pm – 4.00pm globe explorers. Witness epic human- and create a positive shift in the world. And How You Can Too Writers' Drinks Sally Magnusson powered feats, life-affirming challenges The Ninth Child Join us for an adrenaline-fuelled, not- 11.30am – 12.30pm and mind-blowing cinematography – all to-be-missed event, with free prize Friday 14th The King in The North 4.30pm – 5.30pm on the big screen! giveaways, guaranteed to ignite your Gordon Noble and Nicholas 10.00am – 11.00am Evans The House by the Loch Full programme details will be unveiled passion for adventure, action and travel! Alan Rowan early in January, but we can reveal that Mountains of the Moon: 12.45pm – 2.15pm 6.00pm – 7.00pm Visit our website for updates or go to LITERARY LUNCH this year’s selection will include The Lunar Nights on Scotland's Freeland Barbour and Banff-uk.com to find out more. Mairi Kidd Ladakh Project, starring French athlete High Peaks Gerda Stevenson Warriors, Witches and Age Guidance: 12A (Under 12s can attend if The White Rose of Gask Nouria Newman as she embarks on a 11.30am – 12.30pm Damned Rebel Bitches - The life and songs of 375km solo kayaking expedition down accompanied by an adult.) Mike Cawthorne Scottish Women to Carolina Oliphant, Lady Nairne A Journey of Loss and Renewal Live Your Life By northern India’s most remote and most In April, we're hosting the Wilderland Wildlife Film daunting rivers. Festival. Turn to page 20 for details. 01796 484626 • PitlochryFestivalTheatre.com 01796 484626 • PitlochryFestivalTheatre.com 3 12.45pm – 2.15pm Thursday 13th Thursday 13th Clare Hunter A History of the World Through the Eye of a Needle £25.50 LITERARY LUNCH includes two-course lunch with coffee or tea See page 18 for menu

We have, says Clare Hunter, always sewed our story. From the political propaganda of the Bayeux Mary Miller Esther Rutter Tapestry to First World Doddie Weir War soldiers with PTSD, to 10.00am – 11.00am | £9.25 11.30am – 12.30pm | £9.25 maps sewn by schoolgirls in the New World, from 3.00pm – 4.00pm | £12.50 Mary Miller Esther Rutter medieval France to Jane Haining: A Life of Love and The Golden Fleece: A Journey contemporary Mexico Doddie Weir Courage Through Britain's Knitted History and from a POW camp in The World According We start Winter Words with a book that Writer in Residence for the University of Singapore to a family attic to Doddie will make you believe true heroes really St. Andrews School of Geography and in Scotland. Each stitch is a We’re delighted to be do exist. Jane Haining was a farmer's Sustainable Development, Esther Rutter story of identity, protest, welcoming Scottish rugby daughter from Galloway who went to grew up on a sheep farm and learnt to memory, power and legend of 61 caps, Doddie work at the Scottish Jewish Mission spin, weave and knit as a child. Over the politics. Clare joins us to tell Weir to Winter Words, since School in Budapest in 1932. When war course of a year, she has travelled the stories of men and women, he was unable to make it broke out, she refused to leave her pupils, length of the British Isles to unravel the over centuries and across in 2019. Sporting hero and writing: “If these children need me in days story of wool's long history here. continents, who have used MND campaigner Doddie of sunshine, how much more do they the language of sewing to is instantly recognisable On her journey Esther unearthed need me in days of darkness?” make their voices heard. as a national treasure. Over the decades he has made fascinating community histories, lives everyone - from rugby fans to royalty - laugh at his one- Author Mary Miller’s shaped by wool: from Border counties liners and life observations. lifelong dedication mill workers, to English market towns to the care of built on wool trade profits, and Highland Now he’s taken the advice of many and written down his children in difficult communities cleared for sheep farming. mottos, mantras and secrets to enjoying life! Through situations drew Knitter, natterer, singer, and hill-walker, The World According to Doddie, he brings us his favourite her to explore Jane Esther brings her tales to us in Pitlochry lessons for life in his uniquely hilarious, thought- Haining’s devotion, in an event that is both an exploration of provoking and life-affirming style, all while explaining and she joins us to wool's influence on our landscape, history how he manages to smile against the odds. discuss and read and culture, and a meditation on the craft Doddie will make you laugh, make you cry, and send you the first biography of knitting! home with his own brand of positive thinking, in his A-Z Clare Hunter of one of Scotland’s of life and how to live it! greatest daughters.

