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Includes<br />
children’s and<br />
young people’s<br />
events<br />
<strong>programme</strong><br />
1–17 October 2010<br />
Michael Parkinson • John Simpson • Jenny Eclair • Ellen MacArthur<br />
Peter Snow • Alastair Campbell • Matthew Parris • Louise Rennison<br />
Shappi Khorsandi • Brian Patten • Carol Ann Duffy • Niall Ferguson …<br />
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getting to the festival<br />
<strong>Ilkley</strong> Visitor Information Centre<br />
For information on hotels, restaurants, <strong>Ilkley</strong> and<br />
the Dales. Tel: 01943 602319 or go to<br />
www.visitilkley.com<br />
By bus<br />
Buses run daily from across Yorkshire. Call<br />
Metroline on 0113 245 7676 for timetables.<br />
Or go to www.wymetro.com<br />
By train<br />
There are regular trains to and from Leeds and<br />
Bradford which take 30 minutes. Connections<br />
throughout the UK can be made in Leeds.<br />
For information call National Rail Enquiries on<br />
08457 48 49 50 or go to www.nationalrail.co.uk<br />
By car<br />
<strong>Ilkley</strong> lies on the A65 from Leeds to Skipton.<br />
Leeds, Harrogate and Bradford are a 45 minute<br />
drive away.<br />
By air<br />
Leeds Bradford International Airport is just 15<br />
minutes drive away. Regular flights run to major<br />
cities throughout the UK and beyond.<br />
For information call 0113 250 9696 or go to<br />
www.leedsbradfordairport.co.uk<br />
All Saints Primary School, Easby Drive LS29 9BE<br />
Audley Clevedon, Ben Rhydding Drive LS29 8AQ<br />
Bettys, 32 The Grove LS29 9EE<br />
Car Park and Toilets<br />
Clarke Foley Centre, Cunliffe Rd LS29 9DZ<br />
Craiglands Hotel, Cowpasture Rd LS29 8RQ<br />
<strong>Ilkley</strong> Lawn Tennis Club, Stourton Rd LS29 9BG<br />
<strong>Ilkley</strong> Moor Vaults, Stockeld Rd LS29 9HD<br />
<strong>Ilkley</strong> Playhouse, Weston Rd LS29 8DW<br />
Kings Hall, Station Rd LS29 8HB<br />
Otley Courthouse, Courthouse St, Otley LS21 3AN<br />
Panache, Church St LS29 8DE<br />
Rombalds Hotel, Wells Rd LS29 9JG<br />
St Margaret’s Church Hall, Queens Rd LS29 9TZ<br />
The Grove Bookshop, 10 The Grove LS29 9EG<br />
The Happiness Centre, 32a Leeds Rd LS29 8DS<br />
The Manor House, Church House, Education<br />
Rooms LS29 9DT<br />
The Wheatley Arms, Wheatley Lane,<br />
Ben Rhydding LS29 8PP<br />
Tourist Visitor Centre, Station Rd LS29 8HA<br />
White Wells, <strong>Ilkley</strong> Moor LS29 9RF<br />
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festival diary at a glance<br />
Key to icons<br />
Signed events with BSL interpreter<br />
Headline/Kings Hall events<br />
SEPTEMBER<br />
Children’s and All Ages events<br />
Young People’s events<br />
Free Fringe events<br />
1. Thurs 23rd 7pm The Wheatley Arms Crime and Curry Supper with Sophie Hannah<br />
2.. 28.9–31.10 Exhibition Manor House Museum Celebrating Jacquetta Hawkes<br />
OCTOBER<br />
3. 2.10–14.11 Exhibition Manor House Museum Faces of Poetry<br />
4. Fri 1st 7 .30pm Kings Hall John Simpson<br />
5. Sat 2nd 11am–1pm Manor House<br />
Don Paterson Masterclass: Poetry for the<br />
Deadly Serious<br />
6. Sat 2nd 11am–1pm St. Margaret's Hall Jeremy Dyson Masterclass on Creativity<br />
7. Sat 2nd 12–12.45pm <strong>Ilkley</strong> Playhouse The Trouble with Dragons with Debi Gliori<br />
8. Sat 2nd 12.30–2pm Church House Bring-Share Poetry Lunch<br />
9. Sat 2nd 1.30pm <strong>Ilkley</strong> Playhouse The Running Sky: Tim Dee and Horatio Clare<br />
10. Sat 2nd 2pm <strong>Ilkley</strong> Playhouse Victoria Glendinning on Elizabeth Bowen<br />
11. Sat 2nd 2pm Kings Hall Terry Eagleton: The Nature of Evil<br />
12. Sat 2nd 2–2.15pm Manor House Faces of Poetry Face-to-Face: Don Paterson<br />
13. Sat 2nd 2.30pm St. Margaret's Hall A Case of Exploding Talent: New Writing in Pakistan<br />
14. Sat 2nd 3pm <strong>Ilkley</strong> Playhouse Elsie and Mairi go to War: Diane Atkinson<br />
15. Sat 2nd 3–5pm Church House Poetry Surgery with Antony Dunn<br />
16. Sat 2nd 3.30pm <strong>Ilkley</strong> Playhouse Don Paterson: Reading Shakespeare's Sonnets<br />
17. Sat 2nd 4.30pm St. Margaret's Hall Lyndall Gordon on Emily Dickinson<br />
18. Sat 2nd 4.45pm <strong>Ilkley</strong> Playhouse<br />
How English became the World's Language: Robert<br />
McCrum<br />
19. Sat 2nd 5.15pm <strong>Ilkley</strong> Playhouse It's A Long Way FRINGE<br />
20. Sat 2nd 7.30pm Kings Hall<br />
Shappi Khorsandi: A Beginner's Guide to<br />
Acting English...<br />
21. Sat 2nd 7.30pm St. Margaret's Hall The Brontës Revisited: Juliet Barker<br />
22. Sat 2nd 8pm <strong>Ilkley</strong> Playhouse A Tribute to Alan Plater<br />
23. Sat 2nd 9–10.30pm <strong>Ilkley</strong> Playhouse<br />
<strong>Ilkley</strong> Liming with John Agard, Daljit Nagra,<br />
Charlie Dark and Michelle Scally Clarke<br />
24. Sun 3rd 11am–1pm Manor House<br />
Linda Green: The Truth about Writing Chick Lit<br />
Workshop<br />
25. Sun 3rd 12.30–1pm <strong>Ilkley</strong> Playhouse Introducing the <strong>Festival</strong> Mushaira<br />
26. Sun 3rd 1.30–4.30pm <strong>Ilkley</strong> Playhouse Multi-lingual Mushaira: Gathering of Poets<br />
27. Sun 3rd 2pm <strong>Ilkley</strong> Playhouse Kisses on a Postcard: Terence Frisby<br />
28. Sun 3rd 2–3.30pm<br />
Meet outside<br />
Rombalds Hotel<br />
<strong>Ilkley</strong> at the Time of WW1 – Walk<br />
29. Sun 3rd 2–4pm Manor House Jackie Kay Fiction Masterclass<br />
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Sun 3rd 2.30 & 3.45pm All Saints School The Nutcracker Ballet Workshop<br />
32. Sun 3rd 2.30–4pm Manor House Madeliene Waller: Faces of Poetry Talk<br />
33. Sun 3rd 3–3.45pm Kings Hall Louise Rennison<br />
34. Sun 3rd 4–5pm <strong>Ilkley</strong> Playhouse Valerie Bloom: Children's Poetry Event<br />
35. Sun 3rd 4pm<br />
Audley Clevedon,<br />
Ben Rhydding<br />
Jane Eyre: The Well-Dressed Governess<br />
36. Sun 3rd 4.30pm St. Margaret's Hall Gardening in Yorkshire: Joe Maiden<br />
37. Sun 3rd 5pm <strong>Ilkley</strong> Playhouse<br />
Anne Chisholm and Alexandra Harris on Frances<br />
Partridge<br />
38. Sun 3rd 7.30pm Kings Hall Brian Patten<br />
39. Sun 3rd 7.30pm St. Margaret's Hall Red: Jackie Kay, Nii Ayikwei Parkes and Simon Murray<br />
40. Mon 4th 11.30am–2.15pm The Wheatley Arms Lunch with Bookbinder Dominic Riley<br />
41. Mon 4th 2.30–3.30pm The Wheatley Arms Bookbinding Masterclass<br />
42. Mon 4th 5.30–6.30pm The Wheatley Arms Bookbinding Drop In Clinic<br />
43.<br />
Mon &<br />
Thurs 4th,<br />
7th, 11th,<br />
14th<br />
6–7pm<br />
Manor House<br />
Reading James Joyce's Ulysses:<br />
Guided Reading Group<br />
44. Mon 4th 7.30pm Craiglands<br />
John O'Farrell: An Utterly Exasperated History of<br />
Modern Britain...<br />
45. Mon 4th 7.30pm <strong>Ilkley</strong> Playhouse Robert Goddard: Long Time Coming<br />
46. Mon 4th 7.45pm <strong>Ilkley</strong> Playhouse Paul Murdin: Secrets of the Universe<br />
47. Mon 4th 9pm <strong>Ilkley</strong> Playhouse The Poetry School in York and Leeds – Live FRINGE<br />
48. Mon 4th 9pm <strong>Ilkley</strong> Playhouse Their Spirits, My Demons: John Ormond FRINGE<br />
49. Tues 5th 6–7pm Manor House<br />
Close Reading 1: Poems by Carol Ann Duffy and<br />
Simon Armitage<br />
50. Tues 5th 7.30pm Kings Hall Ellen MacArthur<br />
51. Tues 5th 7.45pm <strong>Ilkley</strong> Playhouse Bettany Hughes on Socrates<br />
52. Tues 5th 7.30pm <strong>Ilkley</strong> Playhouse The Baverstock Lecture: Stephen Coleman<br />
53. Tues 5th 9.15pm <strong>Ilkley</strong> Playhouse Flying with the Moon FRINGE<br />
54. Wed 6th 6.30–8pm Manor House<br />
Faces of Poetry and Jacquetta Hawkes Exhibitions –<br />
<strong>Festival</strong> Private View<br />
55. Wed 6th 7.45pm <strong>Ilkley</strong> Playhouse<br />
Old Land, New Land: Jacquetta Hawkes' poetic<br />
geography – with Christine Finn<br />
56. Wed 6th 7.30pm All Saints Church Andrew Graham-Dixon on Caravaggio<br />
57. Wed 6th 7.30pm <strong>Ilkley</strong> Playhouse Robin Ince's Bad Book Club<br />
58. Wed 6th 8.30–10pm <strong>Ilkley</strong> Happiness Centre The Unlikely Poetry of Michael Conneely FRINGE<br />
59. Thurs 7th 2–4.30pm St. Margaret's Hall Poetry Alive! Open Mic and Networking Event<br />
60. Thurs 7th 2–4pm Rombalds Hotel Michèle Roberts Fiction Masterclass<br />
61. Thurs 7th 7.30pm Rombalds Hotel<br />
Carcanet Press with Michael Schmidt and Peter<br />
Sansom<br />
62. Thurs 7th 7.30pm St Margaret’s Hall Michèle Roberts and Helen Simpson<br />
63. Thurs 7th 7.30pm <strong>Ilkley</strong> Playhouse Anatole Kaletsky: Capitalism 4.0<br />
64. Thurs 7th 7.30pm <strong>Ilkley</strong> Playhouse Christopher Frayling: Horace Walpole's Cat<br />
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65. Thurs 7th 7.30pm Manor House Ian Vince: The Lie of the Land<br />
66. Thurs 7th 9pm <strong>Ilkley</strong> Playhouse A Flambard Affair FRINGE<br />
67. Thurs 7th 9pm <strong>Ilkley</strong> Playhouse An Domhan Eile by Lucht Focail FRINGE<br />
68. Fri 8th 11am–12pm<br />
Meet at the Cow and<br />
Calf Rocks Car Park<br />
Lie of the Land – Walk<br />
69. Fri 8th 7.30pm <strong>Ilkley</strong> Playhouse Hops and Glory and IPA: Pete Brown<br />
70. Fri 8th 7.30pm <strong>Ilkley</strong> Playhouse Helen Dunmore: The Betrayal<br />
71. Fri 8th 7.30pm St. Margaret's Hall Wendy Moffat on EM Forster<br />
72. Fri 8th 7.30pm Clarke Foley Centre<br />
The Arctic and the Global Economy: Charles<br />
Emmerson<br />
73. Fri 8th 9–9.30pm <strong>Ilkley</strong> Playhouse Stand Up with Ash Caton FRINGE<br />
74. Sat 9th 10am–4pm <strong>Ilkley</strong> Tennis Club<br />
The Excitement of South Asian <strong>Literature</strong><br />
– Day School<br />
75. Sat 9th 11am–4pm Across <strong>Ilkley</strong> Words on the Streets: Poetry Busking<br />
76. Sat 9th 11am–1pm St. Margaret's Hall Writing for Teenagers with Bernardine Evaristo<br />
77. Sat 9th 11am–1pm Manor House<br />
Character and Voice in Short Story:<br />
Jane Rogers Workshop<br />
78. Sat 9th 1.15–2.15pm Manor House Meet Open College of the Arts<br />
79. Sat 9th 2.30–4.30pm Manor House<br />
Write an Historical Children's Story Workshop:<br />
Livi Michael<br />
80. Sat 9th 2–3pm Kings Hall<br />
Professor Marcus du Sautoy: The Number Mysteries<br />
For adults and young people 10-11 upwards<br />
81. Sat 9th 2pm <strong>Ilkley</strong> Playhouse Map of a Nation: Rachel Hewitt<br />
82. Sat 9th 2pm All Saints Church Poems of Praise with Antony Dunn<br />
83. Sat 9th 2.30pm St. Margaret's Hall<br />
A Winter on the Nile: Tim Butcher and<br />
Anthony Sattin<br />
84. Sat 9th 3.45–4.30pm <strong>Ilkley</strong> Playhouse Hello Mum: Bernardine Evaristo<br />
85. Sat 9th 4.30pm St. Margaret's Hall The Israeli–Palestinian Conflict: Avi Shlaim<br />
86. Sat 9th 5.30pm <strong>Ilkley</strong> Playhouse Maths for Mums and Dads<br />
87. Sat 9th 6.45–7.15pm Otley Courthouse The Magnificent Seven Deadly Sins FRINGE<br />
88. Sat 9th 7.30pm Otley Courthouse<br />
A Blood Wedding in Wensleydale.<br />
North Country Theatre<br />
89. Sat 9th 7.30pm Kings Hall Peter Snow<br />
90. Sat 9th 8pm <strong>Ilkley</strong> Playhouse<br />
Poetry and Music with Harriet Walter, Kate<br />
Littlewood & Peter Evans<br />
91. Sat 9th 7.30pm <strong>Ilkley</strong> Playhouse Simon Armitage<br />
92. Sat 9th 7.30pm St. Margaret's Hall Late for Tea at the Deer Palace: Tamara Chalabi<br />
93. Sat 9th 9pm <strong>Ilkley</strong> Playhouse Seeing the Future – Poetry<br />
94. Sat 9th 9.15pm <strong>Ilkley</strong> Playhouse The Ties That Bind FRINGE<br />
CHILDREN'S AND YOUNG PEOPLE'S WEEKEND<br />
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192.<br />
193.<br />
194.<br />
Sat 9th<br />
Sat 9th<br />
10.15am, 11.30am,<br />
2.15pm & 3.30pm<br />
10am–11.30am &<br />
1.30pm–3pm<br />
All Saints School<br />
All Saints School<br />
Eureka! Jump to the Beat<br />
The Magical World of Mina with Manasamitra<br />
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195. Sat 9th 10.30–11.30am All Saints School Make a Play with Multi Story Theatre Company<br />
196. Sat 9th 10.30–11.15am All Saints School Story Time with Helen Stephens<br />
197. Sat 9th 11.45am All Saints School Tip Tap Went the Crab with Tim Hopgood<br />
198. Sat 9th 12 noon <strong>Ilkley</strong> Playhouse Magic, Maths and Mystery<br />
199. Sat 9th 1.45pm <strong>Ilkley</strong> Playhouse The Joshua Files with MG Harris<br />
80. Sat 9th 2–3pm Kings Hall Professor Marcus du Sautoy: The Number Mystery<br />
200. Sat 9th 2–3.30pm All Saints School Jazzy Books – Making Workshop<br />
201. Sat 9th 2–3pm All Saints School Spin A Rap! Workshop<br />
202. Sat 9th 3.45pm All Saints Hall Draw Horrible Science Cartoons with Tony de Saulles<br />
203. Sat 9th 5–6pm <strong>Ilkley</strong> Playhouse Twelve Wild Ducks: Multi Story Theatre Company<br />
204. Sun 10th 11am–1pm Otley Courthouse Kev F's Comic Art Masterclass<br />
99. Sun 10th 2–3pm <strong>Ilkley</strong> Playhouse<br />
The Princess' Blankets: Carol Ann Duffy<br />
and John Sampson<br />
100. Sun 10th 2pm <strong>Ilkley</strong> Playhouse What on Earth Happened? Christopher Lloyd<br />
YOUNG PEOPLE'S AFTERNOON<br />
96. Sun 10th 2–6pm Otley Courthouse Cool Voices WordsFest<br />
95. Sun 10th 11am–1pm Rombalds Hotel Creative Adventure: Barbara Trapido Masterclass<br />
97. Sun 10th 2pm–4pm<br />
Begins and ends at the<br />
Manor House<br />
All Ages Poetry Workshop: The Song of the River<br />
98. Sun 10th 2pm Kings Hall Peter Hain on Nelson Mandela<br />
101. Sun 10th 3pm St. Margaret's Hall Barbara Trapido: In Conversation<br />
102. Sun 10th 3.45pm <strong>Ilkley</strong> Playhouse Vitali Vitaliev: The Russian Clive James?<br />
103. Sun 10th 4pm Craiglands<br />
Polly Toynbee and David Walker:<br />
Did the Labour Party Change Britain?<br />
104. Sun 10th 4pm <strong>Ilkley</strong> Playhouse The Golden Age of Arabic Science: Jim al-Khalili<br />
105. Sun 10th 5pm St. Margaret's Hall Elsie the Sheep and the Kings of the Castle FRINGE<br />
106. Sun 10th 5.15pm <strong>Ilkley</strong> Playhouse Ian M Emberson: The Zig Zag Path FRINGE<br />
107. Sun 10th 6pm Craiglands Danger Close: Colonel Stuart Tootal In Conversation<br />
108. Sun 10th 7.30pm Craiglands Lenin Ate My Homework: Alexei Sayle<br />
109. Sun 10th 7.30pm Kings Hall Carol Ann Duffy and John Sampson<br />
110. Sun 10th 7.30pm St. Margaret's Hall<br />
The Long Road Home: Matthew Kelly<br />
and Ben Shephard<br />
111. Sun 10th 7.30pm <strong>Ilkley</strong> Playhouse<br />
Venice City of Masks: Mary Hoffman and Michelle<br />
Lovric<br />
112. Mon 11th 1.30pm Kings Hall Primary Schools Event: Morris Gleitzman<br />
113. Mon 11th 4.15–5.15pm Kings Hall Morris Gleitzman: for teachers and librarians<br />
114. Mon 11th 6.30–8.30pm <strong>Ilkley</strong> Library <strong>Ilkley</strong> Lit Fest Young Writers Group: free taster<br />
115. Mon 11th 7.30pm Kings Hall Will Self: In Conversation<br />
116. Mon 11th 7.30pm Craiglands Matthew Parris and Andrew Bryson: Parting Shots<br />
117. Mon 11th 7.30–9.30pm Panache Restaurant Poetry Banquet<br />
118. Mon 11th 7.30pm <strong>Ilkley</strong> Playhouse<br />
The Truth about MI5 and MI6: Keith Jeffrey and<br />
Christopher Andrew<br />
119. Mon 11th 7.45pm <strong>Ilkley</strong> Playhouse Richard Fortey: The Hidden Landscape:<br />
120. Mon 11th 9pm <strong>Ilkley</strong> Playhouse A Muddy History of Britain FRINGE<br />
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121. Mon 11th 9pm <strong>Ilkley</strong> Playhouse Voices From Beyond the Dark FRINGE<br />
122. Tues 12th 2pm Kings Hall Gervase Phinn: A Yorkshire Lad<br />
123. Tues 12th 6–7pm Manor House<br />
Close Reading 2: Poems by Jo Shapcott<br />
and Ruth Padel<br />
124. Tues 12th 7.30pm Kings Hall Jenny Eclair: Chin up Britain<br />
125. Tues 12th 7.30pm <strong>Ilkley</strong> Playhouse Our Billie: Ian Clayton<br />
126. Tues 12th 7.30pm <strong>Ilkley</strong> Playhouse Nearly Lear: Theatre Performance<br />
127. Tues 12th 9pm <strong>Ilkley</strong> Playhouse Votes for Women! FRINGE<br />
128. Wed 13th 3pm Rombalds Hotel Tea with Elizabeth Noble and William Nicholson<br />
129. Wed 13th 7.30pm Craiglands<br />
Magnificent Seven: Yorkshire's Golden Decade:<br />
Andrew Collomosse, Richard Hutton and Don Wilson<br />
130. Wed 13th 7.30pm Bettys Café Tea Rooms Jack Sheffield<br />
131. Wed 13th 7.30pm <strong>Ilkley</strong> Playhouse Mrs Gaskell's 'Nice American' – the <strong>Ilkley</strong> Connection<br />
132. Thurs 14th 7.30pm Kings Hall Michael Parkinson<br />
133. Thurs 14th 7.30pm <strong>Ilkley</strong> Playhouse David Nobbs<br />
134. Thurs 14th 7.30pm <strong>Ilkley</strong> Playhouse Blake Morrison: The Last Weekend<br />
135. Thurs 14th 7.30pm St. Margaret's Hall<br />
Zimbabwe – Hope and Despair: Philip Barclay and<br />
Miles Tendi<br />
136. Thurs 14th 7.30pm Bettys Café Tea Rooms Jack Sheffield<br />
137. Thurs 14th 9pm <strong>Ilkley</strong> Playhouse Cadaverine Magazine FRINGE<br />
138. Fri 15th 3pm<br />
White Wells,<br />
<strong>Ilkley</strong> Moor<br />
‘That Place on <strong>Ilkley</strong> Moor’ FRINGE<br />
139. Fri 15th 7.30pm Kings Hall George Alagiah: Food For Thought<br />
140. Fri 15th 7.30pm <strong>Ilkley</strong> Playhouse Bipolar Ringmaster: with actor Eric MacLennan<br />
141. Fri 15th 7.30pm <strong>Ilkley</strong> Playhouse Kate Fox News<br />
142. Fri 15th 7.30pm St. Margaret's Hall<br />
Martin Wainwright and Dr Patrick Eyres:<br />
A Hundred Shades of Blue<br />
143. Fri 15th 7.30–9.30pm Otley Courthouse Cool Voices Club Night<br />
144. Fri 15th 8pm Manor House Ray Hearne<br />
145. Fri 15th 8.30–9.30pm Your Front Room? Poetry House Party with Jo Shapcott<br />
146. Fri 15th 9pm <strong>Ilkley</strong> Playhouse The Dark Threads and Footprints in the Snow FRINGE<br />
147. Fri 15th 9.15pm <strong>Ilkley</strong> Playhouse Shakespeare's Sonnets by Five Voices FRINGE<br />
148. Sat 16th 9.30am–1.30pm <strong>Ilkley</strong> Moor Photo Safari with John Morrison<br />
149. Sat 16th 10.30am–4.30pm Church House Breaking News: Make a Newspaper in a Day<br />
