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Ways With Words
Festival of Words and Ideas
Dartington Hall
5–15 July 2019 wayswithwords.co.ukWords of Welcome
F
or more than two decades it has been my
privilege, as the Festival President, to welcome
you to Dartington. This year, as I do so for the last
time, I can do no better than repeat what has always
been the message of my greeting.
Dartington is unique among literary festivals. It becomes
– during those precious summer weeks – a community
in which speakers and their audiences share the pleasure
of exchanging ideas. The 2019 programme, as always,
illustrates that the most distinguished authors in Britain
are attracted to Dartington. I know that you will enjoy the
time spent in their company as much as I have enjoyed
my good fortune in being associated with the Festival.
Roy Hattersley
Festival President
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t’s all change at We are so grateful to him for his
Ways With Words. dedication and enthusiasm and hope he
has many years to sit back and enjoy the
After more
festival without responsibility.
than 20 years Lord
Hattersley is no Which brings me to the programme, in
longer to be president your hands now which this year this has
of the Ways With been organised by Leah Varnell and Jane
Words Festival at Fitzgerald with help from Phil John. What
Dartington Hall. a good job they have done.
He has served the festival with the
I hope you will enjoy everything the
same devotion as he previously served
festival has to offer. I know I shall.
Birmingham Sparkbrook where he was
MP for 33 years (9 years, of which, he was Kay Dunbar Festival Director
also Deputy Leader of the Labour Party).
W
elcome to murder-mystery event, a live streamed
Ways With performance from the Gaza Strip, a
Words large group meditation in the Great Hall,
2019. We have put Speakers’ Corner, an exhibition of hand
together a packed made books in the yurt and a host of
programme of the family events in our Word Circus located
events, talks, comedy in various venues around the festival.
and workshops from
It is such a delight to be back in
politicians, novelists,
Dartington Hall which not only offers
comedians, poets, academics and
wonderful venues for the talks but is
journalists.
also set in a stunning location. Do try to
There should be something for everyone. find time between events to stroll along
Some familiar faces will be about the River Dart or around the wonderful
including al fresco artist Paula Cloonan, gardens or simply sit in a deckchair with
Southwest Sculptures with the Ways a cup of tea.
Without Words exhibition, local art The next ten days promise to entertain,
collective Ephemera as well as a treasure amuse, educate and stimulate. It is always
trove of books and art in the Ship Studio a pleasure to be amongst the WWW
and the ever popular Amnestea. community. We’re looking forward to
discussing and debating – we hope you
As a team this is our sixth festival
are too.
at Dartington and we are delighted
to offer some new ideas including a Leah Varnell Managing Director
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Book tickets online at wayswithwords.co.uk page 3FRIDAY 5th JULY Great Hall
Dan Dietch
Joseph Stiglitz Matt Harvey John Crace Dom Joly
Joseph Stiglitz Laden before moving to the UK. To mark his fiftieth
birthday, he and two friends return to the region and
Wealth Creation learn about the Middle East, religion, friendship and
1 | Great Hall
growing old disgracefully.
2.00pm £11.00
The Hezbollah Hiking Club: A Short Walk across
the Lebanon (Constable)
Nobel Prize-winning economist and bestselling
author, Joseph Stiglitz, explores how many have
made their wealth by increasing inequality and that John Crace
the assault on the judiciary, universities, and the
media undermines the very institutions that are the May You Live in Interesting Times
foundations of economic prosperity and democracy.
People, Power, and Profits: Progressive 4 6.30pm | Great Hall £11.00
Capitalism for an Age of Discontent (Allen Lane)
John Crace, author and political sketch writer for The
Guardian observes the workings of the coalface in
Stephen Moss Westminster. Many things may yet have changed since
Family isn’t just Important. It’s Everything. the time of writing and John will provide insight on the
current state of affairs in the political landscape.
2 3.30pm | Great Hall £11.00 I, Maybot (Faber)
Having worked on series alongside David Attenborough,
Alan Titchmarsh and Chris Packham, BAFTA award-winning Matt Harvey
BBC producer, Stephen Moss explores the shifting Dogs and an Angry Man
hierarchies of animal families and reveals the intricate
social lives of our planet’s most fascinating animals.
Dynasties: The Rise and Fall of Animal Families 5 8.00pm | Great Hall £11.00
(BBC Books) Poet Matt Harvey continues his collaboration
with artist Claudia Schmid and her strange, funny,
Dom Joly sad drawings as they launch their new expanded
version of SIT! Alongside dogs there’ll be alchemical
Three Men on a Camel ... Without the Camel elephants, ineffectual snake charmers, birds’ nest
3 5.00pm | Great Hall £11.00
hats and an angry man eating a chair.
SIT! (Unicorn)
Born in Beirut comedian Dom Joly lived through
the civil war and went to school with Osama Bin
Day Ticket for Great Hall: £27 (not including events 4 and 5)
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Word Circus
Martin Brown Sam Willis, James Daybell Gelong Thubten
Martin Brown Gelong Thubten
Horrible Histories, Doodles and Drawings A Monk’s Guide for Young People
6 2.00pm | Barn £10.00 / £5.00 children 8 5.00pm | Barn £10.00 / £5.00 children
Sharpen your pencils and celebrate ‘Horrible Histories’ Buddhist monk and author Gelong Thubten
and ‘Lesser Spotted Animals’ with illustrator and offers advice for young people on retaining an
cartoonist Martin Brown. His passion for ‘drawing independent mind when faced with the pressures
his doodles and little figures’ is infectious and in a of social media and daily life. He is a pioneer in
mindfulness teaching, working with many schools
talk peppered with jovial jokes, awesome anecdotes
and colleges and developed an app for children to
and live drawing, he brings the worlds of wildlife and
help combat rising mental health issues. Age 8 plus.
history to life.
A Monk’s Guide to Happiness (Yellow Kite)
Terrible Trenches Field Book (Scholastic);
Martin Brown’s Lesser Spotted Animals
(David Fickling Books)
Sam Willis and James Daybell
Histories of the Unexpected LIVE
7 3.30pm | Barn £10.00 / £5.00 children
Sam Willis, presenter of the BBC’s The Silk Road
and James Daybell’s new history show will change
the way you think about the past and the present.
They demonstrate how the most unexpected of
subjects has a history and how they link together in
unexpected ways. What links the Titanic, Pompeii,
Neolithic cave painting, Victorian perfumes,
electrical experiments on the human face and
Glaswegian gangs?