4 01796 484626 • PitlochryFestivalTheatre.com 5 10.00am – 11.00am | £9.25 Thursday 13th Friday 14th Alan Rowan 4.30pm – 5.30pm | £9.25 Mountains of the Moon: Lunar Sue Nights on Scotland's High Peaks Imagine a year of thirteen full moons, Armstrong including a rare, blue, supermoon: The Science of How thirteen special nights on Scotland's and Why We Age highest mountains - the Munros - in the Science broadcaster and Alistair Moffat course of one exceptional year. Add a writer, Sue Armstrong will soundtrack for each walk (and a surprising delve beneath the skin of range of celebratory drinks) for a fitting the quest to understand 6.00pm – 7.00pm | £9.25 finale to the Moonwalker series that Alan ageing and prevent, has shared with Winter Words audiences or delay, the crippling Alistair Moffat since he began his walking. A Journey to Lindisfarne conditions associated with Share in his flaming sunsets, long, old age. Alistair Moffat is a chronicler of history, a creative giant; a beautiful moonlit night walks and man who has changed the cultural landscape of Scotland stunning sunrises with this illustrated Sue, a consultant writer with his history books and his festivals work including the talk. Brace yourself for blizzards, gales 11.30am – 12.30pm | £9.25 for the World Health Fringe Festival. Organization and UNAIDS and darkness in a journey of dedication, for more than 25 years, will Here, Alistair is in a reflective mood and invites you to fortitude, and vast expertise. Mike Cawthorne engage us in the theories join him travelling to - and through the history of - the “Glows with the wild, alien beauty of Walking Through Shadows: of ageing, focussing on fated island of Lindisfarne. Walking from his home in the the mountains at night – although A Journey of Loss and Renewal what’s going on in our Borders, through the historical landscape of Scotland there are plenty of great one-liners Mike Cawthorne began hill-walking on and northern England, he will take us on a pilgrimage in bodies at the most basic too.” Alex Roddie, The Great Outdoors Ben Nevis aged seven, and has been level of cells and genes, the footsteps of saints and scholars, before arriving for a climbing mountains ever since. When his looking for answers to why secular retreat on the Holy Isle. friend died, he undertook a winter walk and how our skin wrinkles, Lindisfarne, famous for its monastery, home to Saints that was part memorial, part escape. why wounds take much Aidan and Cuthbert and the place where the celebrated Along with another mutual friend, Mike longer to heal, and why Lindisfarne Gospels were written, has long been a place of traversed the wildest and most remote words escape us at crucial sanctuary. Will Alistair find peace in this place? Join us to areas of Britain, entirely reliant on food moments in conversation. find out. parcels buried beforehand. Mike will describe some of the last 7.15pm | This is a FREE event but booking is required wild places in Scotland but will also Writers' Drinks! take you on a journey of grief, chance, If you’re a writer, or would love to start writing, come mental illness and ecological damage. along to the Café Bar after the last event on Thursday The walkers ask themselves a question and meet our Artistic Director, Elizabeth Newman and - can the hills help us heal? But also, Associate Directors. We’ll discuss all things writing, and whether the hills themselves can be writer’s craft – there’ll also be a special guest joining us healed. Within the context of an extreme . . . and we'll provide a free dram or two! Alan Rowan mountaineering adventure, a thought- provoking and moving event, grappling Sue Armstrong Book in person or by phoning Box Office:01796 484626. with issues of vital importance to us all.