150. Sat 16th 11am–1pm Manor House Jo Shapcott Masterclass<br />
151. Sat 16th 11am–1pm St. Margaret's Hall<br />
Stephen Grey: the Investigative Journalist's<br />
Masterclass<br />
152. Sat 16th 1.30pm <strong>Ilkley</strong> Playhouse<br />
Witness the Night: Kishwar Desai and Aminatta<br />
Forna<br />
153. Sat 16th 2pm <strong>Ilkley</strong> Playhouse Joseph O'Connor<br />
154. Sat 16th 2pm–4pm Manor House Writing the News: Workshop with Kate Fox<br />
155. Sat 16th 2.15pm Manor House Faces of Poetry Face-to-Face: Jo Shapcott<br />
156. Sat 16th 2.30pm St. Margaret's Hall<br />
Reporting Afghanistan: Stephen Grey and<br />
James Fergusson<br />
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157. Sat 16th 3.30pm <strong>Ilkley</strong> Playhouse Audrey Niffenegger: In Conversation .<br />
158. Sat 16th 4pm <strong>Ilkley</strong> Playhouse Jo Shapcott and Ruth Padel<br />
159. Sat 16th 4.30pm St. Margaret's Hall The Young Romantics: Daisy Hay<br />
160. Sat 16th 5pm <strong>Ilkley</strong> Playhouse Six Exciting Things – <strong>Ilkley</strong> Lit Fest in the Spotlight<br />
161. Sat 16th 6pm <strong>Ilkley</strong> Playhouse The Pennine Way and the Watershed: John Morrison<br />
162. Sat 16th 7.30pm Kings Hall Alastair Campbell in Converation: Prelude to Power<br />
163. Sat 16th 7.30pm <strong>Ilkley</strong> Playhouse Frankenstein with Ben Haggarty and Sianed Jones<br />
164. Sat 16th 8pm <strong>Ilkley</strong> Playhouse<br />
Cranford Behind the Scenes – Sue Birtwistle and<br />
Susie Conklin<br />
165. Sat 16th 7.30pm St. Margaret's Hall<br />
Jacquetta Hawkes and her Circle: Dr Christine Finn<br />
and Dr Jon Wood<br />
166. Sat 16th 9.15pm <strong>Ilkley</strong> Playhouse The Writers' Group Exposed! FRINGE<br />
167. Sat 16th 9.15pm <strong>Ilkley</strong> Moor Vaults <strong>Festival</strong> Quiz with Marcus Berkmann<br />
168. Sun 17th 11am–1pm Manor House<br />
How Words Behave Together – Masterclass with<br />
Ruth Padel<br />
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Sun 17th 1.30pm & 4pm All Saints School<br />
When We Lived in Uncle's Hat: Tutti Frutti and<br />
York Theatre Royal<br />
171. Sun 17th 1.45pm <strong>Ilkley</strong> Playhouse If I am Not for Myself: Mike Marqusee<br />
172. Sun 17th 2pm<br />
Meet outside Manor<br />
House Museum<br />
Robert Collyer's <strong>Ilkley</strong> – Walk<br />
173. Sun 17th 2pm <strong>Ilkley</strong> Playhouse<br />
Writing Historical Fiction: Maria McCann,<br />
Emma Darwin, RN Morris & Rose Melikan<br />
174. Sun 17th 2pm Craiglands Margaret Drabble: In Converation<br />
175. Sun 17th 2–4pm Manor House Reading Local, Writing Local with Andrew McMillan<br />
176. Sun 17th 2.30pm St. Margaret's Hall The Tangled Bank: Ruth Padel<br />
177. Sun 17th 2.30pm Kings Hall Niall Ferguson: High Financier<br />
178. Sun 17th 2.30–4.30pm All Saints School Write an Adventure Story Workshop Ceci Jenkison<br />
179. Sun 17th 3.30pm <strong>Ilkley</strong> Playhouse Anna Pavord: The Curious Gardener<br />
180. Sun 17th 4pm <strong>Ilkley</strong> Playhouse Douglas Dunn and Antony Dunn<br />
181. Sun 17th 4pm Craiglands Louis de Bernières<br />
182. Sun 17th 4.30pm St. Margaret's Hall<br />
An Enlightened Life: Nicholas Phillipson on<br />
Adam Smith<br />
183. Sun 17th 5pm <strong>Ilkley</strong> Playhouse Jill McGivering: From News to Fiction<br />
184. Sun 17th 6pm Craiglands Francis Pryor: The Making of the British Landscape<br />
185. Sun 17th 7.30pm St. Margaret's Hall The Three Sisters: Indian Cookery Talk and Demo<br />
186. Sun 17th 8pm Craiglands Roddy Doyle<br />
187. Sun 17th 8.30pm <strong>Ilkley</strong> Playhouse <strong>Festival</strong> Open Mic<br />
188. Thurs 21st 7.30pm St. Margaret's Hall <strong>Festival</strong> Feedback Session<br />
205. TBC TBC TBC Simon Hoggart<br />
Events for children and young peopl e on pages 40-44<br />
Details of how to book on page 48<br />
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index of authors<br />
author event no. author event no. author event no. author event no.<br />
Andrew, Christopher 118 Eagleton, Terry 11 Kaul, Priya, Sereena & Pavord, Anna 179<br />
Agard, John 23 Eastaway, Rob 86, 198 Alexa 185 Phillipson, Nicholas 182<br />
Alagiah, George 139 Eclair, Jenny 124 Kay, Jackie 29, 39 Phinn, Gervase 122<br />
al-Khalili, Jim 104 Emmerson, Charles 72 Kelly, Matthew 110 Pryor, Francis 184<br />
Armitage, Simon 91 Eureka! 189, 190, 191, 192 Khorsandi, Shappi 20 Rennison, Louise 33<br />
Atkinson, Diane 14 Evans, Peter 90 Littlewood, Kate 90 Roberts, Michèle 60, 62<br />
Barclay, Philip 135 Evaristo, Bernardine 76, 84 Lloyd, Christopher 100 Rogers, Jane 77<br />
Barker, Juliet 21 Eyres, Patrick 142 Lovric, Michelle 111 Sampson, John 99, 109<br />
Berkmann, Marcus 167 Ferguson, Niall 177 MacArthur, Ellen 50 Sansom, Peter 61<br />
Birtwistle, Sue 164 Fergusson, James 156 Maiden, Joe 36 Sattin, Anthony 83<br />
Bloom, Valerie 34 Finn, Christine 55, 165 Manasamitra 193, 194 Sayle, Alexei 108<br />
Brown, Pete 69 Forna, Aminatta 152 Marqusee, Mike 171 Scally Clarke, Michelle<br />
Bryson, Andrew 116 Fortey, Richard 119 McCann, Maria 173<br />
23, 96<br />
Butcher, Tim 83 Fox, Kate 137, 141, 154 McCrum, Robert 18 Schmidt, Michael 61<br />
Campbell, Alastair 162 Frayling, Christopher 64 McGivering, Jill 107, 183 Self, Will 115<br />
Chalabi, Tamara 92 Frisby, Terence 27 McMillan, Andrew 75, 93, Shapcott, Jo 145, 150, 158<br />
Charles, Philip 96, 201 Gleitzman, Morris 112, 113<br />
96, 175 Sheffield, Jack 130, 136<br />
Cherriman, Becky 96 Glendinning, Victoria 10 Melikan, Rose 173 Shephard, Ben 110<br />
Chisholm, Anne 37 Gliori, Debi 7 Michael, Livi 79 Shlaim, Avi 85<br />
Clare, Horatio 9 Goddard, Robert 45 Moffat, Wendy 71 Simpson, Helen 62<br />
Clayton, Ian 125 Gordon, Lyndall 17 Morris, RN 173 Simpson, John 4<br />
Cockshott, Alex 28 Graham-Dixon,<br />
Morrison, Blake 134 Snow, Peter 89<br />
Coleman, Stephen 52 Andrew 56 Morrison, John 148, 161 Stapleton, Gillian 35<br />
Collomosse, Andrew 129 Green, Linda 24 Mullin, Katy 43 Stephens, Helen 196<br />
Conklin, Susie 164 Grey, Stephen 151, 156 Multi Story Theatre Sutherland, Kev F 96, 204<br />
Dark, Charlie 23 Haggarty, Ben 163 Company 195, 203 Tendi, Miles 135<br />
Darwin, Emma 173 Hain, Peter 98 Murdin, Paul 46 Tootal, Stuart 107<br />
de Bernières, Louis 181 Hannah, Sophie 1 Nagra, Daljit 23 Toynbee, Polly 103<br />
de Saulles, Tony 202 Harris, Alexandra 37 Nicholson, William 128 Trapido, Barbara 95, 101<br />
Dee, Tim 9 Harris, MG 199 Niffenegger, Audrey 157 Tutti Frutti 169, 170<br />
Desai, Kishwar 152 Hay, Daisy 159 Nobbs, David 133 Vince, Ian 65, 68<br />
Dixon, Mike 131, 172 Hewitt, Rachel 81 Noble, Elizabeth 128 Vitaliev, Vitali 102<br />
Doyle, Roddy 186 Hoggart Simon 205 Noble, Val 105 Wainwright, Martin 142<br />
Drabble, Margaret 174 Hoffman, Mary 96, 111 North Country Theatre 88 Walker, David 103<br />
du Sautoy, Marcus 80 Hopgood, Tim 197 O’Connor, Joseph 153 Walker, Ged 96<br />
Duffy, Carol Ann 99, 109 Hughes, Bettany 51 O’Farrell, John 44 Waller, Madeleine 37<br />
Dunmore, Helen 70 Hutton, Richard 129 Padel, Ruth 158, 168, 176 Walter, Harriet 90<br />
Dunn, Antony 8, 15, 47, Ince, Robin 57 Parkes, Nii Ayikwei 39 Wilson, Don 129<br />
49, 59, 82, 97, 117, Jeffrey, Keith 118 Parkinson, Michael 132 Wood, Jon 165<br />
123, 145, 180 Jenkinson, Ceci 178 Parris, Matthew 116<br />
Dunn, Douglas 180 Jones, Sianed 163 Paterson, Don 5, 12, 16,<br />
Dyson, Jeremy 6 Kaletsky, Anatole 63 Patten, Brian 38<br />
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welcome to the <strong>Ilkley</strong> ilkley <strong>Literature</strong> literature <strong>Festival</strong> festival 2010<br />
full to the brim with inspiring events!<br />
Meet novelists Margaret Drabble, Roddy Doyle, Michéle Roberts, Louis de Berniéres, Helen Dunant,<br />
Aminatta Forna and Joseph O’Connor. Enjoy Alexei Sayle and John O’Farrell. Change your mind about<br />
maths with Marcus du Sautoy, assess the Labour government with Polly Toynbee.<br />
Or you can delve into South Asian <strong>Literature</strong> with Leeds and Leeds Metropolitan Universities and revel in<br />
<strong>Ilkley</strong> Liming with John Agard and Daljit Nagra. We’ll be celebrating archaeologist Jacquetta Hawkes’<br />
centenary and launching our Stanza Stones project with events exploring Words, Land and Landscape,<br />
from Time Team’s Francis Pryor to Will Self.<br />
All this, plus lots for the family to do and over 30 free events for all ages!<br />
Rachel Feldberg, <strong>Festival</strong> Director<br />
The <strong>Festival</strong> is delighted to announce the launch of our exciting Stanza Stones project in collaboration<br />
with Simon Armitage. The project, which will run until June 2012, will be triggered by a new poem<br />
from Simon inspired by the wild landscape of the Pennine Watershed, which will act as a creative<br />
springboard for groups of young writers, dancers and film makers. It is hoped that the poem, inscribed<br />
on a series of Stanza Stones, will then form a permanent trail across the Watershed.<br />
Stanza Stones is part of the imove <strong>programme</strong> which celebrates and challenges the relationship between people and<br />
their moving bodies through a series of exciting and innovative arts project across Yorkshire. Inspired by London 2012,<br />
imove is funded by Legacy Trust UK, Yorkshire Forward and Arts Council England. Find us at www.imoveand.com<br />
2010 <strong>Festival</strong> Poet in Residence<br />
Antony Dunn will be offering readings, workshops, an intergenerational project with schools and older<br />
people and the chance to get involved in the <strong>Ilkley</strong> Poetry Map.<br />
Apprentice Poet in Residence Andrew McMillan will be introducing the new generation of outspoken<br />
young poets, on the streets and in performance.<br />
Events for children and young people can be found on pages 40-43.<br />
No induction<br />
loop system at<br />
St Margaret’s<br />
Church Hall or<br />
Craiglands Hotel.<br />
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with Skipton Building Society<br />
Refreshments<br />
• The Bar will be open before, after (and where appropriate during) evening events at <strong>Ilkley</strong><br />
Playhouse and the Kings Hall. Soft drinks, tea and coffee available.<br />
• The <strong>Festival</strong> Café serving tea, coffee and delicious cakes, is open at <strong>Ilkley</strong> Playhouse during<br />
<strong>Festival</strong> evenings and weekends.<br />
Event and Access Information<br />
• All venues are accessible with accessible toilets except the first floor of the Manor House<br />
Museum and <strong>Ilkley</strong> Moor Vaults upstairs.<br />
• St Margaret’s Hall is an uphill walk from the station. Allow 15–20 minutes.<br />
• Selected events are BSL interpreted. Working dogs welcome. Detailed access information<br />
from www.ilkleyliteraturefestival.org.uk or call 01943 816714.<br />
• Events last one hour unless otherwise stated and include 15–20 minutes s audience<br />
questions.<br />
• After events, authors sign books which are available from the <strong>Festival</strong> bookstall run by our<br />
partners, The Grove Bookshop, at each venue. Some authors attract lengthy queues!<br />
If you’d like a large print/audio copy of this brochure call 01943 816714
Box Office 01943 816714 www.ilkleyliteraturefestival.org.uk<br />
curtain raiser and exhibitions<br />
1.<br />
Thursday 23rd September 7pm<br />
The Wheatley Arms<br />
<strong>Festival</strong> Curtain Raiser:<br />
Crime and Curry Supper<br />
with Sophie Hannah<br />
Bestselling crime fiction writer and<br />
poet Sophie Hannah has received<br />
international critical acclaim and<br />
her novels have been translated into<br />
more than 15 languages. Following a<br />
delicious two-course supper, join her<br />
as she reveals the secrets of her latest<br />
psychological crime novel, A Room<br />
Swept White.<br />
An evening of suspense and intrigue …<br />
£15 includes two-course supper and<br />
coffee. 7pm for 7.30pm.<br />
In conjunction with The Wheatley Arms<br />
2.<br />
28th September – 31st October<br />
Manor House Museum<br />
2010 <strong>Festival</strong> Exhibition<br />
Celebrating Jacquetta<br />
Hawkes<br />
Archaeologist, poet, journalist and<br />
film-maker: Jacquetta Hawkes was<br />
passionate about the past, nature<br />
and the arts. 2010 is her centenary<br />
year. This exhibition uses treasures<br />
from her archive at the University of<br />
Bradford to tell her fascinating story,<br />
in particular her connections with<br />
artists such as Barbara Hepworth,<br />
Henry Moore, and her second<br />
husband, Bradford-born novelist and<br />
playwright J.B. Priestley.<br />
FREE See Events 54, 55, 165.<br />
Opening times: Tues 1–5pm.<br />
Weds–Sat 11am–5pm. Sun 1–4pm.<br />
In association with the University of<br />
Bradford<br />
3.<br />
2nd October–14th November<br />
Manor House Museum<br />
2010 <strong>Festival</strong> Exhibition<br />
Faces of Poetry: National<br />
Portrait Gallery<br />
A National Portrait Gallery exhibition<br />
featuring some of the most important<br />
poets of the late twentieth century.<br />
Madeleine Waller’s images of Jo<br />
Shapcott and Lemn Sissay; iconic<br />
portraits of James Fenton and Thom<br />
Gunn by Dudley Reed and Arthur<br />
Tress; Norman McBeath’s black<br />
and white studies of Don Paterson,<br />
Douglas Dunn and Tom Paulin; and<br />
images of Seamus Heaney and Blake<br />
Morrison by Britain’s best-known<br />
literary photographer, Mark Gerson.<br />
FREE<br />
Opening times: Tues 1–5pm, Weds–<br />
Sat 11am–5pm , Sun 1–4pm.<br />
Courtesy of Bradford Museums and<br />
Galleries<br />
festival<br />
opening<br />
4.<br />
Friday 1st October 7.30pm<br />
Kings Hall<br />
<strong>Festival</strong> Opening:<br />
John Simpson<br />
John Simpson is one of the<br />
world’s most experienced and<br />
authoritative journalists. BBC<br />
World Affairs editor and a former<br />
presenter of the Nine O’Clock<br />
News, he’s witnessed 30 years of<br />
upheaval, reporting from the Gulf,<br />
Afghanistan, Iraq and Tiananmen<br />
Square. Tonight he opens the<br />
2010 <strong>Festival</strong>, talking frankly to<br />
Ruth Pitt, Executive Director of<br />
Screen England, about his life as<br />
a foreign correspondent and the<br />
reality of a ‘free’ press.<br />
£10/8<br />
Sponsored by Hebridean Island Cruises<br />
Jacquetta Hawkes<br />
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5.<br />
Saturday 2nd October<br />
11am–1pm Manor House<br />
Don Paterson Masterclass:<br />
Poetry for the Deadly<br />
Serious<br />
Don Paterson will conduct an open<br />
seminar-style workshop and discuss<br />
all aspects of the poetic art, looking<br />
at the business of poetic composition<br />
as a technical, practical and spiritual<br />
exercise, and focussing on every stage<br />
of the process from inspiration to<br />
publication.<br />
£12/8<br />
Please bring pen, paper and two<br />
or three good questions. For<br />
intermediate and experienced writers.<br />
Places limited – please book in<br />
advance.<br />
6.<br />
Saturday 2nd October<br />
11am –1pm St Margaret’s Hall<br />
Jeremy Dyson Masterclass<br />
on Creativity<br />
Explore how to get from the spark<br />
of an idea to the finished thing – be<br />
it story, sketch, script or novel with<br />
novelist and scriptwriter Jeremy<br />
Dyson, co-creator of the awardwinning<br />
BBC series, The League of<br />
Gentlemen.<br />
£12/8<br />
All levels of experience. Please bring<br />
pen and paper. Places limited – please<br />
book in advance.<br />
7.<br />
Saturday 2nd October<br />
12 noon–12.45pm<br />
<strong>Ilkley</strong> Playhouse Wildman<br />
Stormy Weather and The<br />
Trouble with Dragons with<br />
Debi Gliori<br />
An enchanting event full of drawing<br />
and storytelling for younger children<br />
from the immensely popular author<br />
and illustrator of scores of much loved<br />
children’s books, including No Matter<br />
What, The Trouble with Dragons and<br />
Stormy Weather.<br />
£4 Family event age 5–7.<br />
8.<br />
Saturday 2nd October<br />
12.30–2pm Church House<br />
Bring–Share Poetry Lunch<br />
Poet in Residence Antony Dunn<br />
offers a delicious opportunity to<br />
mingle with your fellow festivalgoers.<br />
Bring and share not just<br />
your lunch, but your favourite<br />
poem. Poems about Yorkshire, or<br />
by Yorkshire writers particularly<br />
welcome – but bring anything you<br />
think will tickle our taste buds. Special<br />
cream cake award for those who can<br />
recite their favourite poem by heart!<br />
£5 includes tea and coffee<br />
9.<br />
Saturday 2nd October 1.30pm<br />
<strong>Ilkley</strong> Playhouse Wharfeside<br />
The Running Sky:<br />
Tim Dee and Horatio Clare<br />
The Running Sky, Tim Dee’s<br />
extraordinary and inspiring account<br />
of his bird watching life has been<br />
acclaimed as a classic, taking us<br />
from clouds of breeding seabirds to<br />
nightjars like giant moths.<br />
This afternoon he talks to Horatio<br />
Clare, fellow radio producer (Front<br />
Row, The Verb) and journalist (The<br />
Guardian, Sunday Times, Daily<br />
Telegraph) whose latest book, Single<br />
Swallow, follows a barn swallow’s<br />
annual migration from Cape Town<br />
to the hills of South Wales, Clare’s<br />
childhood home. ‘Travel writing at its<br />
very best – enthralling, passionate …<br />
and utterly, utterly brilliant.’<br />
£5/3<br />
10.<br />
Saturday 2nd October 2pm<br />
<strong>Ilkley</strong> Playhouse Wildman<br />
Love’s Civil War: Victoria<br />
Glendinning<br />
Hundreds of miles separated<br />
celebrated writer Elizabeth Bowen<br />
and the Canadian diplomat, Charles<br />
Ritchie, but their affair lasted<br />
32 years. Her love letters reveal<br />
the novelist at her most brilliant:<br />
passionate, intelligent, eloquent,<br />
strong-minded and wonderfully<br />