Histories of the Unexpected (Atlantic)
Day Ticket for Barn: £24
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performance of Macbeth South Devon College performance
students present adaptations of
Horrible Histories illustrator Martin Brown much loved children’s books in free
shares his passion for doodling in a live drawing pop-up theatre events around the
event (2.00pm Barn) festival grounds
Delve into the drama and delight of the kingdom Storyteller Chris Brooks will
of animals with Blue Planet producer Stephen weave a web of enchantment as
Moss (3.30pm Great Hall) he spins yarns for folk of all ages
BBC presenter Sam Willis and James Daybell Artists in Residence, Ephemera
reveal unexpected histories of just about anything will be visually capturing events
(3.30pm Barn) and speakers throughout the
festival alongside illustration
Unclutter your mind and take part in a guided and drawing workshops for adults
meditation with Buddhist monk Gelong Thubten and children
(5.00pm Barn)
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Frank Field Kamal Ahmed
Gelong Thubten Caroline Slocock
Meditation in the 21st Century The Truth About the Iron Lady
9 10.00am | Great Hall £11.00 11 1.30pm | Great Hall £11.00
Gelong Thubten will speak on mindfulness and finding Left-wing feminist and former private secretary to
a deeper approach to happiness. He will offer methods Margaret Thatcher, Caroline Slocock suggests it’s
for training the mind to choose lasting happiness and time to rewrite how we portray powerful women
to develop more compassion. Thubten became a and accept that Margaret Thatcher was ‘one of us’.
monk in 1993 and is a pioneer in mindfulness teaching, Caroline takes a political and personal look at life
working with groups from Silicon Valley tech giants to inside Thatcher’s No.10 during its dying days and
schoolchildren, doctors and prisoners. reflects on women and power, then and now.
A Monk’s Guide to Happiness (Yellow Kite) People like us: Margaret Thatcher and Me
(Biteback Publishing)
Frank Field
Securing the Future of the Cradle to Kamal Ahmed
the Grave Welfare State Grounds for Optimism
10 11.45am | Great Hall £11.00 12 3.15pm | Great Hall £11.00
Sponsored by
For many, the crowning glory of the welfare state Kamal Ahmed, editorial director
was the birth of the National Health Service in 1948. of BBC News, had a very
Currently more than £171 billion is spent every year on ‘British’ childhood in every way
welfare – and yet, since Atlee there has been no strategic – except for the fact that he was half English and half
review of the system. Former Minister of Welfare Sudanese. Raised in 1970s London at a time when
Reform, Frank Field, argues that serious questions being mixed-race meant being told to go home, he
must be asked about how the welfare state can remain now makes the case for a new conversation about
sustainable as the twenty-first century progresses. race in Britain.
Not for Patching: A Strategic Welfare Review The Life and Times of a Very British Man
(Haus Publishing) (Bloomsbury)
Day Ticket for Great Hall: £45 (not including event 14)
Book tickets online at wayswithwords.co.uk page 7SATURDAY 6th JULY Great Hall
Simon Weller
Caroline Slocock John Simpson Robin Ince
John Simpson Robin Ince
Friend or Foe Laugh at Your Punch Line
13 5.00pm | Great Hall £11.00 14 8.00pm | Great Hall £11.00
BBC World Affairs Editor for more than half his 52- Comedian, Robin Ince, uses his lifetime of stand-
year career, John Simpson has reported on major up as a way of exploring some of the biggest
events all over the world. As a man who has seen questions we all face. Offering personal insights
many a real-life intrigue unfold in the halls of power, and interviews with the world’s top comedians,
he explores the realm of murky Russian plots, neuroscientists and psychologists, he makes a
conspiracies and assassinations in his latest work. hilarious and powerful call to embrace our inner
experience – no matter how odd that may prove to be.
Moscow, Midnight (John Murray)
I’m a Joke and So Are You (Atlantic)
Printmakers’ Books
An exhibition of handmade artists’ books
Amnestea
in the Yurt on the Great Lawn
The ever popular Amnestea will be
OPEN 10am–6pm every day. Free entrance.
served all day in the East Wing lounge.
Dartington Print Workshop presents a selection
of personal, tactile and idiosyncratic books Enjoy a piping hot cup of tea
which can be physically handled and examined.
DPW is a part of Dartington’s programme of
and delicious cake.
education in art and craft, open to all and
All proceeds go to
producing work of the highest quality. The show
will be stewarded by printmakers willing to Amnesty International.
inform and explain. During the Festival there will
be the opportunity to ‘make a book in a morning’
at the print Workshop in Shippon Yard, exploring
simple printmaking techniques.
Day Ticket for Great Hall: £45 (not including event 14)
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Politics and Change
Rachel Reeves Jack Brown John Rees
Rachel Reeves John Rees
Westminster Women Revolutionaries
15 10.00am | Barn £10.00 17 1.30pm | Barn £10.00
Rachel Reeves, MP for Leeds West, explores the The Levellers, who were formed out of the explosive
significant role of women in British politics. She brings and tumultuous 1640s and the battlefields of the
forgotten MPs out of the shadows and looks at the Civil War, became central figures in the history of
many battles fought by the Women of Westminster democracy. Author, broadcaster and activist John
from 1919 to 2019. Assessing significant achievements, Rees will reassert the revolutionary nature of the
from the earliest suffrage campaigns to Barbara Castle’s 1642–51 wars and the role of ordinary people in this
fight for equal pay, Rachel Reeves brings to light the pivotal moment in history.
political work of women too often overlooked. The Leveller Revolution (Verso)
Women of Westminster (IB Tauris)
Jack Brown Virginia Nicholson
Behind the Door at No.10 Women of the 60s
16 11.45am | Barn £10.00 18 3.15pm | Barn £10.00
With perhaps the world’s most iconic front door, 10 It was known as a decade of revolution, peace, love,
Downing Street is the home and office of the British psychedelia and sexual abandonment, but did the
Prime Minister and the heart of British politics. As world really change for women in the 1960s? Was
No.10’s first-ever Researcher in Residence, Jack Brown the availability of ‘the pill’ on the NHS a liberation or
had unprecedented access to people and papers. a trap? Social historian, Virginia Nicholson, reveals
He sheds new light on unexplored corners of Prime how women who lived through those times look
Ministers’ lives and delivers an intimate account of the back on a decade supposedly devoted to sex, drugs
building at the core of British political power. and rock ‘n roll.
