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Welcome to Our 20th Festival Twenty years ago Ways With Words started on a wet Monday in August. Anthony Burgess was the first writer to arrive. It was a glamorous literary beginning to what has been an exceptional 20 years. It’s tempting to continue to look back, to reminisce, to glory in the wealth of experiences many have enjoyed, but this isn’t a valediction. Instead we are looking onwards, forwards, upwards. We are committed to making the future festivals places for laughter, thought and enlightenment. If you haven’t been to Ways With Words in the past 20 years you have missed a lot but there is much ahead. Be determined to come to Dartington Hall in July for our 20th festival.

Festival Directors: Kay Dunbar, Stephen Bristow Chloë Bar-Kar, Videl Bar-Kar

President’s Introduction Ways With Words at Dartington is unique. Twenty years after it was founded, it remains the only festival (ideas these days as well as books) which offers both speakers and listeners the chance to meet a community.

For me – I foolishly missed the first three festivals, but I have been to the last seventeen – there is something very special about speaking in the Great Hall. But the time that follows – meeting and hearing the frank opinion of the people in the audience – adds a dimension that other great festivals cannot match.

On the strength of the speakers it attracts alone, Ways With Words is as good as festivals get. I look forward to seeing you at the twentieth birthday celebration.

Roy Hattersley Festival President

Friday 8 July – Great Hall #1 2.30pm Great Hall £9

Roy Hattersley

John Kampfner, CEO, Index on Censorship; Hisham Matar, Libyan novelist; Sami Ben Gharbia, Tunisian blogger and activist.

David Lloyd George – The Great Outsider Lloyd George was the politician credited with winning the war for England in 1918. He pioneered old age pensions, sickness pay and unemployment benefit.

Ways With Words’ President, Roy Hattersley, opens the festival with a

#4 7pm Great Hall £9

Stella Rimington and Keith Jeffrey

#5 8.30pm Great Hall £9

Marcus Brigstocke

In From the Cold Professor Keith Jeffrey was granted unrestricted access to the Secret Intelligence Service to write his definitive history of MI6. Dame Stella Rimington is a former head of MI5 who has turned her hand to writing bestselling spy novels.

Together they discuss the security services in fiction and non-fiction.

talk of signature erudition. #2 4pm Great Hall £9

#3 5.30pm Great Hall £9 Online Partner

Penelope Lively and Lawrence Sail Memories and Dreams Penelope Lively, novelist, and Lawrence Sail, poet, have turned from their usual genres to face the challenge of writing their memoirs. Egypt and Exeter were very different settings for their childhoods yet they had many dilemmas in common.

God? You’re Having a Laugh…

Free Speech: The Great Middle East Revolution Has the internet revolutionised how the oppressed voice their dissent? Citizens across the Middle East and North Africa have harnessed online social media to reshape the worlds in which they live. Join our panel to examine what free speech means today.

The panel will include: Susan Pointer, Google Policy Director, South East Europe, Middle East and Africa; Marcus Brigstocke

Day Ticket: £22.50 (not including #4 or #5)

One of Britain’s most talented and high-profile comedians, Marcus Brigstocke will discuss his book questioning atheism, faith and the meaning of life. Based on his sell out show, ‘God Collar’, he examines the ‘God-shaped hole’ in his life. Believers and non-believers be warned: no one gets off lightly.

Friday 8 July – Barn – Rebel

Dorian Lynskey

Mike Jay

#6 2.30pm Barn £9

Mike Jay

#7 4pm Barn £9

Clinton Heylin

High Society: Mind Altering Drugs in History and Culture Every society is a high society.

Acclaimed cultural historian Mike Jay vividly portrays the roles that drugs play as medicines, religious sacraments, status symbols and coveted trade goods, shaping the modern world from European coffee houses to coca leaves on Andean mountainsides.

Dylan at 70 As Bob Dylan turns 70 come and celebrate with Clinton Heylin, whose classic biography, ‘Behind The Shades’, will be re-published in an anniversary edition this year. A monumental overview of the Man and his Music is guaranteed from Clinton Heylin, who is recognised all over the world as a leading authority on Dylan.

Day Ticket: £22.50

#8 5.30pm Barn £9

Dorian Lynskey 33 Revolutions Per Minute – A History of Protest Songs From Billie Holiday’s ‘Strange Fruit’ in 1939 to Green Day’s ‘American Idiot’ in 2004 via Afrobeat’s ‘Fela Kuti’, music journalist Dorian Lynskey will guide us through the social movements that have united people in song and play us his highlights.

With thanks to Sharpham Wines for sponsoring our 20th launch party.

Saturday 9 July – Great Hall – President’s Day

Robert Skidelsky

Robert Winston

#11 1pm Great Hall £9

James Naughtie

Robert Winston

This day has been programmed by the President of The Telegraph Ways With Words festival at Dartington Hall, Roy Hattersley, and includes some of his favourite people from the world of the arts and ideas. #9 10am Great Hall £9

#10 11.30am Great Hall £9

Robert Skidelsky How Much is Enough? The Economics and Philosophy of the Good Life Lord Skidelsky is Emeritus Professor of Political Economy at the University of Warwick. His 3 volume biography of John Maynard Keynes received numerous prizes; his update, ‘Keynes: The Return of the Master’, was a response to the economic crisis. His talk takes as its starting point Keynes’ essay, ‘Economic Possibilities for our Grandchildren’.

Day Ticket: £45 (not including #15)

James Naughtie

Man of Big Ideas Lord Winston’s list of research areas is impressive and moving.

He has dedicated much of his life to improving the lot of pregnant women, families, children – well everyone in fact. His work has led to television programmes, publications and many awards. He is committed to scientific education and regularly gives seminars in schools and universities. He will offer his information and ideas to the audience today.

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Studio Whether in the Today studio or on the road James Naughtie has found himself in some surprising situations while working for the BBC. He reflects on the oddest, funniest, most memorable and thought-provoking experiences.

Penelope Lively

Saturday 9 July – Great Hall #12 2.30pm Great Hall £9

Penelope Lively Reading Addiction Reading Addiction affects many of us, especially those who come to literary festivals. Highly-regarded author Penelope Lively talks about her own book-infested life, about the directions her reading has taken, and the way in which her writing has been shaped by what she has read.

Mary Warnock

#13 4pm Great Hall £9

Mary Warnock

#14 5.30pm Great Hall £9

Douglas Hurd

Religion and Politics Don’t Mix Baroness Warnock is well-known for her often controversial opinions on contentious ethical dilemmas, particularly on embryology, education, euthanasia and religion.

Her latest book, ‘Dishonest to God’, argues that religion should be kept completely out of politics.

The Role of the British Foreign Secretary Former Foreign Secretary, Douglas Hurd, gives an insider’s view on British foreign policy-making and explains how the responsibilities have changed over two centuries.

He offers fascinating insights into the second most powerful job in British politics.

Day Ticket: £45 (not including #15)

#15 8pm Great Hall £15 (2hrs including interval)

Douglas Hurd

An Evening With . . .

Shappi Khorsandi Star of ‘Live At The Apollo’, ‘Have I Got News for You’ and Radio 4’s ‘Shappi Talk’, Shappi Khorsandi is feisty, flirty and effortlessly funny.

She handles every subject with a razor sharp wit, softened only by her deliciously dizzy delivery and endless charm.

‘Currently the country’s most successful female stand-up comedian.’

Time Out

Saturday 9 July – Barn – Explore

Rachel Hewitt

Hisham Matar

#16 10am Barn £9

Michael Jacobs

#17 11.30am Barn £9

Rachel Hewitt

The Andes: Magical Land The Andes stretch over 5,500 miles, have the highest active volcanoes, the largest salt flat and peaks as tall as the Himalayas. They also have radically contrasting scenery and climates. Travel writer Michael Jacobs shares his wonder.

Find Your Way: Ordnance Survey Maps Ordnance survey maps reliably record every inch of the British Isles. They are much loved by walkers and drivers, if not by all the British public, for their unchanging continuity. Life without them is unimaginable.

Day Ticket: £45

Patrick French

Christopher Howse

#18 1pm The Barn £9

Hisham Matar

#19 2.30pm Barn £9

Patrick French

Identity, Home and Loss Following his Booker-shortlisted debut, ‘In the Country of Men’, Libyan-born author Hisham Matar’s distinctive and compelling new novel, ‘Anatomy of a Disappearance’, examines the emotions of those left behind when a loved one disappears.

India – a Portrait Patrick French gives a colourful portrait of India. His human stories explain a larger national narrative and get to the heart of this complex and frequently contradictory country.

Patrick French’s biographies, ‘Younghusband’ and ‘VS Naipaul’, have won prizes and many accolades.

Saturday 9 July – Duke’s Room #20 4pm Barn £9

#21 5.30pm Barn £9

Michael Wright

Christopher Howse The Sacred Mysteries of Spain Christopher Howse, who writes the weekly Sacred Mysteries column in Saturday Telegraph, finds the centuries-old cathedrals, monasteries and shrines of Spain demand pilgrimage rather than tourism. He conveys the spirituality of this ancient country together with its more earthly qualities: its smells, heat and food.