funny. Victoria Glendinning, the<br />
acclaimed award-winning biographer<br />
of Bowen, Leonard Woolf, Anthony<br />
Trollope, Edith Sitwell and Vita<br />
Sackville-West, explores Bowen’s<br />
love letters and Ritchie’s remarkably<br />
candid diaries.<br />
£6/4<br />
11.<br />
Saturday 2nd October 2pm<br />
Kings Hall<br />
Terry Eagleton: The Nature<br />
of Evil<br />
Why should evil appear so glamorous<br />
and seductive? Why does goodness<br />
seem so boring? Terry Eagleton,<br />
former Professor of English at Oxford<br />
and widely regarded as Britain’s<br />
most influential living literary<br />
critic, launches a surprising and<br />
witty defence of the reality of evil.<br />
Drawing on literary, theological,<br />
and psychoanalytic sources from<br />
Thomas Aquinas to Thomas Mann,<br />
he suggests that evil is a real<br />
phenomenon with palpable force.<br />
£9/7<br />
Terry Eagleton<br />
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12.<br />
Saturday 2nd October 2–2.15pm<br />
Manor House Museum<br />
Faces of Poetry Face-to-<br />
Face: Don Paterson<br />
As part of the opening of this prestigious<br />
exhibition, poet Don Paterson comes<br />
face-to-face with his own image as he<br />
gives a unique short reading in front<br />
of celebrated Scottish photographer<br />
Norman McBeath’s portrait.<br />
FREE<br />
13.<br />
Saturday 2nd October 2.30pm<br />
St Margaret’s Hall<br />
A Case of Exploding Talent:<br />
New Writing in Pakistan<br />
Filled with almost 200 million people<br />
speaking nearly 60 languages, brought<br />
into nationhood under the auspices<br />
of a single religion but destabilised by<br />
deep separatist fissures and conflicts<br />
with its neighbours, Pakistan is one<br />
of the most dynamic places in the<br />
world. In this panel discussion, writers<br />
featured in literary magazine Granta’s<br />
Pakistan issue explore the frisson and<br />
fractures of new writing in Pakistan.<br />
£5/3 includes a cup of chai<br />
Sponsored by Granta<br />
14.<br />
Saturday 2nd October 3pm<br />
<strong>Ilkley</strong> Playhouse Wharfeside<br />
Elsie and Mairi go to War:<br />
Diane Atkinson<br />
They met at a motorcycle club in<br />
1912, a motorcycling divorcee in<br />
bottle-green leathers, and a brilliant<br />
18 year old mechanic.<br />
In 1914, they roared off ‘to do their<br />
bit’, and within a month were driving<br />
ambulances to military hospitals,<br />
where the ‘Angels of Pervyse’ became<br />
celebrities. But, as author and former<br />
Museum of London lecturer Diane<br />
Atkinson reveals, adjusting to<br />
peacetime was as challenging as war.<br />
£5/3<br />
See Event 28 for a glimpse of <strong>Ilkley</strong> at<br />
the time of WW1.<br />
15.<br />
Saturday 2nd October 3–5pm<br />
Church House<br />
Poetry Surgery<br />
Trouble with one of your poems?<br />
Book yourself in to see the <strong>Festival</strong>’s<br />
Poetry Doctor, Antony Dunn, for a<br />
30 minute session.<br />
Send your ailing poem and<br />
contact details to: info@<br />
ilkleyliteraturefestival.org.uk or post<br />
to Poetry Surgeries, ILF, Manor House,<br />
<strong>Ilkley</strong>, LS29 9DT.<br />
£5 First come, first served.<br />
16.<br />
Saturday 2nd October 3.30pm<br />
<strong>Ilkley</strong> Playhouse Wildman<br />
Don Paterson: Reading<br />
Shakespeare’s Sonnets<br />
Don Paterson, an award-winning<br />
sonneteer and lyric poet in his own<br />
right, offers an illuminating guide to<br />
Shakespeare’s much loved sonnets.<br />
In a series of mesmerising and highly<br />
entertaining commentaries, Paterson<br />
explains the inner workings of the<br />
poems – their hidden structures<br />
and techniques, their narratives<br />
and brilliance – as actors bring the<br />
sonnets to life.<br />
£5/3<br />
17.<br />
Saturday 2nd October 4.30pm<br />
St Margaret’s Hall<br />
Lyndall Gordon: Emily<br />
Dickinson and the Surge<br />
in the Brain<br />
Fellow of St Hilda’s Oxford, acclaimed<br />
biographer and James Tait Black<br />
award winner, Lyndall Gordon<br />
(whose previous subjects include<br />
Mary Wollstonecraft, Virginia<br />
Woolf and Charlotte Brontë) turns<br />
her attention to Emily Dickinson,<br />
dispelling the myth of a quaint,<br />
helpless creature, disappointed in<br />
love. Instead she reveals a fiercely<br />
passionate nature, damaging family<br />
feuds and a closely guarded secret …<br />
£6/4<br />
Supported by the Friends of <strong>Ilkley</strong><br />
<strong>Literature</strong> <strong>Festival</strong><br />
Robert McCrum<br />
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Saturday 2nd October 4.45pm<br />
<strong>Ilkley</strong> Playhouse Wharfeside<br />
How English became the<br />
World’s Language: Robert<br />
McCrum<br />
Conversations about Empires<br />
Robert McCrum, former literary<br />
editor of the Observer and for 20<br />
years editor-in-chief of Faber & Faber,<br />
investigates the beginnings of the<br />
English language. How did slavery<br />
affect the way we speak today? Why<br />
does American culture continue to<br />
spread? Linking language, culture,<br />
history and power, McCrum traces<br />
the way English responded to a<br />
changing world and its ever increasing<br />
influence across the globe.<br />
£5/3<br />
19.<br />
Saturday 2nd October 5.15pm<br />
<strong>Ilkley</strong> Playhouse Wildman<br />
It’s a Long Way<br />
Poems and handmade books from<br />
Mary Thomson.<br />
FREE FRINGE EVENT<br />
See page 45 for full details.<br />
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20.<br />
Saturday 2nd October 7.30pm<br />
Kings Hall<br />
Shappi Khorsandi:<br />
A Beginner’s Guide<br />
to Acting English<br />
Known for her warm, witty stand up,<br />
Britain’s Best Young Female Comic<br />
takes us into her world as a six year old<br />
– and plunges us into the vibrant heart<br />
of a loud, loving Iranian family. Join<br />
Shappi Khorsandi as she grapples with<br />
her family’s escape from the Ayatollah,<br />
unfamiliar cheese sandwiches and the<br />
London of the 1970s.<br />
£9/7<br />
After Shappi head for event 23!<br />
Shappi Khorsandi<br />
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21.<br />
Saturday 2nd October 7.30pm<br />
St Margaret’s Hall<br />
The Brontës Revisited:<br />
Juliet Barker<br />
Juliet Barker’s biography, The Brontës,<br />
was the most radical reassessment<br />
of Yorkshire’s most famous literary<br />
family ever written.<br />
Now, sixteen years later, Juliet has<br />
completely revised and updated it,<br />
breathing new life into this modern<br />
classic. She talks about The Brontës<br />
and recently discovered material<br />
she has incorporated into this new<br />
edition.<br />
£5/3<br />
22.<br />
Saturday 2nd October 8pm<br />
<strong>Ilkley</strong> Playhouse Wharfeside<br />
A Tribute to Alan Plater<br />
Members of <strong>Ilkley</strong> Playhouse pay<br />
tribute to the much loved writer of<br />
Z Cars, Softly Softly and Close the<br />
Coalhouse Door, who died earlier this<br />
year. Brought up in Hull, Alan was a<br />
stalwart supporter of <strong>Ilkley</strong> <strong>Literature</strong><br />
<strong>Festival</strong> and always maintained his<br />
strong Yorkshire connection. Tonight<br />
includes extracts from his plays, TV<br />
work and books; ranging from the<br />
Beiderbecke trilogy to Peggy for You;<br />
and features, as backcloth, some of<br />
the jazz music he loved so much.<br />
A warm, funny and poignant evening<br />
is guaranteed.<br />
£5/3<br />
23.<br />
Saturday 2nd October<br />
9–10.30pm<br />
<strong>Ilkley</strong> Playhouse Wildman<br />
<strong>Ilkley</strong> Liming: spoken word<br />
meets carnival<br />
Featuring John Agard, Daljit<br />
Nagra and Charlie Dark with<br />
special guest Michelle Scally<br />
Clarke<br />
Based on a Trinidadian cultural<br />
institution, this evening will mash up<br />
Caribbean carnival sensibilities with<br />
dance music and poetry readings.<br />
Between sets by famous names, like<br />
poets John Agard, and Daljit Nagra<br />
and DJ Charlie Dark, the audience are<br />
invited to chat, dance and meet the<br />
artists over a beer.<br />
‘Amazing … one of a kind.’<br />
£7/5<br />
24.<br />
Sunday 3rd October 11am–1pm<br />
Manor House<br />
Linda Green: The Truth<br />
about Writing Chick Lit<br />
It’s not as easy as many people think<br />
to write commercial women’s fiction.<br />
It’s a tough market with demanding<br />
readers who want an original pageturning<br />
novel with unforgettable<br />
characters who will make them laugh<br />
and cry. Linda Green, author of three<br />
top 30 bestselling paperbacks, takes<br />
you through a sheaf of practical<br />
exercises to help your book stand out<br />
from the crowd.<br />
£12/8<br />
All levels of experience. Please bring<br />
pen and paper. Places limited – please<br />
book in advance.<br />
25.<br />
Sunday 3rd October 12.30 –1pm<br />
<strong>Ilkley</strong> Playhouse Wildman<br />
Introducing the <strong>Festival</strong><br />
Mushaira<br />
Haven’t been to our Mushaira before,<br />
don’t quite know what to expect?<br />
Come to this short introduction to<br />
the history and form of the Mushaira<br />
and ask any questions you want.<br />
Everyone welcome.<br />
FREE<br />
26.<br />
Sunday 3rd October<br />
1.30–4.30pm<br />
<strong>Ilkley</strong> Playhouse Wharfeside<br />
Multi-lingual Mushaira:<br />
Gathering of Poets<br />
Poets and listeners are warmly invited<br />
to join the <strong>Festival</strong>’s annual Mushaira<br />
which is dedicated to the memory<br />
of poet and <strong>Festival</strong> Board Member,<br />
Hafeez Johar.<br />
Come and enjoy Urdu, Hindi, Bengali,<br />
English and Gujerati poetry readings<br />
– with English translation. We’ll be<br />
welcoming eminent guest, Saud<br />
Usmani, and some of the most<br />
prominent South Asian poets in the<br />
North – make sure you join them.<br />
Always a very friendly atmosphere!<br />
FREE with Indian banquet kindly<br />
provided by Panache<br />
In association with Bazm-E-Tadeeb<br />
International<br />
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Jackie Kay<br />
27.<br />
Sunday 3rd October 2pm<br />
<strong>Ilkley</strong> Playhouse Wildman<br />
Kisses on a Postcard:<br />
Terence Frisby<br />
‘Put one kiss if it’s horrible … three if<br />
it’s really nice.’<br />
Terence Frisby traces his heartwarming<br />
experiences as an evacuee<br />
in wartime Britain transplanted from<br />
suburban London to a tiny Cornish<br />
village. Known for his famous play,<br />
London’s longest-running comedy<br />
and the worldwide smash hit, There’s<br />
A Girl In My Soup, Frisby has worked<br />
extensively as actor, director and<br />
producer for nearly 50 years.<br />
£6/4<br />
Sponsored by Hebridean Cruises<br />
28.<br />
Sunday 3rd October 2–3.30pm<br />
Meet outside Rombalds Hotel<br />
The Home Front – <strong>Ilkley</strong> at<br />
the Time of WW1<br />
Local historian Alex Cockshott<br />
leads a walk round the <strong>Ilkley</strong> of the<br />
First World War – a time when local<br />
women with suffragette sympathies<br />
turned to raising money for the<br />
troops and collecting wounded<br />
soldiers from the station in their own<br />
motor cars.<br />
Followed by tea and coffee at<br />
Rombalds Hotel<br />
£5 includes refreshments<br />
See also Event 14.<br />
Sponsored by Rombalds Hotel<br />
29.<br />
Sunday 3rd October 2–4pm<br />
Manor House<br />
The Other Life: Jackie Kay<br />
Fiction Masterclass<br />
An inspiring workshop with poet and<br />
fiction writer Jackie Kay exploring<br />
ideas of doppelgangers and roads not<br />
taken.<br />
Kay’s first novel, Trumpet won<br />
the Guardian Fiction Prize and her<br />
collection of short stories, Wish I Was<br />
Here won the Decibel Writer of the<br />
Year award. Her memoir Red Dust<br />
Road has just been published to great<br />
acclaim.<br />
£12/8<br />
All levels of experience. Please bring<br />
pen and paper. Places limited – please<br />
book in advance.<br />
30 & 31.<br />
Sunday 3rd October<br />
2.30–3.30pm and 3.45–4.45pm<br />
All Saints School<br />
The Nutcracker Ballet<br />
Follow Northern Ballet Theatre’s<br />
dance artist into the sparkling world<br />
of the Sugar Plum Fairy.<br />
£4 Age 5–7 and 8–12.<br />
See page 40 for full details.<br />
In association with Northern Ballet Theatre.<br />
National Tour Partner: Leeds Metropolitan<br />
University<br />
32.<br />
Sunday 3rd October 2.30–4pm<br />
Manor House Museum<br />
Faces of Poetry Talk:<br />
Madeleine Waller<br />
Award-winning, Australian born,<br />
London-based photographer<br />
Madeleine Waller, gives an insider’s<br />
guide to the Faces of Poetry<br />
exhibition, which centres on a group<br />
of her images, newly acquired by the<br />
National Portrait Gallery. Trained as a<br />
photojournalist, Waller whose clients<br />
include The Sunday Telegraph and<br />
The Independent, specialises in<br />
portraiture, placing literary subjects in<br />
environments that have informed and<br />
shaped their work.<br />
FREE<br />
33.<br />
Sunday 3rd October 3–3.45pm<br />
Kings Hall<br />
Louise Rennison<br />
The misadventures of Tallulah Casey.<br />
The Queen of Teen, author of the<br />
Georgia Nicolson books, talks about<br />
her hilarious new series.<br />
£6 adults £5 teenagers Age12–17.<br />
See page 44 for full details.<br />
Louise Rennison<br />
34.<br />
Sunday 3rd October 4–5pm<br />
<strong>Ilkley</strong> Playhouse Wildman<br />
Valerie Bloom:<br />
Children’s Poetry Event<br />
Favourite children’s author Valerie<br />
Bloom in a lively, performance poetry<br />
event for the whole family.<br />
£5 adults £4 children. Age 7–11.<br />
See page 40 for full details.<br />
This event begins with a short reading<br />
by the winners of the Children’s<br />
Poetry Competition.<br />
Sponsored by Bradford Grammar School.<br />
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35.<br />
Sunday 3rd October 4pm<br />
Audley Clevedon, Ben Rhydding<br />
Jane Eyre – The Well-<br />
Dressed Governess<br />
The tale of Charlotte Brontë and her<br />
fictional heroine – both women of<br />
passionate intensity – retold through<br />
the deceptively genteel fashions of<br />
the 1840s.<br />
Historical seamstress Gillian<br />
Stapleton, from The History<br />
Wardrobe, presents a delightful array<br />
of replica garments to illustrate the<br />
key costumes and scenes of Charlotte<br />
Brontë’s well-loved novel.<br />
£6/4 includes tea and biscuits<br />
Supported by Audley Clevedon<br />
Gillian Stapleton from The History Wardrobe<br />
36.<br />
Sunday 3rd October 4.30pm<br />
St Margaret’s Hall<br />
Gardening in Yorkshire:<br />
Joe Maiden<br />
Joe Maiden – grower, horticulturist,<br />
seed merchant, nurseryman, TV<br />
presenter – has had a huge following<br />
on Radio Leeds for an amazing 36<br />
years. His Grow With Joe is the UK’s<br />
top local radio broadcast.<br />
Holder of the Harlow Carr medal<br />
he’s a real ‘dirt under the fingertips’<br />
gardener. Now Joe is on hand to<br />
share his Yorkshire gardening tips<br />
and answer your questions – from<br />
vegetables to bedding plants.<br />
£6/4<br />
Sponsored by The Laureates<br />
37.<br />
Sunday 3rd October 5pm<br />
<strong>Ilkley</strong> Playhouse Wharfeside<br />
Frances Partridge: Last of<br />
the Bloomsbury Set<br />
Renowned biographer Anne<br />
Chisholm discusses the remarkable<br />
life of Frances Partridge, ‘last and<br />
nicest of the Bloomsbury set’ with<br />
Alexandra Harris of the University<br />
of Liverpool, whose book, Romantic<br />
Moderns examines the ‘modern<br />
renaissance’ of the 1930s and 40s.<br />
Entangled in a famous love triangle<br />
(husband Ralph initially married Dora<br />
Carrington, Dora was hopelessly in<br />
love with Lytton Strachey, Lytton<br />
besotted by Ralph), Frances Partridge,<br />
who knew everyone from Virginia<br />
Woolf to Maynard Keynes, emerged<br />
as one of the great British diarists of<br />
the 20th century.<br />
£5/3<br />
38.<br />
Sunday 3rd October 7.30pm<br />
Kings Hall<br />
Brian Patten: Heroes and<br />
Ghosts<br />
‘Humour, sincerity, sheer brilliance –<br />
not to be missed.’ The Scotsman.<br />
One of the UK’s best loved poets,<br />
Brian Patten was one of the Liverpool<br />
Poets with Roger McGough and the<br />
late Adrian Henri. Tonight he reads<br />
from his own poetry, both serious<br />
and funny, and from the great figures<br />
with whom he’s shared a stage: Pablo<br />
Neruda, Stevie Smith, Laurie Lee,<br />
Allen Ginsberg, Robert Graves – and<br />
talks about their influences on him.<br />
£9/7 For adults and 14+.<br />
This event lasts 90 minutes with an<br />
interval.<br />
Joe Maiden<br />
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Sunday 3rd October 7.30pm<br />
St Margaret’s Hall<br />
Red: the Anthology<br />
– Jackie Kay, Nii Ayikwei<br />
Parkes and Simon Murray<br />
Jackie Kay, Forward Prize winner and<br />
one of Britain’s most distinguished<br />
poets, together with fellow poets Nii<br />
Ayikwei Parkes and Simon Murray,<br />
reads from Red, the first anthology<br />
of contemporary Black British poetry<br />
for ten years. Peepal Tree Press have<br />
brought together work by 80 poets,<br />
from tonight’s speakers to Linton<br />
Kwesi Johnson, John Agard, Patience<br />
Agbabi and Dorothea Smartt, each<br />
writing with the word ‘red’ in mind<br />
– ‘as a kind of a leap-off point, a<br />
context, a germ’.<br />
£6/4<br />
In association with Peepal Tree Press<br />
Brian Patten<br />
40.<br />
Monday 4th October 11.30am–<br />
2.15pm The Wheatley Arms<br />
Between the Covers:<br />
Lunch with Bookbinder<br />
Dominic Riley<br />
Having learnt bookbinding at 16, from<br />
Benedictine monks and then at the<br />
London College of Printing, Dominic<br />
Riley has spent the last ten years in<br />
San Francisco teaching, lecturing and<br />
restoring rare books.
