Southwold Literature Festival 5 – 9 November 2015
Ways With Words
Festival Facts Most of the festival events (except events 19 and 20) take place in St Edmund’s Hall which is situated on Cumberland Road, IP18 6JW. There is on-road parking around the Hall and the town’s car parks are no more than a 10 minute walk. There will be a small café running upstairs at the Hall during the festival serving hot drinks, cakes, soup, quiches, salads.
INSIDE, OUTSIDE AND ROUNDABOUT AT WAYS WITH WORDS AT SOUTHWOLD Southwold is a special place with its inland lighthouse, colourful beach huts, artistic pier and inspiring galleries. Exploring this unspoilt, seaside town affords great pleasure to festival attendees. There is a lively atmosphere inside St. Edmund’s Hall (and St. Edmund’s Church on Monday morning too). The speakers give their audiences much to think about. Whether it is enjoying a pint of Adnams in the stylish bars of The Crown or The Swan, walking along the seafront, calling at the fishermen’s huts by the harbour or listening to inspiring talks, a visit to Ways With Words at Southwold is a transformative experience. Kay Dunbar, Stephen Bristow Chloë and Videl Bar-Kar Festival Directors
Patrick Barkham
In Vino Veritas 1) 1.30pm
St Edmund’s Hall
Melvyn Bragg
Britain’s Coast £12
Jancis Robinson’s ‘The Oxford Companion to Wine’ is required reading for anyone who enjoys wine. It is considered one of the most useful and enjoyable books on wine. She is a highly respected wine critic and journalist. She will explain how her interest in wine began. Jancis Robsinson’s event will be chaired by Simon Loftus (ex-CEO of Adnams). Ticket holders will be offered a glass of wine on arrival from the ‘Adnams Selection’.
2) 3.15pm
St Edmund’s Hall
Passion And Peasants £12
Patrick Barkham, Guardian journalist and author of impressive books on butterflies and badgers, tells of his journey around the coast of Britain weaving together local histories, personal stories and the natural history of the most beautiful and treasured parts of the coast.
3) 5pm
St Edmund’s Hall
£12
Lord Bragg’s latest novel ‘Now is the Time’ is set in 1381 at the time of The Peasants’ Revolt, the biggest rebellion in English history. The novel is a powerful re-telling of this extraordinary episode and captures all the drama, passion, patriotism and anger of that time.
Thursday Day Ticket : £30
THURSDAY 5 NOVEMBER
Jancis Robinson
FRIDAY 6 NOVEMBER
Douglas Hurd
Thomas Pakenham
Long To Reign Over Us 4) 10am
St Edmund’s Hall
Man Of Trees 5) 11.45am
St Edmund’s Hall
£12
£12
Elizabeth II is the longest-serving monarch who ever sat on the English or British throne. Yet her personality and influence remain elusive. Douglas Hurd, a politician, distinguished historian, biographer and novelist who served in the governments of Margaret Thatcher and John Major, has spent significant periods of time in her company. He gives a fresh, expert account of her role.
Friday Day Ticket : £50
Michael Buerk
Thomas Pakenham, a regular broadcaster and lecturer, is a senior member of the famous Pakenham dynasty of writers – his sisters are Antonia Fraser and Rachel Billington; his parents, Lord and Lady Longford. Lavishly illustrated, his book ‘The Company of Trees’ recounts his personal quest to establish a large arboretum at Tullynally, the family’s Irish estate. He shares his profound love of trees and reverence for nature.
Inside The Human Zoo: What’s Real About Reality Television? 6) 1.30pm
St Edmund’s Hall
£12
We can’t promise that this will be answered today, but at least Michael Buerk (of BBC Radio 4’s The Moral Maze and recently featuring in ‘I’m a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here’) is bringing his superb mind to the question of the unreality of reality television.
Maggi Hambling and James Cahill in conversation
Paul Heiney
Her War Work
The Quest 7) 3.15pm
St Edmund’s Hall
On Friday 6 November from 6.30pm - 8pm Adnams invites all festival-goers to call in to the Cellar & Kitchen Store on Victoria Street for a drinks reception and a chance to browse round the store. Perfect for Christmas.