6 01796 484626 • PitlochryFestivalTheatre.com 01796 484626 • PitlochryFestivalTheatre.com 7 4.30 pm – 5.30 pm | £9.25 Friday 14th Professor Friday 14th 12.45pm – 2.15pm Chris Whatley Richard Frazer Pabay: An Island Odyssey A Pilgrim's Journey The tiny diamond-shaped island of Pabay to Santiago de lies in Skye's Inner Sound, just two and Compostela a half miles from the bustling village of Broadford. Len and Margaret Whatley £25.50 LITERARY LUNCH includes two-course lunch moved to Pabay from the Midlands, with coffee or tea leaving a land-locked life in Birmingham for the emptiness of an uninhabited See page 18 for menu island. Christopher Whatley, their Santiago de Compostela nephew, was a regular visitor to Pabay Prof. Angela Gallop is a city in north-western whilst they lived there. Spain, which originated Well-known Scottish historian and around the shrine of the 6.00 pm – 7.00 pm | £12.50 Professor of Scottish History at the apostle, St. James the University of Dundee, Chris will mix Great, and is now a UNESCO Professor Trevor Royle stories from his past with archival World Heritage Site. research to explore the history of this Angela Gallop Almost 300,000 people tiny island jewel, and the people for A Forensic Scientist’s Search for officially complete the 3.00pm – 4.00pm | £9.25 whom it has been home, to create a vivid the Truth journey to Santiago picture of the trials, tribulations and joys Professor Angela Gallop is one of the each year - hundreds of Trevor Royle of island life. UK’s most eminent forensic scientists. thousands more travel at Scotland and the Cold War She’s been involved in cases such as the least part of the way. Between the end of the Second World War and the Yorkshire Ripper, the Cardiff Three, the collapse of Communism, confrontation with the Soviet Pembrokeshire Coastal Path murders Richard Frazer will share his Union was an everyday reality. As part of NATO's and the killings of Stephen Lawrence, discovery, on a pilgrimage response, Scotland played a key role in the alliance's Damilola Taylor, Rachel Nickell and to the shrine, into how a forward maritime defence strategy, aimed at containing Roberto Calvi. journey undertaken with the Soviet threat from naval and air forces. an open and hospitable Now she joins us to take us from the heart can provide renewal Trevor Royle – broadcaster, author and fellow of the crime scene to the courtroom, explaining and transformation: filling Royal Society of Edinburgh - will paint a fascinating how criminal justice rests heavily – more what many people see as portrait of this extraordinary period, examining the wider than ever – on scientific evidence. With the spiritual void in 21st military and political contexts, and showing how the ever-more sophisticated and powerful century life. defence industry brought huge economic benefits, how techniques at their disposal, forensic CND (Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament) maintained a scientists have an unprecedented ability In these times of political high-profile presence, and how anti-nuclear sentiments to help solve even the most complex turmoil and closing underpinned much of the left's thinking in Scotland. cases. borders, here is a truly remarkable man sharing 'Engrossing... Like a military commander at the With more than 40 years-experience, top of his game… to show how Scotland has been Professor Gallop will tell us the how to open our hearts. Prof. Chris Whatley shaped by, and also helped shape, the Cold War.” remarkable story of a life spent searching Barclay McBain, The Herald for the truth.