Box Office 01943 816714 www.ilkleyliteraturefestival.org.uk<br />
Meet at 11.30am for coffee and<br />
homemade cookies, then enjoy the<br />
fascinating story of The Great Omar,<br />
the most elaborate and opulent<br />
binding ever created, which went<br />
down with the Titanic. Followed by a<br />
delicious lunch plus coffee.<br />
£16 including coffee, cookies and<br />
two-course set lunch<br />
In conjunction with The Wheatley Arms<br />
41.<br />
Monday 4th October 2.30–<br />
3.30pm The Wheatley Arms<br />
Bookbinding Masterclass<br />
Share the passion of Master<br />
Bookbinder, Dominic Riley whose<br />
work features in collections<br />
worldwide including the British<br />
Library and Rylands Library,<br />
Manchester.<br />
Dominic will be showing examples<br />
of rare, interesting – and sometimes<br />
quirky – books.<br />
£5 includes coffee and cake<br />
In conjunction with The Wheatley Arms<br />
42.<br />
Monday 4th October 5.30–<br />
6.30pm The Wheatley Arms<br />
Bookbinding: Drop In Clinic<br />
A unique opportunity to bring old<br />
books from home for advice on how<br />
best to refurbish them, with Master<br />
Bookbinder Dominic Riley.<br />
FREE<br />
In conjunction with The Wheatley Arms<br />
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Mondays and Thursdays,<br />
4th, 7th, 11th and 14th October<br />
6–7pm Manor House<br />
Reading James Joyce’s<br />
Ulysses: Guided Reading<br />
Group<br />
Get to grips with the book everyone<br />
wishes they’d read …<br />
Following last year’s hugely popular<br />
Darwin reading group, James<br />
Joyce expert Dr Katy Mullin, from<br />
the Department of English at the<br />
University of Leeds, offers an inspiring<br />
guide to this landmark of twentieth<br />
century literature. At its heart<br />
Ulysses is about one day in the life of<br />
advertising salesman, Leopold Bloom.<br />
Concentrating on four key episodes,<br />
Katy Mullin invites readers to join<br />
her in exploring Joyce’s compelling,<br />
imaginative world.<br />
£10/8 includes all four sessions<br />
Sessions timed to ensure you don’t<br />
miss other events. Details of key<br />
chapters to study will be posted on:<br />
www.ilkleyliteraturefestival.org.uk<br />
In conjunction with the University of Leeds<br />
44.<br />
Monday 4th October 7.30pm<br />
Craiglands<br />
John O’Farrell: An Utterly<br />
Exasperated History of<br />
Modern Britain …<br />
John O’Farrell, former comedy<br />
scriptwriter for Spitting Image and<br />
Smith and Jones, and a frequent guest<br />
on TV’s Grumpy Old Men and Have I<br />
Got News For You, comes bang up to<br />
date with a hilarious modern history<br />
asking ‘How the hell did we end up<br />
here?’. Revel in the bizarre events,<br />
ridiculous characters and stupid<br />
decisions that have shaped Britain<br />
since 1945!<br />
£7/5<br />
Robert Goddard © Graham Jepson<br />
45.<br />
Monday 4th October 7.30pm<br />
<strong>Ilkley</strong> Playhouse Wharfeside<br />
Robert Goddard:<br />
Long Time Coming<br />
‘They said Eldritch Swan was dead.<br />
But after 36 years in an Irish prison<br />
Eldritch is back …’<br />
Robert Goddard’s first novel, Past<br />
Caring was an instant bestseller.<br />
His books enthral readers with<br />
their edge-of-the-seat pace and<br />
labyrinthine plotting. Tonight ‘the<br />
master of manipulation’ describes the<br />
pleasures and pitfalls of incorporating<br />
historical fact into contemporary<br />
fiction. It’s what history doesn’t tell us<br />
that provides his inspiration.<br />
£6/4<br />
46.<br />
Monday 4th October 7.45pm<br />
<strong>Ilkley</strong> Playhouse Wildman<br />
Paul Murdin: Secrets of<br />
the Universe<br />
World-renowned astronomer<br />
Paul Murdin tells the stories which<br />
changed our view of the Universe:<br />
how we discovered the shape of the<br />
Earth, the principles of relativity, the<br />
existence of Pluto and cosmic marvels<br />
like black holes and interstellar<br />
nebulae.<br />
In a richly illustrated talk, Professor<br />
Murdin, senior Fellow at the<br />
Cambridge Institute of Astronomy,<br />
explains the science, personal<br />
struggles and quirks of fate behind<br />
the revelations.<br />
£5/3 Adults and young people 13+.<br />
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47.<br />
Monday 4th October 9pm<br />
<strong>Ilkley</strong> Playhouse Wharfeside<br />
The Poetry School in York<br />
and Leeds – Live<br />
Seven poets. Seven minutes each.<br />
Introduced by Poet in Residence<br />
Antony Dunn.<br />
FREE FRINGE EVENT<br />
See page 45 for full details.<br />
48.<br />
Monday 4th October 9pm<br />
<strong>Ilkley</strong> Playhouse Wildman<br />
Their Spirits, My Demons:<br />
John Ormond<br />
John Ormond introduces his<br />
humorous, emotive book about<br />
growing up in an emotionally<br />
unstable home.<br />
FREE FRINGE EVENT<br />
See page 45 for full details.<br />
49.<br />
Tuesday 5th October 6–7pm<br />
Manor House<br />
Close Reading 1: Poems by<br />
Carol Ann Duffy and Simon<br />
Armitage<br />
If you’ve ever read a poem and<br />
struggled to find a way into it, you<br />
can be sure you’re not the only one.<br />
Poet in Residence Antony Dunn<br />
offers a close reading workshop for<br />
those who’d like to know more about<br />
getting to the heart of a poem. A<br />
lively interactive workshop, exploring<br />
poems by poets appearing at the<br />
<strong>Festival</strong>.<br />
£5<br />
See also Event 123<br />
Places limited – please book in<br />
advance.<br />
Ellen MacArthur<br />
50.<br />
Tuesday 5th October 7.30pm<br />
Kings Hall<br />
Ellen MacArthur<br />
Last October Ellen MacArthur, twice<br />
Sailor of the Year, World Champion<br />
and one of the greatest sportswomen<br />
in the world, announced her<br />
retirement from competitive sailing.<br />
How could the woman who set so<br />
many records give up racing, what<br />
had she discovered that was so<br />
important? Tonight she talks about<br />
her last ten years and the fateful trip<br />
to South Georgia which changed her<br />
life.<br />
£9/7<br />
Sponsored by Spooner Industries Ltd<br />
51.<br />
Tuesday 5th October 7.45pm<br />
<strong>Ilkley</strong> Playhouse Wharfeside<br />
The Hemlock Cup: Bettany<br />
Hughes on Socrates<br />
Conversations about Empires<br />
Socrates was famously executed in<br />
c.399 BC. Piecing together a unique<br />
combination of archaeological,<br />
geological and historical clues,<br />
acclaimed classical historian Fellow of<br />
Kings College London and renowned<br />
television history presenter, Bettany<br />
Hughes, recreates Socrates’ world in<br />
5th Century BC Athens. The result is<br />
a unique picture of the man whose<br />
fundamental questions – How should<br />
we best live? What makes us good? –<br />
underpin much of modern thinking.<br />
£6/4<br />
52.<br />
Tuesday 5th October 7.30pm<br />
<strong>Ilkley</strong> Playhouse Wildman<br />
The Baverstock Lecture –<br />
The Media and Public<br />
Debate: Noise, Signals and<br />
Democracy<br />
Stephen Coleman, Professor of<br />
Political Communication at the<br />
University of Leeds, reflects on how<br />
modern media has changed the ways<br />
in which we can contribute to the<br />
democratic process. His most recent<br />
book (with Jay G Blumler) focused on<br />
the interplay between the internet<br />
and democratic citizenship, while<br />
his recent research explored public<br />
and media reactions to the televised<br />
leaders’ debates during the general<br />
election campaign.<br />
£6/4<br />
In association with the Friends of Donald<br />
Baverstock<br />
53.<br />
Tuesday 5th October 9.15pm<br />
<strong>Ilkley</strong> Playhouse Wildman<br />
Flying with the Moon<br />
The search for a lost airman. Jean<br />
Stevens introduces her new book.<br />
FREE FRINGE EVENT<br />
See page 45 for full details.<br />
Bettany Hughes
Box Office 01943 816714 www.ilkleyliteraturefestival.org.uk<br />
Andrew Graham-Dixon<br />
54.<br />
Wednesday 6th October 6.30–<br />
8pm Manor House Museum<br />
Faces of Poetry and<br />
Jacquetta Hawkes<br />
Exhibitions – <strong>Festival</strong><br />
Private View<br />
A special evening for <strong>Festival</strong> goers.<br />
Relax with a glass of wine as you<br />
enjoy these two stunning exhibitions.<br />
Upstairs, the National Portrait<br />
Gallery’s photographs of leading<br />
poets is brought to life with readings<br />
by members of <strong>Ilkley</strong> Playhouse.<br />
Downstairs enjoy the fascinating<br />
display celebrating the life of<br />
archaeologist and writer Jacquetta<br />
Hawkes.<br />
FREE. Then continue your evening at<br />
Event 55.<br />
55.<br />
Wednesday 6th October 7.45pm<br />
<strong>Ilkley</strong> Playhouse Wildman<br />
Old Land, New Land: a<br />
journey through Jacquetta<br />
Hawkes’ poetic geography<br />
The lyrical writings of celebrated<br />
archaeologist and writer Jacquetta<br />
Hawkes (1910–1996) included the<br />
script for an experimental film about<br />
Barbara Hepworth, Figures in a<br />
Landscape (1953), which continues<br />
themes Hawkes explored vividly<br />
in A Land (1951), her noted book<br />
synthesising geology and literature.<br />
Christine Finn, Hawkes’ biographer,<br />
introduces the Hepworth film<br />
alongside a showing of A New Land,<br />
made to celebrate the centenary of<br />
Hawkes’ birth.<br />
£5/3 This event lasts 90 minutes<br />
56.<br />
Wednesday 6th October 7.30pm<br />
All Saints Parish Church<br />
Andrew Graham-Dixon on<br />
Caravaggio<br />
‘What begins in the work of<br />
Caravaggio is, quite simply, modern<br />
painting …’<br />
Andrew Graham-Dixon, leading<br />
art critic, presenter of six landmark<br />
BBC art series including A History<br />
of British Art and Renaissance, and<br />
author of acclaimed studies of<br />
Howard Hodgkin and Michelangelo,<br />
has spent ten years piecing together<br />
the life of tumultuous 16th century<br />
Italian artist, Caravaggio. Notorious<br />
for his brawling; famed for his intense<br />
emotional realism and dramatic use<br />
of light.<br />
£6/4<br />
Sponsored by Skipton & Wharfedale<br />
Decorative & Fine Arts Society<br />
57.<br />
Wednesday 6th October 7.30pm<br />
<strong>Ilkley</strong> Playhouse Wharfeside<br />
Robin Ince’s Bad Book<br />
Club: The Books that Taste<br />
Forgot …<br />
Is hideous prose and ghastly poetry<br />
more fabulous than great literature?<br />
Robin Ince, multi-award-winning<br />
comedian, writer, TV and radio regular<br />
(Mock The Week, Never Mind The<br />
Buzzcocks, The Now Show and Loose<br />
Ends) has spent the 21st century<br />
rummaging through charity shops<br />
to compile the defining collection<br />
of the world’s worst inadvertently<br />
hilarious books. A voyage through<br />
the hinterland of underappreciated<br />
classics …<br />
£5/3<br />
58.<br />
Wednesday 6th October<br />
8.30 –10pm<br />
<strong>Ilkley</strong> Happiness Centre<br />
The Unlikely Poetry of<br />
Michael Conneely<br />
Visionary poetry and an ‘Open Mic’<br />
for like-minded poems. Refreshments<br />
available.<br />
FREE FRINGE EVENT<br />
See page 45 for full details.<br />
Thursday 7th October<br />
National Poetry Day<br />
59.<br />
Thursday 7th October 2–4.30pm<br />
St Margaret’s Hall<br />
Poetry Alive! Open Mic and<br />
Networking Event<br />
Celebrate National Poetry Day at our<br />
annual ‘Open Mic’ and networking<br />
event for poets from across the<br />
Yorkshire region – catch up with other<br />
writers, share your pamphlets and<br />
chapbooks – hosted by Antony Dunn.<br />
Poets wanting to read should arrive<br />
by 1.45pm to put their names down.<br />
Everyone, including non-performing<br />
listeners, welcome.<br />
FREE includes refreshments<br />
Robin Ince<br />
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Thursday 7th October 2–4pm<br />
Rombalds Hotel<br />
Michèle Roberts Fiction<br />
Masterclass<br />
Masterclass with poet, essayist,<br />
critic and author Michèle Roberts.<br />
Emeritus Professor of Creative Writing<br />
at the University of East Anglia<br />
and previously co-director of UEA’s<br />
Creative Writing (Prose Fiction) MA.<br />
An inspiring opportunity to work with<br />
one of the best creative writing tutors<br />
in the UK.<br />
£12/8<br />
Not for beginners. Please bring pen<br />
and paper. Places limited – please<br />
book in advance.<br />
61.<br />
Thursday 7th October 7.30pm<br />
Rombalds Hotel<br />
Carcanet Press Evening<br />
with Michael Schmidt<br />
and Peter Sansom<br />
Carcanet’s founder, Professor<br />
Michael Schmidt, is a key figure<br />
in British literature, whose ‘vibrant<br />
and radiant poems … earthy and<br />
numinous’ – John Ashbery – include<br />
Collected Poems (Smith/Doorstop<br />
Books).<br />
Peter Sansom is co-director of The<br />
Poetry Business. His fifth Carcanet<br />
book, Selected Poems, is launched<br />
tonight, in a compelling evening of<br />
two halves.<br />
Michael and Peter begin by reading<br />
their own work and discussing<br />
publishing; then, after a glass of wine,<br />
they feature poems by Carcanet<br />
authors as diverse as Patricia Beer,<br />
John Clare, Edwin Morgan, Les Murray<br />
and Frank O’Hara.<br />
£5/3 includes a glass of wine<br />
Michèle Roberts © Time Warner Books UK<br />
62.<br />
Thursday 7th October 7.30pm<br />
St Margaret’s Hall<br />
In-Flight Entertainment:<br />
Michèle Roberts and<br />
Helen Simpson<br />
Michèle Roberts, celebrated novelist,<br />
poet and short story writer, discusses<br />
her latest collection of stories, Mud:<br />
Stories of Sex and Love, which take us<br />
to 19th Century Venice, modern-day<br />
France and beyond – with Helen<br />
Simpson, undisputed master of the<br />
short story genre.<br />
Simpson makes a welcome return<br />
to <strong>Ilkley</strong> with stories from In-Flight<br />
Entertainment which move between<br />
domestic and fantastic, tragic and<br />
comic – portraits of lives in transition.<br />
£6/4<br />
63.<br />
Thursday 7th October 7.30pm<br />
<strong>Ilkley</strong> Playhouse Wharfeside<br />
Anatole Kaletsky:<br />
Capitalism 4.0<br />
Anatole Kaletsky, Times editor-atlarge,<br />
former editor of the FT and<br />
leading economic theorist, considers<br />
the birth of a new economy in the<br />
aftermath of the current crisis.<br />
Pinpointing other moments in history<br />
when capitalism was transformed<br />
by financial collapse: the late 19th<br />
century, the 1930s and 70s, now, he<br />
argues, we face the transition into<br />
‘Capitalism 4.0’. If we recognise the<br />
fallibility of markets and governments<br />
can we create a functioning system of<br />
checks and balances?<br />
£6/4<br />
Sponsored by Garbutt & Elliott<br />
64.<br />
Thursday 7th October 7.30pm<br />
<strong>Ilkley</strong> Playhouse Wildman<br />
Christopher Frayling:<br />
Horace Walpole’s Cat<br />
In 1747, Walpole’s tabby fell into a<br />
porcelain tub in his Mayfair house.<br />
Thomas Gray’s Ode on the Death of<br />
a Favourite Cat, Drowned in a Tub of<br />
Gold Fishes, was Selima’s epitaph.<br />
Writer and cultural historian, Sir<br />
Christopher Frayling, former chair<br />
of Arts Council England and Rector of<br />
the Royal College of Art, explores the<br />
complex social and cultural life of the<br />
period the incident reveals.<br />
£5/3<br />
Sir Christopher Frayling<br />
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Helen Dunmore<br />
65.<br />
Thursday 7th October 7.30pm<br />
Manor House Museum<br />
Ian Vince: The Lie of the<br />
Land<br />
From ancient volcanoes and deserts<br />
to long-forgotten seas, Ian Vince<br />
deciphers how and why we see such<br />
distinctive ecology, microclimates<br />
and patterns of human settlement<br />
around every corner in the UK.<br />
Peeling back the surface of the land<br />
he explains how the forces of the<br />
planet – volcanic mayhem, polar<br />
weather, lush tropical vegetation and<br />
bizarre creatures – have made it what<br />
it is today.<br />
£4 See also Event 68.<br />
66.<br />
Thursday 7th October 9pm<br />
<strong>Ilkley</strong> Playhouse Wharfeside<br />
A Flambard Affair<br />
Sensual, evocative poetry from Mary<br />
Robinson and Rebecca Goss.<br />
FREE FRINGE EVENT<br />
See page 45 for full details.<br />
67.<br />
Thursday 7th October 9pm<br />
<strong>Ilkley</strong> Playhouse Wildman<br />
An Domhan Eile (The Other<br />
World) by Lucht Focail<br />
Poetry, story, music and dance from<br />
the popular Irish writers group.<br />
FREE FRINGE EVENT<br />
See page 45 for full details.<br />
68.<br />
Friday 8th October 11am–12pm<br />
Meet at the Cow and Calf Rocks<br />
car park<br />
Lie of the Land Walk<br />
Anyone who has ever picked up<br />
a pebble at the seaside or a rock<br />
on a moorland path or longed to<br />
understand the ground beneath their<br />
feet will want to join Ian Vince as<br />
he ‘peels back the land’ to reveal the<br />
fascinating forces which have shaped<br />
<strong>Ilkley</strong> Moor and the Wharfe Valley<br />
£4 Some moorland walking – please<br />
wear suitable shoes and bring<br />
waterproofs.Refreshments and toilets<br />
can be found at the Cow and Calf pub.<br />
<strong>Ilkley</strong> Moor © Dave Smith<br />
69.<br />
Friday 8th October 7.30pm<br />
<strong>Ilkley</strong> Playhouse Wildman<br />
Hops and Glory and IPA<br />
Meet Britain’s best beer writer, awardwinning<br />
Pete Brown from Barnsley,<br />
as he sets off to India by canal and<br />
tall ship with a keg of Burton IPA<br />
brewed to the original recipe. Brazilian<br />
pirates and Iranian customs officials<br />
lie ahead, but will his barrel stand up<br />
to the original India Pale Ale – a semimythical<br />
beer invented 140 years<br />
ago to survive storms and tropical<br />
sunshine?<br />
Make up your mind as you sample<br />
<strong>Ilkley</strong>’s own special IPA, brewed for<br />
the occasion by <strong>Ilkley</strong> Brewery.<br />
£7/5 includes beer tasting kindly<br />
provided by <strong>Ilkley</strong> Brewery<br />
70.<br />
Friday 8th October 7.30pm<br />
<strong>Ilkley</strong> Playhouse Wharfeside<br />
Helen Dunmore:<br />
The Betrayal<br />
Helen Dunmore is an acclaimed poet,<br />
novelist and short story writer. The<br />
Siege (shortlisted for both Whitbread<br />
and Orange Prizes) captured a<br />
family’s desperate struggle to survive<br />
the siege of Leningrad. Tonight she<br />
discusses The Betrayal, a beautifully<br />
written portrait of life in post-war<br />
Soviet Russia, returning us to the<br />
same city and same characters in<br />
1952 when the eyes of Stalin’s secret<br />
police are everywhere.<br />
£5/3<br />
71.<br />
Friday 8th October 7.30pm<br />
St Margaret’s Hall<br />
EM Forster: Wendy Moffat<br />
Fans of EM Forster have long<br />
wondered why, after A Passage to<br />
India, he never published another<br />
novel. Wendy Moffat, Associate<br />
Professor of English at Dickinson<br />
College Pennsylvania, explores<br />
possible explanations as she discusses<br />
her ‘superbly illuminating’ revisionist<br />
and controversial biography, arguing<br />
Forster’s homosexuality was the key<br />
to his work, making him a true radical,<br />
even if he chose not to write about it.<br />
£5/3<br />
Wendy Moffat<br />
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Charles Emmerson<br />
ilkley literature festival 10<br />
with Skipton Building Society<br />
72.<br />
Friday 8th October 7.30pm<br />
Clarke Foley Centre<br />
The Arctic and the<br />
Global Economy: Charles<br />
Emmerson<br />
The Arctic, from the oil-fields<br />
of Prudhoe Bay to the shores of<br />
Greenland and the militarised<br />
borderlands of Norway, is where<br />
much of the world’s future history<br />
will be written. Geopolitics expert<br />
and Associate Director of the World<br />
Economic Forum, Charles Emmerson<br />
explores the history and future of this<br />
vast area, loaded with opportunity,<br />
rich in challenges. With insights from<br />
fishermen, politicians, scientists and<br />
spies who know the region.<br />
£5/3<br />
73.<br />
Friday 8th October 9–9.30 pm<br />
<strong>Ilkley</strong> Playhouse Wharfeside<br />
Stand Up with Ash Caton<br />
Cutting edge comedy with this<br />
brilliantly funny 18 year old.<br />
FREE FRINGE EVENT<br />
See page 45 for full details.<br />
Lasts 30 minutes.<br />
Saturday 9th October<br />
All day: Children’s and<br />
Young People’s Events<br />
See pages 40–44 for details.<br />
74.<br />
Saturday 9th October<br />
10am–4pm <strong>Ilkley</strong> Tennis Club<br />
The Excitement of South<br />
Asian <strong>Literature</strong> – Day<br />
School (in English)<br />
Held in collaboration with Leeds<br />
Metropolitan University and the<br />
University of Leeds, this exciting<br />
event offers you the opportunity<br />
to find out more about the<br />
extraordinarily rich range of South<br />
Asian writing in English, with leading<br />
scholars in the field including<br />
Dr Claire Chambers, Dr Caroline<br />
Herbert, Dr Ananya Jahanara Kabir<br />
and Professor John McLeod.<br />
Informal, lively interactive sessions<br />
– from discussion on key themes to<br />
creative writing exercises and ‘for<br />
and against’ debates on particular<br />
topics and issues in South Asian<br />
writing, inspired by this year’s guests<br />
at the <strong>Festival</strong>. No prior knowledge<br />
needed – and lots of exciting things<br />
to discover!<br />
£12/8 sandwiches or hot lunches<br />
available at the Tennis Club, paid for<br />
as taken<br />
In association with University of Leeds and<br />
Leeds Metropolitan University<br />
75.<br />
Saturday 9th October<br />
11am–4pm across <strong>Ilkley</strong><br />
Words on the Streets<br />
Meet brand new poetry voices, all<br />
under 25, busking across <strong>Ilkley</strong> before<br />
a performance of their work this<br />
evening. Enjoy a vibrant, eclectic<br />
