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Words by the Water
Festival of Words and Ideas
Theatre by the Lake, Keswick
8–17 March 2019 wayswithwords.co.uk
Words of Welcome
T
he rule seems to be that in times of national
uncertainty and distress, people turn more
resolutely to the non-political complexities
and enrichment of the Arts.
The multitude of Literary Festivals across the country
are exceptionally well-placed to provide this sanctuary.
Words by the Water has now become established as a
leading Literary Festival in the United Kingdom, and
this year’s cast list is as glittering a galaxy as any we’ve
had. As long as we’re not snowed in.
Best wishes
Melvyn Bragg
Festival President
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t is hard to believe that a year has passed since Words by the Water last
swung into town. We are delighted to be back in glorious Cumbria. The
beautiful Theatre by the Lake is a wonderful venue and we have a packed
programme of events, talks, comedy and workshops for 2019.
You will find much to do and think about and the next ten days promise to
entertain, amuse, educate and stimulate. It is always a pleasure to be amongst
like-minded folk with a sharp appetite for new ideas. I’m looking forward to
discussing and debating – I hope you are too.
Leah Varnell Festival Curator & General Manager
W
elcome to Words by the Water. As a child I frequently holidayed in the
Lake District with large family groups.
It was a quick journey from Lancashire where we all lived. Years later, after
my ‘O’ levels, I came youth hostelling in Cumbria, with a friend. I remember sitting
on a rock by Derwentwater reading Wordsworth poems. So I was keen to expand
Ways With Words to the Lake District and enthusiastically accepted an invitation
to start Words by the Water in 2001. What a good decision that was! Not only have
people been keen to come to the festival and love the place and the event; they are
very friendly and warm folk. We greatly enjoy our festival in Cumbria.
Kay Dunbar Festival Director
² wayswithwords ³ @Ways_With_Words #wbtw2019
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Book tickets online at theatrebythelake.com page 3FRIDAY 8th MARCH Main House
Kate Mosse Roger McGough John Crace
Kate Mosse John Crace
Old Friends Become Enemies May You Live in Interesting Times
1 2.30pm | Main House £11.00 3 7.30pm | Main House £11.00
Kate Mosse, author of the internationally bestselling John Crace, author and political sketch writer
Languedoc trilogy, brings sixteenth century France for The Guardian observes the workings of
vividly to life in her new novel. The first in a new the coalface in Westminster, responding to
series of historical novels spanning three hundred the clandestine, divisive and dramatic political
years of Huguenot history she explores love, landscape. Many things may yet have changed
betrayal, conspiracies and divided loyalties. since the time of writing and John will provide
The Burning Chambers (Macmillan) insight on the current state of affairs.
I, Maybot: The Rise and Fall
(Guardian Faber Publishing)
Roger McGough
The World of Roger McGough
2 4.15pm | Main House £13.00
Roger McGough has many strings to his bow –
performance poet, broadcaster, children’s author
and playwright. He reads poems from his latest
collection ‘Joined Up Writing’ which includes
political poems, reflections on ageing and is laced
with plenty of humour, irreverence and vivacity as
always.
joinedupwriting (Penguin Books)
No day tickets applicable
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Julia Blackburn Jon Plowman
James Forrest Jon Plowman
Man of the Mountains A Life in Comedy
4 2.15pm | Studio £10.00 6 5.45pm | Studio £10.00
Nicknamed the ‘Mountain Man’ by The Sunday After a 30-year career in the comedy industry, the
Telegraph, James Forrest climbed all 446 multi award winning producer behind Absolutely
mountains in England in Wales in just six months, Fabulous, The Office, Little Britain, The League
and he did it all on his days off from work. He of Gentlemen, French and Saunders and Fry
endured collapsing tents, horrific storms and near- and Laurie tells the uncensored story of how TV
fatal mountaineering mishaps. He explains why he comedy works, from the first germ of an idea to the
took on the challenge and what he learnt along after-party at the Emmys.
the way. How to Produce Comedy Bronze
Mountain Man: 446 Mountains. Six Months. (Blink Publishing)
One Record-Breaking Adventure (Bloomsbury)
Julia Blackburn
Searching for Doggerland
5 4.00pm | Studio £10.00
Doggerland once connected England to Holland
and was home to giant elephants, rhinos and our
ancestors, until it was submerged by the North
Sea around 500 BC. Julia Blackburn explores the
existence and loss of a place through mixing
fragments from her own life with stories of the
places she visits and people she meets in her
search for Doggerland.
Time Song – Searching for Doggerland (Vintage)
Day Ticket for Studio: £24 for three events
Book tickets online at theatrebythelake.com page 5SATURDAY 9th MARCH Main House
Anthony Seldon Isabel Hardman Sally Vickers
Anthony Seldon Salley Vickers
300 years of Downing Street The Joy of Reading
7 11.00am | Main House £11.00 9 2.30pm | Main House £11.00
The first British prime minister, Robert Walpole, was At a time when libraries are under constant threat
appointed in 1721. Between him and the current of closure Salley Vickers’ latest novel ‘The Librarian’
incumbent, there have been 52 PMs. Britain has is timely. The story charts the consequences of
undergone seismic changes in those 300 years. Is it a young woman who takes up the position of a
still the same job that the Prime Minister does for us? children’s librarian in a quaint market town.
Contemporary historian and political author Anthony The Librarian (Viking)
Seldon explores the changing role of the PM.
The Fourth Education Revolution (The University
of Buckingham Press) Melvyn Bragg
Forever One
Isabel Hardman
Why Have we Lost Faith in Politicians? 10 4.15pm | Main House £11.00
| Main House
Broadcaster, author and parliamentarian, Melvyn
15 12.45pm £10.00 Bragg recreates one of the most remarkable love
stories in history; that of Heloise and Abelard. The
Political commentator and assistant editor of The 12th century blurs with modern experience in this
Spectator, Isabel Hardman dissects the question classic love story retold for our times in this new
of why trust in politics and politicians is so low. She work.
lifts the lid on the strange and demanding world Love Without End: A Story of Heloise and
of Westminster, and asks why we end up with Abelard (Sceptre)
representatives we no longer trust - and how might
faith be restored?