8 01796 484626 • PitlochryFestivalTheatre.com 01796 484626 • PitlochryFestivalTheatre.com 9 10.00am – 11.00am | £9.25 Friday 14th Saturday 15th James Hunter Saturday 15th WORKSHOP Insurrection: Scotland’s Famine 9.30am – 10.30am Winter £12.50 Scotland’s 1846 potato crop Kenneth was wiped out by blight. The country was plunged Steven into crisis. In the Hebrides Writing the Tay and the West Highlands a at Port Na Craig Rehearsal huge relief effort came too Rooms late to prevent starvation Festival favourite, Kenneth and death. Further east, Steven, joins us for a very towns and villages rose up special event - a chance in protest at the cost of to learn about writing the oatmeal that replaced poetry from an expert. potatoes as people’s basic Gavin Esler Kenneth is the author of foodstuff. 14 collections of poems, many of which are inspired Those dramatic events 8.00 pm – 9.00 pm | £12.50 by the wildscape of his have long been ignored or native Highland Scotland. forgotten. Now, in James Gavin Esler Hunter CBE, they have The Truth About Brexit Saturday morning with Kenneth will ignite your their historian. He joins By the time of Winter Words, Brexit may well be on creativity, taking your us to tell a story that is its way to a conclusion. However, many questions will inspiration from the River moving, anger-inducing remain. Will it boost or lose jobs? Will it wreck the NHS? 10.30am – 11.30am CHILDREN'S EVENT Tay to create a piece of and inspiring. Come and Or cause food shortages? £5.00 per child work. Whether you’re a hear a long-hidden part of Gavin Esler, journalist, television presenter and author, beginner or already an Scottish history from one Mairi Kidd and is a man who should know. He was a main presenter of accomplished writer, this of the best story-tellers the BBC current affairs show, for 12 years. workshop will help you around. Tom Morgan-Jones Strong Brave True: Great Scots Who Changed Since 2014 he has been the Chancellor of the University craft your words. of Kent, and in 2019 he stood for election to the European the World... And How You Can Too The workshop is part of the Parliament. The perfect start to a fun Saturday for all the family! Pitlochry Festival Theatre’s Inspirational stories to captivate younger audiences, Gavin will set out how the most momentous change Shades of Tay project, that about sports stars, artists, explorers and engineers – in Britain for decades will change everyday life. From will see the creation of 50 Scots who changed the world. Mairi and Tom will bring supermarket aisles to NHS operating theatres, and artworks to celebrate the characters to life – some famous, some not - with from the shop floor of car manufacturing plants to the river, and the communities drawing and reading their stories. boardrooms of our biggest companies, Brexit Without and people who live along the Bullsh*t is not about the Brexit you were told you it. Kenneth will read the Did you know that Alexander Fleming won the Nobel Prize were getting. It's about the one that is arriving. best work as part of the for Medicine discovering penicillin? And that Williamina official launch of the poetry Fleming, a Scottish astronomer, discovered hundreds “Really useful… punchy, short and pithy.” competition later in the of stars? Come and find out about their lives, and many Polly Toynbee, British journalist and writer day. (see 3:30pm) more from Scotland’s past and present. 10 01796 484626 • PitlochryFestivalTheatre.com 11 12.45pm – 2.15pm Saturday 15th Saturday 15th Mairi Kidd Warriors, Witches 4.30pm – 5.30pm | £9.25 and Damned Rebel Bitches Val McDermid Scottish Women to with Alan Live Your Life By McCredie £25.50 LITERARY LUNCH My Scotland includes two-course lunch Join the Queen of Crime on with coffee or tea a journey to the landscapes See page 18 for menu Chris Brookmyre and Marisa Haetzman she has known all her life, Throughout history, and the places where her Scottish women have 3.00pm – 4.00pm | £9.25 stories and characters broken the rules with reside. She’ll take you attitude! Now you can join Chris Brookmyre and to hideaways in the one of Scotland’s most Marisa Haetzman aka. Highlands, to the majestic exciting voices in literature streets of Edinburgh, from Ambrose Parry Karen Pirie’s Fife to Lindsay for an event where she will The Art of Dying introduce you to some of Gordon’s . It's 1849, Edinburgh. Recent medical discoveries are the most inspirational and All the way, you’ll be changing the way people live - and die. Crime duo fierce sisters to fire you up treated to images taken extraordinaire, Chris Brookmyre and his wife Marissa and face your own modern by award-winning Haetzman, who writes under the pseudonym of Ambrose day dilemmas with serious photographer, Alan Parry, have spun a tale that will captivate you, whether style. McCredie, who set out to you’re a fan of history, a factual buff or if you love a good 11.30am – 12.30pm | £9.25 document the places that Mairi Kidd brings some of crime-ridden tale. Gordon Noble and the best-known Scottish lit Val’s fire. This is an event heroes to life, alongside They’ll be discussing how they bring their