mix of verse on the streets and in<br />
the courtyard of the Manor House<br />
Museum from Oli Hazzard, Jonathan<br />
Parkin, Cara Brennan, Ashna Sarkar<br />
and Andrew McMillan.<br />
FREE Location details from<br />
www.ilkleyliteraturefestival.org.uk<br />
76.<br />
Saturday 9th October<br />
11am–1pm St Margaret’s Hall<br />
Writing for Teenagers with<br />
Bernardine Evaristo<br />
Author and poet Bernardine Evaristo<br />
leads this practical and inspiring<br />
creative writing workshop, exploring<br />
how to capture a teenage fictional<br />
voice for a teenage market using her<br />
Quick Reads novella Hello Mum as a<br />
model.<br />
£12/8 Adults and young people 16+.<br />
For all levels. Please bring pen and<br />
paper. Places limited – please book in<br />
advance.<br />
Bernardine Evaristo<br />
77.<br />
Saturday 9th October<br />
11am–1pm Manor House<br />
Character and Voice in<br />
Short Story Jane Rogers<br />
Workshop<br />
Jane Rogers, OCA Course Leader<br />
for Creative Writing and Professor<br />
of Creative Writing at the University<br />
of Sheffield, leads a workshop on<br />
character and voice in the short<br />
story. She’ll look at examples of<br />
effective characterisation from<br />
other writers, and explore ways into<br />
creating character through a range of<br />
exercises. Come prepared to write!<br />
£12/8<br />
For all levels. Please bring pen and<br />
paper. Places limited – please book in<br />
advance.<br />
In association with Open College of the Arts<br />
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Saturday 9th October<br />
1.15–2.15pm Manor House<br />
Meet Open College of<br />
the Arts<br />
If you’ve always wanted to do a<br />
creative writing course and are not<br />
quite sure what it involves or if you<br />
want to know more about the courses<br />
OCA offer, including their portfolio<br />
scheme for experienced writers, drop<br />
in for an informal chat with the OCA<br />
tutors.<br />
FREE no need to book<br />
79.<br />
Saturday 9th October<br />
2.30–4.30pm Manor House<br />
Write an Historical<br />
Children’s Story Workshop<br />
Livi Michael leads a workshop on<br />
developing a children’s story from<br />
historical documents. Participants<br />
will work in groups to investigate<br />
actual evidence which they will use to<br />
create a plausible character and voice.<br />
Expect to do some detective work<br />
that will feed into your own writing.<br />
No experience necessary!<br />
£12/8 For all levels.<br />
Please bring pen and paper. Places<br />
limited – please book in advance.<br />
Anthony Sattin<br />
80.<br />
Saturday 9th October 2pm<br />
Kings Hall<br />
The Number Mysteries:<br />
Professor Marcus du Sautoy<br />
Marcus du Sautoy – footballer,<br />
amateur musician – Professor<br />
of Mathematics at Oxford and<br />
Simonyi Professor for the Public<br />
Understanding of Science, is<br />
passionate about popularising<br />
mathematics. Join him and set your<br />
prejudice aside – maths never used to<br />
be this much fun!<br />
Discover maths at the heart of<br />
everyday life with Wayne Rooney<br />
solving quadratic equations as he puts<br />
the ball in the back of the net.<br />
£8/5 An event for adults and young<br />
people from 10/11 upwards.<br />
81.<br />
Saturday 9th October 2pm<br />
<strong>Ilkley</strong> Playhouse Wildman<br />
Map of a Nation: Rachel<br />
Hewitt<br />
Rachel Hewitt, Research Fellow at<br />
Queen Mary and Westfield College,<br />
University of London, tells the story<br />
of the creation of the Ordnance<br />
Survey map from its inception in<br />
1791, through political revolutions<br />
and rebellions, to the vast digital<br />
database of the present day. An<br />
untold adventure, featuring intrepid<br />
individuals lugging brass theodolites<br />
up mountains to create the first<br />
accurate, affordable map of the<br />
British Isles.<br />
£5/3<br />
82.<br />
Saturday 9th October 2pm<br />
All Saints Parish Church<br />
Poems of Praise<br />
<strong>Festival</strong> Poet in Residence Antony<br />
Dunn, aided by Yorkshire poet Nigel<br />
Forde, presents a reading of poems<br />
ancient and modern, from John<br />
Donne to Michael Symmons Roberts,<br />
by way of George Herbert, Gerard<br />
Manley Hopkins and quite a few<br />
surprises …<br />
FREE<br />
Professor Marcus du Sautoy<br />
83.<br />
Saturday 9th October 2.30pm<br />
St Margaret’s Hall<br />
A Winter on the Nile:<br />
Tim Butcher and<br />
Anthony Sattin<br />
Conversations about Empires<br />
In the winter of 1849, Florence<br />
Nightingale was just 29 – and deeply<br />
unhappy. Friends suggested a trip<br />
to Egypt. Gustave Flaubert was on<br />
a similar quest. Anthony Sattin,<br />
inveterate Egyptian traveller, highly<br />
regarded journalist, broadcaster<br />
and travel writer (Sunday Times,<br />
Daily Telegraph, Independent and<br />
The Guardian) discusses the impact<br />
of journeys that altered their lives,<br />
with fellow journalist, former Daily<br />
Telegraph correspondent and bestselling<br />
author, Africa expert,<br />
Tim Butcher.<br />
Following his much lauded Blood<br />
River, Butcher’s latest book traces<br />
his journey across Sierra Leone and<br />
Liberia, 350 miles through remote<br />
rainforest and malarial swamps,<br />
following a trail blazed by Graham<br />
Greene.<br />
£5/3<br />
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84.<br />
Saturday 9th October<br />
3.45–4.30pm<br />
<strong>Ilkley</strong> Playhouse Wildman<br />
Hello Mum:<br />
Bernardine Evaristo<br />
Knife crime is having a huge impact<br />
on young people, and not just in the<br />
large cities. Much praised poet and<br />
novelist Bernardine Evaristo talks<br />
about why and how she wrote Hello<br />
Mum – her new book for young<br />
people exploring this complex issue in<br />
a way teenagers find compelling and<br />
thought provoking.<br />
An event for young people and all<br />
those who care about their future.<br />
£5/3 Age 12–16 plus parents, adults<br />
working with young people and the<br />
public.<br />
Professor Avi Shlaim<br />
85.<br />
Saturday 9th October 4.30pm<br />
St Margaret’s Hall<br />
The Israeli-Palestinian<br />
Conflict: Avi Shlaim<br />
Conversations about Empires<br />
‘Avi Shlaim … writes about the Middle<br />
East with exceptional wisdom and<br />
insight.’ Max Hastings<br />
The Israel-Palestine conflict remains<br />
one of the most bitter, violent and<br />
intractable conflicts of our time. Avi<br />
Shlaim, Professor of International<br />
Relations at Oxford, one of the<br />
world’s leading authorities on the<br />
Middle East conflict and a ‘supreme<br />
scholar of Arab-Israeli negotiations’,<br />
investigates the key issues, fractured<br />
history and future prospects for<br />
peace.<br />
£5/3<br />
86.<br />
Saturday 9th October 5.30pm<br />
<strong>Ilkley</strong> Playhouse Wildman<br />
Maths for Mums and Dads<br />
If helping with maths homework<br />
fills you with panic this is the event<br />
for you! Maths whizz, author Rob<br />
Eastaway, guides you through the<br />
stuff that baffles many primary<br />
school parents, from chunking and<br />
partitioning to number lines and the<br />
grid method. Lots of opportunity to<br />
ask questions and banish your fear –<br />
forever!<br />
£5/3<br />
87.<br />
Saturday 9th October 6.45–<br />
7.15pm Otley Courthouse<br />
The Seven Deadly Sins<br />
Wickedly imaginative poetry and<br />
prose from the Courthouse Writers.<br />
FREE FRINGE EVENT<br />
See page 45 for full details.<br />
88.<br />
Saturday 9th October 7.30pm<br />
Otley Courthouse<br />
A Blood Wedding In<br />
Wensleydale<br />
A North Country Theatre<br />
collaboration with Harrogate<br />
Theatre<br />
Cold Comfort Farm meets Carmen!<br />
Lorca’s famous study of feuding<br />
families re-located to the farming<br />
communities of the Yorkshire Dales<br />
by one of the region’s most popular<br />
touring companies.<br />
When Leonard returns from fighting<br />
with the International Brigade he<br />
finds his childhood sweetheart about<br />
to marry an old rival … Between<br />
flamenco dancing sheep and hay<br />
throwing harvesters, the wedding<br />
celebrations descend into farce and<br />
then tragedy.<br />
£8/6<br />
Please note this is a full evening’s<br />
performance with an interval.<br />
In association with Otley Courthouse Arts<br />
Centre<br />
Peter Snow<br />
89.<br />
Saturday 9th October 7.30pm<br />
Kings Hall<br />
Peter Snow<br />
Peter Snow, for many years the<br />
indispensable face of election night<br />
TV, is an acclaimed broadcaster,<br />
presenter (Battlefield Britain,<br />
Newsnight, Tomorrow’s World)<br />
journalist and author. Tonight he<br />
introduces To War With Wellington,<br />
the story of how Wellington<br />
transformed an army of soldiers he’d<br />
described as ‘the scum of the earth’,<br />
into the finest fighting force of their<br />
time, able to defeat Napoleon at<br />
Waterloo.<br />
£9/7<br />
Sponsored by Audley Clevedon<br />
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90.<br />
Saturday 9th October 8pm<br />
<strong>Ilkley</strong> Playhouse Wharfeside<br />
Till Earth Outwears:<br />
Life Laughs Onward with<br />
Harriet Walter, Kate<br />
Littlewood and Peter Evans<br />
<strong>Festival</strong> favourites, RSC actor Harriet<br />
Walter and Radio 4 Poetry Please<br />
regular Kate Littlewood return to<br />
<strong>Ilkley</strong> with a selection of the lyric<br />
poetry of Thomas Hardy, both spoken<br />
and sung – with interjections by<br />
Edward Thomas, Housman, Sassoon<br />
and TS Eliot. Hardy’s early immersion<br />
in the music and dance of country<br />
people was absorbed into the lyricism<br />
of his poems and the hauntingly<br />
beautiful musical settings, sung here<br />
by renowned tenor Peter Evans, are<br />
by Finzi, Britten and Butterworth.<br />
£8/6<br />
Harriet Walter<br />
92.<br />
Saturday 9th October 7.30pm<br />
St Margaret’s Hall<br />
Late for Tea at the Deer<br />
Palace: Tamara Chalabi<br />
Conversations about Empires<br />
Tamara Chalabi shares her personal<br />
view of Iraq as she introduces this<br />
haunting memoir of her family’s<br />
tempestuous life since 1900. One of<br />
the most prominent families in Iraq,<br />
for centuries the Chalabis served<br />
the Ottoman Empire and, later,<br />
the national government. Now a<br />
writer and international consultant,<br />
Chalabi explores their dramatic story,<br />
from the opulence of her greatgrandfather’s<br />
house, to her own life<br />
in exile.<br />
£5/3<br />
94.<br />
Saturday 9th October 9.15pm<br />
<strong>Ilkley</strong> Playhouse Wharfeside<br />
The Ties that Bind<br />
Four short, sharp theatrical<br />
monologues from Pink Lady<br />
Productions.<br />
FREE FRINGE EVENT<br />
See page 46 for full details.<br />
95.<br />
Sunday 10th October 11am–1pm<br />
Rombalds Hotel<br />
Creative Adventure:<br />
Barbara Trapido Masterclass<br />
Take yourself by surprise and discover<br />
your powers of invention by bringing<br />
together a character, setting, plot<br />
and theme. Author Barbara Trapido,<br />
known for her ability to create<br />
engaging characters and her skill in<br />
juggling diverse plot lines, leads this<br />
energising session.<br />
£12/8<br />
All levels of experience. Please bring<br />
pen and paper. Places limited – please<br />
book in advance.<br />
Simon Armitage<br />
91.<br />
Saturday 9th October 7.30pm<br />
<strong>Ilkley</strong> Playhouse Wildman<br />
Simon Armitage<br />
A reading by the country’s leading<br />
contemporary poet to celebrate<br />
the launch of Stanza Stones – the<br />
<strong>Festival</strong>’s exciting new 18 month<br />
collaboration with Simon Armitage<br />
which will explore our relationship<br />
with the wild landscape of Yorkshire.<br />
Tonight Simon Armitage reads from<br />
Seeing Stars, his ‘wildly inventive mix<br />
of satire, fantasy, comedy and horror’<br />
and reflects on his recent 264 mile<br />
walk along the Pennine Way.<br />
£7/5 Includes free entry to Event 93.<br />
93.<br />
Saturday 9th October 9pm<br />
<strong>Ilkley</strong> Playhouse Wildman<br />
Seeing the Future<br />
In an exciting event created by<br />
the <strong>Festival</strong>’s Apprentice Poet in<br />
Residence, Andrew McMillan,<br />
six young poets showcase their<br />
talent, culminating in a brand-new<br />
collaborative performance.<br />
Featuring Oli Hazzard; 19 year old<br />
Teessider, Jonathan Parkin; North<br />
Yorkshire’s Cara Brennan; 17 year<br />
old Ashna Sarkar (taking you on a<br />
tour of the perils of adolescence)<br />
and members of Leeds Young<br />
Authors, famed for their spoken word<br />
performances.<br />
£2<br />
96.<br />
Sunday 10th October 2–6pm<br />
Otley Courthouse<br />
Young People’s Cool Voices<br />
WordsFest<br />
Inspiring afternoon of laid back<br />
workshops for young people aged<br />
12–18.<br />
See page 44 for details.<br />
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97.<br />
Sunday 10th October 2–4pm<br />
begins and ends at Manor House<br />
All Ages Poetry Workshop:<br />
The Song of the River<br />
Join Poet in Residence, Antony Dunn,<br />
in an al fresco writing treat for the<br />
whole family. After a short session<br />
in the Manor House, participants<br />
will take a walk along the River<br />
Wharfe with time to try their hand<br />
at a writing exercise in a choice spot.<br />
Back together, the group will create<br />
a collaborative poem which will be<br />
added to the ‘<strong>Ilkley</strong> Poetry Map’. (See<br />
website)<br />
£3 adults £1 children For adults and<br />
children 10+ (no younger!)<br />
Please bring pen and paper.<br />
Please note, your child’s safety on this<br />
walk is your responsibility.<br />
98.<br />
Sunday 10th October 2pm<br />
Kings Hall<br />
Peter Hain on Nelson<br />
Mandela<br />
The former Labour Minister<br />
introduces his new biography of<br />
Nelson Mandela which chronicles<br />
the extraordinary journey of the<br />
ANC revolutionary who became<br />
the President able to heal a divided<br />
nation.<br />
Exiled from his native South Africa,<br />
Peter Hain first rose to prominence as<br />
a leading anti-apartheid campaigner<br />
and chair of the Stop The Tour<br />
campaigns which disrupted tours by<br />
the South African rugby and cricket<br />
teams in 1969/70.<br />
£9/7<br />
Peter Hain with Nelson Mandela<br />
99.<br />
Sunday 10th October 2pm<br />
<strong>Ilkley</strong> Playhouse Wharfeside<br />
The Princess’ Blankets:<br />
Carol Ann Duffy and<br />
John Sampson<br />
Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy and<br />
magical musician, John Sampson,<br />
with a story about a princess who<br />
can’t get warm.<br />
£5 adults £4 children Age 6–11.<br />
See page 42 for full details.<br />
Sponsored by The Grammar School at<br />
Leeds<br />
John Sampson and Carol Ann Duffy<br />
100.<br />
Sunday 10th October 2pm<br />
<strong>Ilkley</strong> Playhouse Wildman<br />
What on Earth Happened?<br />
Christopher Lloyd<br />
How old is the universe? How<br />
are humans related to a sponge?<br />
Christopher Lloyd tells the story of<br />
the planet from the big bang till now,<br />
with a suitcase full of props.<br />
£4 Age 8–12.<br />
See page 43 for full details.<br />
Sponsored by Bradford Girls’ Grammar<br />
School<br />
Barbara Trapido<br />
101.<br />
Sunday 10th October 3pm<br />
St Margaret’s Hall<br />
Barbara Trapido: In<br />
Conversation<br />
<strong>Festival</strong> favourite Barbara Trapido<br />
is the author of seven critically<br />
praised novels. She demonstrates<br />
a relish for almost Shakespearean<br />
comic plots, in her rich mix of<br />
chance encounters, separations and<br />
erotic misunderstandings. Today,<br />
in conversation with James Nash,<br />
she discusses her latest novel, Sex<br />
and Stravinsky, where comedy and<br />
sadness sit side by side as characters’<br />
lives are moulded by a series of<br />
chance meetings across continents<br />
and generations.<br />
£6/4<br />
This event begins with the results<br />
of the 2010 <strong>Festival</strong> Short Story<br />
Competition. Details from:<br />
www.ilkleyliteraturefestival.org.uk<br />
102.<br />
Sunday 10th October 3.45pm<br />
<strong>Ilkley</strong> Playhouse Wharfeside<br />
Vitali Vitaliev: The Russian<br />
Clive James?<br />
Vitali Vitaliev, Ukranian-born cultural<br />
commentator and journalist rose to<br />
prominence as ‘Clive James’ man in<br />
Moscow’. An eminent investigative<br />
journalist in the old Soviet Union, KGB<br />
attention forced him to defect. Now<br />
the author of cult classics (Dreams<br />
on Hitler’s Couch), Daily Telegraph<br />
columnist and TV and radio regular,<br />
Vitaliev shares his tremendously<br />
wry take on the human species and<br />
unique reflections on a literary life.<br />
£5/3<br />
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Sunday 10th October 4pm<br />
Craiglands<br />
Polly Toynbee and David<br />
Walker: Did the Labour<br />
Party Change Britain?<br />
Highly experienced political<br />
journalists, the Guardian’s Polly<br />
Toynbee and David Walker, Social<br />
Affairs Editor for the Guardian,<br />
former lead writer for the Times and<br />
presenter of BBC Radio 4’s Analysis,<br />
investigate Labour’s longest term<br />
in office, pitting election promises<br />
alongside government policy. Why<br />
did social mobility slow down on<br />
Labour’s watch? Did Labour policies<br />
actually worsen the recession? From<br />
the gleeful consumerism of the boom<br />
times to the misery of the economic<br />
bust, they assess the era of Blair and<br />
Brown and ask what have Labour<br />
done? Does politics ever actually<br />
change anything?<br />
£6/4<br />
Polly Toynbee<br />
104.<br />
Sunday 10th October 4pm<br />
<strong>Ilkley</strong> Playhouse Wildman<br />
The Golden Age of Arabic<br />
Science: Jim al-Khalili<br />
For over 700 years the international<br />
language of science was Arabic.<br />
From calculating the diameter of the<br />
earth to the origins of algebra and<br />
chemistry, Jim al-Khalili, theoretical<br />
physicist, author, broadcaster and<br />
Professor of Physics at the University<br />
of Surrey, unravels the golden age<br />
of Arabic science centred on 9th<br />
century Baghdad. Professor al-Khalili<br />
presented BBC4’s much praised<br />
Science and Islam series.<br />
£5/3 Adults and young people 14+.<br />
Alexei Sayle<br />
105.<br />
Sunday 10th October 5pm<br />
St Margaret’s Hall<br />
Elsie the Sheep and the<br />
Kings of the Castle<br />
Val Noble takes you on a super<br />
sheepy see, say, sign journey!<br />
Age: 4–94 and families.<br />
FREE FRINGE EVENT<br />
See page 46 for full details.<br />
106.<br />
Sunday 10th October 5.15pm<br />
<strong>Ilkley</strong> Playhouse Wharfeside<br />
Ian M Emberson:<br />
The Zig Zag Path<br />
The launch of Ian Emberson’s<br />
narrative poem as an ebook.<br />
FREE FRINGE EVENT<br />
See page 46 for full details.<br />
107.<br />
Sunday 10th October 6pm<br />
Craiglands<br />
Danger Close: Colonel<br />
Stuart Tootal In<br />
Conversation<br />
The former Commander of 3 Para<br />
is the first senior officer to tell us<br />
the harsh truth about the war in<br />
Afghanistan. A soldier, academic, and<br />
expert in international relations he<br />
resigned from the army in protest<br />
at the Government’s treatment of<br />
wounded troops. Today he discusses<br />
the reality of the unforgiving conflict,<br />
described in his Sunday Times best<br />
seller Danger Close, with BBC foreign<br />
correspondent, Jill McGivering.<br />
£6/4<br />
108.<br />
Sunday 10th October 7.30pm<br />
Craiglands<br />
Lenin Ate my Homework:<br />
Alexei Sayle<br />
Alexei Sayle always knew his parents<br />
were different. They ate salad and<br />
read the Soviet Weekly. A central<br />
figure on the 1980s alternative<br />
comedy circuit, his career has<br />
included stand-up, sitcoms, films,<br />
a Top 20 single, and more recently,<br />
critically acclaimed short stories<br />
and novels. Enjoy his achingly funny<br />
portrait of an unconventional 1960s<br />
family.<br />
£7/5<br />
109.<br />
Sunday 10th October 7.30pm<br />
Kings Hall<br />
Carol Ann Duffy and<br />
John Sampson<br />
‘In the world of poetry, Carol Ann<br />
Duffy is a superstar.’ The Guardian.<br />
Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy<br />
in performance with acclaimed<br />
Edinburgh-based musician, composer<br />
and actor, John Sampson.<br />
Winner of the Whitbread, Forward<br />
and TS Eliot poetry prizes, Duffy<br />
reads from some of her latest as<br />
yet unpublished work and The<br />
World’s Wife, accessible humorous<br />
poems which ‘vibrate with intense<br />
colloquialisms, physicality, energy,<br />
freshness and cheek’. We meet<br />
Mrs Midas and Mrs Darwin. Elvis’s<br />
wimpled sister rocks on in a convent<br />
she calls Graceland; Nancy Sinatra<br />
gets out her boots made for walking.<br />
£9/7<br />
Sponsored by Bradford Grammar School<br />
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with Skipton Building Society<br />
28<br />
110.<br />
Sunday 10th October 7.30pm<br />
St Margaret’s Hall<br />
The Long Road Home:<br />
Matthew Kelly and<br />
Ben Shephard<br />
Conversations about Empires<br />
Wars don’t stutter out – they take<br />
generations to fix. After the Second<br />
World War, an estimated eight<br />
million ‘displaced persons’, including<br />
Southampton University history<br />
lecturer Matthew Kelly’s great<br />
grandmother and her two daughters,<br />
were deported to the East after<br />
Germany’s partitioning of Poland.<br />
Kelly discusses the extraordinary<br />
ordeal that took them from Siberia to<br />
Pakistan with Ben Shephard, author<br />
of The Long Road Home, a compelling<br />
study of the post-war refugee crisis<br />
and its aftermath.<br />