Why We Get the Wrong Politicians (Atlantic)
Day Ticket for Main House: £36 for four events (not including events 11 and 12)
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Melvyn Bragg Kamal Ahmed Tim FitzHigham
Kamal Ahmed Tim FitzHigham
Grounds for Optimism An Evening with Tim FitzHigham:
Conquering the Channel in a Piece of
11 6.00pm | Main House £11.00
Plumbing
Kamal Ahmed, editorial director of BBC News had
a very ‘British’ childhood in every way – except for 12 8.00-10.00pm | Main House £16.00
the fact that he was half English and half Sudanese.
A multi-award-winning comedian and writer Tim
Raised in 1970s London at a time when being
FitzHigham tells the tale of the death-defying 200-
mixed-race meant being told to go home, he now
mile journey he undertook in his antique Thomas
makes the case for a new conversation about race
Crapper bath and how this resulted in meeting the
in Britain.
Queen. (Includes interval)
The Life and Times of a Very British Man
All At Sea: One man. One bathtub. One Very
(Bloomsbury)
Bad Idea (Preface Publishing)
Circle Gallery
Karen Babayan
FE1 3.00pm | Circle Gallery £10.00
Diversity is not usually associated with the Lake
District but artist Karen Babayan’s research reveals
Arthur Ransome’s fictional Walker family as the
Altounyans, a multilingual, multicultural family
that lived contrasting lives in Aleppo, Syria and
Coniston, Cumbria. At 4pm a free celebratory
Armenian circle dance event will take place
with dancer Shakeh Major Tchilingirian (weather
permitting).
Swallows and Armenians (Wild Pansy Press) Karen Babayan
Book tickets online at theatrebythelake.com page 7SATURDAY 9th MARCH Studio
Politics and Change
Mike Berners-Lee
What Can we do to Combat Climate
Change?
13 10.45am | Studio £10.00
Expert in sustainability and climate change Mike
Berners-Lee discusses our biggest environmental
and economic challenges including energy, climate
change, food, plastic pollution, antibiotics and
biodiversity. He offers a realistic alternative to the
destructive path the world is on at the moment .
There Is No Plan[et] B (Cambridge University Press) Alistair Carr Rachel Reeves
John Rees
Clare Rewcastle Brown Revolutionaries
Information is Light
14 12.30pm | Studio £10.00 16 4.00pm | Studio £10.00
The Levellers, who were formed out of the explosive
When Clare Rewcastle Brown began reporting on and tumultuous 1640s and the battlefields of the
the destruction of Borneo’s rainforest, no one could Civil War, became central figures in the history of
have predicted it would bring down the Malaysian democracy. Author, broadcaster and activist John
government. She recounts how she exposed a Rees will reassert the revolutionary nature of the
web of corruption involving international banks, 1642–51 wars and the role of ordinary people in this
companies and politicians – and argues that the pivotal moment in history.
dark side of globalisation must be fought.
The Leveller Revolution (Verso)
The Sarawak Report (Lost World Press)
Alistair Carr Rachel Reeves
with Tim FitzHigham Westminster Women
Creative Explorations
17 5.45pm | Studio £10.00
8 2.15pm | Studio £11.00 Rachel Reeves, MP for Leeds West explores the
significant role of women in British politics. She
Alistair Carr talks about his life as author, explorer brings forgotten MPs out of the shadows and
and artist. In conversation with Tim FitzHigham, looks at the many battles fought by the Women
he recounts journeys with nomads in the Sahel of Westminster from 1919 to 2019. Assessing
and taiga, and how these travels led him into 21st significant achievements, from the earliest suffrage
century exploration and an ambitious attempt to campaigns to Barbara Castle’s fight for equal pay,
protect the planet’s last great-unexplored rainforest. Rachel Reeves brings to light the political work of
The Nomad’s Path: Travels in the Sahel women too often overlooked.
(I.B.Tauris) Women of Westminster (IB Tauris)
Day Ticket: £40 for five events
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Anna Pasternak Peter Stanford
Anna Pasternak Peter Stanford
Wallis Simpson: England’s Scapegoat Angelology
18 11.00am | Main House £11.00 20 2.30pm | Main House £11.00
Wallis Simpson is known as the woman at the In a 2016 poll, one in ten Britons claimed to have
centre of the most scandalous love affair of experienced the presence of an angel. Author and
the 20th century. Bestselling biographer Anna journalist Peter Stanford explores our fascination
Pasternak seeks to redeem a women wronged by with angels and examines their history and role in
history offering illuminating new information from the great faiths. Could angels be a manifestation
those who were close to the couple. of divinity? Or part of the poetry of religion? What
Untitled: The Real Wallis Simpson, Duchess of is the cultural significance of a religious idea in a
Windsor (William Collins) secular, sceptical post-Christian world?
Angels: A Visible and Invisible History
(Hodder & Stoughton)
Linda Blair
A Nation of Dog-Lovers
19 12.45pm | Main House £11.00
Dog ownership is associated with a huge number
of physiological and psychological benefits.
However, because they’re so important to us, when
either dog or owner is stressed, both will suffer.
That’s why everyone, four-legged family members
as well as those with two legs, will benefit from
learning how to attain a sense of calm, and override
maladaptive patterns of behaviour with more
constructive ones.
Day Ticket for Main House: £36 for four events (not including event 22)
Book tickets online at theatrebythelake.com page 9SUNDAY 10th MARCH Main House
John Lanchester Alan Johnson
John Lanchester Alan Johnson
Across the Divide Music of My Youth
21 4.15pm | Main House £11.00 22 7.30pm | Main House £11.00
Building walls on borders and societal Former Home Secretary for the Labour Party and
divisions often dominate our news cycle in the award-winning author Alan Johnson transports
contemporary world. Widely acclaimed author of us to a world that is no longer with us – a world of
‘Capital’, John Lanchester, discusses his prophetic Dansettes and jukeboxes, smoky coffee shops and
new work which explores the impact of walls dingy dance halls – adding a fourth dimension to
designed to keep others out and asks at what price the story of his life.
do we build barriers? In My Life: A Music Memoir (Bantam Press)
The Wall (Faber & Faber)
Circle Gallery
Linda Blair
Beyond Mindfulness
FE2 3.00-5.30pm | Circle Gallery £16.00
Mindfulness, although a valuable way to help you
feel calm and balanced, is really only the starting
point if you want to enjoy a truly fulfilling life.