Writing For Children #22 2pm Duke’s Room £6

Peter Bently

#23 3.30pm Duke’s Room £6

Helena Drysdale

#24 5pm Duke’s Room £6

Eleanor Updale

Michael Wright C’est La Folie Michael Wright gave up his cosy London life and moved to La Folie, a dilapidated farmhouse in France.

‘I never expected to feel excited about the cultivation of vegetables in a second language,’ he wrote; but he did. And many other aspects of his life in rural France excited him. He chronicles his thrills, troubles and delusions in a column in Saturday Telegraph and in his books.

Eleanor Updale

Choosing Children’s Writing How do you become a children’s writer? What makes a good children’s book? Peter Bently talks about how he started writing for younger children. His numerous books include ‘The Great Dog Bottom Swap’ (shortlisted for the Roald Dahl Funny Prize). His latest picture book is ‘King Jack and the Dragon’, illustrated by Helen Oxenbury.

Writing Journeys After writing many successful books on travel and memoirs Helena Drysdale will explain why she chose to change direction with her writing.

Now she has just finished ‘Waltzer’ and says she is ‘buzzing’ with the questions and challenges that writing for children posed.

Books for All Eleanor Updale’s award-winning historical novels are usually sold as children’s books, but are widely read by adults too. She believes that many good stories can be enjoyed by all the family, apart or together.

She will talk to Valerie Grove about her work and how she writes books for everyone at their own level.

Day Ticket: £12

Sunday 10 July – Great Hall #25 10am Great Hall £9 Chair: Penelope Lively

Valerie Grove

#26 11.30pm Great Hall £9

Google and Books: Good or Evil?

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#27 1pm Great Hall £9

Kaye Webb – Queen of Puffins Valerie Grove, Times columnist and acclaimed biographer of John Mortimer, Laurie Lee and Dodie Smith, has chosen Kaye Webb, the Puffin editor who transformed children’s publishing with her creativity, as her latest subject.

Radio 4’s Today presenter James Naughtie will get our panel going as they discuss how the book world will cope with the digital challenges that confront authors, readers, copyright and the book experience.

Join Google Books’ Policy Manager, Simon Morrison; novelist Naomi Alderman; publisher and co-founder of Enhanced Editions, Peter Collingridge; Telegraph Head of Books, Gaby Wood to thrash it out.

Each ticket enters you into our e-reader vs. book stack raffle.

Both prizes will be drawn

Polly Toynbee and David Walker Did Labour Change Britain?

Are we happier, healthier, wealthier, and wiser because of Labour’s 13 years in office? Two of the UK’s finest commentators give their views – and ask for yours.

Day Ticket: £45 (not including #31)

David Walker

Polly Toynbee

Sunday 10 July – Great Hall

David Owen

Maureen Lipman

#28 2.30pm Great Hall £9

David Owen

#29 4pm Great Hall £9

Maureen Lipman

The Coalition Lord Owen, one of the original ‘Gang of Four’ who formed the Social Democratic Party, will give his views on our present political state. He has written extensively on politicians affected by ‘the hubris syndrome’. Is there a link between this illness and the present leaders of the coalition?

A Long Shelf-Life Maureen Lipman, a much-loved and admired actress, has the knack of making the ordinary absurd and the everyday entertaining. Encounters on the street, at the hairdresser’s, home and abroad all provide material for her stories – some of which we’ll hear today.

Day Ticket: £45 (not including #31)

Melvyn Bragg

Julia Neuberger

#30 5.30pm Great Hall £9

Melvyn Bragg

#31 7.30pm Great Hall £9

Julia Neuberger

Book of Books In its 400th anniversary year, Melvyn Bragg, one of our finest authors and broadcasters, has written the definitive history of one of the most influential books in the English language. He tells the political, linguistic and literary stories behind The King James Bible.

What Really Matters?

Baroness Neuberger, Liberal Democrat peer and Rabbi at the West London Synagogue (thus the most senior woman in Jewish life), considers what makes life worthwhile. Drawing on her experience as a religious leader and social reformer she offers practical ways to create a sense of significance and direction in our lives.

Sunday 10 July – Barn – Create #32 10am Barn £9

Lucinda Lambton Queen Mary’s Dolls’ House Designed by Lutyens, this famous dolls’ house recreates the time when an English man’s home was his castle. Yet it is the less grand views that enchant: the tin of Vim, the dish of Bronco paper on the WC, Lux soap flakes. Lucinda Lambton, who is passionate about places, people and the past, shows us around this miniature, magical world.

#33 11.30am Barn £9

Charles Jencks

#34 1pm Barn £9

Rachel CampbellJohnston

The Universe in the Landscape

#35 2.30pm Barn £9

Cate Haste

#36 4pm Barn £14 to include talk and film

Justine Picardie

5.15pm

Coco Before Chanel (12A)

Charles Jencks’s landforms are inspired by prehistoric earthworks.

They contain cosmic symbolism and address perennial themes: identity, nature, death, the power of life. His remarkable gardens feature around the world while his landform Ueda, at The Scottish National Gallery, won the Gulbenkian Prize.

Slumbering Shepherds: the Life and Work of Samuel Palmer Tumbling blossoms, mystical cornfields, bright sickle moons: Samuel Palmer’s romantic, rural vision has charmed art lovers since the 19th century yet he lived during a period of social upheaval.

His biographer, Rachel CampbellJohnston, art critic of The Times, offers a picture of a life driven by passionate conviction.

Day Ticket: £42

A Passion For Paint L.S. Lowry, a lifelong fan of Sheila Fell, named her his favourite artist. Cate Haste, writer and television producer, has written a fine illustrated biography of this Cumbrian artist who died tragically young.

Coco Chanel: The Legend and the Life From being an abandoned child and spending her early years in a convent orphanage, Coco Chanel became an icon of the fashion world. Chic, passionate, revered and feared, Coco Chanel made herself into her own most powerful creation. Justine Picardie, author, fashion columnist and previous editor of the Observer magazine, unveils the legend.

After a short break the talk will be followed by a screening of the film which tells the story of Coco’s rise from humble beginnings to the height of the fashion world.

Monday 11 July – Barn – Women’s Lives #37 10am Barn £9

Stephanie Williams

#38 11.30am Barn £9

Zarghuna Kargar

#39 1pm Barn £9

Tamara Chalabi

Victorian Women in the Colonies Stephanie Williams offers an enlightening, eccentric, funny and moving account of life in the British Empire revealing incredible personal stories. It’s a different world but one that shaped life today.

The Lives of Afghan Women At the age of 22 Zarghuna Kargar was one of the founders of Afghan Woman’s Hour. She tells of the powerful testimonies she heard that depicted the moving struggles and fears of the Afghan women, and their resilience under unimaginable duress.

Female Iraq – One Family’s History When Tamara Chalabi returned to Iraq in 2003, she found a country she didn’t recognize; a place on the brink of a terrifying and uncertain new beginning. Through the women in her family she tells her country’s tempestuous history.

Zarghuna Kargar

Day Ticket: £45

Tamara Chalabi

#40 2.30pm Barn £9

Ashley Dartnell

#41 4pm Barn £9

Virginia Nicholson

#42 5.30pm Barn £9

Xinran

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Xinran

Farangi Girl Ashley Dartnell was born in Tehran to an American beauty and a tall, handsome, Cambridge-educated father. Her early life had all the ingredients of a fairy tale but then it started to go wrong. She tells of her turbulent youth in Iran.

Women’s Lives in War and Peace, 1939–1949 Virginia Nicholson tracks the experiences of the six million women whose energies helped to win the war. She tells how they loved, suffered, laughed, grieved and dared, and how they re-made their world in peacetime, knowing they would never be the same again.

Motherhood in China Xinran, who was a radio presenter and journalist in China, tells heartbreaking stories of desolate Chinese mothers whose daughters have been wrenched from them.

Her latest book, ‘Message from an Unknown Chinese Mother’, is a follow-up to her best-seller, ‘The Good Women of China’.

Virginia Nicholson

Monday 11 July – Great Hall

Franny Moyle

Justin Cartwright

#43 10am Great Hall £9

Franny Moyle

#44 11.30am Great Hall £9

Justin Cartwright

The Overlooked Mrs Oscar Wilde When Constance married Oscar Wilde they held a privileged place in society. Franny Moyle, who is a director of the Hackney Empire and author of ‘Desperate Romantics’, tells of Constance’s decadent lifestyle and the scandal that ruined her.

Greed, Family and Class Acclaimed author Justin Cartwright is master of the state-of-the-nation novel. Hear what inspired him to write about the financial super-class in his latest gripping satire ‘Other People’s Money’.

Day Ticket: £37.50 (not including #48)

Alan Hollinghurst

Philip Hensher

#45 2.30pm Great Hall £9

Alan Hollinghurst and Philip Hensher

#46 4pm Great Hall £9

David Gilmour

Talking About Fiction Two of our most talented, insightful novelists will discuss their hotly anticipated new works. ‘The Stranger’s Child’ is Alan Hollinghurst’s follow-up to ‘The Line of Beauty’, his 2004 Man Booker Prize-winner. Philip Hensher’s new novel is the deeply affecting ‘King of The Badgers’.

Italy 150 Years On: Was Unification a Mistake?

Italy today has the seventh largest economy in the world yet, despite its economic and cultural riches, it has never achieved a successful political system. Does the blame lie with its founders?

Was Italy predestined to be a failed nation state? David Gilmour, the author of ‘The Pursuit of Italy’, is a challenging, much-admired historian.