No.10: The Geography of Power at Downing How was it for you? Women, Sex, Love and
Street (Haus Publishing) Power in the 1960s (Viking)
Day Ticket for Barn: £40
Book tickets online at wayswithwords.co.uk page 9SATURDAY 6th JULY Barn / Dukes Room
Oversteps
Day
Jenny Hockey, Antony Mair,
Pat Leighton, Carol DeVaughn
Brand New
20 10.00am | Dukes Room £7.00
Rachel Louise Brown
We are pleased to introduce four new Oversteps
poets who have been published in the past year.
Caroline Criado-Perez
Michael Thomas,
James Turner, Joan McGavin,
Caroline Criado-Perez Andrew Nightingale
A Case for Change Welcome Back
19 5.00pm | Barn £10.00 21 11.30am | Dukes Room £7.00
In a world largely built by, and for, men, campaigner All four poets have published with Oversteps Books
and writer, Caroline Criado-Perez, exposes the data in recent years, and we are delighted to welcome
bias and gender politics that have a profound effect on them back to read today.
the health and wellbeing of women’s lives. She reveals
the range of ways in which women are excluded Jenny Hockey, Antony Mair,
from the very building blocks of the world we live
in, from government policy and medical research to
Pat Leighton, Carol DeVaughn
technology, workplaces and urban planning. The Precious Planet
Invisible Women (Chatto & Windus)
22 2.00pm | Dukes Room £7.00
This morning’s readers will be joined by Christopher
North, Hilary Elfick and Alwyn Marriage for a wide
variety of readings of the love of our world.
Jenny Hockey, Antony Mair,
Pat Leighton, Carol DeVaughn
Love is in the Air
23 3.30pm | Dukes Room £7.00
Christopher North, Hilary Elfick and Alwyn Marriage
join the readers from the morning to continue on
the themes of love for those with whom we share
our lives.
Day Ticket for Barn: £40 Day Ticket for Dukes Room: £14
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Mykel Nicolaou
Torsten Silz
Katie Hickman Peter Stanford Richard J. Evans
Katie Hickman Richard J. Evans
British Women in India A Study of an Era
24 11.00am | Great Hall £11.00 26 2.30pm | Great Hall £11.00
The first British women to set foot in India did so two and At the time of his death at the age of 95, Eric
a half centuries before the Raj. As wives, courtesans Hobsbawm was the most famous historian in the
and she-merchants, their voyages to India were daring world and his writings had a huge and lasting effect
leaps into the unknown. For some it was painful exile, on the practice of history. Richard J. Evans tells
but for many it was exhilarating. Through diaries, letters the story of Hobsbawm as an academic, but also
and memoirs, celebrated chronicler Katie Hickman as witness to history itself, and of the twentieth
uncovers their stories, until now hidden from history. century’s major political and intellectual currents
She-Merchants, Buccaneers and Gentlewomen: including the emergence of New Labour.
British Women in India 1600 – 1900 (Virago) Eric Hobsbawm: A Life in History (Little Brown)
Peter Stanford
Angelology
Michael Honnor
25 12.45pm | Great Hall £11.00
Book Making Workshop
In a 2016 poll, one in ten Britons claimed to have
experienced the presence of an angel. Author and 10.00am–1.00pm | Shippon Yard £50.00
journalist Peter Stanford explores our fascination
with angels and examines their history and role in These intriguing and energetic workshops offer
the great faiths. Could angels be a manifestation the chance to explore fascinating printmaking
of divinity? Or part of the poetry of religion? What techniques, make images, add a word or two and
is the cultural significance of a religious idea in a sew the result into your own small handmade book
secular, sceptical post-Christian world? - all in the space of three hours. Simple concluding
lunch provided. Call to book 07779 731824
Angels ( Hodder & Stoughton)
Day Ticket for Great Hall: £36 (not including event 28)
Book tickets online at wayswithwords.co.uk page 11SUNDAY 7th JULY Great Hall
Simon Winder Satish Kumar
Simon Winder Satish Kumar
In-Between Europe Consume Less and Celebrate More
27 4.15pm | Great Hall £11.00 28 7.30pm | Great Hall £11.00
Continuing his hilarious informative and personal Consumerism drives the pursuit of happiness
exploration of European history, author of in much of the world, yet as wealth grows
‘Germania’ Simon Winder turns his attention to the unhappiness abounds. Environmental thought
history of in-between Europe and tells the story of leader and former monk, Satish Kumar, distills five
Lotharingia – a place between places. He retraces decades of reflection and wisdom into a guide for
the various powers that have tried to overtake the everyone seeking a life that prioritises the ecological
land that stretches from the mouth of the Rhine integrity of the Earth, social equity, and personal
to the Alps and the might of the peoples who have tranquility and happiness.
lived there for centuries. Elegant Simplicity: The Art of Living Well (New
Lotharingia - A Personal History of Europe’s Sociey Publishers)
Lost Country (Picador)
Day Ticket for Great Hall: £36 (not including event 28)
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Environmental
Charlie Burrell
Isabella Tree Mary Colwell Mike Berners-Lee Heather Buttivant
Isabella Tree Mike Berners-Lee
Rewilding Knepp What Can we do to Combat Climate
Change?
29 11.00am | Barn £10.00
Isabella Tree tells the story of a pioneering rewilding 31 2.30pm | Barn £10.00
project at Knepp in West Sussex. Forced to accept Expert in sustainability and climate change Mike
that intensive farming on the heavy clay of their land Berners-Lee discusses our biggest environmental
was economically unsustainable, Isabella Tree and her and economic challenges including energy, climate
husband Charlie Burrell decided to step back and let change, food, plastic pollution, antibiotics and
nature take over. The introduction of free-roaming cattle, biodiversity. He offers a realistic alternative to the
ponies, pigs and deer – proxies of the large animals that destructive path the world is on at the moment.
once roamed Britain – saw extraordinary increases in
There is no Planet B (Cambridge University Press)
wildlife numbers and diversity in little over a decade.
