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Petworth Festival
Literary Week
Sat 27 Oct – Sun 4 Nov 2018
Michael Morpurgo • Fay Weldon • Alan Titchmarsh
Alison Weir • Paddy Ashdown • Max Hastings
Kate Williams • Julian Fellowes • Sebastian Faulks and more…
Box Office opens Fri 5 October
See www.petworthfestival.org.uk for tickets and more details
Or phone 01798 344 576At a glance Welcome to the
Saturday 27 October
7.30pm St Mary’s Church Michael Morpurgo The War Horse Concert Petworth Festival
Monday 29 October
7.30pm St Mary’s Church Robin Knox-Johnston Running Free
Literary Week 2018
Tuesday 30 October
11.30am Leconfield Hall Alison Weir & Kate Williams Tudor Tragedies
2.00pm Leconfield Hall Fay Weldon After the Peace / Why Will No-One Publish My Novel?
4.30pm Leconfield Hall Laura Freeman & Kate Young The Reading Cure / The Little Library Cookbook
7.30pm Leconfield Hall Henry Blofeld Over and Out
Wednesday 31 October
11.30am Leconfield Hall Henrietta Knight The Jumping Game
2.00pm Leconfield Hall Adam Hart-Davis Schrödinger’s Cat
4.30pm St Mary’s Church Andrew Roberts Churchill
7.30pm St Mary’s Church Paddy Ashdown Nein! Standing Up to Hitler (1935-1944)
Thursday 1 November Petworth Festival has already celebrated in style in 2018 with a hugely
popular and successful summer festival in celebration of our first 40
11.30am St Mary’s Church Alan Titchmarsh The Scarlet Nightingale
years. So whilst an eighth running of the literary festival doesn’t quite
2.00pm St Mary’s Church Yasmin Alibhai-Brown In Defence of Political Correctness match up in terms of longevity, we can in all honesty point to a series
4.30pm St Mary’s Church Mark Wigglesworth The Silent Musician of autumn festivals that has absolutely ‘grown like topsy’ since its
7.30pm St Mary’s Church Julian Fellowes in conversation with Douglas Rae inception (whatever that slightly curious phrase actually means!) back
in 2011.
Friday 2 November
In 2018 we find ourselves awash with wonderful events in prospect
11.30am Leconfield Hall Mark Austin And Thank You For Watching and we hope you will follow us through the week as much as you
2.00pm Leconfield Hall Sam Leith Write to the Point can. Our aim is to range widely across subject areas and always with
4.30pm Leconfield Hall Jana Bakunina & Angus Roxburgh Bird’s Milk / Moscow Calling a view to informing and entertaining. And increasingly the shape of
7.30pm Leconfield Hall David Bowie at the V&A (film event) with Victoria Broackes & Geoffrey Marsh the individual events across the week is diversifying with more shared
events, conversations and visual interpolations.
Saturday 3 November I have two special mentions: one is to offer a particular vote of thanks
11.00am United Reformed Church Poetry Popup with Rachel Long & the West Sussex Arts Society (schools’ event) to the staff and management at Seaford College where we alight for
2.00pm St Mary’s Church Andrew Adonis Half In, Half Out the first time for one of our most high profile and prestigious events
5.30pm St Mary’s Church Sebastian Faulks Paris Echo with historian Max Hastings; and secondly to Steve Howe and his staff
at the Petworth Bookshop. Thanks for the great teamwork as ever.
8.00pm St Mary’s Church Robin Ince I’m a Joke and So Are You
Long may it continue.
Sunday 4 November Stewart Collins
11.00am Leconfield Hall Poetry Breakfast: Old Toffer’s Book of Consequential Dogs with Artistic Director
Christopher Reid & Elliot Elam
3.00pm Seaford College Max Hastings Vietnam
5.00pm Leconfield Hall Darren Henley Inventing Tomorrow: How to Spark a Creativity Revolution Petworth Festival 2019:
7.30pm Leconfield Hall Tom Bower Rebel Prince: The Power, Passion and Defiance of Prince Charles Wednesday 17 July – Saturday 3 August
Petworth Festival Literary Week 2019:
Saturday 26 October – Sunday 3 November
Box Office: www.petworthfestival.org.uk / 01798 344 576 Box Office: www.petworthfestival.org.uk / 01798 344 576 1Petworth Festival Literary Week Booking Form
Date Author/Event Number Number Ticket price Total £
of Adult of under
tickets 18 tickets
Sat 27 October The War Horse Concert Adult £20 18 & under £5
Mon 29 October Robin Knox-Johnston Adult £12 18 & under £5
Tue 30 October Alison Weir & Kate Williams Adult £10 18 & under £5
Tue 30 October Fay Weldon Adult £10 18 & under £5
Tue 30 October Laura Freeman & Kate Young Adult £10 18 & under £5
Tue 30 October Henry Blofeld Adult £12 18 & under £5
Wed 31 October Henrietta Knight Adult £10 18 & under £5
Wed 31 October Adam Hart-Davis Adult £10 18 & under £5
Wed 31 October Andrew Roberts Adult £10 18 & under £5
Wed 31 October Paddy Ashdown Adult £12 18 & under £5
Thur 1 November Alan Titchmarsh Adult £12 18 & under £5
Thur 1 November Yasmin Alibhai-Brown Adult £10 18 & under £5
Thur 1 November Mark Wigglesworth Adult £10 18 & under £5
Thur 1 November Julian Fellowes Adult £12 18 & under £5
Fri 2 November Mark Austin Adult £10 18 & under £5
Fri 2 November Sam Leith Adult £10 18 & under £5
Fri 2 November Jana Bakunina & Angus Roxburgh Adult £10 18 & under £5
Fri 2 November David Bowie at the V&A (film event) Adult £10 18 & under £5
Sat 3 November Andrew Adonis Adult £10 18 & under £5 Saturday 27 October 7.30pm – 8.45pm | St Mary’s Church
Michael Morpurgo
Sat 3 November Sebastian Faulks Adult £12 18 & under £5
Sat 3 November Robin Ince Adult £10 18 & under £5
Sun 4 November Poetry Breakfast Adult £14 18 & under £5 The War Horse Concert
Sun 4 November Max Hastings Adult £12 18 & under £5
Sun 4 November Darren Henley Adult £10 18 & under £5 Less than a fortnight before the centenary of the ending of the First World
Sun 4 November Tom Bower Adult £10 18 & under £5 War, acclaimed author Michael Morpurgo reads from War Horse with
specially composed songs performed by Ben Murray.