Monday 11 July – Great Hall

Matthew Parris

#47 5.30pm Great Hall £9

Andrew Bryson

Matthew Parris and Andrew Bryson Parting Shots Former MP and famed parliamentary sketch writer Matthew Parris and Radio 4 broadcaster Andrew Bryson entertain with colourful stories of the once traditional, British ambassador’s valedictory despatch.

Day Ticket: £37.50 (not including #48)

Zaiba Malik

#48 7.30pm Great Hall £9

Zaiba Malik One Girl, Two Lives For Zaiba Malik, growing up in Bradford in the 70’s and 80’s, meant being torn between two opposite identities, British and Muslim, searching for a goat for Eid or dancing to Top of the Pops.

The award-winning journalist will discuss her moving, comic and poignant memoir, ‘We Are A Muslim Please’.

Tuesday 12 July – Great Hall #49 10am Great Hall £9

#50 11.30am Great Hall £9

#51 1pm Great Hall £9

William Nicholson Class and the Novel Is middle-class life ignored in contemporary fiction? William Nicholson, whose huge range of achievements include Bafta winning plays for television, Oscar nominated film scripts and books for children, as well as work for the BBC and theatres, thinks that novelists today don’t tackle middle class issues in their work. His latest novel for adults is ‘All The Hopeful Lovers’. He discusses his views with Sarah Crompton, Arts Editor of The Telegraph.

William Nicholson

Janine di Giovanni

Janine di Giovanni War and Love After twenty years of war reporting, Janine di Giovanni and her journalist husband decided to make a new life for their family in Paris. How would marriage and motherhood survive the aftermath of war? She will reveal all from her powerful memoir ‘Ghosts by Daylight’.

Roy Strong Visions of England What does it mean to be English?

Cultural historian and broadcaster Sir Roy Strong is supremely qualified to investigate. Join him to find out how England’s rich rural iconography can stand up to a crisis in national identity.

Day Ticket: £45 (not including #55 or #56)

Roy Strong

#52 2.30pm Great Hall £9

Judy Golding and Clare Peake Two Famous Fathers Clare Peake’s father was the writer and illustrator, Mervyn Peake. Judy Golding’s father, William Golding, was the highly-regarded novelist.

Together they discuss being the daughters of famous fathers.

Tuesday 12 July – Great Hall #53 4pm Great Hall £9

#54 5.30pm Great Hall £9

Tony Benn Looking to the Future Tony Benn is well known for his challenging and controversial views.

Now he has turned his attention to the problems facing the next generation in Letters to my Grandchildren.

With its food and energy crises and the proliferation of chemical, nuclear and biological weapons, the world our children are born into is vastly different from that of their grandparents.

What lessons will help this generation to avoid previous mistakes? Tony Benn asserts that each generation faces the same challenges, with no final victory, and no final defeat. Drawing on his experience as a politician he discusses what the future will hold for the young of today.

Anna del Conte and Coco Food and Family Italian cookery writer Anna del Conte is the food muse of many of the world greatest chefs. Today Anna, her daughter Julia and her granddaughter and regular kitchen assistant, Coco, will talk about the inspiration for her new book about cooking with children.

Day Ticket: £45 (not including #55 or #56)

Anna del Conte

Jon Ronson

#55 7.30pm Great Hall £9

Jon Ronson

#56 9pm Great Hall £9

Rosalind Brady and Simon Barron

Who is Mad? Journalist, documentary maker and humorist, Jon Ronson, having skewered the War on Terror in ‘The Men Who Stare at Goats’, and extremism in ‘Them’, now attempts to discover where true madness lies, and what passes for ‘normal’ in his latest investigative escapade ‘The Psychopath Test’.

Coming Home Returning to their west country roots BarronBrady tonight release a recording of their latest songs. They bring their impeccable harmonies and intuitive musicianship to all they sing be it a raw, moving lament from the English tradition or one of their own thought-provoking songs.

Expect energy and verve; vocal harmonies combining deliciously with flutes, guitars, dulcimer and harmonium.

Tuesday 12 July – Barn – Gardens #57 10am Barn £9

Anna Pavord

#58 11.30am Barn £9

Anne Wareham

#59 1pm Barn £9

Jane Brown

A Year in the Life of the Garden Anna Pavord, author of the best-seller ‘The Tulip’, not only offers advice on what to do, when and how in the garden but she intersperses it with reflections on life, nature and even old gardening clothes.

The Bad-Tempered Gardener Impatient with received ideas, eager to provoke, Anne Wareham tells the story of her development as a thinking gardener and the creation, with her husband, Charles Hawes, of their acclaimed garden in the Welsh borders, the Veddw. She conveys the challenges, the hard work, triumphs and failures behind the creation and development of a substantial contemporary garden.

Lancelot ‘Capability’ Brown Despite being a ‘national treasure’ and designing nearly 200 park landscapes little is known about Lancelot Brown’s life. Jane Brown offers a colourful picture of his busy world, his work and the mysteries of his family life – and his death.

Day Ticket: £45

#60 2.30pm Barn £9

Katherine Swift

#61 4pm Barn £9

Helena Attlee and Alex Ramsay

#62 5.30pm Barn £9

Mark Crick

Morville Days ‘The Morville Hours’ won praise from both critics and readers for the beautifully told story of the birth and development of the garden at Morville in Shropshire.

Now Katherine Swift recounts the gardening year at this mysterious and romantic place.

Remarkable Gardens Britain is famous for its magnificent gardens. Author Helena Attlee and photographer Alex Ramsay will discuss the choice of gardens in their latest book, ‘Great Gardens of Britain’, using Alex’s images to illustrate much-loved classics and to reveal some striking new arrivals.

Plath’s Bulbs, Salinger’s Seeds ‘Kafka’s Soup’, ‘Sartre’s Sink’: Mark Crick’s previous books have been described as imaginative, entertaining and ‘hands-down droll’. Now he puts the culture back in horticulture as famous writers swop their pens for spades in his literary pastiches.

Tuesday 12 July Upper Gatehouse Creative Living #63 11.30am Upper Gatehouse £6

#64 2.30pm Upper Gatehouse £6

#65 4pm Upper Gatehouse £6

Lucinda Lambton Beastly Buildings Lucinda Lambton is known for her interest in unusual buildings. Her book ‘Palaces for Pigs’, shows her discovery of all sorts of eccentric animal buildings, from castles for goats to pyramids for pigs.

Her talk about this phenomenon will be illustrated with her own photographs.

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Bernard Samuels Dear Susan: Illustrated Letters of Ben Hartley Ben Hartley was a gifted, reclusive artist who has gained fame and appreciation since his death. His letters show his talent as a writer and illustrator. Bernard Samuels will show the letters and explain the context in which they were written.

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Jane Brown Dorothy Elmhirst A miniature biography of the elusive Dorothy Elmhirst, (18871968), who bought and restored Dartington Hall in the 1920s and whose vision shapes Dartington today. Here she is netted like a beautiful butterfly in her love of Shakespeare and his works. The author will explain her sins of omission and commission.

Day Ticket: £12

in the SHIP STUDIO at Dartington Hall 12 - 5 daily

Wednesday 13 July – Great Hall

Peter Snow

#66 10am Great Hall £9

#67 11.30am Great Hall £9

#68 1pm Great Hall £9

Matthew Hollis

#69 2.30pm Great Hall £9

Rachel Johnson

#70 4pm Great Hall £9

Blake Morrison

Matthew Hollis

Sebastian, Fabian and Clare Peake Celebrating Mervyn Peake 2011 is Mervyn Peake’s centenary year and in honour of the inventive novelist, poet and illustrator, Vintage are publishing ‘The Illustrated Gormenghast’ and ‘Titus Awake’. His children talk about Peake’s surreal work, his fathering style, and growing up amongst the creativity.

Peter Snow To War with Wellington What made the Iron Duke one of the greatest military commanders of all times? How did the sensitive schoolboy violinist become the tough military man? Peter Snow, the unforgettable lynchpin of Election Night, investigates.

Day Ticket: £45 (not including #72 or #73)

Edward Thomas – His Final Five Years Matthew Hollis focuses on two poet friends – Edward Thomas and Robert Frost – who produced some of the most remarkable verse of the twentieth century.

But World War 1 put an ocean between them; Frost returned to the safety of New England while Thomas stayed to fight for the Old. Matthew Hollis ponders over these roads taken – and those not taken.

Shaking Up Tradition When Rachel Johnson became editor of The Lady, Britain’s oldest women’s magazine, she had no idea what to wear, let alone how to be an editor. She recounts her riotous first year at the helm of an institution.

The Ted Hughes Memorial Lecture – Thought-foxes and gnatpsalms: nature, inspiration and healing in the poetry of Ted Hughes Blake Morrison looks at how Ted Hughes’ poems about birds, beasts and flowers allow him to explore the human world and to develop his ideas about writing and creativity.

In association with Faber and Faber and Carol Hughes

Wednesday 13 July – Great Hall

Rachel Johnson

#71 5.30pm Great Hall £9

Blake Morrison

Chris Mullin Dear Diary, Dear New Labour Chris Mullin was MP for Sunderland South and a distinctive character in Parliament. His best-seller, ‘A Very British Coup’, became a hit TV series. In 1994 he began a secret diary to chart the rise – and fall – of New Labour. He gives his insightful observations.