Wilding (Picador)
Heather Buttivant
Mary Colwell Wonders of Rock Pools
The Cry of the Curlew
32 4.15pm | Barn £10.00
30 12.45pm | Barn £10.00 The British beach is full of creatures that we
think we know - from crabs to clams, starfish
Curlew numbers have declined by 50% over the last 22 to anemones. But, in fact, we barely understand
years. Natural history producer Mary Colwell undertook how many survive or thrive. Environmentalist and
a 500-mile journey following the bird from nesting in rockpooling addict Heather Buttivant, gives an eye-
Ireland, to incubating eggs in Wales and fledging chicks opening account of the curious creatures inhabiting
in Norfolk, to find out what was happening to our this alien underwater world between the tides.
largest wading bird. She believes there is still time to
Rock Pool: Extraordinary Encounters Between
avoid extinction, provided we act now. the Tides (September Publishing)
Curlew Moon (William Collins)
Day Ticket for Barn: £32
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Virginia Baily Nahla Summers Stephen Matthews
Stephen Matthews Carol Ballenger and
The Church that Sarah Built John Powls
Collaborations
33 11.00am | Dukes Room £7.00
Lakeland publisher and writer, Stephen Matthews, 35 2.30pm | Dukes Room £7.00
tells the story of Sarah Losh who in 1842 built the Photographer Carol Ballenger and poet John Powls
church at Wreay in Cumbria. She was the architect, discuss their methods of working collaboratively
works manager and sculptor. The building is an for over twenty years, with examples from
intellectual and poetic fantasy, a unique creation five published books. Poets Susan Taylor and
that defies all the conventions of the age. In its Simon Williams, writing in response to Carol’s
philosophy her work anticipates the Arts and Crafts photographs, join Carol and John in presenting
movement by half a century. examples from ‘Sea Songs’ and ‘Defining
Sarah Losh and Wreay Church (Bookcase) Treescapes’ against a backdrop of projected images.
Virginia Baily Nahla Summers
Secrets of the Lost Territory Acts of Kindness
34 12.45pm | Dukes Room £7.00 36 4.15pm | Dukes Room £7.00
Author Virginia Baily’s new novel takes us to the Last year Nahla Summers cycled 3,000 miles across
Tripoli coast of 1929; an engrossing and intensely the USA, but instead of being sponsored in cash for
poignant story of a woman’s journey through a a cause, her supporters donated acts of kindness to
world of persecution and corruption. What awaits strangers. Nahla, who describes herself as a social
her is not an idyll of cocktail parties and dashing change maker, a transformative coach, a podcaster and
adventures, instead violence and repression in the accidental adventurer, tells the story of what led her to
‘lost’ territory Mussolini promised to reclaim for this epic journey, and explains how spreading acts of
Italy. kindness can change the world one person at a time.
The Fourth Shore (Fleet) 44 Rays of Sunshine
Day Ticket for Dukes Room: £20
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Sabrina Cohen-Hatton Phil Lancaster Deborah Moggach Steve Jones
Sabrina Cohen-Hatton Steve Jones
The Most Difficult Decisions The Sun - Our Nearest Star
Imaginable - Who Lives and Who Dies?
39 1.30pm | Great Hall £11.00
37 10.00am | Great Hall £11.00
Our sun drives the weather, forms the landscape,
Dr Sabrina Cohen-Hatton, who has been a firefighter feeds and fuels - but sometimes destroys - the
for eighteen years, decides which of her colleagues creatures that live upon it and controls their
rush into a burning building or makes the call to patterns of activity. Geneticist Professor Steve
evacuate if the situation has escalated beyond Jones shows how life on Earth is ruled by our
hope. She reveals the decision-making skills that are nearest star and the genetic and evolutionary
essential to surviving – and even thriving – in such a effects of sunlight on snails, fruit-flies and people.
fast-paced and emotionally-charged environment. Here Comes the Sun (Little, Brown)
The Heat of the Moment: Life and Death
Decision-Making From a Firefighter (Doubleday) Phil Lancaster
David Bowie and Me
Deborah Moggach
Growing Old 40 3.15pm | Great Hall £11.00
38 11.45am | Great Hall £11.00 Throughout iconic musician David Bowie’s transition
from pop group member to solo performer, Phil
Deborah Moggach, bestselling author of ‘The Best Lancaster was by his side. As the drummer in
Exotic Marigold Hotel’ and ‘Tulip Fever’, discusses Bowie’s band Phil was there as the singer’s musical
her latest novel ‘The Carer’, which explores the idea stripes began to show, and was witness to his early
that life most definitely does not stop for the elderly recording techniques, his first experimental forays
– it just moves onto a very different plane, full of into drug-taking, and the band’s discovery of his
surprising twists and turns. bisexuality.
The Carer (Tinder Press) At the Birth of Bowie: Life with the Man Who
Became a Legend (John Blake)
Day Ticket for Great Hall: £45 (not including event 42)
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David Owen Daisy Hay
David Owen Daisy Hay
Making Sense of Donald Trump Frankenstein - Brilliant Chaos
41 5.00pm | Great Hall £11.00 42 8.00pm | Great Hall £11.00
Recent leaders have been depressives, alcoholics, In the 200 years since its first publication, Mary
narcissists, populists and those affected by hubris Shelley’s story of Frankenstein’s creation during
syndrome and driven by their religious beliefs, such stormy days and nights at Byron’s Villa Diodati on
as Bush and Blair. But Donald Trump presents a Lake Geneva has become literary legend. Professor
completely different set of issues. Former Foreign of English Literature at Exeter University, Daisy Hay,
Secretary David Owen analyses the mental and returns to the objects, portraits, illustrations and
physical condition of political leaders, past and artefacts of the novel’s genesis in order to assemble
present, and explores how they paved the way for its story anew.
President Trump. The Making of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (The
Hubris - The Road to Donald Trump (Methuen Bodleian Library)
Publishing Ltd)
Day Ticket for Great Hall: £45 (not including event 42)
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Stories of Life Dave Goulson
Unappreciated Heroes of
the Natural World
45 1.30pm | Barn £10.00
Professor of Biological Sciences at the University of
Sussex, Dave Goulson investigates the intriguing,
sometimes weird habits of the creatures that live
right under our noses. He looks at how our lives are
intertwined with that of earwigs, bees, lacewings
Howard Sooley
and hoverflies and explores the environmental
damage inadvertently done by gardeners, and how
with a few small changes our gardens can become a
network of tiny nature reserves.
Dave Goulson Madeleine Bunting
The Garden Jungle (Jonathan Cape)
Peter Moore
The Extraordinary Life of Endeavour
Laura Cumming
My Mother and Other Missing
43 10.00am | Barn £10.00 Persons
The voyage of HM Bark Endeavour is perhaps the
most significant in the history of British exploration.