NB: reserved seating in Leconfield Hall. Please let us know if you have a
preference for raked or floor seating Grand Total £
Known variously as a book, a theatre piece and a hugely successful film, in
War Horse Michael Morpurgo tells the powerful and deeply-moving story of
I enclose a cheque made payable to ‘Petworth Festival Ltd’ young Albert and his beloved horse, Joey. Set during the First World War,
Please charge my Mastercard/Visa/Switch/Maestro Card (delete as necessary) the story is seen through the eyes of Joey, who witnesses the pity of war
on both sides of the trenches as he moves from life on a farm in peaceful
Card Number Devon to the devastation of the Western Front.
Name on card Issue Number
(Switch/Maestro only) Michael is joined by National Theatre War Horse songman Ben Murray,
who accompanies him with a sequence of rousing yet haunting songs
Start Date Expiry Date Last 3 digits of security no. (on back of card) specially composed by John Tams for the National Theatre’s award-
Name winning production of War Horse.
Address Adults £20 / 18 and under £5
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Wheelchair/disabled customers please telephone 01798 343 055 to discuss requirements.
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Robin Knox-Johnston Fay Weldon
Running Free in conversation with Claire Armitstead
Following the memorable encounter with Sir Chris Bonington in 2017, we meet another After the Peace / Why Will No-One Publish My Novel?
of Britain’s great adventurers. Sir Robin Knox-Johnston burst to fame when he became An afternoon in the company of one of the UK’s most witty and mischievous authors,
the first man ever to complete a single-handed, non-stop circumnavigation of the Fay Weldon. Fay will be talking about two newly published books - After the Peace
world. Now, 50 years on from that famous voyage, he joins us in Petworth to talk about and Why Will No-One Publish my Novel? The former is a delectable account of family
his extraordinary life story. life as we live it now, the story of the Honourable Guinevere Dilberne, daughter of
Arnold, 11th Earl of Dilberne, Sandra Sinclair and Rita Boniface. Yes, that’s right.
Following time with the Royal Naval Reserve and in the merchant navy, Knox-Johnston Fay Weldon
Three parents. Or, in fact, four, if you wish to count Sandra’s husband Clive. Though
(photo: Alex Baker)
spied for the British government in the Gulf, worked in the South African dockyards, and built his famous boat he played little part in it. These days, anything can happen...
Suhaili in Bombay. In June 1968, he set sail in Suhaili in the Sunday Times Golden Globe Race, and his new
Why Will No-One Publish My Novel? is a collection of tips for budding writers as she
autobiography Running Free vividly brings to life that remarkable voyage, where he was the only person to
steers the reader on the way to becoming a writer. Full of her trademark wit, Why
finish the race, completing his journey on 22 April 1969. He completed a second solo circumnavigation of the
Will No-One Publish My Novel? delights and amuses at the same time as offering up
globe in 2007 aged 68, thus becoming the oldest to complete this feat.
useful tips for all those who yearn to be published.
Robin Knox-Johnston was born in 1939. He continues to sail and works as executive chairman of Clipper Fay Weldon is one of Britain’s most important and distinctive literary voices. She
Ventures to introduce people to competitive sailing. published her first novel, A Fat Woman’s Joke, in 1967, and has gone on to write
over thirty works. In 2001, she received a CBE for services to literature. Fay will be in
conversation with The Guardian’s Associate Editor, Culture – Claire Armitstead.
Adults £12 / 18 and under £5
Adults £10 / 18 and under £5
Tuesday 30 October 11.30am – 12.30pm | Leconfield Hall
Tuesday 30 October 4.30pm – 5.30pm | Leconfield Hall
Alison Weir & Kate Williams
Laura Freeman (photo: Alex Winn)
Tudor Tragedies Laura Freeman & Kate Young
Two of the UK’s leading historical writers, Alison Weir and Kate Williams, join forces in conversation with Claire Armitstead
to tell the stories of two famous women of the Tudor age who were linked by faith and The Reading Cure / The Little Library Cookbook
tragedy.
A session to savour! Two writers who have different but very specific relationships to
food discuss the role of nourishment in its widest sense with Claire Armitstead. They
Eleven days after the bloody death of Anne Boleyn, Henry VIII married Jane Seymour.
will talk about the way words stir the appetite - you can taste the food on the page
His third queen, Jane knew that she must bear a son - or face ruin. She faced plague
first and then on the fork; about children’s literature and the gleeful remembrances of
and rebellion – and was haunted by the shadows of the past. Alison Weir’s The
picnics past; about how it’s not so much about food, but about setting, family, friends,
Haunted Queen draws on new research, casting fresh light on both traditional and
warmth, conversation, adventure; about feeding your mind - with good books - as
modern perceptions of her story.
important, more important even, than feeding your body with ‘good’ - avocado, sweet
potato, dreaded kale – food; about learning to cook, making a hash of it, kitchen
The story of Queen Elizabeth I and Mary Queen of Scots – as featured in Kate
disasters and triumphs. About first tastes, favourite foods, aversions.