Psychologist Linda Blair will help you understand
your personality traits, creative passions and
intelligence profile and learn how to declutter and
simplify your life.
The Key to Calm (Yellow Kite)
Linda Blair
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Historical Perspectives
Simon Winder
In-Between Europe
25 2.15pm | Studio £10.00
Continuing his hilarious informative and personal
exploration of European history author of ‘Germania’,
Simon Winder, turns his attention to the history of
in-between Europe and tells the story of Lotharingia
Ferdinand Addis Christopher Skaife a place between places. He retraces the various powers
that have tried to overtake the land that stretches from
the mouth of the Rhine to the Alps and the might of
Roland Jackson the peoples who have lived there for centuries.
Why the Sky is Blue Lotharingia – A Personal History of Europe’s
Lost Country (Picador)
23 10.45am | Studio £10.00
Former Head of the Science Museum Roland
Ferdinand Addis
Jackson presents a portrait of John Tyndall, Eternal City
who was one of the foremost physicists and
communicators of science in mid-Victorian Britain.
His discoveries included the physical basis of the
26 4.00pm | Studio £10.00
warming of the Earth’s atmosphere and establishing City of the Seven Hills, city of the artistic imagination,
why the sky is blue. A keen mountaineer, Tyndall enduring symbol of our common European heritage
was the first to traverse the Matterhorn and to – Rome has inspired and charmed empire-builders,
ascend the Weisshorn. dreamers, writers and travellers. Ferdinand Addis gives
The Ascent of John Tyndall (Oxford University Press) an illuminating account of the city associated with
republicanism and dictatorship, Christian orthodoxy
and its rivals, high art and low life in all its forms.
Peter Moore Rome: Eternal City (Head of Zeus)
Endeavour: A Most Significant Ship
Christopher Skaife
24 12.30pm | Studio £10.00
Life with the Ravens
A Royal Navy research vessel with many lives,
Endeavour famously carried James Cook on his
voyage to the Pacific Islands. The ship was there
27 5.45pm | Studio £10.00
at the Wilkes Riots in London and witnessed the It is said that if the ravens leave the Tower of
bloody birth of the United States. According to London it will crumble to dust and great harm will
Charles Darwin she helped Cook add a hemisphere befall the kingdom. So Christopher Skaife’s role of
to the civilised world. For some, Endeavour was Ravenmaster at the Tower is a responsible one.
a toxic symbol responsible for dispossession of The former Drum Major talks about life at the
societies. Peter Moore charts her remarkable story. historic castle and shares his knowledge of these
Endeavour: The Ship and Attitude that Changed extraordinary birds who are ‘much given to mischief’.
the World (Chatto & Windus) The Ravenmaster (4th Estate)
Day Ticket: £40 for five events
Book tickets online at theatrebythelake.com page 11MONDAY 11th MARCH Main House
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Lynne Truss Caroline Slocock David Dwan
Lynne Truss David Dwan
Massacre and Mystery Doublethink: Orwell and… Brexit
28 11.00am | Main House £11.00 30 2.30pm | Main House £11.00
On one fateful day in 1951, the majority of The name George Orwell has become part of the
Brighton’s criminals were involved in a vicious political vocabulary of our times and his works seem
battle that wiped out all but a select few. Lynne ever more pertinent in the post-truth era. David
Truss explores the mysterious events following Dwan, Associate Professor in English at Hertford
the ‘Middle Street Massacre’ with her characteristic College, Oxford explores Orwell’s writings arguing
laugh-out-loud humour. that literature can be a source of political wisdom
A Shot in the Dark (Raven Books) whatever the particular challenges of the age.
Liberty, Equality and Humbug: Orwell’s Political
Ideals (Oxford University Press)
Caroline Slocock
The Truth About the Iron Lady
29 12.45pm | Main House £11.00
Left-wing feminist and former private secretary to
Margaret Thatcher, Caroline Slocock suggests it’s
time to rewrite how we portray powerful women
and accept that Margaret Thatcher was ‘one of us’.
Caroline takes a political and personal look at life
inside Thatcher’s No. 10 during its dying days and
reflects on women and power then and now.
People like us: Margaret Thatcher and Me
(Biteback Publishing)
Day Ticket for Main House: £27 for three events (not including event 31)
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Michèle Mendelssohn
Michèle Mendelssohn
Oscar Wilde: Rarely Pure and Never
Simple? (Talk and film)
31 5.00pm | Main House £16.00
Witty, inspiring, and charismatic, Oscar Wilde is one
of the greats of English literature. Today, his plays
and stories are beloved around the world. But it was
not always so. Literary critic and cultural historian
Michèle Mendelssohn charts Wilde’s tumultuous
rise, fall and contemporary resurrection drawing on
compelling new archives and rare documents to tell
the story of Oscar Wilde’s life.
Making Oscar Wilde (Oxford University Press)
FILM Wilde (Cert 15, running
time 118 mins) 7.00pm
Oscar Wilde returns from a
successful 1882 lecture tour
of America to wed Constance
Lloyd. However realising
that he is really attracted to
men he embarks on an affair
with Lord Alfred Douglas,
‘Bosie’. Despite being the
toast of the town and winning
critical success with ‘The Picture of Dorian Gray’
and ‘The Importance of Being Earnest’, Wilde’s
homosexuality is set to land him in hot water.
Day Ticket for Main House: £27 for three events (not including event 31)
Book tickets online at theatrebythelake.com page 13MONDAY 11th MARCH Studio
Wild Words Mary Colwell
The Plight of the Curlew
34 2.15pm | Studio £10.00
Curlews, with their long curved bills and haunting
songs, are Britain’s largest wading birds. Over the
last 22 years the species has declined by 50%
across England and Scotland. BBC Natural History
Unit producer Mary Colwell walked 500 miles across
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Ireland and England to track these elusive birds. To
ensure their survival, she challenges us to think and
act differently.