46 3.15pm | Barn £10.00
Commanded by James Cook, the vessel brought Uncovering the mystery of her mother’s
Europeans astonishing new insights into the disappearance as a child: art critic and author Laura
geography, natural history and people of Oceania. Cumming takes a penetrating look at her family
But what of the ship herself? Peter Moore tells the story. Humble objects light up her narrative: a
story of the extraordinary life of Endeavour. pie dish, a carved box, tickets, recipe books and
Endeavour: The Ship and Attitude that Saved pictures of all kinds, from paintings to photographs,
the World (Chatto & Windus) open up doors to the truth.
On Chapel Sands (Chatto & Windus)
Madeleine Bunting
Wartime Secrets and Hidden Histories Lorna Gibb
Stories of Longing, Loss and Resistance
44 11.45am | Barn £10.00
Best-selling author of non-fiction titles including
47 5.00pm | Barn £10.00
‘The Plot’ and ‘Love of Country’, Madeleine Bunting Childlessness touches everyone – from the
talks about the challenges of researching and playgrounds of Glasgow to the villages of
writing her first novel. Set on Guernsey, ‘Island Song’ Bangladesh; from religious rites to ancient
brings to life a largely untold experience of WWII. superstitions; from the world’s richest people to its
She discusses the psychological toll of living under powerless and enslaved. Lorna Gibb paints a global
German occupation and the messy reality of human portrait of people without children – those who long,
relationships in a tightly knit island community. those who were denied, and those who choose.
Island Song (Granta) Childless Voices (Granta)
Day Ticket for Barn: £40
Book tickets online at wayswithwords.co.uk page 17TUESDAY 9th JULY Great Hall
Graham Shackleton
Ivon Bartholomew
Angela Levin Elizabeth Jane Burnett Jon Plowman Louis de Berniéres
Angela Levin Jon Plowman
Prince Harry - From Reckless Rebel A Life in Comedy
to Respected Role Model
50 1.30pm | Great Hall £11.00
48 10.00am | Great Hall £11.00
After a 30-year career in the comedy industry, the
multi award winning producer behind Absolutely
Prince Harry is one of the world’s most popular
Fabulous, The Office, Little Britain, The League of
royals. Journalist Angela Levin, had exclusive access
Gentlemen, French and Saunders and Fry and Laurie
to him. She delves into his troubled childhood Jon Plowman tells the uncensored story of how TV
and the lasting effect of losing his adored mother, comedy works, from the first germ of an idea to the
Diana, Princess of Wales. She unpicks the defining after-party at the Emmys.
moments that have enabled him to face his demons Comedy Bronze (Bonnier Books)
and use his experience to help others who struggle
with mental, emotional and physical pain.
Louis de Berniéres
Harry: Conversations with the Prince
(John Blake) Captain Corelli and Beyond
Elizabeth Jane Burnett 51 3.15pm | Great Hall £11.00
Roots and Belonging
Sponsored by Prize winning author and
poet, Louis de Berniéres,
49 11.45am | Great Hall £11.00
returns to themes that
have characterised his work for many years. The
latest novel ‘So Much Life Left Over’ and collection
Spurred on by her father’s declining health and
of poetry ‘The Cat in the Treble Clef’ explore
inspired by the history he once wrote of his small
profound personal stories and human connections.
Devon village Ide, Elizabeth-Jane Burnett delves He discusses his creative life and the different
through layers of memory, language and natural challenges of writing a novel and a poem.
history to tell a powerful story of how the land See also ‘Captain Corelli’s Mandarin’ on page 20
shapes us and speaks to us.
So Much Life Left Over (Harvill Secker);
The Grassling (Allen Lane) The Cat in the Treble Clef (Harvill Secker)
Day Ticket for Great Hall: £45 (not including event 53)
page 18Great Hall / Dukes Room TUESDAY 9th JULY
Urszula Soltys
Joseph O’Connor Billy ‘Scratch’ Hitchen Christopher North Linda Blair
Joseph O’Connor Christopher North
The Inspiration of Bram Stoker (Workshop)
A Journey into the Travel Journal
52 5.00pm | Great Hall £11.00
International best-selling author of ‘Star of the FE1 11am–1pm | Dukes Room £16.00
Sea’, Joseph O’Connor, discusses his latest novel A workshop exploring techniques and ideas to
‘Shadowplay’ which explores the complexities enrich your writing and the experiences of travel -
of love that stand dangerously outside social Part 1 Loosening the pen and the imagination
convention, the restlessness of creativity, and the and Part 2 Capturing experiences on the wing.
experiences that led Bram Stoker to write Dracula, We will look at examples, discuss techniques and
the most iconic supernatural tale of all time. try some experiments - bring notebook/journal
Shadowplay (Harvill Secker) and a pen.
Billy ‘Scratch’ Hitchen Linda Blair
Adventures at Sea (Workshop)
Beyond Mindfulness
53 8.00pm | Great Hall £11.00
Easter, 1963 - the end of the school holidays FE2 2.00-4.30pm | Dukes Room £16.00
approaching, but instead of returning to school, Billy Mindfulness, although a valuable way to help you
Hitchen ran away to sea aged 14. Before the age of feel calm and balanced, is really only the starting
19 he had sailed round the world five times. In 1973, point if you want to enjoy a truly fulfilling life.
he returned home to Salcombe in South Devon and Psychologist Linda Blair will help you understand
went on to spend the next three decades fishing in your personality traits, creative passions and
every sea area, from Devon to Rockall. intelligence profile and learn how to declutter and
Scratch, a Salcombe Boy simplify your life.
(Troubador Publishing)
Day Ticket for Great Hall: £45 (not including event 53)
Book tickets online at wayswithwords.co.uk page 19TUESDAY 9th JULY Great Hall
Science of the Mind & Body
David Nott
Surgery on the Front Line
56 1.30pm | Barn £10.00
War Doctor David Nott has spent the last 25 years
taking unpaid leave from the NHS to volunteer in some
of the world’s most dangerous war zones. Driven by
compassion and the thrill of extreme personal danger,
Annabel Moeller
Simon Weller
he is now widely acknowledged to be the most
experienced trauma surgeon in the world.
War Doctor (Picador)
Hannah Critchlow David Nott
Robert Plomin
The Genomic Revolution
Hannah Critchlow
Does Free Will Exist?