Williams’ new book Rival Queens – was similarly fraught. Cousins, rivals, queens.
They loved each other, they hated each other – they could never escape one another. Laura Freeman writes for the Spectator, The Times, Sunday Times, Daily Telegraph,
Kate Young (photo: Lean Timms) TLS, Evening Standard and Apollo. She was shortlisted for Features Writer of the Year
Alison Weir is the top-selling female historian in the UK, and has sold over 2.7 million at the 2014 British Press Awards. She read history of art at Cambridge, graduating
books worldwide. She has published eighteen history books, including Elizabeth the with a double first in 2010. The Reading Cure is her first book.
Queen, Eleanor of Aquitaine, The Lady in the Tower and Elizabeth of York, and seven Kate Young is a food writer and cook. After moving to the UK from her native
historical novels. Australia in 2009, she started her blog, thelittlelibrarycafe.com, which now has
readers all over the world. Kate’s writing is regularly featured in the Guardian and,
Kate Williams fell in love with history whilst studying for her BA at the University of earlier this year, her blog was named the Best Food Blog at the Guild of Food Writers
Oxford. She is also a lecturer and TV consultant, appearing regularly on BBC and awards. The Little Library Cookbook is her first book.
Channel 4 programmes to discuss her work.
Adults £10 / 18 and under £5
Adults £10 / 18 and under £5
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Henry Blofeld Adam Hart-Davis
Over and Out Schrödinger’s Cat, and 49 Other Experiments that
Henry Blofeld is a broadcasting legend. In fact more than that – a national Revolutionised Physics
treasure, whose voice has been the sound of summer to thousands of cricket
Adam Hart-Davis is widely regarded as one of Britain’s best science communicators,
lovers all over the world. The voice of BBC’s Test Match Special for over forty
having been a regular on TV programmes such as What the Romans Did For Us,
years, Blowers talks about his recent autobiography: a celebration of his career
and Tomorrow’s World. For autumn 2018 he has produced his latest volume in
commentating on the sport he loves and packed with entertaining stories reliving
which he traces the evolution of physics through fifty of its greatest experiments from
his favourite moments in the sport and sharing behind the scenes anecdotes in
Copernicus to Galileo, Robert Boyle and Isaac Newton, Einstein, Heisenberg and the
his inimitable style. “As dogs go, it’s Large Hadron Collider.
best of breed.”
‘For 45 years, Blowers’ fruity geniality has been as much a Schrödinger’s Cat starts with the earliest attempts by the ancients to explain
Popular Science blog
astronomy and ends with the era of Big Science, involving supercomputers and the
part of British summers as strawberries and cream in rain- on his previous book,
largest and most expensive experiments ever tried. From x-rays, radioactivity and
lashed marquees.’ Pavlov’s Dog
electrons to the impact of two world wars which produced radar and microwaves,
The Sunday Times tokamaks and nuclear power, and the space race which followed, Adam Hart-Davis
presents the key developments in physics in clear, accessible language.
Adults £12 / 18 and under £5 Adam Hart-Davis is best known as the presenter of television series such as Local
Heroes, Tomorrow’s World, What the Romans (and others) Did for Us, How London
was Built and The Cosmos – a Beginner’s Guide. He has collected various awards for
Wednesday 31 October 11.30am – 12.30pm | Leconfield Hall both television and radio, as well as four medals and 14 honorary doctorates.
Henrietta Knight Adults £10 / 18 and under £5
The Jumping Game
As the woman who trained the great Best Mate to win three consecutive Cheltenham Wednesday 31 October 4.30pm – 5.30pm | St Mary’s Church
Gold Cups, no one could be better qualified than Henrietta Knight to discover what
makes today’s top jumps trainers succeed. From eccentric, outspoken Yorkshireman
Mick Easterby, to elegant, aristocratic Venetia Williams, from Irish wizard, Willie
Andrew Roberts
Mullins, to perfectionist champion trainer, Paul Nicholls and young pretender, Dan Churchill
Henrietta Knight Skelton, The Jumping Game gives us a dazzling cast of extraordinary characters, Winston Churchill towers over every other figure in twentieth-century British history.
(photo: Matthew Webb) all with quirks and foibles, but with one single-minded ambition – finding first-class By the time of his death at the age of 90 in 1965, many thought him to be the greatest
horses and training them to win big races. Henrietta shares their dramatic journeys, man in the world.
methods and secrets of working in a tough, competitive industry. Since the last major biography, over 40 collections of private papers of people who
worked with him have been deposited at the Churchill Archive. Andrew Roberts
Henrietta Knight lives in West Lockinge, Oxfordshire, where she trained the great Andrew Roberts has used these, and King George VI’s private diaries detailing their meetings, as
racehorse, Best Mate, with her late husband Terry Biddlecome. She is the author of (photo: Anna Kunst]
well as many other new sources – such as the verbatim accounts of War Cabinet
three bestselling books, Best Mate: Chasing Gold, Best Mate:Triple Gold and Not meetings that he discovered – to present a totally fresh view of the wartime premier.
Enough Time - a memoir of her time with Terry. Petworth Festival is thrilled to welcome the author of a new book that includes recently
unearthed photos and a veritable gold-mine of revelations showing Churchill as we’ve
Adults £10 / 18 and under £5 never seen him before, in all his complexity.
Andrew Roberts is a biographer and historian of international renown whose books
include Salisbury: Victorian Titan, Masters and Commanders and The Storm of War –
all major prize-winners. His most recent book, Napoleon the Great (2014), won the
Grand Prix of the Fondation Napoléon and the Los Angeles Times Biography Prize.