£12
After his son committed suicide, aged only 23, television presenter Paul Heiney decided to set sail on a voyage to Cape Horn to connect with his son’s ‘voice’. This turned out to be an important emotional journey. Paul Heiney currently presents the ITV prime-time show ‘Countrywise’.
8) 5pm St Edmund’s Hall £12 The reproductions of Maggi Hambling’s work and the discussion at this session explore the many and various manifestations of war imagery in Hambling’s art and traces the underlying themes that have come to define her work: those of memory and forgetting and death’s teetering proximity to life. James Cahill is an art critic and author of ‘War Requiem & Aftermath’ where he considers Hambling’s newest works in the context of her wider oeuvre, while reassessing her importance within the international contemporary art scene.
Friday Day Ticket : £50
FRIDAY 6 NOVEMBER
Adnams’ Cellar & Kitchen Store
SATURDAY 7 NOVEMBER
Terry Waite
Life’s Vicissitudes And Writing Fiction 9) 10am
St Edmund’s Hall
£12
It is unbelievable that being a hostage in Lebanon with well over four years spent in solitary confinement means you learn to make people laugh, yet Terry Waite has written a charming, funny story that reminds the reader that life is worth living.
Saturday Day Ticket : £50
Polly Toynbee and David Walker
Radical Rule
10) 11.45am St Edmund’s Hall
£12
In their latest book Polly Toynbee and David Walker warn against dismissing Cameron as bland. He is more radical than Margaret Thatcher, they suggest. She privatised industries; he plans to dismantle the whole of the welfare state in the next five years. Come to argue or agree with these Guardian journalists.
Political Pairings 11) 1.30pm
St Edmund’s Hall
£12
There are many interesting pairs of political leaders from Churchill and Attlee to Cameron and Clegg. Sometimes these result in intense rivalry, while others illustrate the profound political impact of a successful working relationship. Lord Radice was Labour MP for Durham North and Chairman of the Treasury Committee until he was appointed a Life Peer.
Saturday Day Ticket : £50
Hugh Fraser
From Stage To Page 12) 3.15pm
St Edmund’s Hall
£12
Hugh Fraser is best known as the actor who played Captain Hastings alongside David Suchet’s Poirot in the long-running and much-loved television series. It seems that some of Agatha Christie’s imagination for criminal plots has influenced him as in July 2015 Hugh makes his debut as a writer with his first novel, ‘Harm’.
Peter Stanford
Judas 13) 5pm
St Edmund’s Hall
£12
Writer and broadcaster Peter Stanford deconstructs that most vilified of Bible characters: Judas Iscariot, who famously betrayed Jesus with a kiss. He investigates how the very name Judas came to be synonymous with betrayal and, ultimately, human evil.
SATURDAY 7 NOVEMBER
Giles Radice
P.D. James at Dartington Hall © Jane Bown
SUNDAY 8 NOVEMBER
Penelope Lively and Peter Kemp
Remembering P.D. James
14) 10am St Edmund’s Hall £12 The late P.D. James was considered ‘the grande dame of mystery’. After Agatha Christie’s death, James was called the new Queen of Crime. Two of her oldest friends, the writer Penelope Lively and the senior fiction editor of The Sunday Times, Peter Kemp, share their memories of the distinguished author and warm character who was a Southwold resident.
Peter Hennessy
Robert Kelsey
Politics Today 15) 11.45am St Edmund’s Hall
£12
Your Potential And How TO ACHIEVE IT 16) 1.30pm
Baron Hennessy is an English historian and academic specialising in the history of government. He has unearthed the hidden wiring of the constitution and the power of the machinery of government in Britain. His aim has been to write the history of this country for academic and public audiences alike. He looks at the past and the present in his talk today.
Sunday Day Ticket : £50 (not including event 19)
St Edmund’s Hall
£12
Alienation, isolation, poor-confidence are the likely causes of not being successful. Robert Kelsey’s international bestsellers ‘What’s Stopping You?’ and ‘Get Things Done’ have sold over 100,000 copies. His latest book ‘The Outside Edge’ gives practical guidance to help tackle the insecurities that blunt one’s potential for achievement. He offers advice for all.