Lucy Bellamy Naoko Abe Curlew Moon (William Collins)
Charlotte Runcie Naoko Abe
Ode to Oceans Cherry
32 10.45am | Studio £10.00
35 4.00pm | Studio £10.00
The Daily Telegraph’s radio columnist and arts Cherry blossom or sakura, the national flower of Japan,
writer Charlotte Runcie explores what the sea represents the fragility and beauty of life. Naoko Abe
means to us, and particularly what it has meant examines the political and cultural heritage of the
to women through the ages. She walks on the flowers and tells the story of Collingwood ‘Cherry’
beach with Turner, with Shakespeare, with the Ingram, a self-taught English botanist whose passion
Romantic Poets and shanty-singers. She navigates for Japanese cherry blossom saved the tai haku cherry
through ancient Greek myths, poetry, shipwrecks (among others) from extinction. He re-introduced it
and Scottish folktales and discusses how wild to Japan in 1932 after taking cuttings from a specimen
untameable waves can help us understand what it growing in his garden in Kent.
means to be human.
Cherry Ingram: The Englishman who Saved the
Salt On Your Tongue (Canongate) Blossoms for Japan (Chatto & Windus)
Lucy Bellamy David Howe
A Community of Plants The Character of Cumbria
33 12.30pm | Studio £10.00
36 5.45pm | Studio £10.00
March is the time for sowing seeds and planning The Lake District is a place of rocks and rain, reason
gardens. Horticulturalist and editor of Gardens and romance, wonders and curiosity. David Howe
Illustrated, Lucy Bellamy unlocks the secret to new considers this dramatic landscape. He reveals
perennial planting with umbels, spires and bright how half a billion years of shifting ice, violent
button-like dots creating gardens full of flowers, volcanoes and falling rain have shaped it. He shows
birds and bees that are swift to establish and that the Lakeland is a seamless web where lives
simple to upkeep. and landscapes weave together, where ancient
Brilliant and Wild (Pimpernel Press) countryside has created unique local history: of
Lucy Bellamy farming and mining and tight knit communities.
Rocks and Rain (Saraband)
Day Ticket for Studio: £40 for five events
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Diarmaid MacCulloch Kenneth Baker
Diarmaid MacCulloch Kenneth Baker
That Ruffian Thomas Cromwell Sins and Sinners
37 11.00am | Main House £11.00 38 12.45pm | Main House £11.00
Thomas Cromwell is one of the most famous, or Former Conservative MP Kenneth Baker explores
notorious, figures in English history. For a time, how the Seven Deadly Sins have shaped history
the self-made ‘ruffian’ (as he described himself) from the Greek and Roman civilisations, through
was ruthless, adept in the exercise of power and a their heyday in the middle ages, when sinners really
master of events. Diarmaid MacCulloch sets out believed they could go to hell for all eternity, to
Cromwell’s true place in the making of modern the secular world of today where they are still an
England and Ireland, for good and ill. alluring and destructive force.
Thomas Cromwell: A Life (Allen Lane) On The Seven Deadly SIns (Unicorn)
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Day Ticket for Main House: £36 for four events (not including event 41)
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Sarah Churchwell Marcus du Sautoy
Sarah Churchwell Marcus du Sautoy
America’s Dream or America’s Nightmare Artificial Intelligence and Art
40 4.15pm | Main House £11.00 41 7.30pm | Main House £11.00
Two of the most contentious phrases in the current Technology has always allowed us to extend our
American political playbook are: the ‘American understanding of being human. Exploring the limits
Dream’ and ‘America first’. What do these phrases and potential of the new tools of Artificial Intelligence,
tell us about America’s idea of itself? Professor of scientist, broadcaster and author Marcus du Sautoy
American Literature and journalist, Sarah Churchwell, asks will AI allow us to create in different ways? Could
considers the consequences of a country in danger recent developments in the technology mean that it
of losing touch with its own history. is no longer just human beings that create art?
Behold America: A History of America First and Creativity Code (Fourth Estate)
the American Dream (Bloomsbury)
Day Ticket for Main House: £36 for four events (not including event 41)
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Life: Lessons and Adventures
Alan Brown Christina Patterson Raynor Winn
Alan Brown Raynor Winn
Bike Packing Through the Heart of Walking Forward
the Highlands
45 4.00pm | Studio £10.00
42 10.45am | Studio £10.00
Raynor Winn was made bankrupt and lost her home
Seeking a temporary escape from city life Alan just as her husband was diagnosed with a life limiting
Brown, director of cycling charity Bike Station, illness. With nowhere else to go the pair decided
cycles coast-to-coast through the wild interior to walk the 630-mile South West Coast Path wild
of the Highlands. Armed with the essentials and camping as they went. She talks about the tests,
camping under the stars, he discovers more about encounters, the stigma of homelessness and the
nature, history, people, his country, the concept of curative power of long distance walking.
risk, and himself, than he thought possible. The Salt Path (Atlantic Books)
Overlander (Saraband)
Nicola Jackson, Emma McGordon,
Christina Patterson Steve Kendall, Nadine Aisha Jassat,
Picking Up Pieces Raheema Sayed and Andy Hopkins
44 2.15pm | Studio £10.00 Off Track – A Poetry Platform
What do you do when you feel you’ve messed it all up
and your friends seem to be doing just fine? Journalist
46 5.45pm | Studio Free
Christina Patterson decided to abandon self-help ‘Go instead where there is no path and leave a
books and talk to people about their losses and trail’ (Ralph Waldo Emerson). Poetry is uniquely
disappointments. She presents a moving, joyous and placed to lead us off the track and explore what
sometimes shockingly honest celebration of life as an is found. The poets reading in this session take a
adventure, one where you ditch your expectations, performance-based approach to give us a fresh
raise a glass and prepare for a rocky ride. and vibrant insight into their journeys. This event
supports The Booktrust children’s literacy charity.