He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and the Royal Historical Society, a
Trustee of the International Churchill Society, Visiting Professor at the Department
of War Studies at King’s College, London, and the Roger and Martha Mertz Visiting
Research Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University.
Adults £10 / 18 and under £5
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Paddy Ashdown Yasmin Alibhai-Brown
NEIN! Standing Up to Hitler (1935-1944) In Defence of Political Correctness
In his last days, Adolf Hitler raged in his bunker that he had been betrayed by his The well-known broadcaster and commentator Yasmin Alibhai-Brown discusses her
own people, defeated from the inside. In part, he was right. By 1945, his armies were recent contribution to Biteback Publication’s Provocations series in which she argues
being crushed on all fronts, his regime collapsing with many fleeing retribution for that individual rights cannot be allowed to take precedence over collective, social
their crimes. Yet, even before the war started, there were Germans very high in Hitler’s responsibility. Without self-moderation, parks, streets, school-yards, public transport,
command committed to bringing about his death and defeat. waiting rooms, shops and restaurants would turn into bear pits. Most people appear
In his new book NEIN!, Lord ‘Paddy’ Ashdown reveals that the anti-Hitler bomb plots to understand this, but some seem determined to cause disorder in the name of free
which have received so much attention are only a small part of a much wider story, speech. In the US and UK, anti-political correctness has gone mad. Invective, lies,
one in which those at the highest levels of the German state used every means hate speech, bullying, intemperance and prejudice have become the new norms.
possible – conspiracy, assassination, espionage – to ensure that, for the sake of the
long-term reputation of their country and the survival of liberal and democratic values, In Defence of Political Correctness traces the history of political correctness in the US
Hitler could not be allowed to win the war. and UK and forcefully argues that, in spite of many failures, this movement has made
both countries more civilised and equal.
Paddy Ashdown served as a Royal Marine and intelligence officer for the UK security
services before becoming a Member of Parliament for Yeovil from 1983 to 2001, Yasmin Alibhai-Brown is a regular columnist for the i and the London Evening
and leader of the Liberal Democrats from 1988 until 1999. He was the international Standard, and a well-known commentator on diversity, immigration and
High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina from 2002 to 2006, and was made multiculturalism. She is the author of Refusing the Veil. Her most recent book is Exotic
a Knight Grand Cross of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint England published by Portobello Books in 2016. She was awarded Broadsheet
George in 2006. Columnist of the Year at the 2017 Press Awards.
Adults £12 / 18 and under £5
Adults £10 / 18 and under £5
Thursday 1 November 11.30am – 12.30pm | St Mary’s Church
Thursday 1 November 4.30pm – 5.30pm | St Mary’s Church
Alan Titchmarsh
in conversation with Stewart Collins Mark Wigglesworth
The Scarlet Nightingale in conversation with Stewart Collins
Britain’s favourite gardener, radio and TV presenter, Alan Titchmarsh, discusses The Silent Musician: Why Conducting Matters
life, television, music, gardening… and his latest novel, The Scarlet Nightingale, a A conductor is one of classical music’s most recognisable figures. Rarely though
sweeping story of love, danger, courage and betrayal, set in wartime London and does such a well-known profession attract so many questions: ‘Surely orchestras
Paris. can play perfectly well without you?’ ‘Do you really make any difference to the
Set in the late 1930s, socialite Rosamund Hanbury is determined to give up the performance?’ ‘Are the musicians even watching you?’
Mark Wigglesworth (photo:
parties and social sets of which she is a prominent member to join the war effort, Sim Canetty-Clarke)
along with scores of other young women. After a stint at Bletchley Park and as The Olivier Award-winning conductor Mark Wigglesworth’s The Silent Musician is not
one of the Air Transport Auxiliary’s ‘Atagirls’, Rosamund is recruited by the Special intended to be an instruction manual for conductors, nor is it a history of conducting.
Operations Executive under the code name ‘The Scarlet Nightingale’, and eventually It is for all who wonder what conductors actually do, and why they matter. In
moved in secret to France. As the peril of her top-secret operations mount, Rosamund conversation with Stewart Collins, Wigglesworth explores the conductor’s relationship
is drawn into the very heart of the war, where her love and her loyalty are put to a test with the musicians and the music, and the public and personal responsibilities they
more devastating than she could ever imagine. face.
Alan Titchmarsh is known to millions through his career as a television presenter Mark Wigglesworth has worked with over a hundred orchestras, collaborating with
of shows including Ground Force, Gardeners’ World, Love Your Garden, the many of the world’s finest orchestral musicians, soloists, singers and directors, in
Chelsea Flower Show and The Alan Titchmarsh Show. He has written more than forty venues ranging from Vienna’s Musikverein to New York’s Carnegie Hall, and the Royal
gardening books, as well as eight best-selling novels and three volumes of memoirs. Opera House, Covent Garden to the Metropolitan Opera, New York. He has written
He was made MBE in the millennium New Year Honours list and holds the Victoria articles for The Guardian and The Independent, presented a six-part television series
Medal of Honour, the Royal Horticultural Society’s highest award. He lives with his for the BBC entitled Everything to Play For, and recorded a highly acclaimed cycle of
wife and a menagerie of animals in Hampshire where he gardens organically. Shostakovich symphonies.
Adults £12 / 18 and under £5
Adults £10 / 18 and under £5
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Julian Fellowes Sam Leith
in conversation with Douglas Rae Write to the Point: How to be Clear, Correct and
One of the UK’s most successful writer/performers – Julian Fellowes - talks about Persuasive on the Page
his huge back catalogue of writing hits not to mention numerous stage, TV and film
appearances as an actor. Julian is in conversation with Douglas Rae who cast Julian An essential guide to persuasive writing! The first sentence of a job application letter
as the legendary Lord Kilwillie in the hit BBC1 series Monarch of the Glen. can consign it to the bin; a mistimed tweet can cost you your livelihood; and a letter to
a beloved may end up making the recipient laugh rather than melt. Finding the right
Julian Fellowes or, to give him his correct title, Julian Alexander Kitchener-Fellowes, words, in the right order, matters.