57 3.15pm | Barn £10.00
A pioneer in the field of genetics and world
54 10.00am | Barn £10.00 expert on twin studies, Robert Plomin, makes the
controversial case that DNA is the most important
Many of us believe that we are free to shape our factor in shaping who we are. Our families, schools
own destiny. But what if free will doesn’t exist, our and immediate environment are important he
lives are largely predetermined, hardwired in our maintains but not as influential as our genes.
brains, and our choices over what we eat, who we Blueprint: How DNA makes us who we are
fall in love with, even what we believe are not real (Allen Lane)
choices at all? Such questions are tackled by Science
Outreach Fellow at Magdalene College, Cambridge, Captain Corelli’s
Hannah Critchlow.
Mandolin
The Science of Fate (Hodder & Stoughton)
58 5.00pm | Barn £7.00
Mike Shooter (Cert 15, running time: 124 mins) Hollywood
Making Sense of Childhood adaptation of Louis de Bernières’ novel set on the
55 | Barn
Italian-occupied Greek island of Cephalonia during the
11.45am £10.00 1940s. Opera-loving mandolin player Captain Corelli
(Nicolas Cage) finds the population resentful when he
For more than 40 years child psychiatrist, Mike first arrives on the island. But soon his involvement
Shooter, has listened to children and adolescents in with local beauty Pelagia (Penelope Cruz) helps him
crisis, helping them to find their stories and begin form a bond with the local community and he starts to
to make sense of their lives. He sheds light on the question his own involvement in the war.
painful issues and universal experience of growing up.
EVENT 59 Book events 51 & 58 together for £16.00
Growing Pains (Hodder & Stoughton)
Day Ticket for Barn: £32 (not including events 58 and 59)
page 20It’s easy to book your tickets for Ways with
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Cancellations, refunds, exchanges and lost tickets policy – see p40 or wayswithwords.co.uk page 21EVENT PRICE No. TOTAL EVENT PRICE No. TOTAL
eg A. N. Author | £ 11 | 3 |£ 33 eg A. N. Author | £ 11 | 3 |£ 33
FRIDAY 5th JULY MONDAY 8th JULY
1 Joseph Stigliz | £11 | |£ 37 Sabrina Cohen-Hatton | £11 | |£
2 Stephen Moss | £11 | |£ 38 Deborah Moggach | £11 | |£
3 Dom Joly | £11 | |£ 39 Steve Jones | £11 | |£
4 John Crace | £11 | |£ 40 Phil Lancaster | £11 | |£
5 Matt Harvey | £11 | |£ 41 David Owen | £11 | |£
▲ Great Hall Day Ticket (1–3) | £27 | |£ 42 Daisy Hay | £11 | |£
6 Martin Brown | £10 | |£ ▲ Great Hall Day Ticket (37–41) | £45 | |£
7 Sam Willis and James Daybell | £10 | |£ 43 Peter Moore | £10 | |£
8 Gelong Thubten | £10 | |£ 44 Madeleine Bunting | £10 | |£
▲ Barn Day Ticket (6–8) | £24 | |£ 45 Dave Goulson | £10 | |£
46 Laura Cumming | £10 | |£
SATURDAY 6th JULY 47 Lorna Gibb | £10 | |£
9 Gelong Thubten | £11 | |£ ▲ Barn Day Ticket (42–46) | £40 | |£
10 Frank Field | £11 | |£
11 Caroline Slocock | £11 | |£ TUESDAY 9th JULY
12 Kamal Ahmed | £11 | |£ 48 Angela Levin | £11 | |£
13 John Simpson | £11 | |£ 49 Elizabeth Jane Burnett | £11 | |£
14 Robin Ince | £11 | |£ 50 Jon Plowman | £11 | |£
▲ Great Hall Day Ticket (9–13) | £45 | |£ 51 Louis de Berniéres | £11 | |£
15 Rachel Reeves | £10 | |£ 52 Joseph O’Connor | £11 | |£
16 Jack Brown | £10 | |£ 53 Billy ‘Scratch’ Hitchen | £11 | |£
17 John Rees | £10 | |£ ▲ Great Hall Day Ticket (48–52) | £45 | |£
18 Virginia Nicholson | £10 | |£ 54 Hannah Critchlow | £10 | |£
19 Caroline Criado-Perez | £10 | |£ 55 Mike Shooter | £10 | |£
▲ Barn Day Ticket (15–19) | £40 | |£ 56 David Nott | £10 | |£
20 Hockey, Mair, Leighton, DeVaughn | £7 | |£ 57 Robert Plomin | £10 | |£
21 Thomas, Turner, McGavin, Nightingale | £7 | |£ 58 FILM: Captain Corelli’s Mandolin | £7 | |£
22 Hockey, Mair, Leighton, DeVaughn | £7 | |£ 59 Talk and Film (events 51 & 58) | £16 | |£
23 Hockey, Mair, Leighton, DeVaughn | £7 | |£ ▲ Barn Day Ticket (54–57) | £32 | |£
▲ Dukes Day Ticket (20–23) | £14 | |£
WEDNESDAY 10th JULY
SUNDAY 7th JULY 60 Mark Leigh | £11 | |£
24 Katie Hickman | £11 | |£ 61 Rachel Trethewey | £11 | |£
25 Peter Stanford | £11 | |£ 62 Maggie Oliver | £11 | |£
26 Richard J. Evans | £11 | |£ 63 Chris Mullin | £11 | |£
27 Simon Winder | £11 | |£ 64 Alison Weir | £11 | |£
28 Satish Kumar | £11 | |£ 65 Melissa Benn | £11 | |£
▲ Great Hall Day Ticket (24–27) | £36 | |£ ▲ Great Hall Day Ticket (60–64) | £45 | |£
29 Isabella Tree | £10 | |£ 66 Marion Turner | £10 | |£
30 Mary Colwell | £10 | |£ 67 Naoko Abe | £10 | |£
31 Mike Berners-Lee | £10 | |£ 68 Henry Eliot | £10 | |£
32 Heather Buttivant | £10 | |£ 69 Anne de Courcy | £10 | |£
▲ Barn Day Ticket (29–32) | £32 | |£ 70 Victoria Bateman | £10 | |£
33 Stephen Matthews | £7 | |£ ▲ Barn Day Ticket (66–70) | £40 | |£
34 Virginia Baily | £7 | |£
35 Carol Ballenger & John Powls | £7 | |£
36 Nahla Summers | £7 | |£
▲ Dukes Day Ticket (33–36) | £20 | |£
page 22 Book online, by phone or by post – see page 21 for full detailsEVENT PRICE No. TOTAL EVENT PRICE No. TOTAL
eg A. N. Author | £ 11 | 3 |£ 33 eg A. N. Author | £ 11 | 3 |£ 33
THURSDAY 11th JULY SATURDAY 13th JULY
71 Jonathan Bate | £11 | |£ 99 Anna Pasternak | £11 | |£