The Art of Not Falling Apart (Atlantic Books)
Day Ticket for Studio: £32 for four events
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Gina Rippon Philip Walling Oggy Boytchev
Gina Rippon Oggy Boytchev
Mind the Gender Gap Treason and Espionage
47 11.00am | Main House £11.00 49 2.30pm | Main House £11.00
Reading maps or reading emotions? Do you have a Journalist and independent producer, Oggy
female brain or a male brain? Drawing on her life’s Boytchev was born in Bulgaria. He has travelled
work as a Professor of Cognitive Neuroimaging, extensively and worked for many years as a
Gina Rippon unpacks the stereotypes that bombard producer for the BBC World Affairs Editor John
us from our earliest moments and explores how Simpson. Boytchev’s novel draws on life behind the
centuries of sexism has led to science asking the Iron Curtain and explores Cold War paranoia and
wrong questions. intrigue in 1963.
The Gendered Brain (Bodley Head) The Unbeliever (Quartet Books)
Philip Walling
Bovine Tales
48 12.45pm | Main House £11.00
Philip Walling started out farming in Cumbria
before turning to writing. Based on his roots in the
land he draws on personal experience, interviews
with farmers, butchers and breeders to explore
how, for centuries, cattle have tilled our soils,
borne our burdens, fed and clothed us and been
uncomplaining servants in the work of wresting a
living from the land.
Till The Cows Come Home: The Story of Our
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Eternal Dependence (Atlantic Books)
Day Ticket for Main House: £36 for four events (not including event 51)
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Julie Summers Chris Bonington
Julie Summers Chris Bonington
The Secret Life of Britain’s Country The Top of the Mountain
Houses 1939–45
51 7.30pm | Main House £11.00
50 4.15pm | Main House £11.00
Having undertaken 19 Himalayan expeditions,
The dark days of the second world war saw including four to Mount Everest, mountaineer and
thousands of Britain’s greatest country houses explorer Chris Bonington will be in conversation
requisitioned for the housing of armed forces, secret with author and friend Julie Summers about what
services, children, the elderly and infirm. Social it takes to conquer fear, how to survive in the most
historian Julie Summers provides a glimpse of life in inhospitable places on earth and overcome physical
some of these monumental homes, as they opened and emotional obstacles.
their doors to spies, warriors and women. Ascent: A Life Spent Climbing on the Edge
Our Uninvited Guests: The Secret Life of (Simon & Schuster)
Britain’s Country Houses (Simon & Schuster )
Circle Gallery
Poetry Breakfast
FE3 10.15-11.30am | Circle Gallery £8.00
Poetry Breakfast. Coffee, croissants and poetry.
Bring a poem – one of your own or one you admire.
(Advance booking essential).
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Exploration and Travel
Lalage Snow
In Search of Calm
52 10.45am | Studio £10.00
Working in the world’s most dangerous war zones,
correspondent and photographer Lalage Snow has
documented gardens created in the midst of conflict.
From soldiers’ gardens in Camp Bastion to families tending
plots in the middle of a surreal frozen war in Ukraine, she
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tells the stories of these gardens and the gardeners.
War Gardens (Quercus)
Monisha Rajesh Anthony Adeane
Monisha Rajesh
45,000 Miles by Train Anthony Adeane
An Icelandic Mystery
53 12.30pm | Studio £10.00
55 4.00pm | Studio £10.00
While Monisha Rajesh was circumnavigating
the globe by train the world seemed “so much In 1974 – a time when residents of Reykjavik weren’t
smaller, more manageable and connected than allowed to keep dogs as pets, own lizards or watch
I had realised… no real beginnings or endings or TV on Thursdays, Gudmunder and Geirfinnur
boundaries”. The writer and broadcaster offers a mysteriously disappeared. Through a detailed
vivid account of coasting along the world’s most exploration of the stranger-than-fiction story that
remarkable railways; from the heights of Tibet’s has unravelled across 45 years, Anthony Adeane
Qinghai railway to silk sheeted splendour on the paints a captivating picture of Iceland – its history,
Venice Simplon-Orient Express. landscape, law and geopolitical importance.
Around the World in 80 trains (Bloomsbury) Out of Thin Air (Quercus)
Damian Le Bas Jonathan Lorie
A Journey Through Gypsy Britain The Travel Writer’s Way
54 2.15pm | Studio £10.00 56 5.45pm | Studio £10.00
Born into a traditional Gypsy family Damian Le Travel writing expert Jonathan Lorie shares a
Bas takes a journey to discover the ‘atchin tans’ or lifetime’s experience of how to turn your journeys
stopping places known only to Travellers. Horse fairs, into stories, whether for blogs, articles, books
laybys and hidden Gypsy churches feature on his or just for fun. Drawing on lessons from his new
quest to better understand his identity and Romany writing handbook, ‘The Travel Writer’s Way’, and
history. Damian, who is an advisor to the Travellers including advice from the world’s leading travel
Movement charity, gives a voice to a group of people writers, Lorie presents a creative session suitable
whose way of life has been hidden and maligned. for all levels.
The Stopping Places (Chatto & Windus) The Travel Writer’s Way (Bradt)
Day Ticket for Studio: £40 for five events
page 20Main House THURSDAY 14th MARCH
Melissa Benn
A Radical Agenda
39 11.00am | Main House £11.00
Journalist and writer Melissa Benn makes a timely
and provocative plea for a National Education
Service. She argues that our education system has
been damaged by politicians who have arrogantly
imposed a regime of market-driven reforms and
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that we need a more equitable education system
to prevent stagnation and decline in our school
system.
Life Lessons: The Need for a National Education
Service (Verso)
Melissa Benn Louis de Bernières
Irving Finkel
Louis de Bernières
Unveiling a Vanished World
Captain Corelli and Beyond
57 12.45pm | Main House £11.00 (talk and film)
Dr. Irving Finkel, Assyriologist for the British
Museum, takes us back 3,000 years to a time when
59 5.00pm | Main House £16.00
writing was rendered in the world’s oldest script. Prize winning author and poet Louis de Bernières
Set against the landscape of ancient Mesopotamia, returns to themes that have characterised his work
he reveals a shocking narrative of violence, for many years. The latest novel ‘So Much Life Left
exorcism, man and magic, in which reality and Over’ and collection of poetry ‘The Cat in the Treble
horror entwine. Clef’ explore profound personal stories and human
The Writing in the Stone (Medina Publishing Ltd) connections. He discusses his creative life and the
different challenges of writing a novel and a poem.