Julian Fellowes
Baron Fellowes of West Stafford DL, is an English actor, novelist, film director and
(photo: Nick Briggs)
screenwriter, and a Conservative peer of the House of Lords. Fellowes is primarily The Literary Editor of the Spectator, Sam Leith, offers key guidance in his new and
known as the author of several Sunday Times best-seller novels; for the screenplay for complete guide to persuasive writing. From essays to love letters, and from emails
the film Gosford Park, which won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay in of condolence to letters of complaint, Write to the Point lays bare the secrets to
2002; and as the creator, writer and executive producer of the multiple award-winning successful communication and accompanies them with concrete and well-illustrated
ITV series Downton Abbey. The evening will touch on all of these - and of course dos and don’ts. If you’ve ever felt a twinge of doubt before hitting Send, Write to the
much more - illustrated by film clips. Point will give you the confidence to get your message across.
Douglas Rae, founder of Ecosse Films, lives in Lurgashall and is producing a new Sam Leith is literary editor at the Spectator, a columnist at the Financial Times, the
Profumo Affair series for BBC1 and a major new series on Josephine and Napoleon Evening Standard and Prospect, and his work appears regularly in The Guardian,
based on books by Kate Williams and Andrew Roberts, both of whom also speak at The Times and the TLS among others. Broadcasting work includes The Culture Show,
this year’s Festival. The Review Show
Show, Front Row, The News Quiz, Fry’s English Delight and a regular
slot on the Sky Arts Book Programme. Books include Dead Pets, Sod’s Law and You
Adults £12 / 18 and under £5 Talkin’ to Me? Rhetoric from Aristotle to Obama
Obama. He has served as a judge on the
Man Booker and Desmond Elliott prizes. The Coincidence Engine, his first novel, was
published in April 2011.
Friday 2 November 11.30am – 12.30pm | Leconfield Hall Not to labour the point, but he knows a bit about this writing lark.
Mark Austin Adults £10 / 18 and under £5
And Thank You For Watching Friday 2 November 4.30pm – 5.30pm | Leconfield Hall
For over 30 years, Mark Austin has covered the biggest news stories in the world for
ITN and Sky News. As a foreign correspondent and anchorman he has witnessed Jana Bakunina & Angus Roxburgh
first-hand some of the most significant events of our times including the Iraq war, Bird’s Milk / Moscow Calling
during which his friend and colleague Terry Lloyd was killed by American ‘friendly
Modern day Russia is as much an enigma as the vast sprawling nation has ever
fire’; the historic transition in South Africa from apartheid; the horrors of the Rwandan
been. To offer contrasting – but complementary - perspectives on the Russia that
Mark Austin genocide; and many natural disasters around the world. The stories are familiar, but
has evolved out of the communist era, Petworth welcomes two writers with first hand
(photo: ITV News) less so will be the background scenes in the lives of the journalists who bring the
experiences of a remarkable period of history. The ‘Russian Londoner’ Jana Bakunina
stories into our homes. For his Petworth visit, Mark talks about his new, candid memoir
tells the story of her childhood in the Soviet Union from the early days of perestroika
and offers insights into a career at the heart of national television – and world news.
to the collapse of the USSR, whilst former BBC Moscow Correspondent Angus
Roxburgh offers his own perspective on a world that changed around him and which
Mark Austin worked at ITN for 30 years where he presented News at Ten and the
saw him meeting with some of the key players in Russian government, not to mention
Evening News. He has twice been named the RTS Presenter of the Year, won five
encounters and spoiling tactics of the KGB.
BAFTA awards and an international Emmy for reporting on the devastating floods in
Jana Bakunina was born in Ekaterinburg, Russia’s fourth largest city, situated
Mozambique. He is now a presenter for Sky News.
nearly 2,000km east of Moscow. At 16, she won a scholarship to a boarding school
in Germany and from there secured a place to study Economics & Management at
Adults £10 / 18 and under £5 Oxford. She moved to London and built a career in corporate finance. Most recently,
she has teamed up with Lord Waheed Alli to invest in start-ups run by female and/or
ethnic minority founders.
(photo: David Packard)
A graduate in Russian, Angus Roxburgh worked as a translator in the Soviet Union
in the late 1970s before becoming a journalist and, eventually, BBC’s Moscow
Angus Roxburgh
Correspondent in September 1991. During these ‘Yeltsin years’ he covered the war in
Chechnya and the chaotic introduction of capitalism to Russia following the collapse
of communism and the rise of Vladimir Putin.