Shephard, producer of The World at<br />
War, and numerous historical and<br />
scientific documentaries for the BBC/<br />
Channel Four is author of A War of<br />
Nerves: Soldiers and Psychiatrists.<br />
£5/3<br />
111.<br />
Sunday 10th October 7.30pm<br />
<strong>Ilkley</strong> Playhouse Wharfeside<br />
Venice City of Masks:<br />
Mary Hoffman and<br />
Michelle Lovric<br />
Two authors lauded for their work<br />
for adults and young people discuss<br />
how Venice ‘city of masks’ has<br />
captivated, shaped and influenced<br />
their writing. Mary Hoffman is the<br />
acclaimed author of the Stravaganza<br />
series of fantasy novels for young<br />
adults set in a parallel dimension<br />
16th century Italy, including City of<br />
Masks, set in a fictionalised and subtly<br />
different Venice. Novelist, writer<br />
and anthologist Michelle Lovric saw<br />
Venice for the first time at 18; from<br />
that moment her ambition was to<br />
write about the city, something she<br />
has done many times, most recently<br />
in her diabolically gorgeous novel of<br />
love, murder and obsession, The Book<br />
of Human Skin.<br />
£5/3<br />
112.<br />
Monday 11th October 1.30pm<br />
Kings Hall<br />
Schools’ Event:<br />
Morris Gleitzman<br />
Australia’s funniest and best-loved<br />
children’s author comes to <strong>Ilkley</strong>!<br />
£3.50 Years 4,5 & 6.<br />
Bookings: 01943 816714<br />
113.<br />
Monday 11th October 4.15pm<br />
Kings Hall<br />
(upstairs area – lift available)<br />
Morris Gleitzman: for<br />
teachers and librarians<br />
Teachers and librarians are warmly<br />
invited to come and hear Morris<br />
Gleitzman in conversation about his<br />
work, children and reading, in this<br />
special event.<br />
FREE with tea and biscuits<br />
Please book places in advance.<br />
This event lasts 60 minutes.<br />
Bookings: 01943 601210<br />
Mary Hoffman<br />
114.<br />
Monday 11th October<br />
6.30–8.30pm <strong>Ilkley</strong> Library<br />
<strong>Ilkley</strong> Lit Fest Young<br />
Writers Group – free taster<br />
Try tonight’s free session and see if<br />
you’d like to join the project!<br />
For young people 13–17.<br />
For full details see page 44.<br />
Supported by Bradford Library Services<br />
115.<br />
Monday 11th October 7.30pm<br />
Kings Hall<br />
Will Self: In Conversation<br />
Will Self performs literary acrobatics<br />
few writers can dream of. We’ll be<br />
asking about Walking to Hollywood,<br />
his extraordinary triptych which<br />
burrows through the intersections<br />
of time, place and psyche to explore<br />
some of our deepest fears with<br />
characteristic edgy humour. And we’ll<br />
be talking about his 120-mile Los<br />
Angeles circumambulation, which led<br />
to abduction by Scientologists and<br />
mortal combat with the reanimated<br />
corpse of Walt Disney …<br />
£9/7<br />
Will Self
Box Office 01943 816714 www.ilkleyliteraturefestival.org.uk<br />
Matthew Parris<br />
116.<br />
Monday 11th October 7.30pm<br />
Craiglands<br />
Matthew Parris and<br />
Andrew Bryson:<br />
Parting Shots<br />
Times columnist, writer and TV<br />
presenter Matthew Parris and<br />
radio journalist Andrew Bryson join<br />
forces to talk about Parting Shots,<br />
their unbuttoned, indiscreet and<br />
very funny collection of valedictory<br />
despatches from ambassadors leaving<br />
foreign postings, which began as a<br />
popular BBC Radio 4 series. Matthew<br />
Parris is a former Conservative MP,<br />
Andrew Bryson a radio journalist<br />
working in the BBC’s Business and<br />
Economics Unit.<br />
£9/7<br />
117.<br />
Monday 11th October 7.30pm<br />
Panache Restaurant<br />
Poetry Banquet<br />
Poet in Residence Antony Dunn<br />
invites you to ‘a word banquet’. Taste<br />
the delicious South Asian buffet, hear<br />
some of Antony’s work and bring and<br />
share your own poems. If you would<br />
like your poem to be on the ‘menu’,<br />
please come 15 minutes early and<br />
give Antony your name.<br />
£12 includes two course buffet.<br />
This event lasts approx. 2 hours.<br />
In conjunction with Panache<br />
118.<br />
Monday 11th October 7.30pm<br />
<strong>Ilkley</strong> Playhouse Wildman<br />
The Truth about MI5 and<br />
MI6: Keith Jeffrey and<br />
Christopher Andrew<br />
Two eminent professors given unique<br />
access to secret files. Christopher<br />
Andrew, Professor of Modern and<br />
Contemporary History at Cambridge<br />
is the official historian of MI5, whose<br />
twelve previous books include<br />
path-breaking studies on the use and<br />
abuse of secret intelligence in modern<br />
history.<br />
Keith Jeffrey, Professor of British<br />
History at Queen’s University,<br />
Belfast has just completed the first<br />
authorised history of MI6 – an<br />
unprecedented study of the bestknown<br />
intelligence organization in<br />
the world. Together they discuss the<br />
evolution of the Secret Service and<br />
the role of intelligence in the world<br />
wars and beyond.<br />
£5/3<br />
119.<br />
Monday 11th October 7.45pm<br />
<strong>Ilkley</strong> Playhouse Wharfeside<br />
Richard Fortey:<br />
The Hidden Landscape<br />
‘Without peer among science writers.’<br />
Bill Bryson<br />
Prize-winning science writer,<br />
Natural History Museum senior<br />
palaeontologist and Royal Society<br />
fellow, Richard Fortey takes us on<br />
a vivid journey back in geological<br />
time, from the age of mammals to<br />
the age of trilobites. An enthralling<br />
exploration, revealing rocks<br />
which contain the story of distant<br />
events and dictate the regional<br />
characteristics of our buildings, and a<br />
Britain divided in two by an ocean …<br />
£5/3 Stay on for Event 120!<br />
120.<br />
Monday 11th October 9pm<br />
<strong>Ilkley</strong> Playhouse Wharfeside<br />
A Muddy History of Britain<br />
Trek through time with local author<br />
and ‘Muddy Archaeologist’, Gillian<br />
Hovell.<br />
FREE FRINGE EVENT<br />
See page 46 for full details.<br />
121.<br />
Monday 11th October 9pm<br />
<strong>Ilkley</strong> Playhouse Wildman<br />
Voices From Beyond<br />
the Dark<br />
Interviews with human rights activists<br />
staged by Ariel Dorfman.<br />
FREE FRINGE EVENT<br />
See page 46 for full details.<br />
Gervase Phinn<br />
122.<br />
Tuesday 12th October 2pm<br />
Kings Hall<br />
Gervase Phinn:<br />
A Yorkshire Lad<br />
One of Britain’s best loved comic<br />
writers and performers – and a<br />
natural storyteller – makes a welcome<br />
return to share with tales from his<br />
childhood. Road To The Dales: The<br />
Story of a Yorkshire Lad offers a<br />
humorous and nostalgic snapshot<br />
of growing up in 1950s Yorkshire,<br />
from summer camps to day trips to<br />
Blackpool.<br />
£9/7<br />
Sponsored by The Laureates<br />
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with Skipton Building Society<br />
123.<br />
Tuesday 12th October 6pm<br />
Manor House<br />
Close Reading 2:<br />
The poems of Jo Shapcott<br />
and Ruth Padel<br />
If you’ve ever read a poem and<br />
struggled to find a way into it, you<br />
can be sure you’re not the only one.<br />
Poet in Residence Antony Dunn<br />
offers a close reading workshop for<br />
those who’d like to know more about<br />
getting to the heart of a poem.<br />
A lively interactive workshop,<br />
exploring poems by poets appearing<br />
at the <strong>Festival</strong>.<br />
£5 See also event 49.<br />
Jenny Eclair<br />
124.<br />
Tuesday 12th October 7.30pm<br />
Kings Hall<br />
Jenny Eclair:<br />
Chin Up Britain<br />
It’s time to return to basic<br />
commonsense and embrace a new<br />
austerity. In inimitable style, Jenny<br />
Eclair brings you hilarious tips for<br />
changing the way you live – from<br />
identifying your swappable skills<br />
(burying dead animals, tuning a<br />
freeview box) to a guide to gatecrashing.<br />
Much loved stand up comedian, first<br />
female winner of the Perrier award<br />
Jenny Eclair is co-creator of Grumpy<br />
Old Women.<br />
£9/7<br />
Sponsored by Specsavers<br />
125.<br />
Tuesday 12th October 7.30pm<br />
<strong>Ilkley</strong> Playhouse Wildman<br />
Our Billie: Ian Clayton<br />
Every parent’s worst nightmare<br />
became reality for well known<br />
broadcaster, Ian Clayton. On a short<br />
holiday his nine year old daughter<br />
Billie drowned. Our Billie is his story<br />
of how a family attempts to come to<br />
terms with something which makes<br />
no sense. Through memories of Billie<br />
and his wonderfully affectionate<br />
portrait of the Yorkshire town<br />
where the family has lived for<br />
generations, he weaves a story of<br />
loss and remembering, gratitude and<br />
forgiveness.<br />
£5/3<br />
126.<br />
Tuesday 12th October 7.30pm<br />
<strong>Ilkley</strong> Playhouse Wharfeside<br />
Nearly Lear<br />
‘Poignant, tragic, mischievous … and<br />
achingly funny’.<br />
King Lear, told by the King’s closest<br />
companion, his devoted clown, Norris.<br />
An emotional roller-coaster ride that<br />
confounds expectations of what a<br />
Shakespeare play should be, blending<br />
exuberant storytelling, music, song,<br />
and film alongside Shakespeare’s rich<br />
poetic text.<br />
An acclaimed one woman show by<br />
Canadian actor, Susanna Hamnett<br />
on tour from Toronto, directed by<br />
Edith Tankus of Kneehigh Theatre.<br />
£7/5 Family show adults and 10+.<br />
127.<br />
Tuesday 12th October 9pm<br />
<strong>Ilkley</strong> Playhouse Wildman<br />
Votes for Women<br />
Nina Boyd’s illustrated reading of<br />
poems about the Suffragettes.<br />
FREE FRINGE EVENT<br />
See page 46 for full details.<br />
128.<br />
Wednesday 13th October 3pm<br />
Rombalds Hotel<br />
Tea with Elizabeth Noble<br />
and William Nicholson<br />
What happens when your previous<br />
love makes a surprise reappearance?<br />
Is it time for a second chance … or<br />
should you walk away?<br />
Elizabeth Noble, author of five<br />
best-selling novels including The<br />
Reading Group and Things I Want My<br />
Daughters to Know, discusses love and<br />
betrayal with fellow author William<br />
Nicholson. Playwright, screen<br />
writer (Gladiator, Shadowlands,<br />
Elizabeth: The Golden Age) and<br />
novelist, Nicholson’s latest novel All<br />
the Hopeful Lovers, set eight years<br />
after The Secret Intensity of Everyday<br />
Life, sees Belinda, wistfully reflecting<br />
how she’d never be unfaithful to her<br />
husband …<br />
£6 includes cream tea<br />
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129.<br />
Wednesday 13th October<br />
7.30pm Craiglands<br />
Magnificent Seven:<br />
Yorkshire’s Golden Decade<br />
with Richard Hutton and<br />
Don Wilson<br />
Howzat!<br />
Seven championships, two Gillette<br />
cups. In one decade, by one team.<br />
Between 1959 and 1969, captained<br />
by Ronnie Burnet, Vic Wilson and<br />
Brian Close, Yorkshire won more<br />
trophies in a single decade than<br />
at any other time in the club’s<br />
illustrious history. Respected sports<br />
journalist Andrew Collomosse<br />
discusses memories of Yorkshire’s<br />
championship years with<br />
distinguished cricketers Richard<br />
Hutton and Don Wilson. (Brian Close<br />
might even drop in!)<br />
Andrew Collomosse, former deputy<br />
sports editor of the Daily Express in<br />
Manchester, has covered cricket for<br />
the Daily Telegraph and The Wisden<br />
Cricketer magazine.<br />
£7/5<br />
Sponsored by Audley Clevedon<br />
130.<br />
Wednesday 13th October<br />
7.30pm Bettys Café Tea Rooms<br />
Jack Sheffield<br />
Following a delicious Bettys twocourse<br />
Yorkshire supper, sit back as<br />
author, former teacher and lecturer in<br />
education Jack Sheffield regales you<br />
with wonderful stories of his days as a<br />
village primary school head in North<br />
Yorkshire, from struggles with the<br />
new fangled typewriter to the village<br />
Panto.<br />
£29.95 including a two-course set<br />
meal, followed by tea or coffee<br />
Tickets only from Bettys Café Tea<br />
Rooms <strong>Ilkley</strong> 01943 608029<br />
131.<br />
Wednesday 13th October 7.30pm<br />
<strong>Ilkley</strong> Playhouse Wildman<br />
Mrs Gaskell’s ‘Nice<br />
American’: the <strong>Ilkley</strong><br />
Connection<br />
In the summer of 1865, Mrs Gaskell<br />
recorded an unexpected visit from<br />
‘a very nice American’. The visitor<br />
spent several hours in conversation<br />
with the renowned Victorian<br />
novelist, and remembered it as ‘the<br />
most pleasant visit … I think I had<br />
anywhere’. Hitherto, the visitor’s<br />
identity has remained a mystery. But<br />
<strong>Ilkley</strong> historian Mike Dixon reveals an<br />
explanation with a local connection,<br />
in this illustrated talk.<br />
£5/3<br />
Sir Michael Parkinson<br />
132.<br />
Thursday 14th October 7.30pm<br />
Kings Hall<br />
Michael Parkinson<br />
For three decades Sir Michael<br />
Parkinson interviewed the movers<br />
and shakers of the late twentieth<br />
century on his flagship BBC<br />
<strong>programme</strong>, singing with Bing Crosby<br />
and sparring with Muhammad Ali.<br />
Born near Barnsley and originally<br />
a journalist on the Manchester<br />
Guardian and Daily Express, Parkinson<br />
presented TV-am and hosted Radio<br />
4’s Desert Island Discs in the course of<br />
a long and distinguished career.<br />
£12/10<br />
Sponsored by Welcome to Yorkshire<br />
133.<br />
Thursday 14th October 7.30 pm<br />
<strong>Ilkley</strong> Playhouse Wildman<br />
David Nobbs<br />
David Nobbs, the celebrated creator<br />
of Reggie Perrin and TV sitcom A<br />
Bit Of A Do, has been described by<br />
Jonathan Coe as ‘probably our finest<br />
post-war comic novelist’. His latest<br />
novel, Obstacles To Young Love,<br />
spans thirty years and is a sweet and<br />
typically humorous story of love, faith<br />
and taxidermy.<br />
£5/3<br />
134.<br />
Thursday 14th October 7.30pm<br />
<strong>Ilkley</strong> Playhouse Wharfeside<br />
Blake Morrison:<br />
The Last Weekend<br />
Blake Morrison’s compelling new<br />
psychological thriller is the chilling<br />
story of a rivalrous friendship.<br />
Each day a series of challenges for<br />
higher and higher stakes. Tonight<br />
the celebrated Skipton-born author<br />
talks about the impulse behind this<br />
haunting tale of friendship, sexual<br />
passion and jealousy. Poet, novelist<br />
and playwright, Morrison is former<br />
literary editor of the Observer and<br />
Professor of Creative and Life Writing<br />
at Goldsmiths College.<br />
£6/4<br />
Blake Morrison<br />
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with Skipton Building Society<br />
135.<br />
Thursday 14th October 7.30pm<br />
St Margaret’s Hall<br />
Zimbabwe – Hope and<br />
Despair: Philip Barclay<br />
and Miles Tendi<br />
Conversations about Empires<br />
As a young diplomat at the British<br />
Embassy in Zimbabwe, Philip<br />
Barclay saw the tumultuous 2008<br />
election at first hand as Robert<br />
Mugabe fought to cling to power. In<br />
an electrifying account he recorded<br />
the violent excesses of a hated<br />
clique as the country’s economy<br />
and public services collapsed. Now<br />
he discusses the country’s past and<br />
future with Oxford academic and<br />
political expert, Zimbabwean Miles<br />
Tendi. They consider why the world<br />
stood by and watched as Zimbabwe<br />
burned and whether power-sharing<br />
between Robert Mugabe and Morgan<br />
Tsvangirai offers the country a<br />
tenable way forward.<br />
£5/3<br />
136.<br />
Thursday 14th October 7.30pm<br />
Bettys Café Tea Rooms<br />
Jack Sheffield<br />
Repeat of Wednesday’s event.<br />
All details as Event 130.<br />
137.<br />
Thursday 14th October 9pm<br />
<strong>Ilkley</strong> Playhouse Wildman<br />
Cadaverine<br />
Cadaverine Magazine showcases<br />
young writers.<br />
FREE FRINGE EVENT<br />
See page 46 for full details.<br />
138.<br />
Friday 15th October 3pm<br />
White Wells, <strong>Ilkley</strong> Moor<br />
‘That Place on <strong>Ilkley</strong> Moor’<br />
White Wells tenant Mark Hunnebell<br />
gives a brief history of the iconic<br />
building on <strong>Ilkley</strong> Moor.<br />
FREE FRINGE EVENT<br />
See page 46 for full details.<br />
139.<br />
Friday 15th October 7.30pm<br />
Kings Hall<br />
George Alagiah:<br />
Food For Thought<br />
Why produce a crop you don’t need,<br />
with water you can’t afford to waste,<br />
for people living thousands of miles<br />
away? George Alagiah, presenter<br />
of the BBC Six O’Clock News, BBC<br />
Foreign Correspondent, holder of<br />
six international reporting awards<br />
and a passionate Fairtrade advocate,<br />
offers a compelling, round-the-world<br />
investigation into the global food<br />
chain and why it’s fit to break.<br />
£9/7<br />
140.<br />
Friday 15th October 7.30pm<br />
<strong>Ilkley</strong> Playhouse Wharfeside<br />
Stumble Dance Circus presents<br />
Bipolar Ringmaster: with<br />
actor Eric MacLennan<br />
Part exploration of Bipolar Disorder<br />
and part celebration of circus, this<br />
new piece by Mish Weaver plays with<br />
our perceptions and expectations of<br />
mental ill health and performance.<br />
Incorporating film of new circus<br />
choreography, it blurs the lines<br />
between colourful character and<br />
delusion, grand achievement or<br />
obsession.<br />
£6/4<br />
Martin Wainwright<br />
141.<br />
Friday 15th October 7.30pm<br />
<strong>Ilkley</strong> Playhouse Wildman<br />
Kate Fox News<br />
‘Had the whole audience laughing.’<br />
Daily Telegraph.<br />
Comic poet, stand-up, Radio 4<br />
Saturday Live regular and sometime<br />
journalist Kate Fox anchors her<br />
dramatic life story to the big news<br />
events … From the Thatcher years<br />
via the Yorkshire Ripper to Princess<br />
Di and foot-and-mouth, Kate Fox<br />
asks where you were when the news<br />
broke?<br />
‘… funny, quirky and a wonderful<br />
writer.’ Sarah Millican.<br />
£5/3<br />
George Alagiah<br />
142.<br />
Friday 15th October 7.30pm<br />
St Margaret’s Hall<br />
Martin Wainwright and<br />
Dr Patrick Eyres:<br />
100 Shades of Blue<br />
Martin Wainwright, Northern Editor<br />
of the Guardian in conversation<br />
with garden and social historian<br />
Dr Patrick Eyres, recalls how his<br />
grandfather created the UK’s finest<br />
delphinium garden in Leeds while<br />
leading relief work in the 1930s<br />
depression. Martin’s memories of<br />
growing up amid 100 shades of blue<br />
are documented in the Yorkshire<br />
Gardens Trust book With Abundance<br />
and Variety, to which Patrick has also<br />
contributed.<br />
£5/3 With free delphinium seeds!<br />
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Jo Shapcott<br />
143.<br />
Friday 15th October 7.30–<br />
9.30pm Otley Courthouse<br />
Cool Voices Club Night<br />
Teenagers perform their own work.<br />
Age 12–18.<br />
See page 44 for full details.<br />
144.<br />
Friday 15th October 8pm<br />
Manor House Museum<br />
Ray Hearne<br />
Singer/song writer and poet Ray<br />
Hearne is no ordinary songwriter.<br />
He relishes language, rolls it around<br />
his tongue and unleashes a jubilant<br />
jumble of images, words, rhymes<br />
and couplets all fighting for space<br />
in his songs. Who else could sing<br />
words like ‘prestidigitate’, ‘fettler’<br />
and ‘runaroundabout town lad’ and<br />
make it sound like the angels came to<br />
Wath-on-Dearne?<br />
£8 available only from 01943 609393,<br />
Liz Bowen, 21 Stourton Road, <strong>Ilkley</strong><br />
LS29 9BG. Cheques payable to Friends<br />
of the Manor House<br />
In association with the Friends of the<br />
Manor House<br />
145.<br />
Friday 15th October 8.30pm<br />
Venue: it could be your front<br />
room!<br />
Your Own Poetry House<br />
Party with Jo Shapcott<br />
Invite Poet in Residence Antony<br />
Dunn and <strong>Festival</strong> poet Jo Shapcott<br />
to your house, and they might just<br />
come! They’ll give an exclusive, hourlong<br />
reading in your living room (or<br />
even your kitchen) just for you. Invite<br />
friends and family, or have them all<br />
to yourself.<br />
FREE<br />
If you live within 20 minutes drive of<br />
<strong>Ilkley</strong> send a short invitation, no more<br />
than 50 words, to:<br />
info@ilkleyliteraturefestival.org.uk<br />
or post to Poetry House Party, ILF,<br />
The Manor House, 2 Castle Hill, <strong>Ilkley</strong><br />
LS29 9DT<br />
The most interesting, moving, funny<br />
or otherwise compelling invitation will<br />
win. Must arrive by Friday 1st October<br />
5pm.<br />
146.<br />
Friday 15th October 9pm<br />
<strong>Ilkley</strong> Playhouse Wildman<br />
The Dark Threads and<br />
Footprints in the Snow<br />
Autobiography, short fiction and<br />
poetry from Leeds Survivors Poetry<br />
group.<br />
FREE FRINGE EVENT<br />
See page 46 for full details.<br />
147.<br />
Friday 15th October 9.15pm<br />
<strong>Ilkley</strong> Playhouse Wharfeside<br />
Shakespeare’s Sonnets by<br />
Five Voices<br />
Compelling reading of a selection of<br />
Shakespeare’s sonnets.<br />
FREE FRINGE EVENT<br />
See page 46 for full details.<br />
148.<br />
Saturday 16th October<br />
9.30am–1.30pm<br />
Meet at Cow and Calf Rocks<br />
Car Park<br />
Photo Safari with<br />
John Morrison<br />
A landscape photography workshop<br />
around the Cow and Calf rocks, aimed<br />
at helping DSLR camera users take<br />
their photography to the next level.<br />
John Morrison, one of the country’s<br />
finest landscape photographers,<br />
will help you build on your skills<br />
to become a better, more creative<br />
photographer … making images that<br />
show not just what a landscape looks<br />
like, but what it feels like too.<br />
£20/15<br />
For keen photographers.<br />
Opportunities to show your work on<br />
the ILF website and be involved in the<br />
Stanza Stones project. Places limited<br />