Salley Vickers
Miracle Babies Of The Holocaust 17) 3.15pm
St Edmund’s Hall
Charlotte Higgins
Fiction – Short and Long 18) 5pm
St Edmund’s Hall
Literary Dinner – The BBC
£12
£12
Journalist and biographer Wendy Holden tells the remarkable story of three ‘miracle babies’ secretly born in the German slave labour camp, Mauthausen during World War II. United by their experiences, they now consider each other ‘siblings of the heart’. Wendy Holden will be joined by Eva Clarke, one of the ‘miracle babies’.
Salley Vickers talks about her new collection of short stories. Former psychoanalyst and lecturer in literature, author of the best-selling ‘Miss Garnet’s Angel’ and six other acclaimed novels, including her latest ‘The Cleaner of Chartres’, Salley Vickers’ thoughtful ideas always leave the audience asking questions about literature and life.
19) 7 for 7.30pm The Swan Hotel £50 (to include a copy of ‘This New Noise’) Charlotte Higgins studied Classics at Balliol College, Oxford, is the arts editor of the Guardian and a member of its editorial board. ‘This New Noise’ is her latest book, based on a nine-part series of essays on the BBC. She explores the powerful, maddening, unique institution that has transformed Britain and its place in the world.
Sunday Day Ticket : £50 (not including event 19)
SUNDAY 8 NOVEMBER
Wendy Holden and Eva Clarke
Shirley Williams
After The Election
MONDAY 9 NOVEMBER
20) 10.30am St Edmund’s Church
£12
Baroness Williams sits as a Liberal Democrat in the House of Lords. What does it feel like for her party to have had such a severe defeat in the General Election? Shirley Williams gives her view on the political scene after the election. Please note: This event takes place in St. Edmund’s Church.
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Week two: 3 – 10 Oct. 2015
Art Tutor (both weeks) : Charles Mitchell
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Writing Tutors (week one) : Mark McCrum (week two) : Blake Morrison
And back in Southwold, Suffolk The Southwold Literature Festival 10 – 14 November 2016
Inspiring landscapes • lovely local walks • delicious food All abilities are catered for. All activities are optional. www.wayswithwords.co.uk
PACKAGES
Ways With Words offers half-board (dinner, B&B) packages inclusive of tickets at both the Swan Hotel and the Crown Hotel in Southwold. The Swan package is for 4 nights (Thurs, Fri, Sat, Sun) and includes tickets for all events during the festival and the literary dinner. The Crown package is for : • 4 nights (as the Swan above) or, • First 3 nights (Thurs, Fri, Sat nights, including tickets for all events on Thurs, Fri, Sat) or, • Last 3 nights (Fri, Sat, Sun nights, including tickets for all events on Sat, Sun, Mon and the literary dinner). Packages can be booked at any time using the form opposite or by telephone 01803 867373 (NB. The Ways With Words office will have limited opening during August.) Both hotels are offering a free dinner for guests wishing to stay on Wednesday 4th and/or Monday 9th November. Please phone the hotel where you are staying quoting ‘WWW 5th Night’. Swan Hotel: 01502 722186 Crown Hotel: 01502 722275 These must be booked in advance.
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Event 1) Jancis Robinson 2) Patrick Barkham 3) Melvyn Bragg All-day Thursday 4) Douglas Hurd 5) Thomas Pakenham 6) Michael Buerk 7) Paul Heiney 8) Maggi Hambling All-day Friday 9) Terry Waite 10) P. Toynbee and D. Walker 11) Giles Radice 12) Hugh Fraser 13) Peter Stanford All-day Saturday 14) P. Lively and P. Kemp 15) Peter Hennessy 16) Robert Kelsey 17) W. Holden and E. Clarke 18) Salley Vickers All-day Sunday 19) Literary Dinner - C. Higgins 20) Shirley WIlliams
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Patrick Barkham Melvyn Bragg Michael Buerk Eva Clarke Hugh Fraser Maggi Hambling Paul Heiney Peter Hennessy Charlotte Higgins Wendy Holden Douglas Hurd Robert Kelsey Peter Kemp Penelope Lively Thomas Pakenham Giles Radice Jancis Robinson Peter Stanford Polly Toynbee Salley Vickers Terry Waite David Walker Shirley Williams
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