Adults £10 / 18 and under £5
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David Bowie at the V&A (film event) Andrew Adonis
Victoria Broackes and Geoffrey Marsh Half In, Half Out: Prime Ministers on Europe
A very special event featuring Hamish Hamilton’s filmed record of the V&A’s The high profile ‘Labour Lord’ Andrew Adonis has been prominent in the debate
record breaking show - David Bowie is Happening Now and a Q&A session about Brexit. For his Petworth visit he discusses the decades since the end of the
with the exhibition’s curators. Second World War when Britain’s relationship with Europe has been a constant and
hugely divisive factor on both sides of the political spectrum. Famous Europhile Prime
Described by The Times as “stylish & outrageous” and The Guardian as “a Ministers over the years have included Conservatives Ted Heath and David Cameron
triumph”, the ‘David Bowie is’ exhibition was the fastest-selling in the V&A’s and Tony Blair for Labour, while leading Europhobes count among their number the
history, featuring a remarkable collection from the David Bowie Archive, former Conservative Prime Ministers Anthony Eden and Margaret Thatcher.
including handwritten lyrics, original costumes, never-before seen film,
music videos, Bowie’s own instruments and album artwork. Born out of a series of Oxford University lectures devised by the former director of the
Number 10 Policy Unit, Andrew Adonis’s Half in, Half Out presents a comprehensive
The film of the show received four stars in both The Guardian and The and enlightening look at Britain’s Prime Ministers of the past seven decades – and
Times, and takes us on a journey through the exhibition, with special explores their often hugely differing attitudes towards our neighbours on the other
guests, including Jarvis Cocker, Jeremy Deller and Hanif Kureishi, giving side of the Channel.
expert insights into the creativity and evolution of Bowie’s ideas.
Andrew Adonis was an architect of education reform under Tony Blair, serving in the
For the Q&A we’ll be joined by the V&A curators - local Lodsworth residents No. 10 Policy Unit and then as Minister for Schools from 1998 until 2008.
- Victoria Broackes and Geoffrey Marsh; copies of the beautifully produced
book that accompanied the exhibition will also be available on the night. Adults £10 / 18 and under £5
Running Time 2 hours: Film 1hr 30mins, Live Q&A 30mins
Saturday 3 November 5.30pm – 6.30pm | St Mary’s Church
Adults £10 / 18 and under £5
There is no interval at this event Sebastian Faulks
in conversation with Hephzibah Anderson
Saturday 3 November 11.00am – 12 noon | United Reformed Church Paris Echo
Poetry Popup
Acclaimed novelist Sebastian Faulks talks about his most recent novel, Paris Echo.
Here is Paris as you have never seen it before – a city in which every building seems
to hold the echo of an unacknowledged past, the shadows of Vichy and Algeria.
Rachel Long with the West Sussex Arts Society American postdoctoral researcher Hannah and runaway Moroccan teenager Tariq
Following up the success of Rachel Long’s 2017 residency in six local schools, the have little in common, yet both are susceptible to the daylight ghosts of Paris. Hannah
Petworth Festival and the West Sussex Arts Society once again partner up to present listens to the extraordinary witness of women who were present under the German
a session showcasing poetry specially created during Rachel’s school workshops Occupation; in her desire to understand their lives, and through them her own, she
during the Literary Week. One of the most touching and important sessions of the finds a city bursting with clues and connections. Out in the migrant suburbs, Tariq
festival, come and hear young poets aged between 7 – 11 discovering their voices. is searching for a mother he barely knew. For him in his innocence, each boulevard,
Métro station and street corner is a source of surprise.
Participating schools: Rachel Long is a poet & the founder of Octavia - Poetry Collective for Womxn
Amberley CofE Primary In his urgent and deeply moving new novel, Faulks deals with questions of empire,
of Colour. Octavia was founded in September 2015 in response to the lack of
Bury CofE Primary grievance and identity. With great originality and a dark humour, Paris Echo asks how
Coldwaltham, St James’ inclusivity and representation in literature and academia. Octavia meet monthly at
much we really need to know if we are to live a valuable life.
CofE Primary Southbank Centre. Rachel has taught at The Poetry School, The Poetry Society, Tate
Duncton CofE Junior Modern, and The Arvon Foundation. She is cotutor on the Barbican Young Poets Sebastian Faulks was born and brought up in Newbury, Berkshire. He worked in
School programme. Her work has featured in Magma, The London Magazine, and Modern journalism before starting to write books. He is best known for the French trilogy, The
Fittleworth CofE Primary Poetry in Translation (MpT). In 2016, she was invited by The British Council to Girl at the Lion d’Or
d’Or, Birdsong and Charlotte Gray (1989-1997) and is also the author
Petworth CofE Primary represent contemporary British poetry in India, and in May this year, she was invited of a triple biography, The Fatal Englishman (1996); a small book of literary parodies,
West Chiltington CofE
to Chicago, where she was guest tutor to the Young Chicago Authors, and read at The Pistache (2006); and the novels Human Traces (2005), Engleby (2007), A Week in
Primary
Wisborough Green Primary Poetry Foundation. December (2009), A Possible Life (2012) and Where My Heart Used to Beat (2015).
For the First World War Centenary he co-edited an anthology of war literature, A
This event is FREE. Please note this event was very popular last Broken World (2014). He lives in London with his wife and their three children.
year and admittance will be on a ‘first come, first served’ basis. Adults £12 / 18 and under £5
12 Box Office: www.petworthfestival.org.uk / 01798 344 576 Box Office: www.petworthfestival.org.uk / 01798 344 576 13Saturday 3 November 8.00pm – 9.00pm | St Mary’s Church Sunday 4 November 3.00pm – 4.00pm | Johnson Centre, Seaford
Robin Ince College
I’m a Joke and So Are You: A Comedian’s Take on What Max Hastings
Makes Us Human Vietnam: An Epic Tragedy, 1945–1975
As a connoisseur of comedy, Robin Ince has spent decades mining human In his most sweeping history book to date, Max Hastings chronicles of one of the
eccentricities to create gags - and watching other strange individuals do the same. most devastating international conflicts of the 20th century and how its people were
And for years on Radio 4’s The Infinite Monkey Cage he has sought - sometimes in affected.
