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Books at Buxton

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Books at Buxton SATURDAY 8 JULY 9am, St John’s Why do we love Handel’s masterpiece?

Jonathan Keates Messiah

2.30pm, PAC What really happened to Gerald Durell’s ‘Family and other Animals’

4.30pm, PAC How the changing position of women has shaped their dreams about men!

Carol Dyhouse Heartthrobs: A History of Women and Desire

2pm, PAC Soldier, war correspondent, Independent MP, the ‘man in the white suit’

Martin Bell War and the Death of News

Michael Haag

In conversation with Simon Seligman

The Durrells of Corfu

5pm, PAC Foreign Editor of the Sunday Times SUNDAY 9 JULY 10am, BOH BBC Coast presenter and geographer

Nicholas Crane The Making of the English Landscape

10.15am, BOH How corporate bad behaviour and government waste combine to cost us millions

Margaret Hodge

In conversation with Mike Neary

Called to Account

Tickets: £10.50 Pavilion Arts Centre (PAC), Gardens Marquee, St John’s Church £12.50 Buxton Opera House (BOH)

Peter Conradi

In conversation with Rod Dubrow-Marshall

Who Lost Russia: The New Cold War

MONDAY 10 JULY 10am, Marquee The story of women in the 20th Century, told through the clothes they wore

Lynn Knight The Button Box

2.15pm, PAC Intimate conversations with most famous manuscripts in existence

Christopher De Hamel Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts

TUESDAY 11 JULY

WEDNESDAY 12 JULY

THURSDAY 13 JULY

9am, St John’s The move towards popularism in world politics

9am, St John’s Two experts talk about the constitutional position of the United Kingdom

9am, St John’s

Peter Hennessy & David Goodhart The Road to Somewhere

10.15am, PAC The Sotheby’s expert on the gullible rich and a multibillion dollar international art market

4.30pm, PAC The history of Venice’s Palazzo Venier dei Leoni through the lives of three of its residents

Judith Mackrell The Unfinished Palazzo

Peter Hennessy & Lord Lisvane Parliament and The Kingdom to Come

Philip Hook Rogues’ Gallery 10.15am, PAC Telling a riveting threeway spy story set in occupied France

Paddy Ashdown Game of Spies Sponsored by

2pm, Marquee

Jeremy Paxman In conversation with Peter Hennessy Sponsored by

A Life in Questions SOLD OUT

Sarah Churchwell In conversation with Rod Dubrow-Marshall

The Trump Era – Hopes and Fears for the US and the World

10.15am, BOH Showing us unexpected sides of the great figures of the day

Chris Patten First Confession

Leading authors with great stories to tell

Lucy Worsley At Home with Jane Austen Tuesday 11 July 7.30pm Buxton Opera House Tickets: £17, £21 ‘The undisputed Queen of TV history’ – Guardian Dr Lucy Worsley, Chief Curator at Historic Royal Palaces, hugely popular writer, broadcaster and speaker, takes at new look at Jane Austen’s life from the perspective of her bi-centenary. She tells Jane’s story through the rooms, spaces, possessions and places which mattered to her. Dispelling the myth of the cynical, lonely spinster, Lucy offers us a witty and passionate woman of her time, who refused to settle for anything less than Mr Darcy.

David Starkey Henry VIII

Facing The Music – A Life In Musical Theatre

Sunday 16 July 7.30pm Buxton Opera House Tickets: £17, £21

Patricia Routledge

Henry VIII is the only king whose shape you remember. He bestrides our history like a colossus and the decisions he took reverberate today. The Reformation was the first Brexit; his ministers devised the doctrine of parliamentary sovereignty and his tumultuous personal life pitted religion against politics as brutally as in our own age of so-called Islamic State. David Starkey draws on his unique knowledge of Henry’s reign on the one hand, and his insights as a leading commentator on modern politics on the other, to illuminate both the Tudor age and our own.

Wednesday 19 July 7.30pm Buxton Opera House Tickets: £17, £21

In conversation with Edward Seckerson

It is still one of the best-kept secrets in show business that Patricia Routledge trained not only as an actress but also as a singer and had considerable experience and success in musical theatre, both in this country and in the United States of America. Her many awards include a Tony for her Broadway performance in the Styne-Harburg musical Darling of the Day and a Laurence Olivier Award for her performance in Leonard Bernstein’s Candide. Her one-woman show Come for the Ride toured the UK in 1988 and in 1992 she played Nettie Fowler in the highly acclaimed production of Carousel at the National Theatre. In this fascinating encounter with writer and broadcaster Edward Seckerson she recalls this very special part of her career with access to some rare and treasured recordings.

2pm, PAC How the British army has shaped – and been shaped by – world events

Richard Dannatt Boots on the Ground

10.15am, PAC A vivid portrait of the monarch and her reign

A N Wilson The Queen

10.15am, PAC Giving us access to some of the world’s most secretive societies

Federico Varese In conversation with Mike Neary

Mafia Life

4.30pm, PAC The story of the four men who dominated the Renaissance world

John Julius Norwich The Four Princes

2pm, BOH Lifting the lid on Westminster and the hidden workings of government In conversation with Mike Neary

David Rutland

In conversation with co-author, Emma Ellis