Howard Marks

Day Ticket: £45 (not including #72 or #73)

Harry Hill

#72 7.30pm Great Hall £9

Harry Hill

#73 9pm Great Hall £9

Howard Marks

Livin’ the Dreem The giant-collared comedian and revered host of TV Burp, Harry Hill will treat us to his inimitable world view, in an hour of frank, hilarious silliness that will include a look at his spoof memoir, ‘Livin’ the Dreem’, which has been memorably described as Samuel Pepys meets Katie Price.

Get to Know Mr Nice Famous for his wit, audacious cannabis trafficking and liberal opinions, Howard Marks has become something of an icon.

Best known for his cult bestseller, ‘Mr Nice’, he will introduce his first crime novel, ‘Sympathy for the Devil’, and talk about his colourful and fascinating life.

Wednesday 13 July – Barn – Fiction #74 10am Barn £9

Paul Torday and Mavis Cheek The Serious Business of Being Funny Paul Torday’s entertaining bestseller, ‘Salmon Fishing in the Yemen’, hits cinema screens in 2012. He discusses the challenge of humour in novels with Mavis Cheek, whose books are praised for being witty yet thoughtprovoking.

#75 11.30am Barn £9

#77 2.30pm The Barn £9

Helen Dunmore

#78 4pm Barn £9

Jasper Fforde

#79 5.30pm The Barn £9

Stella Tillyard

Lee Langley and Blake Morrison Prequels, Sequels, New Twists – Adventures with the Classics There are any number of ways to give new life to a classic. Lee Langley’s ‘Butterfly’s Shadow’ takes Puccini’s Madame Butterfly and sends the characters into an imagined future. Blake Morrison’s ‘The Last Weekend’ is a reworking of Othello into a modern tale of jealousy, sexual passion and revenge. They discuss the dangers and pleasures in transforming the life of a masterpiece.

#76 1pm Barn £9

school, Esther Freud’s ‘Lucky Break’ uncovers a world of ruthless ambition, uncertain alliances and success. They discuss how they recall the emotions of youth for their novels.

Esther Freud and Joanna Briscoe Young Lives and Loves Dartmoor is the setting of Joanna Briscoe’s new novel ‘You’. It is about the obsession and intensity of teenage love. Drawing upon her own experience in drama

Day Ticket: £45

Ordinary Lives, Extraordinary Situations Post-war Soviet Russia and the struggle to survive under a terrible and sinister regime is the theme of Helen Dunmore’s latest novel.

She looks at the lives of ordinary people and a love that will not be extinguished.

Fiction in No-man’s Land How does a novelist find his style in the ‘no-man’s-land between Literary and Absurd’, and then write several bestselling series concurrently? Join one of the UK’s most imaginative and entertaining authors and creator of Swindon’s ace literary detective, Thursday Next.

History and Fiction Eminent historian Stella Tillyard turns to fiction with ‘Tides of War’.

Set during the Peninsular war it is a powerful portrayal of the anguish of men at war, the taste of freedom offered to women, and the burning drive of émigrés in a society on the cusp of change.

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Roy Hattersley

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Ashley Dartnell

9

9

41

Virginia Nicholson

9

42

2

Lively & Sail

9

3

Free Speech - Google

9

Xinran

9

Barn Day Ticket #37 - #42

45

4

Rimington & Jeffrey

9

5

Marcus Brigstocke

9

43

Franny Moyle

9

44

Justin Cartwright

GH Day Ticket #1 - #3

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22.50

45

Hollinghurst & Hensher

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9

Mike Jay

9

46

David Gilmour

9

7

Clinton Heylin

9

47

Parris & Bryson

9

8

Dorian Lynskey

9

48

Zaiba Malik

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Barn Day Ticket

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GH Day Ticket #43 - #47

37.50

SATURDAY 9 JULY

TUESDAY 12 JULY

9

Robert Skidelsky

9

49

William Nicholson

9

10

Robert Winston

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50

Janine di Giovanni

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11

James Naughtie

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51

Roy Strong

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12

Penelope Lively

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Golding & Peake

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Mary Warnock

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53

Tony Benn

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14

Douglas Hurd

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54

Anna del Conte & Coco

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15

Shappi Khorsandi

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55

Jon Ronson

GH Day Ticket #9 - #14

45

56

BarronBrady

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16

Michael Jacobs

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GH Day Ticket #49 - #54

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17

Rachel Hewitt

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57

Anna Pavord

9

18

Hisham Matar

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58

Anne Wareham

9

19

Patrick French

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59

Jane Brown (1)

9

20

Christopher Howse

9

60

Katherine Swift

9

21

Michael Wright

9

61

Attlee & Ramsay

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62

Barn Day Ticket #16 - #21

45

22

Peter Bently

6

23

Helena Drysdale

6

24

Eleanor Updale

6

Duke’s Day Ticket #22 - #24

12

Mark Crick

9

Barn Day Ticket #57 - #62

45

63

Lucinda Lambton (2)

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64

Bernard Samuels

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65

Jane Brown (2)

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SUNDAY 10 JULY

WEDNESDAY 13 JULY

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Valerie Grove

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Google and Books

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66

Sebastian, Fabian & Clare Peake

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Toynbee & Walker

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Peter Snow

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28

David Owen

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68

Matthew Hollis

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29

Maureen Lipman

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69

Rachel Johnson

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30

Melvyn Bragg

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70

Ted Hughes Lecture - Blake Morrison

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Julia Neuberger

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71

Chris Mullin

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72

Harry Hill

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32

Lucinda Lambton (1)

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73

Howard Marks

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33

Charles Jencks

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Rachel Campbell-Johnston

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74

Torday & Cheek

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35

Cate Haste

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75

Langley & Morrison

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36

Justine Picardie + Coco Film

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Freud & Briscoe

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Barn Day Ticket #32 - #36

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Helen Dunmore

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Jasper Fforde

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Stella Tilyard

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Lucy Worsley

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Josceline Dimbleby

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Ian Mortimer

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Willie Harcourt-Cooze

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Katie Hickman

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Tracey Lawson

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Elisabeth Luard

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Nicky Scott

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Watson & Baxter

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Gatter & McKee

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Kitchen Gardener’s Forum

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Salley Vickers

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Charles Dowding

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Kathleen Jones

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Dave Hamilton

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Schumacher, Trace & Mullin

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Lionel Blue

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Nicholas Evans

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Johnny West

91

Malloch-Brown & Harnden

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Julian Baggini

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92

Arabella Weir

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132

Simon Hoggart

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John Hegley

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Hugo Vickers

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Conradi & Logue

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John Julius Norwich

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FRIDAY 15 JULY

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Karen Armstrong

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Gervase Phinn

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Celia Walden

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Ben Okri

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Williams & Aaronovitch

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Harnden & Rayment

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138

Raymond Tallis

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98

Margaret Drabble

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139

Lewis Wolpert

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99

Michael Meacher

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140

Ted Nield

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Telegraph Question Time

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Angela Saini

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Gareth Williams

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Neil Ansell

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Lucy Siegle

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102

Jane Shilling

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Tom Hodgkinson

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144

Cole Moreton

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104

Simon Baron-Cohen

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145

Richard Ryder

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105

Nick Thorpe

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146

Sarah Abell

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106

Patrick Barkham

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Barn Day Ticket #101 - 106

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New Steps

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147

Mitchelli & Simpson

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108

Other Lives

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148

Making Books

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109

Out of the Ordinary

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149

Fiona Sampson

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110

Oversteps Scholars

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150

Clive Fairweather (2)

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Touching the Sky

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151

Tutton, Harvey & Angwin

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FE1

Founding Voices

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Agatha Christie’s Greenway

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111

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AND ANOTHER THING . . .

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Bell, Moreton & Worsley

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FE3

Clive Fairweather (1)

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Bettany Hughes

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FE4

Ted Hughes’ Poetry Trail

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Juliet Barker

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Martin Bell Literary Cruise

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Wollaston, Stanford & Moreton

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Festival Book Quiz

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Butterfly Spotting Walk

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Matt Harvey

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ACCOMMODATION PACKAGES

Rover tickets give admission to numbered events over a particular period. They can be bought separately or as part of an inclusive accommodation package.

Ways With Words offers a full 10-night accommodation package (ranging from £740 - £1345 pp) and two 5-night packages (from £400 - £695 pp) in Higher Close or in the Courtyard at Dartington Hall. We also offer two 3-night weekend packages (from £295 - £335 pp) and a 4-night midweek package (from £380 - £430 pp) in Higher Close.

A Rover ticket guarantees a seat for every event in the Great Hall.

We hold a set number of seats for Rover ticket holders in the Barn and other, smaller venues.

These are on a first come, first served basis.

‘Festival Extras’ must be purchased separately.

To purchase Rover tickets please write the number you require in the box and then make payment as indicated on the front of the booking form.

10-day Rover ticket (Price: £300) • admission to all numbered events.

5-day Rover ticket (Price: £210) • 1st 5-day Rovers begin with event #1 on Friday 8 July and end at 12.30pm on Wednesday 13 July.

• 2nd 5-day Rovers begin with the 1pm event on Wednesday 13 July until the end of the festival.

• Midweek 5-day Rovers run from Monday 11 July to Friday 15 July.