So Much Life Left Over (Harvill Secker)
Tom Gregory The Cat in the Treble Clef (Harvill Secker)
From the White Cliffs to France
| Main House
FILM Captain Corelli’s Mandolin
58 2.30pm £11.00 (Cert 15, running time: 124 mins)
7.00pm
On 6 September 1988, aged 11, William Hill sports Hollywood adaptation of Louis
writer of the year, Tom Gregory became the de Bernières’ novel set on the
youngest person to swim the English Channel. Italian-occupied Greek island of
After training for five years in the London Docks, Cephalonia during the 1940s.
Lake Windermere and the open sea at Dover he Opera-loving mandolin player
learnt to withstand physical and mental extremes. Captain Corelli (Nicolas Cage) finds the population
Astonishingly he completed the 32 mile swim in resentful when he first arrives on the island. But
11 hours and 54 minutes. soon his involvement with local beauty Pelagia
A Boy in the Water (Particular Books) (Penelope Cruz) helps him form a bond with the
local community and he starts to question his own
involvement in the war.
No day tickets applicable
Book tickets online at theatrebythelake.com page 21THURSDAY 14th MARCH Studio
Bookcase Day
David Woodthorpe Michael Mullett
David Woodthorpe Stephen Matthews
A Wander to Wonder Climbing Skiddaw
60 10.45am | Studio £10.00 62 2.15pm | Studio £10.00
David describes in detail a walk from Grange For Charles and Mary Lamb, climbing Skiddaw was
through the farms and fields of the beautiful a form of therapy. For Coleridge it was a visionary
Borrowdale Valley. The talk will be illustrated with experience. William Hutchinson was excited and
photographs of the daily life and magnificent appalled when he was caught in a thunderstorm.
scenery of the valley. Climbing Skiddaw provided a dramatic but very
varied experience for a wide range of people from
Ann Radcliffe to John Ruskin.
Michael Mullett
Penrith in the Eighteenth Century
61 12.30pm | Studio £10.00
The fourth volume of Michael Mullett’s authoritative
history of Penrith examines the town’s rich history
in the eighteenth century including the last battle
on English soil when the Jacobites were defeated
at Clifton Moor. The eighteenth century was a time
of growth and prosperity, as the town became the
focus for a thriving agricultural region.
Day Ticket for Studio: £40 for five events
page 22Studio THURSDAY 14th MARCH Stephen Matthews David Crackenthorpe The Life of Lord Brougham 63 4.00pm | Studio £10.00 Lord Brougham was one of the most dynamic statesmen of the nineteenth century. An energetic polymath, he was a key figure in the reform of the law and education and in the anti-slavery movement. His family home was at Brougham Hall near Penrith. David Crackanthorpe explores Lord Brougham’s life and his connections with his home county. Jane Platt Making Their Mark 64 5.45pm | Studio £10.00 Jane Platt discusses her pioneering study of literacy among the working people of Carlisle and Cumberland in the nineteenth century. How and why the poor learned to read and write opens a fascinating window on the social life of the times. Day Ticket for Studio: £40 for five events Book tickets online at theatrebythelake.com page 23
FRIDAY 15th MARCH Main House
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Amber Massie-Blomfield Julian Baggini John Simpson
Amber Massie-Blomfield John Simpson
Treading the Boards: Extraordinary Friend or Foe
Theatres
67 2.30pm | Main House £11.00
65 11.00am | Main House £11.00
BBC World Affairs Editor for more than half his 52
Theatres provide entertainment but often have year career, John Simpson has reported on major
unusual histories with their own story to tell. From events all over the world. As a man who has seen
Theatre by the Lake, a Victorian gentleman’s toilet many a real life intrigue unfold in the halls of power
and even a theatre that isn’t a theatre at all, Amber he explores the realm of murky Russian plots,
Massie-Blomfield will lead you on a cultural journey conspiracies, assassinations in his latest work.
around the UK’s most fascinating playing spaces. Moscow Midnight (John Murray)
Twenty Theatres To See Before You Die
(Penned in the Margins) Sponsored by
Raymond Tallis Julian Baggini
Making Sense of the World The Philosopher’s Map
66 12.45pm | Main House £11.00
68 4.15pm | Main House £11.00
Philosopher, poet, novelist, cultural critic and
One of the great mysteries of human history is that
clinical neuroscientist, Raymond Tallis, steps into
written philosophy flowered entirely separately in
the gap between mind and world, and grapples
China, India and Ancient Greece at more or less
with Einstein’s idea that “The eternal mystery of the
the same time. Philosopher and author Julian
world is its comprehensibility.”
Baggini explores some of the philosophies of the
Logos (Agenda Publishing) world offering insights into commonalities and
differences in how we think.
How The World Thinks: A Global History of
Philosophy (Granta Books)
Day Ticket for Main House: £36 for four events (not including events 69 and 70)
page 24Main House FRIDAY 15th MARCH
Robert Portal Robin Ince
Dear Lupin: Letters to a Robin Ince
Wayward Son Laugh at Your Punch Line
Read by actors Jeremy Child and
Robert Portal 70 7.45pm | Main House £11.00
69 6.00pm | Main House £11.00
Comedian Robin Ince uses his lifetime of stand-
up as way of exploring some of the biggest
questions we all face. Offering personal insights
Over many years former racing correspondent for and interviews with the world’s top comedians,
The Sunday Times Roger Mortimer wrote letters neuroscientists and psychologists he makes a
to his errant son Charlie. Every parent will relate to hilarious and powerful call to embrace our inner
the often despairing note in them and delight in experience – no matter how odd that may prove
the affection and dogged perseverance of Roger’s to be.
efforts to galvanise his son into some kind of
productive occupation. At turns humorous and I’m A Joke and So Are You (Atlantic Books)
touching the letters tell a moving story between
father and son.
