ISABELLA TREE

Saturday 22 July 10am – 11am

Pavilion Arts Centre £12

The Book of Wilding: A Practical Guide to Rewilding, Big and Small

The enormity of climate change and biodiversity loss can leave us feeling overwhelmed. How can an individual ever make a difference? Isabella Tree knows first-hand how spectacularly nature can bounce back if you give it the chance. What comes is not just wildlife in super-abundance, but solutions to the other environmental crises we face. The Book of Wilding is a handbook for how we can all help restore nature. It is ambitious, visionary and pragmatic. The book has grown out of Isabella’s mission to help rewild Britain by sharing knowledge from the pioneering project at Knepp Estate in Sussex.

Leo Popplewell And Antonina Suhanova

Cello And Piano

Saturday 22 July 11.15am – 12.15pm

St John’s Church £25, Balcony £20

L van Beethoven Variations in F major on ‘Ein Mädchen oder Weibchen’ from Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte, Op. 66

B Britten Cello Sonata, Op. 65

J Brahms Cello Sonata No. 2 in F major, Op. 99

Leo Popplewell studied at Clare College, Cambridge, and later at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. He has performed as a soloist and chamber musician in many of the world’s leading concert halls, including Carnegie Hall and Wigmore Hall. Antonina Suhanova graduated from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in 2018, and has since appeared at leading venues including Steinway Hall, New York, Wiener Saal, Salzburg, and Wigmore Hall, London.

Alastair Campbell

SONG AT SIX

Sat 22 July 6pm See p.17

Saturday 22 July 12.30pm - 1.30pm

Buxton Opera House £15

But What Can I Do? Why Politics Has Gone So Wrong, and How You Can Help Fix It

In recent years the world of politics has taken a series of disastrous wrong turns. We have witnessed leaders who can’t – or shouldn’t be allowed to – lead, policies that are either self-serving or don’t work, and world views that are corrosive or short term. Alastair Campbell’s aim in But What Can I Do? is twofold: to explain why things have gone so wrong, and to show what we can do to help put them right. A mix of polemic, analysis and practical advice, this is a political masterclass from an eminent political commentator and strategist. Iain Dale is a broadcaster and former parliamentary candidate.

Saturday 22 July