Weekend Rover tickets (Price: £150) • 1st weekend Rovers begin with event #1 on Friday 8 July and end with the last event on Sunday 10 July.

• 2nd weekend Rovers begin on Friday 15 July at 1pm until the end of the festival.

Accommodation varies from comfortable, en suite bedrooms right in the heart of the festival site to single, student bedrooms (which share bathroom facilities) about 2 mins. walk from the main site.

Along with your room and breakfast, packages include lunch and dinner, or just dinner.

All packages include a Rover ticket in the price.

If you are interested in an accommodation package please phone 01803 867373 and we can advise on availability and give more details.

BED & BREAKFAST Bed & Breakfast accommodation is available in the Higher Close student residences (single rooms sharing bathroom facilities) at £30 pppn.

There is a 2-night and 2 tickets per night’s stay minimum purchase.

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Thursday 14 July – Barn – Food #80 10am Barn £9

#81 11.30am Barn £9

#82 1pm Barn £9

Signe Johansen More than Danish Pastries and Herrings With its fresh, bold flavours and use of seasonal local food, Scandinavian cookery is appropriately cool. Signe Johansen, a food anthropologist who worked in Heston Blumenthal’s experimental kitchen, shows how this simple, stress-free cuisine suits impromptu gatherings, picnics and boozy brunches.

#83 2.30pm Barn £9

Tracey Lawson

#84 4pm Barn £9 Chair: Tom Jaine

Elisabeth Luard

#85 5.30pm Barn £9

Guy Watson and Jane Baxter

Josceline Dimbleby A Flavoursome Life Memories, food and travel: Josceline Dimbleby talks to Tom Jaine, food historian and publisher of Prospect Books, about her life spent travelling the world, sampling dishes and creating recipes.

Willie Harcourt-Cooze From Bean to Bar While travelling on horseback through Venezuela Willie Harcourt-Cooze bought a 1,000 acre cacao hacienda. ‘Willie’s Wonky Chocolate Factory’, a Channel 4 fly-on-the-wall documentary, filmed his enthusiasm for growing, harvesting and processing cacao. His latest book, ‘Willie’s Chocolate Bible’, is for chocolate-lovers everywhere.

Come and share his passion.

Day Ticket: £45

Longevity and Life in an Italian Village What causes the extraordinary long lives of the villagers of Campodimele? Do they avoid major diseases because of their diet? Tracey Lawson, food editor and news journalist, spent a year there to investigate. She tells of the lifestyle, cooking and eating habits of this astonishingly healthy community.

Living and Cooking in Wales The food writer Elisabeth Luard tells the story of a year planting, picking, cooking and roaming through the Welsh countryside with her grandchildren.

Riverford Farm Food – Everyday and Sunday Producing fantastic organic food from soil to table is the Riverford way. You can eat in Riverford’s Field Kitchen, order a box of their vegetables or follow one of their imaginative recipes. All delicious!

They talk ‘food’ with Tom Jaine.

Thursday 14 July – Great Hall

Salley Vickers

#86 10am Great Hall £9

#87 11.30am Great Hall £9

Kathleen Jones

Salley Vickers Differing Shades of Love Salley Vickers, author of many thought-provoking books including ‘Miss Garnett’s Angel’, explores the complex geography of the human heart in her new collection of short stories. Love given, withheld, lost, met: she examines all shades.

Lionel Blue

#88 1pm Great Hall £9

Katherine Mansfield: Story Teller

Day Ticket: £45 (not including #92 or #93)

Barbara Schumacher, Simon Trace and Chris Mullin Bigger is not Beautiful Schumacher preached a new brand of economics, rejecting expansion and aiming for maximum wellbeing with minimum consumption.

Schumacher’s daughter, Barbara, and Simon Trace – CEO of Practical Action – discuss his life and work with Chris Mullin who recommended ‘Small is Beautiful’ as vital reading for people under 21 on a recent Sky Arts Book Show.

Anne Pettifor, Director at Policy Research in Macro Economics, will join this event

Kathleen Jones Kathleen Jones, poet and biographer, has long been interested in Katherine Mansfield since finding a copy of her journal in a second-hand bookshop. This led to a sparkling biography. She tells the story of the short but intense life of this brilliant writer.

Nicholas Evans

#89 2.30pm Great Hall £9

Lionel Blue Common Honesty and Higher Truths Rabbi Lionel Blue gives a consumer’s guide to religion: ‘I went into religion because I was in trouble. I stayed in it because it works’. A familiar voice from Radio 4’s Thought for the Day, Rabbi Lionel Blue offers many thoughts for this Thursday.

Thursday 14 July – Great Hall #90 4 pm Great Hall £9

Nicholas Evans

#91 5.30pm Great Hall £9

Mark Malloch-Brown and Toby Harnden

#92 7pm Great Hall £9

Love and Identity Nicholas Evans’ latest novel, ‘The Brave’, explores our quest for love and identity; it faces the fallibility of heroes and the devastating effects of family secrets. Nicholas Evans’ first novel, ‘The Horse Whisperer’, was made into a film by Robert Redford.

Global Co-operation Former United Nations Deputy Secretary-General and Minister of State at the Foreign Office, Mark Malloch-Brown, argues that national governments are not equipped to tackle complex global issues. Toby Harnden, US Editor of The Daily Telegraph, has reported from around the world. From unemployment to climate change they discuss with Sarah Crompton (Arts Editor, The Telegraph) the premise that current concerns have international roots and require global politics.

Arabella Weir The Real Me is Thin Arabella Weir is best known for her memorable characters in BBC2’s ‘The Fast Show’ as well as her international bestseller ‘Does My Bum Look Big in This?’

She turns her attention to her childhood and her neurotic relationship to food.

Day Ticket: £45 (not including #92 or #93)

Mark Malloch-Brown

#93 8.30pm Great Hall £14 (2 hrs including interval)

Arabella Weir

John Hegley The Adventures of Monsieur Robinet Hilarious tales about a Frenchman with some unusual – but clean – habits from the quirkily absurd John Hegley.

“Typically brilliant” the Guardian “Awesomely mundane” the Observer His lyrics “....quite often make little sense.” The Luton News

Friday 15 July – Great Hall

Karen Armstrong

Celia Walden

#94 10am Great Hall £9 Chair: Peter Stanford

Karen Armstrong

#95 11.30am Great Hall £9

Celia Walden

Compassion Karen Armstrong argues that compassion is no longer a luxury but an absolute necessity for our survival. She demonstrates how we can bring compassion to the forefront of our lives and by transcending the limitations of everday selfishness we not only make a difference to the world but also lead happier, more fulfilled lives.

Shirley Williams

David Aaronovitch

#96 1pm Great Hall £9 Chair: Peter Stanford

Shirley Williams and David Aaronovitch

#97 2.30pm Great Hall £9

Toby Harnden and Sean Rayment

Renewing Trident – Are nuclear weapons right for our times?

Nuclear fuel is in the news, nuclear weapons less so. But should Britain have nuclear arms? Should we renew Trident? Should we intervene in problems around the world? Leading independent thinkers unpack the arguments.

This is a co-production with The Dartington Hall Trust, and is part of their series of Great Debates.

Babysitting George In his twilight years, footballing genius George Best found himself befriending journalist Celia Walden as she followed him around the bars of Malta. She talks about the implausible friendship that developed between them, and the writing of the memoir that followed.

Day Ticket: £45 (not including #100)

The Reality of Britain’s War in Afghanistan Sean Rayment is the Defence and Security Editor of The Sunday Telegraph. Toby Harnden is the US Editor of The Daily Telegraph, previously the Chief Foreign Correspondent. They discuss the whys and wherefores of Britain’s military operations in Afghanistan.

Friday 15 July – Great Hall #98 4pm Great Hall £9

Margaret Drabble

#99 5.30pm Great Hall £9

Michael Meacher

Toby Harnden

Social Changes, Short Stories Margaret Drabble’s penetrating evocations of character and place, her wide-ranging curiosity and her sense of irony are all on display in her recent collection of short stories that explore the social changes of the past 40 years. She offers her perceptive observations on what is vital to human beings.

#100 7.30pm Great Hall £9

What Are We Here For? Michael Meacher MP entered parliament in 1970, was Minister of State for the Environment in Blair’s government, has campaigned for reductions in CO2 emissions and been outspoken against GM food and the Iraq War. He says that the only questions that matter are: What is the universe for?

What is the purpose of existence?

Sean Rayment

Day Ticket: £45 (not including #100)

The Telegraph’s Question Time Come armed with questions to put to our panel of political journalists and opinion formers as they prepare to discuss the issues that matter to you. The panel will include Shirley Williams, Michael Meacher MP, US Editor of The Daily Telegraph Toby Harnden, The Daily Telegraph’s chief political commentator Peter Oborne and columnist and author Allison Pearson.

Questions should be submitted to the Ways With Words office during the festival or in advance by email to admin@wayswithwords.co.uk

Margaret Drabble

Michael Meacher

Friday 15 July – Barn – Behaviour #101 10am Barn £9

Neil Ansell

#102 11.30am Barn £9

Jane Shilling

#103 1pm Barn £9

Deep Country Neil Ansell spent five years living on his own, with no electricity, gas or water. He recounts how he became at ease with remoteness and how peace of mind came from looking out rather than looking in.