– please book in advance. Equipment<br />
lists will be sent to participants.<br />
149.<br />
Saturday 16th October<br />
10.30am–4.30pm Church House<br />
Breaking News: Make a<br />
Newspaper in a Day<br />
A chance for teenagers to work with<br />
a real journalist and graphic designer<br />
and create a <strong>Festival</strong> newspaper.<br />
£5 Age 14–18.<br />
See page 44 for full details.<br />
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ilkley literature festival 10<br />
with Skipton Building Society<br />
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150.<br />
Saturday 16th October<br />
11am–1pm Manor House<br />
Jo Shapcott Masterclass<br />
Calling all poets for a masterclass<br />
designed to focus on technical skills<br />
with award-winning poet Jo Shapcott.<br />
A writer of ingenious, acute,<br />
provocative poetry, with a reputation<br />
as one of the most original and<br />
daring voices of her generation.<br />
Bring a notebook and an open mind.<br />
£12/8<br />
For all levels. Please bring pen and<br />
paper. Places limited – please book in<br />
advance.<br />
151.<br />
Saturday 16th October<br />
11am–1pm St Margaret’s Hall<br />
Stephen Grey:<br />
the Investigative<br />
Journalist’s Masterclass<br />
A unique opportunity to learn at<br />
first hand, from an immensely<br />
experienced and distinguished<br />
investigative journalist. Stephen Grey<br />
has written for everyone from the<br />
New York Times, Guardian, Times and<br />
Independent to the New Statesman<br />
and Newsweek.<br />
£12/8<br />
For writers with some experience.<br />
Please bring pen and paper. Places<br />
limited – please book in advance.<br />
Aminatta Forna<br />
Kishwar Desai<br />
152.<br />
Saturday 16th October 1.30pm<br />
<strong>Ilkley</strong> Playhouse Wharfeside<br />
Witness the Night:<br />
Aminatta Forna and<br />
Kishwar Desai<br />
Conversations about Empires<br />
Two remarkable women writers and<br />
journalists, clear advocates of justice,<br />
discuss their powerful recent novels.<br />
Kishwar Desai has a 30 year career as<br />
journalist, anchor, producer and head<br />
of an Indian TV channel. Her first<br />
novel Witness the Night, longlisted<br />
for the Man Asian Literary Prize, is a<br />
powerful highly atmospheric mystery<br />
set in India and London’s Southhall<br />
with female foeticide at its core.<br />
Writer Aminatta Forna’s brilliant<br />
new novel The Memory of Love takes<br />
an oblique look at the Sierra Leonean<br />
civil war of the 1990s. Forna is the<br />
author of two critically admired<br />
novels and The Devil that Danced on<br />
Water, a highly praised memoir of her<br />
dissident father.<br />
£5/3<br />
153.<br />
Saturday 16th October 2pm<br />
<strong>Ilkley</strong> Playhouse Wildman<br />
Joseph O’Connor<br />
One of Ireland’s leading contemporary<br />
authors discusses his fictionalised<br />
account of the life, loves and tragically<br />
early death of one of his country’s<br />
greatest ever writers. Joseph<br />
O’Connor’s latest novel, Ghost<br />
Light, tells the story of the love affair<br />
between troubled genius JM Synge<br />
and 19 year old actress Molly Allgood<br />
– ‘a deeply moving, beautifully written<br />
story.’ Glasgow Herald.<br />
£6/4<br />
154.<br />
Saturday 16th October 2–4pm<br />
Manor House<br />
Writing the News:<br />
Workshop with Kate Fox<br />
Kate Fox writes topical poems for<br />
Radio 4’s Saturday Live and created<br />
‘Write Poems about The News’ Day.<br />
This workshop uses practical, fun<br />
exercises to find ways into writing<br />
about the news and the now.<br />
£12/8<br />
For all levels. Please bring pen and<br />
paper.<br />
Kate Fox<br />
155.<br />
Saturday 16th October 2.15pm<br />
Manor House Museum<br />
Faces of Poetry Face-to-<br />
Face: Jo Shapcott<br />
Poet Jo Shapcott comes face to face<br />
with her own image, as she gives<br />
a unique short reading in front of<br />
photographer Madeleine Waller’s<br />
portrait.<br />
FREE
Box Office 01943 816714 www.ilkleyliteraturefestival.org.uk<br />
156.<br />
Saturday 16th October 2.30pm<br />
St Margaret’s Hall<br />
Reporting Afghanistan:<br />
Stephen Grey and James<br />
Fergusson<br />
Conversations about Empires<br />
Stephen Grey is an award-winning<br />
British investigative journalist and<br />
author, well known for revealing<br />
details of the CIA’s program of<br />
‘extraordinary rendition’. He writes for<br />
the New York Times, Guardian, and<br />
Independent and reports for Channel<br />
4’s Dispatches, BBC Newsnight, Radio<br />
4 and the World Service. Like his<br />
fellow reporter, James Fergusson,<br />
he’s reported extensively from<br />
Iraq and Afghanistan. Fergusson,<br />
a freelance journalist and foreign<br />
correspondent, (Independent, Daily<br />
Telegraph, The Economist) has<br />
gained unique access to the Taliban.<br />
Together they discuss the reality and<br />
complexities of reporting the war in<br />
Afghanistan; the fear, uncertainty and<br />
mayhem of intensive fighting and the<br />
questions that follow.<br />
£5/3<br />
157.<br />
Saturday 16th October 3.30pm<br />
<strong>Ilkley</strong> Playhouse Wharfeside<br />
Audrey Niffenegger:<br />
In Conversation<br />
American author, Audrey<br />
Niffenegger, is both novelist and<br />
visual artist, achieving enormous<br />
success in both fields. Her debut<br />
novel, The Time Traveler’s Wife,<br />
was a worldwide bestseller, and<br />
hugely popular Hollywood film. In<br />
conversation with James Nash she<br />
discusses her new novel, Her Fearful<br />
Symmetry – a deliciously modern<br />
ghost story set around Highgate<br />
Cemetery which explores familiar<br />
themes of love, loss and identity.<br />
£6/4<br />
158.<br />
Saturday 16th October 4pm<br />
<strong>Ilkley</strong> Playhouse Wildman<br />
Jo Shapcott and Ruth Padel<br />
Multi-award-winning poet<br />
Jo Shapcott reads from her new<br />
collection Of Mutability, offering<br />
poems by turns grave and playful,<br />
arresting and witty, which explore the<br />
nature of change – in the body and<br />
the natural world, and in the shifting<br />
relationships between people.<br />
Ruth Padel is a prominent poet and<br />
critic and former Chair of the Poetry<br />
Society. She has published seven<br />
highly praised collections including<br />
The Soho Leopard and is celebrated<br />
for her nature writing in both poetry<br />
and prose, reflecting her passionate<br />
attachment to the natural world.<br />
£6/4<br />
This event begins with the results<br />
of the 2010 <strong>Festival</strong> Short Story<br />
Competition. Details from:<br />
www.ilkleyliteraturefestival.org.uk<br />
Audrey Niffenegger<br />
Ruth Padel ©: www.carpenterturner.co.uk<br />
159.<br />
Saturday 16th October 4.30pm<br />
St Margaret’s Hall<br />
The Young Romantics:<br />
Daisy Hay<br />
Daisy Hay, fellow of St Antony’s<br />
College Oxford, shatters the myth<br />
of the romantic poet as a solitary,<br />
introspective genius. Instead she<br />
explores the communal, emotional<br />
existence of an astonishing early 19th<br />
century circle. Leigh Hunt, radical<br />
journalist and editor; the restless poet<br />
Shelley; his brilliant wife Mary, author<br />
of Frankenstein; Mary’s feisty stepsister<br />
Claire Clairmont, who became<br />
Byron’s lover; and Hunt’s charismatic<br />
sister-in-law Elizabeth Kent.<br />
£5/3 Follow this with Mary Shelley’s<br />
Frankenstein, Event 163.<br />
160.<br />
Saturday 16th 5pm<br />
<strong>Ilkley</strong> Playhouse Wharfeside<br />
Six Exciting Things: <strong>Ilkley</strong><br />
Lit Fest in the spotlight<br />
A chance for <strong>Festival</strong> staff and<br />
participants to fill you in on some<br />
of the exciting projects we’ve<br />
been working on, from our young<br />
Ambassadors scheme to our young<br />
writers group, sizzling club nights,<br />
community projects and work with<br />
parents and children at Chapeltown<br />
Children’s Centre. Participants will be<br />
reading their work and there’ll be time<br />
for discussion and questions.<br />
FREE Just turn up.<br />
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161.<br />
Saturday 16th October 6pm<br />
<strong>Ilkley</strong> Playhouse Wildman<br />
The Pennine Way and The<br />
Watershed: John Morrison<br />
A Pennine journey, evoked in words<br />
and pictures, from Edale in the Peak<br />
to Kirk Yetholm in the Scottish<br />
Borders. Writer and photographer,<br />
John Morrison, co-author of two<br />
landscape books, The Backbone<br />
of England and The Pennine Way<br />
explores the Pennine hills, central to<br />
the <strong>Festival</strong>’s exciting Stanza Stones<br />
project.<br />
£5/3<br />
Alistair Campbell<br />
ilkley literature festival 10<br />
with Skipton Building Society<br />
162.<br />
Saturday 16th October 7.30pm<br />
Kings Hall<br />
Alastair Campbell:<br />
In Conversation<br />
Prelude to Power<br />
He’s back! – with the unexpurgated<br />
version of his crucial diaries. Alastair<br />
Campbell talks about the period from<br />
John Smith’s untimely death to the<br />
moment Tony Blair became Prime<br />
Minister. A central player in New<br />
Labour, Campbell knows, if anyone<br />
does, why Tony Blair rather than<br />
Gordon Brown became leader of the<br />
Party. Find out what really happened<br />
from the maestro of spin.<br />
£9/7<br />
Sponsored by Schofield Sweeney Solicitors<br />
163.<br />
Saturday 16th 7.30pm<br />
<strong>Ilkley</strong> Playhouse Wharfeside<br />
Frankenstein with Ben<br />
Haggarty and Sianed Jones<br />
‘I was spellbound.’ The Times.<br />
Acclaimed storyteller, Ben Haggarty,<br />
and musician and singer, Sianed<br />
Jones, present an intense ‘Steam<br />
Punk’ interpretation of Mary Shelley’s<br />
enduring modern myth.<br />
A story for our times, Frankenstein<br />
speaks in lurid, bold terms of<br />
power unleashed, the loneliness<br />
of separation and our fear of the<br />
unknown.<br />
£7/5 See also Event 159.<br />
A full evening’s event with an interval.<br />
164.<br />
Saturday 16th October 8pm<br />
<strong>Ilkley</strong> Playhouse Wildman<br />
Cranford Behind the<br />
Scenes: Sue Birtwistle and<br />
Susie Conklin<br />
TV producer Sue Birtwistle and script<br />
editor Susie Conklin, who created<br />
the BBC adaptation of Cranford,<br />
explain how they interwove Elizabeth<br />
Gaskell’s timeless stories to produce<br />
their award-winning dramatisation. In<br />
this Gaskell centenary year, they take<br />
us behind the scenes to reveal how<br />
the production team recreated the<br />
costumes, landscapes and decor of an<br />
1840s town.<br />
£6/4<br />
165.<br />
Saturday 16th October 7.30pm<br />
St Margaret’s Hall<br />
Jacquetta Hawkes and<br />
her Circle<br />
Jacquetta Hawkes’ biographer<br />
Dr Christine Finn and Dr Jon Wood<br />
of the Henry Moore Institute discuss<br />
the post war arts circle which<br />
Hawkes inhabited. It included her<br />
friend, Henry Moore, who provided<br />
illustrations for A Land, and the<br />
artist Graham Sutherland; it also<br />
encompassed the <strong>Festival</strong> of Britain.<br />
They consider her contribution along<br />
with that of other personalities in the<br />
art, film and poetry scene of that vital<br />
50s period of Britishness.<br />
£5/3<br />
166.<br />
Saturday 16th 9.15pm<br />
<strong>Ilkley</strong> Playhouse Wildman<br />
The Writers’ Group<br />
Exposed!!!<br />
Yorkshire Art Circus Writer<br />
Development Programme re-unites to<br />
share poetry and prose.<br />
FREE FRINGE EVENT<br />
See page 46 for full details.<br />
167.<br />
Saturday 16th 9.15pm<br />
<strong>Ilkley</strong> Moor Vaults Upstairs<br />
<strong>Festival</strong> Literary Quiz<br />
After huge fun last year, the <strong>Festival</strong>’s<br />
light hearted literary quiz (with<br />
glittering prizes) is back! Hosted by<br />
quiz book writer, Marcus Berkmann,<br />
it features a rotating ‘<strong>Festival</strong> team’ of<br />
local book lovers, audience members,<br />
<strong>Festival</strong> staff and Board vs the mighty<br />
2010 <strong>Festival</strong> authors.<br />
£2 in advance or on the door.<br />
Join the <strong>Festival</strong> team on the night or<br />
just cheer us on. Bar.<br />
In association with <strong>Ilkley</strong> Moor Vaults<br />
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Box Office 01943 816714 www.ilkleyliteraturefestival.org.uk<br />
168.<br />
Sunday 17th October 11am–1pm<br />
Manor House<br />
How Words Behave<br />
Together: Masterclass<br />
with Ruth Padel<br />
A poetry masterclass with this leading<br />
poet. Please bring 13 copies (can be<br />
on the same sheet) of up to three of<br />
your poems to the masterclass for<br />
discussion.<br />
£12/8<br />
For people already writing poetry.<br />
Please bring pen and paper. Places<br />
limited – please book in advance.<br />
169, 170.<br />
Sunday 17th October 1.30pm<br />
and 4pm All Saints School<br />
Tutti Frutti and York<br />
Theatre Royal: When We<br />
Lived in Uncle’s Hat<br />
Round the brim of uncle’s hat and<br />
over the moon, in search of that most<br />
magical place – a home.<br />
£5/4 See page 43 for full details.<br />
171.<br />
Sunday 17th October 1.45pm<br />
<strong>Ilkley</strong> Playhouse Wharfeside<br />
If I am Not for Myself:<br />
Mike Marqusee<br />
Writer, journalist and social activist<br />
Mike Marqusee describes himself as a<br />
‘deracinated New York Marxist Jew’.<br />
A regular contributor (politics to<br />
cricket) to the Daily Telegraph, The<br />
Hindu and New Left Review, he leads<br />
us on a rich personal journey from<br />
the Bronx via Pakistan to London,<br />
introducing Jewish heretics and<br />
heroes, his brawling grandfather and<br />
the Prophet Amos.<br />
Disentangling Jewishness from Israel,<br />
he explores what it means to be a 21st<br />
century Jew.<br />
£5/3<br />
Emma Darwin<br />
172.<br />
Sunday 17th October 2pm<br />
Meet outside Manor House<br />
Robert Collyer’s <strong>Ilkley</strong><br />
Robert Collyer, an <strong>Ilkley</strong> blacksmith<br />
and Methodist lay preacher emigrated<br />
to America in 1850. Entering the<br />
Unitarian ministry in Chicago he<br />
became one of the leading preachers<br />
of his generation. Collyer made<br />
numerous return visits to <strong>Ilkley</strong> and<br />
saw at first hand the substantial<br />
changes the town underwent during<br />
the 19th century. This walk, led<br />
by local historian Dr Mike Dixon,<br />
recaptures the transformation he<br />
witnessed.<br />
£4<br />
173.<br />
Sunday 17th October 2pm<br />
<strong>Ilkley</strong> Playhouse Wildman<br />
Through A Different Lens:<br />
Maria McCann, Emma<br />
Darwin, RN Morris and<br />
Rose Melikan on Writing<br />
Historical Fiction<br />
Four lauded historical novelists,<br />
who between them write crime,<br />
romantic adventure, literary and<br />
crossover fiction, come together<br />
to talk about what they write and<br />
why. Roger Morris is on the sharp<br />
end of outrage as well as delight for<br />
borrowing Dostoevsky’s detective in<br />
1860s St Petersburg; Maria McCann<br />
draws on the turbulent history of Civil<br />
War radicalism; Rose Melikan has<br />
created a Georgian heroine with more<br />
on her mind than card parties; and<br />
Emma Darwin draws on the violent,<br />
glamorous world of the Princes in the<br />
Tower. Together they discuss how<br />
they work with the past and how they<br />
leave the facts behind to reach the<br />
might-have-been of fiction.<br />
£5/3<br />
174.<br />
Sunday 17th October 2pm<br />
Craiglands<br />
Margaret Drabble:<br />
In Conversation<br />
Novelist, critic and biographer,<br />
Margaret Drabble has for many<br />
years been one of the most respected<br />
and acclaimed contributors to<br />
contemporary English literature. Here<br />
in conversation with James Nash,<br />
she reflects on her long career and<br />
discuses her latest book, The Pattern<br />
In The Carpet: A Personal History With<br />
Jigsaws.<br />
£6/4<br />
Margaret Drabble<br />
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ilkley literature festival 10<br />
with Skipton Building Society<br />
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Niall Ferguson<br />
175.<br />
Sunday 17th October 2–4pm<br />
Manor House<br />
Reading Local, Writing<br />
Local with Apprentice<br />
Poet in Residence Andrew<br />
McMillan<br />
Poetry doesn’t have to be exotic or<br />
pretentious. By first studying the<br />
work of local voices, this workshop<br />
explores different ways poetry can<br />
respond to the Yorkshire landscape.<br />
Through processes of reportage,<br />
humour and mythologising, we can<br />
bring out the poetry which exists all<br />
around us in the everyday.<br />
£5<br />
For all levels. Please bring pen and<br />
paper. Places limited – please book in<br />
advance.<br />
176.<br />
Sunday 17th October 2.30pm<br />
St Margaret’s Hall<br />
The Tangled Bank:<br />
Ruth Padel<br />
2010 is the Year of Biodiversity, a<br />
concept Charles Darwin invented. In<br />
her debut novel, Where the Serpent<br />
Lives, his great great granddaughter,<br />
Ruth Padel, produces a highly original<br />
vision bringing together zoology,<br />
conservation and the interrelatedness<br />
of nature, inspired by Darwin’s insight<br />
into the tangled relations of life.<br />
This afternoon she reads both from<br />
her novel and from her poety memoir<br />
Darwin: A Life in Poems.<br />
£5/3<br />
177.<br />
Sunday 17th October 2.30pm<br />
Kings Hall<br />
Niall Ferguson:<br />
High Financier<br />
Acclaimed controversial historian<br />
Niall Ferguson, best selling author of<br />
The Ascent of Money, hugely popular<br />
presenter of the BBC series Empire,<br />
Professor of History at Harvard<br />
and Senior Research Fellow at Jesus<br />
College, Oxford, returns to his roots<br />
as a financial historian.<br />
In this groundbreaking biography,<br />
Ferguson, invited by the government<br />
to revitalise history’s popularity<br />
in schools, considers Siegmund<br />
Warburg, the principled refugee<br />
banker from Hitler’s Germany.<br />
£9/7<br />
178.<br />
Sunday 17th October 2.30–<br />
4.30pm All Saints School<br />
Write an Adventure Story –<br />
Workshop<br />
See page 43 for full details.<br />
179.<br />
Sunday 17th October 3.30pm<br />
<strong>Ilkley</strong> Playhouse Wildman<br />
Anna Pavord:<br />
The Curious Gardener<br />
Anna Pavord, noted gardening<br />
correspondent for the Independent<br />
and best selling author of eight<br />
previous books, including The Tulip,<br />
brings together her thoughts on<br />
gardening throughout the year.<br />
From what to do in each month and<br />
how to get the best from flowers,<br />
plants, herbs, fruit and vegetables,<br />
through to reflections on the weather,<br />
favourite old gardening clothes, office<br />
greenery, Derek Jarman and garden<br />
design.<br />
£6/4<br />
180.<br />
Sunday 17th October 4pm<br />
<strong>Ilkley</strong> Playhouse Wharfeside<br />
Douglas Dunn and Antony<br />
Dunn<br />
Poet in Residence Antony Dunn fulfils<br />
a his ambition to read from his three<br />
collections of poems, including 2009’s<br />
Bugs, alongside legendary Scottish<br />
poet Douglas Dunn.<br />
As well as ten collections of poetry,<br />
including Elegies (winner of the<br />
1985 Whitbread Book of the Year<br />
Award), The Year’s Afternoon and<br />
The Donkey’s Ears, Douglas Dunn has<br />
edited The Faber Book of Twentieth-<br />
Century Scottish Poetry. His New<br />
Selected Poems was published by<br />
Faber in 2003.<br />
£5/3<br />
181.<br />
Sunday 17th October 4pm<br />
Craiglands<br />
Louis de Bernières<br />
Louis de Bernières author of the best<br />
selling Captain Corelli’s Mandolin<br />
makes a welcome return to the<br />
<strong>Festival</strong>. He introduces his latest book<br />
Notwithstanding: Stories From An<br />
English Village, a nostalgically funny<br />
depiction of English village life that<br />
charms and moves in equal amounts.<br />
£6/4<br />
182.<br />
Sunday 17th October 4.30pm<br />
St Margaret’s Hall<br />
An Enlightened Life:<br />
Nicholas Phillipson on<br />
Adam Smith<br />
Nicholas Phillipson, Honorary<br />
Research Fellow in History at<br />
Edinburgh University and leading<br />
scholar of the Scottish Enlightenment,<br />
sheds new light on Adam Smith,<br />
celebrated author of The Wealth<br />
of Nations and founder of modern<br />
economics. Yet Smith saw himself<br />
primarily as a philosopher. In a<br />
fascinating event, Phillipson explains<br />
how The Wealth of Nations was part<br />
of a much more ambitious scheme …<br />
£5/3
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Sunday 17th October 5pm<br />
<strong>Ilkley</strong> Playhouse Wharfeside<br />
Jill McGivering:<br />
From News to Fiction<br />
Conversations about Empires<br />
Jill McGivering, senior BBC<br />
broadcaster, Asia specialist and <strong>Ilkley</strong><br />
resident has covered foreign news<br />
for BBC radio and television news<br />
for 18 years. Her first novel, The Last<br />
Kestrel, set in Afghanistan, draws<br />
on her reporting trips, embeds with<br />
British forces in Helmand Province<br />
and preoccupation with the civilian<br />
population and their stories. In<br />
discussion this evening, she considers<br />
how her experience as a reporter<br />
informs her fiction.<br />
£5/3<br />
184.<br />
Sunday 17th October 6pm<br />
Craiglands<br />
Francis Pryor: The Making<br />
of the British Landscape<br />
From suburban streets that trace the<br />
boundaries of long vanished farms<br />
to the Norfolk Broads, formed when<br />
medieval peat pits flooded – evidence<br />
of our effect on Britain is everywhere.<br />
Eminent historian, archaeologist, Time<br />
Team regular and former president of<br />
the Council for British Archaeology,<br />