Dear Lupin: Letters to a Wayward Son
(Constable)
Day Ticket for Main House: £36 for four events (not including events 69 and 70)
Book tickets online at theatrebythelake.com page 25FRIDAY 15th MARCH Studio
Art, Imagination and Culture
Mike Thornton
The Norman Cornish Sketchbooks
71 10.45am | Studio £10.00
Celebrated mining painter Norman Cornish from
Co Durham worked in the pits from an early age. He
also learnt to paint at The Pitman’s Academy. When
he died the artist left 269 sketchbooks behind in his
studio. His wish for his sketchbooks was that ‘they
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should have a life of their own… and teach people to
look at things.’ His son-in-law Mike Thornton reveals
stories behind the artist’s iconic works.
Sue Prideaux Henry Eliot
Behind the Scenes: The Norman Cornish
Sketchbooks (Norman Cornish Ltd)
Suzanne Fagence Cooper
Sue Prideaux See Better: The Works of John Ruskin
Friedrich Nietzsche – a Brilliant,
Eccentric Life 74 4.00pm | Studio £10.00
72 12.30pm | Studio £10.00 2019 marks 200 years since the birth of John
Ruskin, the greatest critic of his age – a critic not
Who hasn’t heard of ‘God is dead’ or ‘That which only of art and architecture but of society and life.
does not kill us makes us stronger’? Friedrich Art historian Suzanne Fagence Cooper uncovers
Nietzsche’s work underpins contemporary thought the dizzying beauty and clarity of his holistic vision.
yet misunderstanding surrounds the philosopher. What can Ruskin teach us now about seeing the
Sue Prideaux illuminates Nietzsche’s extraordinary life world around us clearly and gloriously?
– his relationship with Wagner, familial relationships, To See Clearly. Why Ruskin Matters (Quercus)
charges of anti-Semitism, mental illness, women and
his place in 20th century thought.
I am Dynamite (Faber & Faber)
Ed Vulliamy
The Power of Music
Henry Eliot
The Art of Getting Lost 75 5.45pm | Studio £10.00
| Studio
Ed Vulliamy reflects on his life as a war
73 2.15pm £10.00 correspondent travelling the world to witness
historical events, meeting the people involved,
Labyrinths are as old as humanity, the proving grounds hearing their stories and listening to music. He
of heroes, the paths of pilgrims, symbols of spiritual explores the power of music and how it can reveal
rebirth and pleasure gardens. Step inside the world of truths when words fail.
mazes with Henry Eliot who explores the history and
When Words Fail (Granta)
psychology of these strange seductive spaces and tells
the story of his quest for the Maze King.
Follow This Thread (Particular Books)
Day Ticket for Studio: £40 for five events
page 26Great House
Main Hall SATURDAY
WEDNESDAY
16th
10th
MARCH
JULY
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John Guy Philip Collins Julia Fox Horatio Clare
John Guy Julia Fox
Mary Stuart: Political Pawn, Women and Power
Manipulative Siren or Shrewd and
Charismatic Queen? 78 2.30pm | Main House £11.00
76 11.00am | Main House £11.00
Powerful women are often dismissed as agents of
scandal and seduction. Historian, Julia Fox, offers
insights into the lives of two queens: Katherine of
The life of Mary Stuart is one of unparalleled drama
Aragon and Juana of Castile and reveals them as
and conflict. Historian and author John Guy returns
flesh-and-blood women who were equipped with
to the archives to explode the myths and correct
character, intelligence and conviction in an age
the inaccuracies that surround this most fascinating
when the greatest sin was to be born a woman.
monarch and offers an alternative interpretation of
the life of Mary Queen of Scots. Sister Queens: Katherine of Aragon and Juana
Queen of Castile (W&N)
Mary Queen of Scots (4th Estate)
Philip Collins Horatio Clare
Raising a Torch Against the Darkness
Political Reboot
77 12.45pm | Main House £11.00 79 4.15pm | Main House £11.00
Seasonal sadness and winter blues are feelings not
Drawing on lessons from history Times columnist and
uncommon in the darker months. Horatio Clare
political speech writer Philip Collins, proposes new
argues that by observing nature we can appreciate
answers to today’s most urgent questions around
the beauty of all seasonal rhythms and celebrates
education, work, health, housing and nationhood. He
the powerful hold that the winter has on us by
argues for the need for a discourse of hope for those
delving into the memories and myths that makes
who have been left politically homeless and feels that
the winter months magical.
politics and politicians no longer speak for them.
Light in the Dark:A Winter Journal
Start Again: How We Can Fix Our Broken Politics (Elliott & Thompson)
(4th Estate)
Day Ticket for Main House: £36 for four events (not including events 80 and 81)
Book tickets online at theatrebythelake.com page 27SATURDAY 16th MARCH Main House
Prue Leith Polly Toynbee and David Walker
Prue Leith Polly Toynbee
Stay Calm and Bake Off and David Walker
Where Are We Now?
80 6.00pm | Main House £11.00
Great British Bake Off judge Prue Leith draws on a 81 7.45pm | Main House £11.00
life-long passion for food and celebrates the meals To say that we live in uncertain times is something
we all want to make at home. Prue gives a sneak of an understatement with the political landscape
peek into her own cooking and insights into the life changing and reforming at a breath-taking pace.
of one of the nation’s best-loved cooks. Polly Toynbee and David Walker have been political
Prue: My All-time Favourite Recipes (Bluebird) commentators and journalists for The Guardian
for many years and aim to unpick some of the
recent changes to our country, our society and our
political environment.
Dismembered: How the Consevative Attack on
the State Harms Us All (Guardian Faber Publishing)
Day Ticket for Main House: £36 for four events (not including events 80 and 81)
Circle Angela Locke
Landscape and Imagination
Gallery Workshop
FE4 3.00-5.00pm | Circle Gallery £16.00
How can landscape inspire writing? How can we evoke
it, recreate it and bring it freshly onto the page? In
the home of the Romantics, who used the dramatic
backdrop of Cumberland and Westmorland in so much
of their work, writer and poet Angela Locke encourages
participants to look afresh at their surroundings.
page 28Studio SATURDAY 16th MARCH
Exploration
Science of Mind
andand
Travel
Body
Adam Feinstein
Lalage Snow & Michael Baron
Autism:
In TwoofDads,
Search Calm Two Voyages of Discovery
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created suggesting
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that Hans
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soldiers’ gardens collaborated
in Camp Bastion with the Nazis
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plots in the middle of a surreal frozen in Ukraine,
founders
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the stories National
of these gardens Autistic
and theSociety and
gardeners.