#104 2.30pm Barn £9

The Stranger in the Mirror Middle age took Jane Shilling by surprise: ‘I looked in the mirror one morning, and saw the face of a stranger.’ She asks what it means to be a 50-something woman in the early 21st century.

Autism, narcissism, psychosis, Asperger’s all have one thing in common – a lack of empathy.

Simon Baron-Cohen suggests that this absence can be dangerous or sometimes it can simply mean a different way of seeing the world.

He explains his new brain-based theory of human cruelty.

Nick Thorp

#106 5.30pm Barn £9

Patrick Barkham

Brave Old World

Day Ticket: £45

Zero Degrees of Empathy

#105 4pm Barn £9

Tom Hodgkinson Confirmed idler and master of slow living, Tom Hodgkinson draws on the wisdom of an eclectic range of thinkers and writers, and on medieval calendars and manorial records, to chart the progress of a year spent in pursuit of the pleasures of the past: feasting, dancing, wood-chopping, bartering and bee-keeping.

Simon Baron-Cohen

Urban Worrier Nick Thorpe will speak on his book, Urban Worrier, a quest to find fulfillment and balance in today’s high-speed world. He resolved to spend a year letting go; relaxing more; being creative and putting his health and family high up his personal agenda.

The Butterfly Isles Patrick Barkham spent his childhood holidays chasing butterflies with his father.

What was a youthful hobby has developed into an adult passion.

Guardian columnist, Patrick Barkham, is recognised as one of the best of the new-wave of nature writers. He will analyse his fascination with British butterflies and attempt to infect you with his enthusiasm. Don’t let this event flutter by.

Friday 15 July – Upper Gatehouse – Oversteps Events by Oversteps Poetry introduced by Alwyn Marriage #107

£6

New Steps 11am – 11.55am Launch of recent publications: Angela Stoner, Anthony Watts, John Stuart and Denise Bennett #108 £6 12 – 1pm

Other Lives How to combine the writing of poetry with very different activities and high-profile professions; the following poets will read some of their poems and answer questions: Michael Swan - international linguistics scholar Giles Goodland - lexicographer, works for the OED Anne Stewart - manages the poetry p f website Alwyn Marriage - Managing Editor of Oversteps Books. #109 £6 2pm – 3pm

Out of the Ordinary Introducing four poets who have recently published unusual collections: Hilary Elfick - a Maori interpretation of Shakespeare’s Tempest Jane Shilling Tom Hodgkinson Simon Baron-Cohen Patrick Barkham

Day Ticket: £20

Maggie Butt - an illustrated collection about Ally Pally Prison Camp Christopher North and Terry Gifford - a bilingual English/Spanish collection of poems and conversations. #110 £6 3.30pm – 4.30pm

Oversteps Scholars Since publishing with Oversteps, two of its poets have embarked on PhDs which relate to their work as poets: Miriam Darlington – gained funding to study the wild otter in landscape and literature as part of a Creative Writing PhD. ‘Otter Country’ will be published by Granta in 2012.

Andrew Nightingale – His research centres on the production of a long narrative poem focusing on Alan Turing and artificial intelligence. #111 £6 5pm – 6pm

Touching the Sky – Poems and stories in the strings with poems by Simon Williams and Susan Taylor and original guitar compositions by Stephen Yates.

Interludes of music and poetry, inspired by night time and day time skies, flight and all things aerial.

Saturday 16 July – Great Hall #112 10am Great Hall £9

Cole Moreton

Bettany Hughes

Juliet Barker

Day Ticket: £45 (not including #118)

Royalty: Does it Have a Future?

Royal wedding mania spread to all parts of the world. Who would make the dress? Who would do Kate Middleton’s hair? Is this what having a monarchy means?

Is it time to rethink its value?

Ask the experts.

Lucy Worsley

Martin Bell

Martin Bell, Cole Moreton and Lucy Worsley

#113 11.30am Great Hall £9

Bettany Hughes

#114 1pm Great Hall £9

Juliet Barker

Thinking Socrates’ Way We think the way we do because Socrates thought the way he did.

His aphorism ‘The unexamined life is not worth living’ may have originated twenty-five centuries ago, but resonates with us still.

Bettany Hughes, passionate television presenter and author, shows his relevance for today.

The Brontës Revisited Juliet Barker, the foremost expert on the Brontës, has revised her 1994 biography of this astonishingly creative family. She gives a vivid picture of 19th century Yorkshire and an intimate chronicle of the Brontës’ daily lives in Haworth.

Saturday 16 July – Great Hall #115 2.30pm Great Hall £9

Sarah Wollaston, Peter Stanford and Cole Moreton The Big Society or the Big Con? While many people are sympathetic to the idea of mutual support and community responsibility, David Cameron’s use of the phrase The Big Society often leads to cynicism and confusion. Sarah Wollaston was a GP and is now Conservative MP for Totnes and the South Hams. Peter Stanford is Chairman of ASPIRE, the national charity for spinal injuries and Director of the Frank Longford Trust. In the chair the jounalist and author Cole Moreton will contribute to and control the discussion.

#116 4pm Great Hall £9

A.C. Grayling A Secular Bible THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED. Ian Mortimer’s event ‘Reliving the Past’ which is scheduled for the Barn will now take place in this slot in the Great Hall.

When would you have liked to have lived in the past? It is a question we all have considered.

The author of the bestselling ‘The Time Traveller’s Guide to Medieval England’ reflects on some of the biggest surprises of historical experience, drawing also from his work-in-progress, ‘A Visitor’s Guide to Elizabethan England’.

Day Ticket: £45 (not including #118)

#117 5.30pm Great Hall £9

The Telegraph Discussion –

#118 8pm Great Hall £9

Matt Harvey

Arts vs. Sport Two of the greatest enrichers of society, but which contributes more and how can we qualify this?

Arguing for and against will be Telegraph theatre critic Charles Spencer, arts editor Sarah Crompton and on the sports bench will sit former England rugby star Brian Moore and sports columnist Jim White.

Where Earwigs Dare A rich biodiversity of verse – about potatoes, leeks, clouds, sheds, slugs, kippers and cows, pain relief, petty theft and public nudity – a typical Matt Harvey offering; this collection is published by Green Books. The poet himself is locally sourced.

Matt Harvey

Saturday 16 July – Barn – History #119 10am Barn £9

Francis Spufford

#120 11.30am Barn £9

Dominic Sandbrook

Red Plenty Once the dream of red plenty was serious – an attempt by the Soviets to ‘beat’ capitalism on its own terms and to make its citizens the richest in the world. Francis Spufford explores how the system operated and why it failed.

#123 4pm Barn £9

Ian Mortimer

#124 5.30pm Barn £9

Katie Hickman

State of Emergency The 1970s saw Britain tottering on the brink of an abyss. As strikes, blackouts, riots and inflation dominated the headlines the Conservative government called five States of Emergency.

Dominic Sandbrook, the academic and journalist, tells how this time shaped today’s society.

#121 1pm Barn £9

Leo Hollis

#122 2.30pm Barn £9

Lucy Worsley

The Enigma of Buildings Stand on any street corner in central London and you are on the threshold of an historical journey.

Leo Hollis gives a kaleidoscopic, unusual history of twelve buildings which have left their imprint on the fabric of the capital.

17th Century Venice Set in the early seventeenth century Katie Hickman’s novel, ‘The Pindar Diamond’, tells the story of one man’s obsession with a rare diamond which was circulating amongst the gamblers and courtesans of the Venetian demi-mode. A tale of lust, greed, wealth and danger.

Lucy Worsley

Katie Hickman

Day Ticket: £45

When would you have liked to have lived in the past? It is a question we all have considered.

The author of the bestselling ‘The Time Traveller’s Guide to Medieval England’ reflects on some of the biggest surprises of historical experience, drawing also from his work-in-progress, ‘A Visitor’s Guide to Elizabethan England’.

(This event now in the Great Hall)

Dominic Sandbrook

If Walls Could Talk Why did medieval people sleep sitting up? When were the ‘two dirty centuries’? Why did people fear fruit? To tie in with her BBC series Lucy Worsley gives an intimate history of home life.

Reliving the Past

Saturday 16 July – Upper Gatehouse – Green Books, Green Ideas #125 10am Upper Gatehouse £6

#126 11.30am Upper Gatehouse £6

Nicky Scott Composting Devon Community Composting Network Co-ordinator, Nicky Scott, explains how creating the ideal environment to multiply micro-organisms will ultimately enrich the soil and thus the health of plants and people. Learn the ‘compost Mantra’. More Heston Blumenthal and less Delia Smith!

#127 2.30pm Upper Gatehouse £6

Green Books Kitchen Gardeners’ Forum Green Books is publishing a growing list of gardening experts.

This unique event allows keen gardeners to put their questions to the experts covering a range of subjects including organic gardening, gardening on a budget, self sufficiency, compost, fruit trees and growing in polytunnels.

Please submit your questions in advance to gardeningforum@greenbooks.co.uk

Mark Gatter and Andy McKee Polytunnels: One Step Towards Self-sufficiency Polytunnels can be used to grow masses of summer produce, but Mark Gatter and Andy McKee look at the wider applications of this valuable gardening resource to produce food in the winter, shelter livestock and provide food to trade with your neighbours.