vain - to understand the world around us. In his new book, he unites these pursuits to
examine the human condition through the prism of humour. Vietnam became the Western world’s most divisive modern conflict, precipitating
Max Hastings
(photo: Toby Madden) a battlefield humiliation for France in 1954, then a vastly greater one for the United
Why do we make the choices we do in life? Where does anxiety come from? Where States in 1975. Max Hastings has spent the past three years interviewing scores
does imagination come from? Why are we like we are? And is it all our parents’ fault? of participants on both sides, as well as researching a multitude of American and
Informed by personal insights from his own life as well as interviews with a bevy of Vietnamese documents and memoirs, to create an epic narrative of an epic struggle
A-list comedians, neuroscientists, psychologists and doctors, Ince’s take is a hilarious and detailing the vivid realities of strife amid jungle and paddies that killed 2 million
and often moving primer to the mind. people. No past volume has blended a political and military narrative of the entire
Robin Ince is co-presenter of the award-winning BBC Radio 4 show, The Infinite conflict with heart-stopping personal experiences, in the fashion that Max Hastings’
Cage He has won the Time Out Outstanding Achievement in Comedy, was
Monkey Cage. readers know so well.
nominated for a British Comedy Award for Best Live show and has won three Chortle Max Hastings is the author of several books, many about warfare. The most recent is
Awards. He has toured his stand up across the world both solo and with his radio the bestselling and critically acclaimed Catastrophe: Europe Goes to War, 1914. In his
double act partner, Professor Brian Cox. He is the radio critic for the Big Issue and early career as a correspondent, he reported on the 1982 Falklands War, experiences
writes a monthly column about science for Focus Magazine. He has two top-ten which he described in his memoir Going to the Wars. A fellow of the Royal Society of
iTunes podcast series to his name. Literature and an Honorary Fellow of King’s College London, he was knighted in 2002.
Adults £10 / 18 and under £5 Adults £12 / 18 and under £5
Sunday 4 November 11.00am - 12.30pm | Leconfield Hall Sunday 4 November 5.00pm – 6.00pm | Leconfield Hall
Doors open at 10.00am
Darren Henley
Poetry Breakfast: Inventing Tomorrow: How to Spark a Creativity Revolution
Old Toffer’s Book of Consequential Dogs Petworth Festival welcomes the Chief Executive of Arts Council England to talk about
with Christopher Reid & Elliot Elam, plus James Simpson (poet) the importance of creativity in contemporary Britain.
and Linda Kelsall-Barnett & Tamzin Barnett (music) In Henley’s words, ‘Creativity is a powerful force for good in shaping and defining all
The Petworth Festival joins forces with the South Downs Poetry Festival for a breakfast our futures. Enriching lives and places, it builds a stronger society filled with happier,
event where orange juice, croissants, the Sunday newspapers, music and poetry healthier people. By driving innovation across the arts, technology, science and
Christopher Reid will be the name of the game. Join the relaxed environment for a session that starts engineering, it boosts our economy. For children born into a world of unprecedented
(photo: Jemimah Kuhfeld) with Christopher Reid’s sequel to T S Eliot’s Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats. technological, political and environmental change, those whose creativity has been
Originally conceived by Eliot himself, Old Toffer’s Book of Consequential Dog poems nurtured will be best equipped to flourish.’
are a witty, varied and exquisitely compiled as Eliot’s cats. Reid is joined by his His new book argues the importance of creativity for everyone. It is not the sole
illustrator Elliot Elam. preserve of arts-based subjects, but at the heart of medical, scientific, engineering and
The cast for the breakfast session also includes South Downs poet James Simpson entrepreneurial progress too. It is only by equipping children with the creativity to make
and music from mother/daughter voice/guitar duo Linda Kelsall-Barnett and Tamzin the best use of their talents, and providing them with expert teachers who can nurture
Barnett. those abilities, that the next generation will have the skills necessary to invent tomorrow.
Christopher Reid is the author of many books of poems, including A Scattering Darren Henley is the Chief Executive of Arts Council England, which champions,
(winner of the Costa Book of the Year Award 2009), The Song of Lunch, Nonsense develops and invests in great art and culture for everyone across England. The author
and The Curiosities. For his first collection of poems for children, All Sorts, he received of two independent government reviews into music and cultural education, he has
the Signal Award 2000. From 1991 to 1999 he was Poetry Editor at Faber & Faber, written numerous books about the arts. For twenty-three years, he was part of the
where T S Eliot once worked. His Letters of Ted Hughes appeared in 2007. team behind the world’s largest classical music radio station, Classic FM, spending
Elliot Elam is a self-trained illustrator living in Walthamstow. fifteen years as Managing Editor and then Managing Director. He holds degrees in
Refreshments generously supplied by the Co-Op politics from the University of Hull, management from the University of South Wales
and history of art from the University of Buckingham.
and included in ticket price
Adults £14 / 18 and under £5 Adults £10 / 18 and under £5
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Tom Bower Petworth Festival Literary Week
in conversation with Andrew Billen How to book No intervals at any events.
All venues have toilet facilities.
Rebel Prince: The Power, Passion and Defiance of Prince St Mary’s, the Leconfield Hall and Seaford
Petworth Festival Box Office
Charles Box office opens on
College have wheelchair access. URC has
chairlift access.
A famous controversialist takes to the stage to bring down the curtain on the 2018 Friday 5 October
Literary week… Few heirs to the throne have suffered as much humiliation as Prince Online www.petworthfestival.org.uk
Parking
Charles. Despite his hard work and genuine concern for the disadvantaged, he has Phone 01798 344 576
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struggled to overcome his unpopularity. After Diana’s death, his approval rating Opening Times 10.00am-1.00pm, closed
0AP, 2 minutes from the Leconfield Hall and URC,
crashed to 4% and has been only rescued by his marriage to Camilla. Nevertheless, Sundays. Most credit and debit cards are
5 minutes from St Mary’s Church) or additional
just one third of Britons now support him to be the next king. accepted.
free parking by the Sylvia Beaufoy Centre (GU28
In unearthing many secrets surrounding the dramas that encircle Prince Charles, Tom 0ET) off the mini roundabout on the A272. There
By post
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the inner sanctum of Clarence House - reveals a royal household rife with intrigue entrance to Petworth House (adjacent to St Mary’s
and send it with a SAE to:
and misconduct. The result is a book – and a talk - which uniquely will probe into the Church). Please leave entrance to church free for
151 Whites Green Lodge, Lurgashall, Petworth
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Tom Bower is an investigative journalist noted for his unauthorized biographies The booking form can be downloaded from the
No parking in Lombard Street opposite.