72 Wilfred Emmanuel Jones | £11 | |£ 100 Marcus du Sautoy | £11 | |£
73 Sonia Purnell | £11 | |£ 101 Diarmaid MacCulloch | £11 | |£
74 Jane Jelley | £11 | |£ 102 Christopher Somerville | £11 | |£
75 Gina Rippon | £11 | |£ 103 Kurt Jackson | £11 | |£
76 Lindsey Hilsum | £11 | |£ 104 Ben Okri | £11 | |£
77 Chris Bonington | £11 | |£ |
105 Patten, Harvey, Williams & Taylor £11 | |£
▲ Great Hall Day Ticket (71–75) | £45 | |£ ▲ Great Hall Day Ticket (99–103) | £45 | |£
78 Hugh St. Clair | £10 | |£ 107 Paul Conroy | £10 | |£
79 Alex Woodcock | £10 | |£ 108 Clare Rewcastle Brown | £10 | |£
80 Jill Burke | £10 | |£ 109 Zeba Talkhani | £10 | |£
81 Naomi Wood | £10 | |£ 110 Sara Wheeler | £10 | |£
82 Matthew L. Tompkins | £10 | |£ 111 Lalage Snow | £10 | |£
▲ Barn Day Ticket (78–82) | £40 | |£ ▲ Barn Day Ticket (107–111) | £40 | |£
83 Jacqueline Sarsby | £7 | |£ 106 Andrew Wilson | £7 | |£
84 Joe Richards | £7 | |£
85 Andy Christian | £7 | |£ SUNDAY 14th JULY
86 Called to the Edge Poets | £7 | |£ 112 Polly Toynbee & David Walker | £11 | |£
▲ Dukes Day Ticket (83–86) | £20 | |£ 113 Nick Bilbrough | £11 | |£
114 Julian Baggini | £11 | |£
FRIDAY 12th JULY 115 David Nicholls (inc book) | £25 | |£
87 Annabel Abbs | £11 | |£ ▲ Great Hall Day Ticket (112–114) | £27 | |£
88 Ollie Ollerton | £11 | |£ 116 Oliver Morton | £10 | |£
89 Nicholas Crane | £11 | |£ 117 Steven Connor | £10 | |£
90 Viv Groskop | £11 | |£ 118 Mark Miodownik | £10 | |£
91 Patrick Gale | £11 | |£ 119 Rob Hopkins | £10 | |£
92 Robert Hardman | £11 | |£ ▲ Barn Day Ticket (116–119) | £32 | |£
93 Natalie Haynes | £11 | |£
▲ Great Hall Day Ticket (87–91) | £45 | |£ FESTIVAL EXTRAS
94 Johnny Mains | £10 | |£ FE1 Christopher North Tue 9 | £16 | |£
95 Anna Turns & Geetie Singh-Watson | £10 | |£ FE2 Linda Blair Tue 9 | £16 | |£
96 Eleanor Anstruther | £10 | |£ FE3 Christopher North Wed 10 | £16 | |£
97 Kate Clanchy | £10 | |£ FE4 Linda Blair Wed 10 | £16 | |£
98 Hallie Rubenhold | £10 | |£ FE5 Murder Mystery Sat 13 | £30 | |£
▲ Barn Day Ticket (94–98) | £40 | |£
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page 24 Book online, by phone or by post – see page 21 for full detailsGreat Hall WEDNESDAY 10th JULY
Mark Leigh Rachel Trethewey Maggie Oliver
Mark Leigh Maggie Oliver
A Guide to the Modern World for the One-Woman’s Campaign to Fight for Justice
Easily Perplexed
62 1.30pm | Great Hall £11.00
60 10.00am | Great Hall £11.00
When detective Maggie Oliver first discovered that
Mark Leigh offers definitions for the elderly and not-so- children as young as 10 were being groomed, abused
elderly who are bamboozled by the technology of the and trafficked for sex by gangs of men in the Rochdale
contemporary world that the more youthful take for area, she felt like a lonely voice calling for people to
granted. He demystifies a host of modern concepts, act. She explains how she couldn’t just sit back while
conceits and technologies that have entered everyday young lives were being destroyed. Instead, she blew
use and parlance but which are alien. the whistle, losing her job and - at times - her mind,
in a bid to stop others from experiencing the same.
The Older Person’s Guide to New Stuff (Robinson)
Survivors: One Brave Detective’s Battle to Expose
the Rochdale Child Abuse Scandal (John Blake)
Rachel Trethewey
Edward VIII - The Women he Loved Chris Mullin
and Lost A Vision of Post-Brexit Britain
61 11.45am | Great Hall £11.00
63 3.15pm | Great Hall £11.00
Wallis Simpson is known as the woman who stole the
Thirty-five years after the publication of ‘A Very British
King’s heart and rocked the monarchy – but she was
Coup’, former Labour MP, Chris Mullin, has written a
not Edward VIII’s first or only love. Rachel Trethewey
timely sequel ‘The Friends of Harry Perkins’. In this novel
explores three love affairs that could have changed
the fault lines forged in the white heat of the referendum
the course of history and how the heir to the throne
have become entrenched features of British political
behaved like a child craving affection, resorting to
life, power does not come without a personal price and
emotional blackmail to keep his lovers with him.
shadowy forces are at work behind the scenes.
Before Wallis: Edward VIII’s Other Women
The Friends of Harry Perkins (Scribner UK)
(The History Press)
Day Ticket for Great Hall: £45 (not including event 65)
Book tickets online at wayswithwords.co.uk page 25WEDNESDAY 10th JULY Great Hall / Dukes Room
Chris Mullin Alison Weir Melissa Benn
Alison Weir Christopher North
Anna of Kleve - Passion and Courage
(Workshop)
64 5.00pm | Great Hall £11.00 A Journey into the Travel Journal
In her latest novel, acclaimed historian and author,
Alison Weir, draws on new evidence to conjure
FE3 11am–1pm | Dukes Room £16.00
a startling image of Anna of Kleve, Henry VIII’s A workshop exploring techniques and ideas to
much-maligned fourth wife, as a charming, spirited enrich your writing and the experiences of travel
woman, loved by all who knew her - and even, - Part 1 Loosening the pen and the imagination
ultimately, by the King who rejected her. and Part 2 capturing experiences on the wing.