characters to for everyone, so sit back Nicholas Evans some of whom you’ll never life, how they balance working life and a harmonious and immerse yourself in The King in The North have heard. Join us for home and just how they manage to bring the Victorian the glory of Scotland from streets of Edinburgh to life. a new point of view! Perthshire and the River Tay were once thought to be the a delicious lunch, some centre for the Pictish heartland of Fortriu but, through lessons in being the best you can be, and go home a revolution in Early Medieval history in Scotland, new 3.30pm | FREE event evidence has shown that historians may have been with a spring in your step. wrong – it was actually on the Moray Firth. What are the POETRY COMPETITION Launch implications of this discovery, how was it made and what As part of Shades of Tay, a three-year creative project centred on celebrating the work has taken place since to prove the new theory? beautiful River Tay, join us in the theatre foyer for the official launch of the2020 Join Professor Gordon Noble, Senior Archaeology Pitlochry Festival Theatre and John Muir Trust Poetry Competition, supported by the Lecturer, and Dr Nick Evans, Research Fellow, both from Highland Book Prize, with poetry read by Kenneth Steven, Mairi Kidd and more. the University of Aberdeen, for a fascinating discussion The competition will have three categories: Young Poets, Adult Amateur Poets and on the King of the North: to discuss and decipher what is Professional Poets. The winners will be celebrated at Winter Words 2021. Come along known about this formative period in Scotland’s history – Mairi Kidd to find out more! and what is still not understood. 12 01796 484626 • PitlochryFestivalTheatre.com 01796 484626 • PitlochryFestivalTheatre.com 13 10.00am – 11.00am | £9.25 Saturday 15th Pip Hills Sunday 16th 6.00pm – 7.00pm | £12.50 The Founder's Tale Sir Tom Devine The perfect Sunday starts The Clearances and with a story, a hearty laugh and a real raconteur. the Scottish People Eighteenth-century The world of whisky used Scotland is famed for to be a staid one. But when generating many of the Pip Hills, with a little help enlightened ideas which from his friends, created helped to shape the the Scotch Malt Whisky modern world but many Society, he started a Scots lost everything in revolution. a time of violent change, It begins in a small farm in as traditional ways of Aberdeenshire and moves life were overturned. The through high places (The Paul Murton Clearances undoubtedly World Trade Centre) and helped shape the nation we low (a jungle dive in the know today, but historians South Seas), with the help have struggled to define 8.00pm – 9.00pm | £14.50 of the famous and the what happened. That obscure, the good, the bad is until Sir Tom Devine, Paul Murton and the mildly delinquent! one of Scotland’s leading The Viking Isles Join us for an hour of Sue Lawrence historians, decided to bring Paul Murton, one of Scotland’s best-known TV stories about bringing his authoritative voice to presenters, has long had a love of the Viking north. Scotland’s finest product the subject. The island groups of Orkney and Shetland and the old to a waiting world. 11.30am – 12.30pm | £9.25 counties of Caithness and Sutherland, for centuries, Conjuring the voices of were part of the Nordic world as depicted in the great the dispossessed and Sue Lawrence classic, the Orkneyinga saga. Today, this fascinating exploding myths about this Food Secrets from the Scottish Islands Scandinavian legacy can be found everywhere – in defining period for Scotland Sue Lawrence has been on a personal odyssey - a trip physical remains, place names, local traditions and and its people, Sir Tom round Scotland's islands speaking to producers and folklore. joins us at Winter Words cooks, gleaning recipes along the way. From islands such to tell us how he used the This event is a personal account of Paul’s travels in the as Mull, Raasay, Out Skerries and Luing she has amassed experience gained in his Viking north. Full of observation, history, anecdote and stories of food and made lifelong friends. long and distinguished encounters with those who live there, he’ll also present a Sue won fame in BBC’s Masterchef and writes for career to understand and practical guide to the many places of interest. Scotland on Sunday, Country Living and BBC Good reveal the experience Spend Saturday evening in the company of one of Food Magazine, amongst many others. Chef and writer of the poor during an the most charismatic men on TV, as he takes us to a extraordinaire, she joins us to tell the tales of her travels, era of unprecedented singalong with the Shanty Yell boys, fishing off Muckle of the people she met and the food she ate, as well as transformation. Flugga, sword dancing with the men of Papa Stour and a sharing a few of her recipe secrets with us. Sue will leave Our café, bar and restaurant Norwegian pub crawl in Lerwick. All without leaving the everyone with a warm Sunday morning feeling that will are open all day (details on p19) comfort of your Pitlochry seat! fill you up for the whole of the day.