Charles Dowding, Dave Hamilton, Nicky Scott, Ben Pike, Mark Gatter, Andy McKee

#128 4pm Upper Gatehouse £6

Charles Dowding

#129 5.30pm Upper Gatehouse £6

Dave Hamilton

Organic Gardening Charles Dowding describes his experience of growing vegetables without digging and explains his dig/ no dig experiment, now in its fifth year. He offers ideas for producing a range of vegetables throughout winter.

Money-saving Gardening Dave Hamilton suggests ways to save money throughout the growing season from seed saving to planting and harvesting. He will give some lighthearted and amusing insights into the writing process.

All today’s events are run in association with Green Books.

Day Ticket: £20

Sunday 17 July – Great Hall #130 10am Great Hall £9

Julian Baggini

Johnny West The Arab Spring Johnny West offer a unique insight into the people who took control of their own destinies in the extraordinary events that have come to be known as the Arab Spring.

From the cafés, homes and meeting places of the revolutionary crucibles of Egypt, Libya and Tunisia, he offers a street-level, intimate perspective on a unique moment in modern history.

Fluent in Arabic, an award-winning former Reuters Middle East foreign correspondent and an accomplished Arabist, he is ideally qualified to lead a journey to the heart of the revolution.

Simon Hoggart

Day Ticket: £45 (not including #136 or #137)

#131 11.30am Great Hall £9

Julian Baggini

#132 1pm Great Hall £9

Simon Hoggart

#133 2.30pm Great Hall £9

Hugo Vickers

The Ego Trick Are you still the same person who lived 15, 10 or 5 years ago; 15, 10 or 5 minutes ago? Who is the real you? With his usual wit, curiosity and bracing scepticism, Julian Baggini, editor of The Philosophers’ Magazine, sets out to answer these unsettling questions.

My Stories and I’m Sticking to Them Want to know what Simon Hoggart and Cherie Blair said to each other, what Alan Clark said about Melvyn Bragg; about the time John Sergeant drove a flight attendant into a fury? Simon Hoggart gives a host of anecdotes from his 40+ years in journalism.

The Tragic, Untold Story of the Duchess of Windsor The story of the Abdication, the Windsors’ life in exile and the feud between them and the British Royal Family is a tragic saga that Hugo Vickers has followed for many years. He is an acknowledged expert on the Royal Family, has written many biographies, appears regularly on television, and has lectured all over the world.

Sunday 17 July – Great Hall

Peter Conradi

#134 4pm Great Hall £9

Michael Logue

Peter Conradi and Mark Logue The King’s Speech: How One Man Saved the British Monarchy Journalist Peter Conradi and Mark Logue, grandson of the now famous speech therapist, unearthed diaries and letters to reveal the truth behind the Oscar-winning film. Find out more about George VI and Lionel Logue and how faithfully the film tells their story.

#135 5.30pm Great Hall £9

John Julius Norwich The Popes: A History Historian John Julius Norwich, an agnostic with no religious axe to grind, turns his attention to the oldest continuing institution in the world and traces the papal line down through the centuries from St Peter to the present Benedict XVI. Expect a richly authoritative talk.

Day Ticket: £45 (not including #136 or #137)

John Julius Norwich

Gervase Phinn

#136 7pm Great Hall £9

Gervase Phinn

#137 8.30pm Great Hall £9

Ben Okri

Yorkshire Tales Gervase Phinn’s stories come from more than 60 years of teaching, inspecting schools and Yorkshire life. On our final evening we shall have thoughtful comment as well as lots of laughs from him.

A Time For New Dreams Ben Okri’s profound, new essays include meditations on childhood, self-censorship, the role of beauty and the importance of education.

He challenges how we see ourselves in the modern world.

It is appropriate that this muchadmired, passionate advocate of the written word will close our 20th festival.

Sunday 17 July – The Barn – Science #138 10am Barn £9

#139 11.30am Barn £9

#140 1pm Barn £9

Raymond Tallis Being Human Raymond Tallis, clinical neuroscientist and philosopher, mounts an all-out assault on claims made by some contemporary thinkers who believe that biological factors alone can explain human consciousness and behaviour.

Arguing that human beings are infinitely more interesting and complex, Tallis offers a combative, rigorous, witty and thoughtprovoking critique.

Lewis Wolpert On Ageing Why must we age and how do we cope with our physical decline?

What are the scientific reasons for ageing and can or should we prevent it? Lewis Wolpert, distinguished scientist and octogenarian, tackles all aspects of ageing from euthanasia to antiwrinkle cream. It’s a topic none of us can ignore.

#141 2.30pm Barn £9

Angela Saini

#142 4pm Barn £9

Gareth Williams

#143 5.30pm Barn £9

Lucy Siegle

Ted Nield Learn to Love the Meteorite In his witty, accessible style Ted Nield, a leading world geologist, introduces the science of the cosmos. In a talk packed full of stories and myth de-bunking he makes the claim that meteorites are a good thing.

Day Ticket: £45

Angela Saini

Curry and Chips One in five of all medical staff in the UK, one in six employed scientists with doctorates in the US, and one third of all engineers in Silicon Valley are of Indian origin. Science journalist Angela Saini explores the reason why the government of the most religious country on earth has put its faith in science and technology.

The Great Vaccination Debate Gareth Williams weaves together the personal experiences of colourful historical figures to tell the story of one of the most exciting successes in the history of medicine: the development of a vaccine to eradicate smallpox.

Clothes to Die For Lucy Siegle, the Observer’s ‘Ethical Living’ columnist, examines the inhumane and environmentally devastating story behind the clothes we casually buy and wear.

Is green the new black?

Raymond Tallis

Lucy Siegle

Sunday 17 July Upper Gatehouse Have Your Say

#145 11.30am Upper Gatehouse £6

#146 2.30pm Upper Gatehouse £6

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Cole Moreton

Richard Ryder Animal Rights – Should They Have Any? From 1969 Richard Ryder has organised protests against animal experiments and blood sports. In 1975 he published his book ‘Victims of Science’. He became Chairman of the RSPCA in 1977 and was founding Chairman of the Liberal Democratic Animal Protection Group. His latest book puts his ideas in a larger moral framework.

Hear his views and give yours.

Sarah Abell Rewarding Relationships We all relate. Like breathing or eating it is what humans do. But are we any good at it? Are you struggling with a relationship at the moment? Sarah Abell worked for the BBC for 7 years before working in relationships education. Add your ideas and questions on how to cultivate meaningful relationships.

Day Ticket: £12

As well as the events in the Great Hall and Barn, there are many other things happening in and around the courtyard during the festival.

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Cole Moreton’s latest book, ‘Is God Still an Englishman?’, asks questions about belief, identity, values, spirituality. With his journalist’s spirit of enquiry he invites your views on issues that arise from his writing.

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#144 10am Upper Gatehouse £6

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Sunday 10 July #147

10am

Duke’s Room

£6

Dena Mitchelli and Julie Simpson Making Choices Do you have the confidence to make the choices you wish? Are you equipped to achieve your dreams? Can you use your full potential? Everyday we need to make choices. Dena Mitchelli and Julie Simpson will discuss how to become a wellinformed decision-maker.

Sunday 10 July FE1

11am

£6

Founding Voices Meet outside the West Wing Lounge for an interactive poetry walk in the gardens with Pamela Sandry Gorman, Susan Taylor and Simon Williams Hear poems inspired by Dartington’s quintessential English landscape, plus voices from the past including the founding pioneers of Dartington, Dorothy and Leonard Elmhirst. There will be a chance to write spontaneous snatches of poetry.

Sunday 10 July

Wednesday 13 July

12 – 4pm West Wing Lounge Free

FE3

AmnesTEA

Clive Fairweather

Amnesty International celebrates its 50th anniversary this year. The human rights organisation is holding a special AmnesTEA event at Ways With Words.

Drop in to enjoy tea and cakes and hear about the vital work Amnesty does in shining a spotlight on human rights abuses. Thousands of letters are sent by volunteers every year to prisoners and authorities. It is appropriate that Amnesty is at Ways With Words to celebrate the power of the written word.

#148

2.30pm

Duke’s Room

£6

Making Books An Illustrated Arts Live Event Carol Ballenger and Graham Hodgson show how Arts Live gets books published, from traditional methods through to self-published print-on-demand books using an internet printing service. They will explain the processes involved.

An exhibition of Carol Ballenger’s photographs and Arts Live books is being shown at the Cider Press Centre from June 10th - July 20th.

Tuesday 12 July FE2

2pm – 6pm

£28

Agatha Christie’s Greenway Board a vintage bus from Dartington to Agatha Christie’s atmospheric home by the Dart.

Included is a private tour of the house, a cream tea, entrance to the gardens and a copy of Christie’s Greenway-inspired murder mystery, ‘Dead Man’s Folly’.

Bus departs from outside the main entrance to the courtyard at 2pm With thanks to Harper Fiction.

Duke’s Room

£15

Edward Thomas – Poetry Masterclass Clive Fairweather will introduce a selection of poems by Edward Thomas, the poet described by Ted Hughes as ‘the father of us all’. Responses will be welcome from those familiar with Thomas or those who have only just discovered his poetry. A volume of Edward Thomas’ ‘Collected Poems’ will be sent to each person who books.

With thanks to Faber and Faber.