Anna of Kleve, Queen of Secrets (Headline) We will look at examples, discuss techniques
and try some experiments - bring notebook/
journal and a pen.
Melissa Benn
A Radical Agenda
Linda Blair
65 8.00pm | Great Hall £11.00 (Workshop)
Beyond Mindfulness
Journalist and writer, Melissa Benn, makes a timely
and provocative plea for a National Education
Service. She argues that our education system has FE4 2pm–4.30pm | Dukes Room £16.00
been damaged by politicians who have arrogantly Mindfulness, although a valuable way to help you
imposed a regime of market-driven reforms and feel calm and balanced, is really only the starting
that we need a more equitable education system point if you want to enjoy a truly fulfilling life.
to prevent stagnation and decline in our school Psychologist Linda Blair will help you understand
system. your personality traits, creative passions and
Life Lessons (Verso) intelligence profile and learn how to declutter
and simplify your life.
Day Ticket for Great Hall: £45 (not including event 65)
page 26Barn WEDNESDAY 10th JULY
Historical Perspectives
Henry Eliot
Romantic Literature – A Global
History, from Sappho to Sontag
68 1.30pm | Barn £10.00
Literature has revolved around love since the
first named poet, the Mesopotamian princess
Enheduanna, wrote a hymn praising her love goddess
Inanna. Love has been the subject of Greek lyrics,
Roman epics, medieval romances, Renaissance
sonnets, Enlightenment philosophy, nineteenth-
century novels and 21st-century fan fiction. Henry
Eliot traces the changing forms of love, with lots of
romantic book recommendations along the way.
Victoria Bateman Henry Eliot
The Penguin Classics Book (Particular Books)
Marion Turner Anne de Courcy
Chaucer – A Cosmopolitan Life Peace and War on the Cote d’Azur
66 10.00am | Barn £10.00 69 3.15pm | Barn £10.00
Chaucer was captured by the French in the Hundred Transport yourself to the golden, glamorous world
Years War, saw slave markets in Genoa, lived through of the French Riviera in the Spring of 1938, where
the Black Death and was influenced by paintings of at its heart was the enigmatic Coco Chanel. Social
Giotto in Florence. Through focussing on the art he historian, Anne de Courcy, explores the lives of the
saw, the streets he travelled and buildings he lived Cote d’Azur elite in the 1930s and 40s – a period
in, Marion Turner – the first female biographer of that saw some of the deepest extremes of luxury
Chaucer – casts a new light on the celebrated poet. and terror in the twentieth century.
Chaucer: A European Life (Princeton University Press) Chanel’s Riviera (Weidenfeld & Nicholson)
Naoko Abe Victoria Bateman
Cherry How Women Made the West Rich
67 11.45am | Barn £10.00 70 5.00pm | Barn £10.00
Cherry Blossom, or sakura, the national flower of Prominent feminist Victoria Bateman leads calls
Japan represents the fragility and beauty of life. for a sexual revolution in economics and has
Naoko Abe examines the political and cultural conducted high profile ‘naked protests’ to highlight
heritage of the flowers and tells the story of the marginalization of women’s bodies in public
Collingwood ‘Cherry’ Ingam, an English botanist life. The fellow in economics at Gonville and Caius
whose passion for Japanese cherry blossom saved College, Cambridge says to understand the burning
the tai haku cherry (among others) from extinction. economic issues of our time we need to put sex and
gender at the heart of the picture.
Cherry Ingram: The Englishman who Saved the
Blossoms for Japan (Chatto & Windus) The Sex Factor (Polity Books)
Day Ticket for Barn: £40
Book tickets online at wayswithwords.co.uk page 27THURSDAY 11th JULY Great Hall
Jonathan Bate Wilfred Emmanuel Jones Sonia Purnell Jane Jelley
Jonathan Bate Sonia Purnell
Shakespeare and the Classics Heroism and Spycraft
71 10.00am | Great Hall £11.00 73 1.30pm | Great Hall £11.00
Ben Jonson famously accused Shakespeare of having In 1942, the Gestapo would stop at nothing to
small Latin and less Greek. However, acclaimed literary track down a mysterious ‘limping lady’. The target
critic and biographer Jonathan Bate argues that was Virginia Hall. Biographer and journalist, Sonia
the Greek and Roman classics forged Shakespeare. Purnell, shares this inspiring story of a glamorous
Mapping the influence of Cicero and Horace on
American with a wooden leg who broke through the
Shakespeare’s work, he finds new links between the
barriers against her gender and disability to be the
Bard’s work and classical traditions, ranging from
first woman to infiltrate Vichy France and helped
myths and magic to monuments and politics.
turn the course of the intelligence war.
How the Classics Made Shakespeare (Princeton
University Press) A Woman of No Importance: The Untold Story
of WWII’s Most Dangerous Spy, Virginia Hall (Virago)
Wilfred Emmanuel Jones
Embracing Jeopardy Jane Jelley
Vermeer - A Detective Story
72 11.45am | Great Hall £11.00
| Great Hall
Award-winning entrepreneur, Wilfred Emmanuel-Jones,
74 3.15pm £11.00
remortgaged his house in 2005 to launch his brand ‘The Johannes Vermeer’s luminous paintings are loved and
Black Farmer’ from nothing and now enjoys an annual admired around the world, yet we do not understand
turnover of several million. From a deprived childhood in how they were made. The few traces Vermeer
inner-city Birmingham to becoming one of the nation’s has left behind tell us little: there are no letters or
most famous farmers, he argues that only by embracing diaries; and no reports of him at work. Painter and
jeopardy, and liberating ourselves from uncertainty and
art historian, Jane Jelley, unlocks the studio door, and
self-doubt, can we realise our full potential.
offers a glimpse of Vermeer at work.
Jeopardy: The Danger of Playing It Safe on the
Traces of Vermeer (Oxford University Press)
Path to Success (Piatkus)
Day Ticket for Great Hall: £45 (not including events 76 and 77)
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