Adam Feinstein is an internationally recognised
War Gardens (Quercus)
autism researcher and historian and author. Monisha Rajesh
Gavin Francis Jonathan Lorie
Rose George
Autism Works – A Guide to Successful
Monisha Rajesh
Employment Across the Entire Spectrum (Routledge)
45,000 Miles by Train Rose George
Duncan Minshull Simply Red
56 12.30pm
Words on Walking |
Studio £10.00
|
12.30pm | Studio
85
Anthony Adeane
4.00pm Studio £10.00
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the globe by train the world seemed “so much
An Icelandic Mystery
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Around
solved the World
, a wisein
by walking’ 80 trains
person once(Bloomsbury)
said. Nine Pints (Particular
has unravelled Books)Anthony Adeane
across 45 years
Beneath My Feet (Notting Hill Editions) paints a captivating picture of Iceland – its history,
landscape, law and geopolitical importance.
Damian Le Bas Josh Cohen
Gavin
A Francis
Journey Through Gypsy Britain
Out of Thin Air (Quercus)
We Have to Stop
Transformations
57 2.15pm || Studio £10.00 86
Jonathan Lorie
5.45pm Studio | £10.00
84 2.15pm Studio
Born into a traditional Gypsy family Damian le
£10.00 The Travel Writer’s Way
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Shapeshifters (Profile,(Chatto & Windus)
Wellcome Collection) Not Working
including (Granta)
advice from the world’s leading travel
writers, Lorie presents a creative session suitable
Day Ticket for Studio: £40 for five events for all levels.
The Travel Writer’s Way (Bradt)
Book tickets online at theatrebythelake.com page 29SUNDAY 17th MARCH Main House
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Susan Blackmore Adam Hart Davis Jean Moorcroft Wilson
Ian Strathcarron Adam Hart-Davis
The Perils of Publishing An Absurdly Ingenious World
87 11.00am | Main House £11.00 89 2.30pm | Main House £11.00
Chair of the Unicorn Publishing Group, Ian The definition of ‘Heath Robinson’ in the Oxford
Strathcarron, presents a wry look at behind the English Dictionary is ‘any absurdly ingenious and
scenes of the publishing world and offers an A-Z impracticable device’. Presenter Adam Hart-Davis,
of shame in the world of book publishing. How do a long-standing Heath Robinson fan, considers
you pick a winning book from a losing one? Why the Edwardian artist’s work in its social and
are long, liquid and libellous lunches central to a technological context and tells the stories behind
publishers endeavour? his homespun mechanical fantasies.
Confessions of a Publisher (Unicorn Press) Very Heath Robinson: Stories Of His Absurdly
Ingenious World (Sheldrake Press)
Susan Blackmore
Science’s Last Great Mystery Jean Moorcroft Wilson
Robert Graves and Conflict
88 12.45pm | Main House £11.00
| Main House
Psychologist Susan Blackmore tackles how
90 4.15pm £11.00
the physical matter of the brain produces the Celebrated biographer, Jean Moorcroft Wilson,
psychological phenomenon of consciousness. explores the life of the writer and war poet Robert
She asks ‘Do we really have a free will? Could Graves: his experiences in the war, being left for
consciousness itself be an illusion? How can a dead at the Battle of the Somme, his leap from
physical brain create our experience of the world? a third-floor window after his lover Laura Riding’s
A Very Short Introduction to Consciousness even more dramatic jump from the fourth-floor, his
(OUP) move to Spain and his final ‘goodbye’ to ‘all that’.
Robert Graves: From Great War Poet to
Goodbye To All That (Bloomsbury)
Day Ticket for Main House: £36 for four events
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Studio SUNDAY
THURSDAY
17th
11th
MARCH
JULY
Family Day
Kate Clanchy Martin Brown
Kate Clanchy Jon Copley
School Days Ask an Ocean Explorer
91 10.45am | Studio £10.00 93 2.15pm | Studio £10.00
Kate Clanchy has taught in state schools for nearly How deep do sharks swim? Have more people
30 years. She is also a prize winning author of been into space than the deep ocean? And what
fiction and poetry. By telling stories of some of the effect are we having on the health of our seas? Jon
kids she’s taught, as well her own, Kate Clanchy Copley, marine biologist and advisor for the BBC’s
offers a candid, funny and moving insight into life in Blue Planet II answers these questions and more.
British schools today. Combining untold history of ocean exploration and
Some Kids I Taught and What They Taught Me personal account of what it’s like to dive in a mini
(Picador) submarine Jon Copley will bring to light the weird
and wonderful deep sea environment and how its
health is connected to our everyday lives.
Jonny Benjamin Ask an Ocean Explorer (Hodder & Stoughton)
The Kindness of a Stranger
Martin Brown
43 12.30pm | Studio £10.00 Horrible Histories, Doodles and Drawings
When Jonny Benjamin stood on Waterloo Bridge
about to jump, a stranger saw his distress and 94 4.00pm | Studio £10.00
stopped to talk. Not only was Jonny’s life saved,
Sharpen your pencils and celebrate ‘Horrible
this was the start of his campaigning around
Histories’ and ‘Lesser Spotted Animals’ with
mental health issues and suicide prevention.
illustrator and cartoonist Martin Brown. His passion
Later he launched an online campaign to find the
for ‘drawing his doodles and little figures’ is infectious
stranger. He explains what happened next.
and in a talk, peppered with jovial jokes, awesome
The Stranger On the Bridge (Bluebird) anecdotes and live drawing, he brings his imaginary
worlds to life.
Terrible Trenches Field Book (Scholastic);
Martin Brown’s Lesser Spotted Animals
(David Fickling Books)
Day Ticket for Studio: £32 for four events
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