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Maxwell
Maxwell, Conrad Black, Bernie Ecclestone, Mohamed Fayed, Geoffrey Robinson, Format of Events
Gordon Brown and Tony Blair. His 2003 book Broken Dreams: Vanity, Greed and the Wheelchair/disabled customers please telephone
Unless otherwise stated each event will consist
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of a 40-45 minute presentation from the author
followed by an opportunity for questions &
Adults £10 / 18 and under £5 Ticket prices
answers. The authors will then be available to
Ticket prices are shown below the event
sign their books which will be for sale.
information throughout this brochure.
The books are provided by The Petworth
Festival venues
Bookshop.
St Mary’s Church, Petworth, GU28 0AD
Leconfield Hall, Market Square,
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United Reformed Church, 3 Damer’s Bridge,
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Saturday 27 October, 10.30am & 11.30am | Petworth Library The Johnson Centre, Seaford College,
be subject to subsequent alterations. Petworth
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Festival is a company limited by guarantee –
Andréa Prior: A Piddle of Puppies (Children’s Event) There is reserved seating in the Leconfield Hall
registration number 5710001 and a registered
charity – number 1113784.
Popular children’s author-illustrator Andréa Prior returns with and St Mary’s Church, and unreserved seating
in the United Reformed Church and at Seaford
her second charming collection of rhymes, poems, rhythm College.
and wordplay to delight children’s imaginations. In A Piddle
of Puppies
Puppies, Andréa leads readers through the weird and
wonderful names for groups of animals.
The South Downs Poetry Festival in conjunction with the
Petworth Festival Literary Week is delighted that Andréa
will be making two appearances at the Petworth Library
to talk about her new book.
These events are free, but ticketed via Petworth Library.
Please visit the Petworth Library or call on 01898 342274 for details.
16 Box Office: www.petworthfestival.org.uk / 01798 344 576 Box Office: www.petworthfestival.org.uk / 01798 344 576 17Sponsorship Petworth Festival would also like to thank Tiffins Tea
Room for kindly providing cakes at our afternoon
events, the Co-op for refreshments and newspapers
Sponsorship of The Petworth Festival Literary
Week is essential in helping to keep prices low, to at the Poetry Breakfast, and The Petworth Bookshop
attracting the highest calibre of author to Petworth for supplying the books and organising the book
and therefore to creating a diverse and widely signings.
attractive programme. Petworth Festival is also extremely
grateful to its Principal Sponsor,
Support for the Literary Week starts at £250 so if you The Leconfield Estates, for both
would like to discuss supporting Petworth Festival in financial and in-kind support
this way please contact Kate Wardle at throughout the year.
info@petworthfestival.org.uk or by telephone on
01798 343 055.
The Petworth Festival is extremely grateful to the
following who at the time of going to press have
already sponsored the Literary Week:
Who’s Who
President Lord Egremont
Gold Festival Board Neil Franks (Chairman),
Kerry & Ian McNally Alan Bennie, Lord Egremont,
Claudia Golden, Sir Geoffrey Pattie,
Silver Kate Wardle and Georgina Willis
Alan & Sara Bennie
Jonathan & Claudia Golden Artistic Director Stewart Collins
Tina & Gordon Owen Festival Manager Kate Wardle
Sir Michael & Lady Wright Event Co-ordinator & Publications Kate Lavender
and a number of donors who have asked to remain Assistant to the Festival Manager Hettie McNeil
anonymous Venues and Volunteers Manager Liz Harris
Technical Management Peter Hall for Rhino
Bronze Audio Visual Ltd
Mrs Carol Brigstocke Box Office Carole Field, Pam Hampel,
Pam & Roddy Bruce Judy Howard, Imke Sanderson,
Mrs Tishie Burr Deborah Taylor & Kate Wardle
Mrs Cherril Corben Secretary to the Board Sarah Matthews
Andrew & Jenny Cummins
Rosie & Charlie Drayson Design & Printing John Good Ltd
Tim & Gail Drew
Friends’ Scheme
Peter & Jill Drummond
Beth Dugan
Mike & Jane Elliott
Josceline & Jinnie Grove
Guilt Lingerie
Michael & Helen Hadfield
Summer Festival
Veronica Henty Have you thought about becoming a Friend? It’s only
Christopher Hill £25 per annum per household.
Mike & Jane Hodgson
Andrew & Judy Howard This will help us to keep our ticket prices low and
Kevis House Gallery to put on the diverse and high-calibre events in
Susan Kelly the delightful but often small venues for which the
Mrs Brenda Kverndal Petworth Festival has become renowned.
Prof & Mrs P Lavender
Mrs Neville Leefe You’ll receive preview information, a priority booking
Sue Marsh period with reduced ticket prices and an invitation to
Mr & Mrs Peter Rhys-Evans the 2019 Festival launch party.
Bryan Scholey
Sylvia Tilley Or why not become a Patron? For £100 or more per
Michael White annum you’ll receive a longer priority period and an
Robin & Gillian Wilson invitation to a launch party with our sponsors while
and a number of donors who have asked to remain helping to support the continuing development of the
anonymous festival.
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