14 01796 484626 • PitlochryFestivalTheatre.com 01796 484626 • PitlochryFestivalTheatre.com 15 4.30pm – 5.30pm | £10.00 Sunday 16th Kirsty Wark Sunday 16th 12.45pm – 2.15pm The House by the Ghillie Bassan Loch Spirit and Spice One of Britain’s best- known television £25.50 LITERARY LUNCH presenters – most includes two-course lunch with coffee or tea associated with fronting BBC Two’s See page 18 for menu news and Newsnight – Kirsty Wark, also journalist and novelist, takes a break Is there a finer companion from Brexit and politics to read from and for lunch than Ghillie talk about her latest novel. Bassan? We think not. Writer, broadcaster, and An atmospheric story, set in the wilds of food anthropologist, Scotland, it brings real historical events her internationally and fiction together seamlessly in a acclaimed books have been sweeping novel of family drama and long- nominated for too many hidden secrets. Kirsty won awards for her food awards to list here. debut, The Legacy of Elizabeth Pringle 6.00pm – 7.00pm | £9.25 back in 2014 and this second novel has Today Ghillie will be delving Sally Magnusson won her an even bigger army of fans. Freeland Barbour and into the pages of Spirit and Spice – a recipe book, and Kirsty joins us to discuss her new Gerda Stevenson a portrait of a family living 3.00pm – 4.00pm | £10.00 book, how she combines the political The White Rose of Gask - The life and eating in the Scottish maelstrom with her writing life – and we’ll and songs of Carolina Oliphant, Highlands. She will explain Sally Magnusson find out if she’ll ever combine the two. Lady Nairne how she’s used Scotland’s The Ninth Child We are finishing Winter Words 2020 fabulous produce, wild Shhhh! Don’t tell, but we have a world exclusive. with a very special musical event. It is food and whisky, to create TV presenter and novelist, Sally Magnusson, will be nearly 175 years since the death of one delicious dishes from her joining us ahead of the launch of her second novel with a of Perthshire and Scotland’s best-loved remote home. very special sneak preview of The Ninth Child. songwriters, Carolina Oliphant, who wrote over 100 songs in her lifetime, which A delicious meal, a Sally did her first event for her debut novel,The rival Burns’ in popularity – such as The fascinating talk. The Sealwoman’s Gift, at Winter Words 2018 and we’re Rowan Tree, Will Ye No Come Back Again, perfect Sunday lunch! delighted to welcome her back to tell us about her new and Charlie is my Darling. And yet, due book - a spellbinding novel combining Scottish folklore mainly to her own modesty and wish for with hidden history. anonymity, the details of her life are not Sally will bring along her incredible characters, and talk on well-known. the events that inspired her to write about Loch Katrine Freeland Barbour, celebrated Scottish in 1856 and a wilderness quickly becoming an industrial folk musician, composer and producer, wasteland, entwined with loss and grief. and Gerda Stevenson, actress, singer- Her writing life, stories and success will all be under songwriter, poet, want to right that Ghillie Bassan the Winter Words spotlight. Don’t miss this very Kirsty Wark wrong with an evening of songs and special event. stories from Lady Nairne’s life. 16 01796 484626 • PitlochryFestivalTheatre.com 01796 484626 • PitlochryFestivalTheatre.com 17 Literary Lunch Menus Winter Words Festival Buy the book! Tasty two-course lunches served with tea or coffee Yeadon’s Booksellers will be selling signed books by guest authors. Their professional booksellers, dedicated, enthusiastic and knowledgeable, will be on-hand to help. Our spectacular views, and fabulous range FOODof meals make sure eating with us will Like to read up in advance? always be special. You can order or reserve any book by a Winter Words author now. Have it come to you – or pick up at the Festival. Simply go to www.yeadons.co.uk and complete an online form. You can also make a dedication.