Wednesday 13 July #149

Sunday 10 July

10am – 11.30am

2.30pm

Upper Gatehouse

£6

Fiona Sampson Introducing Percy Bysshe Shelley Shelley, a radical thinker and social campaigner, wrote some fine lyric verse. Fiona Sampson has chosen and introduced a selection of his work for the Faber and Faber series, ‘Poet to Poet’. In explaining her choice and reactions to Shelley’s poems she offers insights into her own fine poetry.

Thursday 14 July FE4

10am – 1pm

£12

Spirit of the Land and Language – A study and writing workshop on the Ted Hughes’ Poetry Trail with Susan Taylor and Simon Williams The Trail consists of sixteen specially designed poetry posts, each featuring a Hughes’ poem.

Participants will walk the trail and then look at one of the poems in more depth, at the on-site Nature Interpretation Centre, before writing poems inspired by the wildlife sanctuary at Stover.

Meet at Stover Country Park, Stover at 10am.

(1/4 mile off A38 towards Newton Abbot – transport not provided.)

Thursday 14 July #150

2.30pm

Friday 15 July Upper Gatehouse

£6

A Letter from Lazarus Clive Fairweather, story teller and historian, summons forgotten figures through his quirky and scholarly historical research.

Now Lazarus of Padway comes to light through his correspondence with the Abbot of Buckfast in 1471. Discover how much of a man’s inner life a single letter can reveal.

Thursday 14 July 5.30pm

Duke’s Room

£6

Chris Tutton, Matt Harvey and Roselle Angwin Of Love and Hope A poetry reading in aid of Breakthrough Breast Cancer and Breast Cancer Care to celebrate the recent publication of the poetry anthology ‘Of Love and Hope’ which celebrates all aspects of life and love.

Friday 15 July FE5

7–10pm approx.

£39.50

Riverlink Literary Cruise on the Dart

Martin Bell From Television to Politics to Poetry A magical evening’s cruise down the River Dart with canapés and drink on arrival, literary dinner with Martin Bell, coffee on deck to end the evening.

9pm

Upper Gatehouse

£4 per person

Festival Book Quiz

Clive Fairweather

#151

FE6

Calling all Quizzers! How much do you know about books? Come along to this fun book quiz and put your knowledge to the test! Come as a ready-made team (up to four members) or on your own and meet up with others to pool your knowledge. Refreshments will be on sale. Many prizes of new books.

All proceeds will go to the Ways With Words Bursary Fund which provides free festival passes for students aged 17-25.

Saturday 16 July FE7

11am

Adults £8 / children £4

Butterfly Spotting Walk Walk leader – Patrick Barkham THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED

Saturday 16 July 6 – 7.30pm

Duke’s Room

Free

The Voice Café – New Words and Ideas A selection of poetry, prose, live writing and scripted work will be performed by a group of actors. Audience members can get creative with words too. To submit work or perform please email admin@wayswithwords.co.uk

Sunday 17 July 6pm

Upper Gatehouse

Free

Trade Winds A seeding ground for poets, singer songwriters and storytellers, new and experienced. We welcome festival goers to add their voices to the mix with short performance pieces. Come early for a slot.

Other things to do . . .

Come and visit Google in the Upper Gatehouse for a relaxed and different Ways With Words experience.

Take time out to grab a smoothie, get refreshed and get hands-on with Google’s e-books technology.

We look forward to welcoming you to the Google zone – open to everyone from Friday 8th to Sunday 10th July.

The Ship Studio in the courtyard at Dartington Hall will be open each day from 10am - 5.30pm.

Here you will find stalls selling second hand and antiquarian books and quality locally made crafts.

The Cider Press Centre is about 1/2 mile from the festival site and offers a variety of shops. There are also 2 restaurants: the Cider Press Café and Cranks.

Shops open daily from 9.30am - 5.30pm (Sundays 10am - 5pm)

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Dartington Gallery

Dartington Hall Totnes

8th - 17th July Opens 10 - 6

www.swsculptors.co.uk

SCULPTURE EXHIBITION

Bursaries to Ways With Words Students between the ages of 17 - 25 who are in full-time education can attend all (10 days) or some (5 days) of this year’s festival free of charge.

Email admin@wayswithwords.co.uk to find out more.

We are grateful to for their support of the bursary fund both at Dartington and in Cumbria.

Eating And Drinking The courtyard goes continental . . .

To celebrate Ways With Words 20th anniversary at Dartington Hall, the Courtyard will be converted into a Continental Café, serving a selection of fresh and locally sourced, homemade speciality food and drinks.

Open daily for breakfast bites, lunch snacks, mid afternoon treats and late afternoon apéritifs.

Joined by the old favourites: • The Garden Room Restaurant – seated restaurant open for breakfast, lunch, dinner and tea and coffee – with a modern British theme.

• The White Hart Bar – Gastro pub grub in the wonderful White Hart Bar, open for lunch and dinner and refreshments all day.

• The Roundhouse Cafe (open 9.30am – 8pm), for coffee, tea and cake, or a glass of wine.

Tourist Information • 01803 863168 www.totnesinformation.co.uk

Travelling to Dartington

Parking

Parking is limited at Dartington Hall.

Please leave plenty of time to get to your event as you may need to park at a distance from the venues.

Wheelchair access

– Dartington is about 25 miles southwest of Exeter and about 4 hours drive from London.

– By car, take the M5, A38 and A384, then follow yellow AA signs to the festival. From the west, take the A38 from Plymouth, the A385 and then follow the AA signs.

– By train, Totnes is the nearest station, on the mainline from London Paddington. Dartington Hall is a 5 minute taxi ride from the station.

With thanks to . . .

Lord Hattersley, Festival President The Telegraph: Gaby Wood (Head of Books) Lorna Bradbury (Deputy Literary Editor) Sameer Rahim (Assistant Books Editor) Sarah Crompton (Arts Editor) Tom Horan (Saturday Review Editor) Mark Skipworth (Executive Editor) Danielle Howe (PR, Events & Communications Manager) Sarah Pitt (Brand Communications & Events Manager) Google: Peter Barron (Director, External Relations, Europe, Middle East and Africa) Amy Brown (Head of Events Management, Europe, Middle East and Africa) Claudia Baker (Event Producer) Kevin Hollick (Google zone designer) Ways With Words’ Patrons: Jonathan Dimbleby, Nicholas Evans, Sir Michael Holroyd CBE, Penelope Lively OBE, James Long, Blake Morrison, Rt. Hon. Lord Owen, Lord O’Hagan, Peter Stanford, Salley Vickers Good, Close and Best Friends: Colin Goldsmith, Pamela Harding, Elaine D. Moss, Moira Sykes

There is wheelchair access to the Great Hall, Barn and Upper Gatehouse, but please make sure you let us know when you buy your tickets as wheelchair spaces are limited and must be reserved in advance. There is access to the bar and dining rooms and to some bedrooms.

Hearing difficulties

There is a loop system in place in the Great Hall (please ask the stewards where to sit to take advantage of this) and an infra-red headphone system in the Barn.

The Publishers: Acumen, Allen Lane, Bloomsbury, Chatto & Windus, Constable & Robinson, Continuum, Ebury, Edinburgh University Press, English Heritage, Faber and Faber, Fourth Estate, Frances Lincoln, Granta Books, Green Books, Harper Collins, Harper Press, Hamish Hamilton, Hodder & Stoughton, John Murray, Jonathan Cape, Little, Brown, Lund Humphries, Methuen, O-Books, Oneworld, Orion, Oversteps, Palgrave Macmillan, Penguin General, Penguin Press, Picador, Phoenix, Pocket Books, Profile Books, Quadrille, Quercus, Random House, Simon & Schuster, Thames & Hudson, The Royal Collection, Transworld, Viking, Vintage, Weidenfeld & Nicolson – Office Manager: Kate Treleaven – Box Office Manager: Bryony Devine – Administrative Assistant: Alice Ling – Technical Advice: Chris Edwards – Technicians: Rob Waite, Ninian Harding (Barn) – Venue Managers: Jess Morris, Ben Long, Caroline Wilson, Charlie Ansell – Trouble-shooter: Sam Alexander – Thank you to all the generous and energetic team of volunteers who support the festival in a variety of ways before, during and after the festival.

– All at Dartington Accommodation and Catering Services Ltd. – Festival photographs by Oliver Edwards

24 September – 8 October 2011 Art and Writing Courses Umbria, Italy

WWWhere to next?

From 6 – 16 July, 2012 The Telegraph Ways With Words festival of words and ideas will be back at Dartington Hall.

Put it in your diary now!

2 – 11 March 2012 Words by the Water Festival of Words and Ideas Keswick, The Lakes

10 – 14 November 2011 Ways With Words Southwold Literature Festival Suffolk

Karen Armstrong Lionel Blue Melvyn Bragg Marcus Brigstocke Margaret Drabble A.A. Gill A.C. Grayling John Hegley Philip Hensher Harry Hill Tom Hodgkinson Alan Hollinghurst Douglas Hurd Rachel Johnson Shappi Khorsandi Maureen Lipman Mark Malloch-Brown Howard Marks James Naughtie Julia Neuberger Ben Okri David Owen Matthew Parris Gervase Phinn Peter Snow Roy Strong Salley Vickers Mary Warnock Shirley Williams Robert Winston

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