Thursday 13th Friday 14th Saturday 15th Sunday 16th Clare Hunter Richard Frazer Mairi Kidd Ghillie Bassan A History of the A Pilgrim's Journey Warriors, Witches Spirit and Spice World Through the to Santiago de and Damned Eye of a Needle Compostela Rebel Bitches

Main Seared Fillet of Supreme of Roasted Shoulder Slow-braised Sea Bass Chicken of Pork Featherblade of This year meals are available all day So you can eat when it suits your Winter Scottish Beef with lemon and dill with roasted with wholegrain Words. No booking required! potatoes, wilted potatoes, chorizo mustard mash, with creamy mash, baby spinach, and pepper ragout, apple relish, glazed carrots, green Breakfast: 9 – 11.30am beetroot salsa and garden peas and parsnips and beans and If you’re travelling in for an early talk, white wine velouté rosemary jus sage jus red wine jus or you just want to settle in and relax Buy a book and donate Desserts before your day, why not join us for Satisfy your love of books with a relaxing breakfast? Choose from assorted pastries browse of the unique Pitlochry Station Vanilla Panna Cotta Sticky Toffee Classic Bread and Apple, Pear and and hot rolls. Bookshop second-hand and new with berry compôte Pudding Butter Pudding Cinnamon Crumble bookstall, in the foyer between events. and honeycomb with butterscotch with salted caramel with custard All Day Menu: 12 – 8pm From bestsellers and children’s classics and vanilla ice-cream Meals served throughout the theatre. to antiquarian gems – find a bargain and ice-cream help them raise funds for many different Simply find a table and then order from charities. the Café, the Bar or the Restaurant. Coffee or Tea Coffee or Tea Coffee or Tea Coffee or Tea Children’s lunchboxes available on and Mints and Mints and Mints and Mints Saturday 15 February. Literary lunches: booking required. 18 01796 484626 • PitlochryFestivalTheatre.com 01796 484626 • PitlochryFestivalTheatre.com 19 Presented by Pitlochry Festival Theatre and Royal Lyceum Theatre Edinburgh. 12 - 29 March 2020

Written by Neil Simon Directed by Elizabeth Newman

Starring: Jessica Hardwick, Clare Grogan, and Olivier Hubans

Date: Sat 11 April | Time: 7.30pm | £15.00 / £13.50 concessions Wilderland Wildlife Film Festival Selected from over a hundred entries Big Wildlife Revival, Springwatch) and from film-makers around the globe, producer/director Louise Heren (Big Cat Wilderland is appearing for the first time Diaries). at Pitlochry, touring the very best of the Audiences will have the chance to world’s short wildlife films. A must-see support some of our planet's most An irresistable comedy about love, for lovers of the wild animal kingdom, TEN BY endangered species. At each show, WRIT N life and living together film,NEIL travel, SIMO conservation and adventure. you will be invited to vote for one of five STARRING: SeeDIRECTED some BYof the world’s most enigmatic endangered species. At the end of the ELIZABETH NEWMAN wildlife on the big-screen: from snow tour, the Wilderland team will embark on leopards in the Himalayas, to orangutans a film about the most voted for, raising in Borneo, on to the majestic humpback awareness of its plight, premiered at the whale, and many more. Films are still next Wilderland Film Festival. being submitted, to be shortlisted and Get ready to make a difference! unveiled for full details in the New Year. “It’s so exciting to see these Judges include: award-winning breathtaking films on the big cameraman Doug Allan (The Blue Planet, Jessica Hardwick Clare Grogan Olivier Huband screen for the first time" Planet Earth, Frozen Planet), naturalist STEVE BACKSHALL, naturalist, writer and and author Stephen Moss (Britain’s television presenter Written by Neil Simon Age Guidance: 12A Directed by Elizabeth Newman 20 01796 484626 • PitlochryFestivalTheatre.com Pitlochry Festival Theatre Spring Concerts SHADES OF

Pasadena Roof Orchestra Thu 6 Feb Sat 29 Feb

50 ARTWORKS OVER THREE YEARS Celebrating Scotland Burns Nicht Sat 25 Jan Fri 7 Feb Fri 21 Feb See PitlochryFestivalTheatre.com for details

Fri 28 Feb Perthshire Plays Perthshire Plays is a new joint initiative Launching early 2020, enjoy fresh between Playwrights’ Studio Scotland, new writing from Perthshire in a brand Pitlochry Festival Theatre, Birnam Arts, new programme of discussions and Simon and Garfunkel Sat 8 Feb Horsecross Arts and playwright Lesley workshops with high profile writers and Wilson for new and existing playwrights, performers, as well as staged events giving opportunities to develop their craft showcasing brand new plays from writers Sat 4 Apr Sat 22 Feb and share their work with audiences. in the region. To find out more: go to playwrightsstudio.co.uk

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Room for Writers We’ve created two rooms especially for writers beside the River Tummel, and pine-edged Loch Faskally. The perfect place for nature’s inspiration. And there’s no hire fee. To find out more, or to book: email [email protected].

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