Francis Pryor explains how to read<br />
the clues preserved in our fields,<br />
roads, towns and villages.<br />
£6/4<br />
185.<br />
Sunday 17th October 7.30pm<br />
St Maragret’s Hall<br />
The Three Sisters: Indian<br />
Cookery Talk and Demo<br />
Born in Kashmir and brought up in<br />
Derbyshire, Priya, Sereena and Alexa<br />
Kaul learned to cook watching their<br />
mother and grandmother. With<br />
families themselves and craving the<br />
recipes of their childhoods, they<br />
created a spice box with thirteen<br />
essential flavours and simplified<br />
traditional dishes to suit their hectic<br />
lifestyles. This evening they’ll be<br />
talking about growing up in Kashmir,<br />
Delhi and Derbyshire, bickering<br />
happily between themselves and<br />
thanks to the St Margaret’s kitchen,<br />
demonstrating how to cook healthy,<br />
easy and authentic Indian food.<br />
£6/4 includes tastes!<br />
186.<br />
Sunday 17th October 8pm<br />
Craiglands<br />
Roddy Doyle<br />
Roddy Doyle is one of the leading<br />
figures of contemporary Irish fiction<br />
and critically acclaimed author of<br />
The Commitments and the Booker<br />
Prize-winning Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha.<br />
A decade ago Doyle began a trilogy<br />
of novels re-examining the history of<br />
Ireland in the 20th Century. Now he<br />
completes the trilogy with The Dead<br />
Republic, examining the dangerous<br />
ways modern Irish history has been<br />
mythologised.<br />
£7/5<br />
Sponsored by Aimhigher and University of<br />
Bradford<br />
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Sunday 17th October 8.30pm<br />
<strong>Ilkley</strong> Playhouse Wildman<br />
<strong>Festival</strong> Open Mic<br />
The chance for anyone to perform<br />
their own work. Poetry, prose,<br />
stand-up it’s all fair game. But you’ve<br />
only got three minutes to convince<br />
your audience and win £200 and the<br />
coveted Open Mic title; 2nd prize £75;<br />
3rd prize £25.<br />
It’s not only performers who enjoy<br />
this frenzied night out – come along<br />
and bring your friends.<br />
Phone 01943 816714 or email admin@<br />
ilkleyliteraturefestival.org.uk by<br />
midnight Sept 30th to put your name<br />
in the hat. The first 20 people drawn<br />
at random on Oct 1st get the chance<br />
to perform.<br />
£5<br />
188.<br />
Thursday 21st October 7.30pm<br />
St Margaret’s Hall<br />
<strong>Festival</strong> Feedback Session<br />
Join the <strong>Festival</strong> Team to let us know<br />
your thoughts on this year’s <strong>Festival</strong><br />
over a glass of wine – and put your<br />
name in the hat for free tickets to<br />
next year’s headline event!<br />
FREE<br />
STOP PRESS<br />
205.<br />
Simon Hoggart<br />
Renowned political sketch writer<br />
and Guardian columnist Simon<br />
Hoggart will be joining us for an<br />
event during the <strong>Festival</strong>. Check<br />
the website for details of time<br />
and venue.<br />
£9/7<br />
Our website will also give you all<br />
the latest information on ticket<br />
availability.<br />
Roddy Doyle<br />
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Children’s<br />
<strong>Festival</strong><br />
Fun things to do for children 4–12<br />
Children under 12 MUST BE<br />
ACCOMPANIED at all events<br />
except where indicated.<br />
Accompanying adults need a<br />
ticket for all events.<br />
All events last 45 minutes<br />
unless otherwise shown.<br />
Please do not bring children<br />
younger than the age indicated!<br />
7.<br />
Saturday 2nd October 12 noon<br />
<strong>Ilkley</strong> Playhouse Wildman<br />
Stormy Weather and The<br />
Trouble with Dragons with<br />
Debi Gliori<br />
An enchanting event full of drawing<br />
and storytelling for younger children<br />
with the very popular author and<br />
illustrator of No Matter What and<br />
dozens of others.<br />
£4 Age 5–7.<br />
Patron John Cunliffe<br />
Children’s <strong>Festival</strong> sponsors<br />
30 and 31.<br />
Sunday 3rd October 2.30–3.30pm & 3.45–4.45pm<br />
All Saints School<br />
The Nutcracker Ballet<br />
Follow Northern Ballet Theatre’s dance artist into the sparkling world<br />
of the Sugar Plum Fairy, as you learn steps from NBT’s magical ballet,<br />
The Nutcracker. Why not come dressed as your favourite character?<br />
No previous experience needed – boys and girls welcome.<br />
£4 Event 1 age 5–7. Event 1 age 8–12 .<br />
Loose comfortable clothing (make sure they can move in costumes!) and<br />
trainers or dance shoes. Parents must remain in the building.<br />
See page 12<br />
In association with Northern<br />
Ballet Theatre. National Tour<br />
Partner: Leeds Metropolitan<br />
University<br />
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Sunday 3rd October 4p–5pm<br />
<strong>Ilkley</strong> Playhouse Wildman<br />
Valerie Bloom: Children’s<br />
Poetry Event<br />
Favourite children’s author Valerie<br />
Bloom, in a lively performance<br />
poetry event, for the whole family.<br />
Learn to speak some Jamaican,<br />
then join in the poems, calling,<br />
chanting and singing. Loads of fun!<br />
£5 adults £4 children<br />
Age 7–11.<br />
This event begins with a short<br />
reading by the winners of the<br />
Children’s Poetry Competition.<br />
Children’s Poetry Competition prizes sponsored by Bradford Grammar School.<br />
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Children’s Weekend<br />
Eureka! The National Children’s<br />
Museum is visiting the <strong>Ilkley</strong><br />
<strong>Literature</strong> <strong>Festival</strong> again this year.<br />
189, 190, 191 & 192.<br />
Saturday 9th October<br />
All Saints School<br />
Eureka! Jump to the Beat<br />
Have a whole load of fun getting<br />
active and finding out about your<br />
heart and why it’s so important.<br />
Join the ‘Supermarket Dash’ and race<br />
to find the healthy food.<br />
£4 Age 7–11 adults FREE.<br />
Must be booked in advance.<br />
Times: 189. 10.15am, 190. 11.30am,<br />
191. 2.15pm & 192. 3.30pm<br />
193 & 194.<br />
Saturday 9th October<br />
10–11.30am & 1.30–3pm<br />
All Saints School<br />
The Magical World of<br />
Mina with Manasamitra<br />
Dress up in exciting costumes<br />
with face paints, then get<br />
ready to be part of Mina’s<br />
Magical World – an enthralling<br />
performance of storytelling,<br />
dance and music from the<br />
famous Panchatantra tales.<br />
£4 (includes juice) Age 5–10.<br />
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Saturday 9th October<br />
10.30–11.30am All Saints School<br />
Make a Play with Multi<br />
Story Theatre Company<br />
Can you make an exciting play in just<br />
one hour? You can if the amazing<br />
Multi Story Theatre are there to<br />
help you. Get ready for action and<br />
adventure!<br />
£4 Age 8–12.<br />
Children may attend unaccompanied.<br />
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Saturday 9th October 10.30am<br />
All Saints School<br />
Story Time with Helen<br />
Stephens<br />
Helen Stephens brings to life her<br />
much loved stories – like Fleabag,<br />
Twinkly Night, and Poochie-Poo –<br />
with an entrancing joining-in event<br />
specially for children.<br />
£4 Age 5–10.<br />
Illustration from Tip Tap Went the Crab<br />
197.<br />
Saturday 9th October<br />
11.45am All Saints School<br />
Tip Tap Went the Crab with<br />
Tim Hopgood<br />
A fantastically creative event for<br />
younger children with Tim Hopgood<br />
who has twice won the Early Years<br />
Award for his beautifully illustrated<br />
books.<br />
£4 Age 4–6.<br />
199.<br />
Saturday 9th October 1.45pm<br />
<strong>Ilkley</strong> Playhouse Wharfeside<br />
The Joshua Files with<br />
MG Harris<br />
Josh thinks he’s discovered the key to<br />
time travel. Should he use it? Time is<br />
running out …<br />
Find out about Joshua’s amazing<br />
adventures in the giant sand dunes<br />
of Natal and tropical jungle of Brazil<br />
from MG Harris, best selling author<br />
of The Joshua Files.<br />
£4 Age 8–12.<br />
198.<br />
Saturday 9th October 12 noon<br />
<strong>Ilkley</strong> Playhouse Wharfeside<br />
Magic, Maths and Mystery<br />
Loads of fun maths tricks to try with<br />
top maths writer and radio presenter,<br />
Rob Eastaway. He can do amazing<br />
things – and even read your mind!<br />
£4 Age 6–11.<br />
80.<br />
Saturday 9th October 2–3pm<br />
Kings Hall<br />
The Number Mysteries:<br />
Prof Marcus du Sautoy<br />
Britain’s most famous<br />
mathematician with number fun<br />
from hopscotch to Wayne Rooney.<br />
£8 adults £5 children.<br />
Age 10/11 upwards.<br />
MG Harris<br />
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with Skipton Building Society<br />
Children’s Weekend<br />
200.<br />
Saturday 9th October 2–3.30pm<br />
All Saints School<br />
Jazzy Books – Making<br />
Workshop<br />
Create a beautiful collage with<br />
Sandra Flitcroft, based on<br />
artist Henri Matisse’s Jazz book<br />
illustrations. We’ll use pre-painted<br />
paper to do what Matisse called<br />
‘painting with scissors’ and add our<br />
own words.<br />
£4 Age 8–12.<br />
Children may attend unaccompanied.<br />
201.<br />
Saturday 9th October 2–3pm<br />
All Saints School<br />
Spin a Rap! Workshop<br />
Poet and DJ Philip Charles has a head<br />
full of rhymes. You won’t be able to<br />
stop yourself creating a catchy rap<br />
once he gets started.<br />
£4 Age 8–12.<br />
Children may attend unaccompanied.<br />
202.<br />
Saturday 9th October 3.45pm<br />
All Saints School<br />
Draw your own Horrible<br />
Science Cartoons with<br />
Tony de Saulles<br />
Learn how to draw cartoons with<br />
Tony de Saulles, illustrator of the<br />
Horrible Science series by Nick Arnold.<br />
(There are over fifty titles, each one<br />
more gruesome than the last!)<br />
A joining-in event where everyone will<br />
be able to try drawing.<br />
£4 Age 7–11.<br />
203.<br />
Saturday 9th October<br />
5–6pm <strong>Ilkley</strong> Playhouse<br />
Wharfeside<br />
Twelve Wild Ducks:<br />
Multi Story Theatre<br />
Company<br />
Be careful what you wish<br />
for! That’s what the Queen<br />
discovers when she wishes for a<br />
daughter. For the moment her<br />
beautiful daughter is born, her<br />
sons are transformed into wild<br />
ducks …<br />
The fantastic Multi Story<br />
Theatre with a play that’s full<br />
to the brim with cliff-hanging<br />
moments, as the Princess sets<br />
off to rescue her brothers.<br />
£5 adults £4 children. Age 5–11.<br />
204.<br />
Sunday 10th October 11am–1pm<br />
Otley Courthouse<br />
Kev F’s Comic Art<br />
Masterclass<br />
Learn how to tell stories in pictures<br />
and all the secrets of drawing<br />
cartoons with Kev F Sutherland –<br />
who draws for The Beano.<br />
Great fun – and you’ll end up with a<br />
comic to take home.<br />
£4 Age 8 –12.<br />
Children may attend unaccompanied.<br />
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Sunday 10th October 2–3pm<br />
<strong>Ilkley</strong> Playhouse Wharfeside<br />
The Princess’ Blankets:<br />
Carol Ann Duffy and John<br />
Sampson<br />
Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy<br />
shares her special story The Princess’<br />
Blankets, about a princess who can’t<br />
get warm. A fabulous poetry, music<br />
and fairytale show with magical<br />
musician John Sampson.<br />
£5 adults £4 children. Age 6–11.<br />
Sponsored by<br />
The Grammar School at Leeds<br />
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100.<br />
Sunday 10th October 2pm <strong>Ilkley</strong><br />
Playhouse Wildman<br />
What on Earth Happened?<br />
Christopher Lloyd<br />
How old is the universe? How are<br />
humans related to a sponge? How<br />
much would a complete<br />
T-Rex skeleton cost? Where did the<br />
Himalayas come from?<br />
Christopher Lloyd is back with a<br />
suitcase full of fantastic props to tell<br />
the story of the planet from the big<br />
bang till now.<br />
£4 Age 8–12.<br />
Sponsored by Bradford Girls’ Grammar<br />
School<br />
97.<br />
Sunday 10th October<br />
2–4pm begins and ends<br />
at The Manor House<br />
All Ages Poetry Workshop:<br />
The Song of the River<br />
Join Poet in Residence, Antony Dunn,<br />
for a short family walk along the<br />
River Wharfe. Find a special spot to<br />
write a poem about the river. Then<br />
help create a long group poem.<br />
£3 adults £1 children. Age 10+.<br />
Please note, your child’s safety on this<br />
walk is your responsibility.<br />
105.<br />
Sunday 10th October 5pm<br />
St Margaret’s Church Hall<br />
Elsie the Sheep and the<br />
Kings of the Castle<br />
Val Noble takes you on a super<br />
sheepy see, say, sign journey!<br />
Age 4–94.<br />
FREE FRINGE EVENT<br />
See page 46 for full details<br />
Plus …<br />
169 & 170.<br />
Sunday 17th October<br />
1.30–2.20pm &<br />
4–4.50pm<br />
All Saints School<br />
Tutti Frutti and<br />
York Theatre Royal<br />
present: When We<br />
Lived in Uncle’s Hat<br />
by Peter Stamm and<br />
Jutta Bauer, adapted<br />
for stage by Finegan<br />
Kruckemeyer<br />
A play about … how<br />
walls don’t make a house. And doors<br />
don’t make a house. A family makes a house.<br />
Tutti Frutti’s merry band of actor-musicians take you round the brim<br />
of uncle’s hat and over the moon, all in search of that most magical<br />
place – a home.<br />
£5 adults £4 children. Age 5–9.<br />
178.<br />
Sunday 17th October<br />
2.30–4.30pm All Saints School<br />
Write an Adventure Story –<br />
Workshop<br />
Love writing exciting stories? Try<br />
this fun story-writing workshop<br />
with Ceci Jenkinson, author<br />
of The Mum Shop and<br />
Gnomes are Forever.<br />
She’ll show you how<br />
to plan and write a<br />
thrilling adventure<br />
story using her<br />
Secret Formula!<br />
£4 includes juice<br />
break<br />
Age 8–12.<br />
Children<br />
may attend<br />
unaccompanied.<br />
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Cool Voices<br />
Events for young people<br />
at Il kley <strong>Literature</strong> <strong>Festival</strong><br />
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Sunday 10th October<br />
2–6pm Otley Courthouse<br />
(Sign up from 1.40pm)<br />
Cool Voices WordsFest<br />
An afternoon of laid back workshop<br />
sessions, food (great chocolate<br />
cake), fun, music, poetry.<br />
Young people aged 12–18 only!<br />
With top young people’s author<br />
Mary Hoffman.<br />
1.40pm Sign up for your sessions<br />
2pm<br />
Make a manga comic with<br />
cartoonist Kev F (Takes up both<br />
sessions)<br />
Write song lyrics with<br />
Michelle Scally Clarke<br />
Write a short story with<br />
Becky Cherriman<br />
Tips for young poets with<br />
Andrew McMillan<br />
Create a rap with Philip Charles<br />
Try graffiti with Ged Walker<br />
Create computer games with<br />
experts from Sunderland Uni<br />
3.10 pm Headline author<br />
Mary Hoffman<br />
4 pm Chance to do a different<br />
workshop<br />
5.10pm Fast and furious poetry slam<br />
competition – read/perform your<br />
own work poetry or prose (mustn’t<br />
be longer than 3 minutes). Fantastic<br />
prizes.<br />
£5 for the whole afternoon<br />
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Sunday 3rd October<br />
3pm Kings Hall<br />
Louise Rennison<br />
The Queen of Teen, author of the<br />
brilliant Georgia Nicolson books,<br />
tells you about her hilarious new<br />
series. Boys, snogging and bad<br />
acting guaranteed as they enrol<br />
on an arty summer course in the<br />
middle of nowhere.<br />
£6 adults £5 teenagers<br />
Age 12–17.<br />
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Saturday 9th October 3.45pm<br />
<strong>Ilkley</strong> Playhouse Wildman<br />
Bernardine Evaristo<br />
A hot summer afternoon. A gang<br />
of youths on bikes, a teenage<br />
boy stabbed and left bleeding on<br />
the street. Find out what made<br />
Bernardine Evaristo write Hello<br />
Mum and how she researched it.<br />
£3 Age 12–16.<br />
114.<br />
Monday 11th October<br />
6.30–8.30pm <strong>Ilkley</strong> Library<br />
opposite <strong>Ilkley</strong> bus/rail station<br />
<strong>Ilkley</strong> Lit Fest Young<br />
Writers Group free taster<br />
Be part of a special weekly<br />
group for young writers. You’ll<br />
be writing poetry, short stories,<br />
plays and be included in our<br />
mega project with Simon<br />
Armitage.<br />
Try tonight’s free session and see<br />
if you’d like to join the project!<br />
FREE Age 13–17 (future sessions,<br />
Mondays. same time, £1 per<br />
session.)<br />
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Friday 15th October 7.30 –<br />
9.30pm Otley Courthouse<br />
Cool Voices Club Night<br />
Young people read/perform<br />
their own work: songs,<br />
poetry, rap, stand-up, short<br />
stories. MC, rap poet Philip<br />
Charles. A brilliant night! For a<br />
performer’s slot email: info@<br />
ilkleyliteraturefestival.org.uk or<br />
come to watch.<br />
Performers free. Juice Bar.<br />
£3 in advance/on the door<br />
Age 12–18 .<br />
Young Writers Competition prizes<br />
sponsored by <strong>Ilkley</strong> Book Club<br />
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Saturday 16th October<br />
10.30am–4.30pm Church<br />
House<br />
Breaking News: Make a<br />
Newspaper in a Day<br />
Work with a real journalist and<br />
graphic designer to create a<br />
<strong>Festival</strong> newspaper. Write the top<br />
stories, interview <strong>Festival</strong><br />
celebs, review events,<br />
dig up the gossip,<br />
even create a<br />
fashion page.<br />
£5 Age 14–18.<br />
Bring a packed<br />
lunch. Drinks and<br />
biscuits provided.<br />
Please note: day<br />
will include going out<br />
around <strong>Ilkley</strong> in small<br />
groups.<br />
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fringe events<br />
All events at <strong>Ilkley</strong> Playhouse<br />
Wildman, Weston Road, <strong>Ilkley</strong>,<br />
LS29 8DW unless otherwise<br />
stated.<br />
Fringe events are created for the<br />
<strong>Festival</strong> by talented writers and<br />
performers from across Yorkshire.<br />
They’re free, fun and exciting and<br />
like the Fringe anywhere you take<br />
them as you find them!<br />
All Fringe events are FREE. There’s<br />
no need to book in advance – just<br />
turn up.<br />
I9.<br />
Saturday 2nd October 5.15pm<br />
It’s a Long Way<br />
It’s a long way from running an art<br />
gallery in <strong>Ilkley</strong> to making handmade<br />
books in Scotland. Mary Thomson<br />
(formerly Sara) poet ,writer and<br />
curator reads recent poems and<br />
discusses why and how she makes<br />
her books, demonstrating the<br />
crystallisation of experience offered<br />
by the miniature format.<br />
Mary Thomson<br />
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Monday 4th October 9pm<br />
<strong>Ilkley</strong> Playhouse Wharfeside<br />
The Poetry School in York<br />
& Leeds – Live<br />
Seven poets. Seven minutes each.<br />
Exciting new voices selected from<br />
around 100 people who’ve taken<br />
part in activities run by The Poetry<br />
School in York & Leeds. Introduced<br />
by Poetry School tutor, ILF Poet in<br />
Residence Antony Dunn.<br />
48.<br />
Monday 4th October 9pm<br />
Their Spirits, My Demons<br />
Otley based author, John Ormond,<br />
presents his warm, humorous<br />
yet emotive book, which details<br />
life growing up in an emotionally<br />
unstable home environment,<br />
plagued by volatile tempers and<br />
alcoholism.<br />
53.<br />
Tuesday 5th October 9.15pm<br />
<strong>Ilkley</strong> Playhouse Wildman<br />
Flying with the Moon –<br />
The search for a lost airman<br />
‘Lancaster Bomber EE138 left its<br />
base at the appointed time. Nothing<br />
has been heard of the aircraft and<br />
crew since.’ (RAF Secret Operations<br />
Records 1943)<br />
Jean Stevens introduces an exciting<br />
and moving tale of mystery, surprise<br />
and discovery; the gripping story<br />
behind the death of a close relative.<br />
58.<br />
Wednesday 6th October<br />
8.30–10pm Happiness Centre<br />
The Unlikely Poetry of<br />
Michael Conneely<br />
A reading at the new <strong>Ilkley</strong> Happiness<br />
Centre, of Michael’s nature-based,<br />
God-realm and love visionary poetry<br />
written at Glastonbury during a field<br />
study of new spiritual forms being<br />
embraced by the modern West.<br />
Open Mic for like-minded poems.<br />
Refreshments available.<br />
66.<br />
Thursday 7th October 9pm<br />
<strong>Ilkley</strong> Playhouse Wharfeside<br />
A Flambard Affair<br />
Sensual, evocative poetry from<br />
Mary Robinson and Rebecca Goss,<br />
reading from their first collections,<br />
published by Flambard Press. Mary<br />
Robinson’s The Art of Gardening is<br />
‘an immensely varied collection’.<br />
Rebecca Goss’s The Anatomy of<br />
Structures is ‘fearless, fresh and<br />
utterly engaging – strong on<br />
intelligence as well as emotion’.<br />
67.<br />
Thursday 7th October 9pm<br />
An Domhan Eile (The Other<br />
World) by Lucht Focail<br />
Lucht Focail (pronounced Luct<br />
fockoll – if you dare!!) are an Irish<br />
writers group who have fashioned<br />
a sequence of poetry, storytelling,<br />
music, song and dance to explore the<br />
richness of Irish myth and folklore. A<br />
joyful, compelling journey through<br />
the roots of Irish culture.<br />
Lucht Focail<br />
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Friday 8th October 9–9.30pm<br />
<strong>Ilkley</strong> Playhouse Wharfeside<br />
Stand Up with Ash Caton<br />
New comedy written and performed<br />
by the brilliantly funny 18 year old<br />
Ash Caton. Wry observations on<br />
everything from being a teenager to<br />
the best way to wear a seatbelt.<br />
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Saturday 9th October<br />
6.45–7.15pm Otley Courthouse<br />
The Magnificent Seven<br />
Deadly Sins<br />
Imaginative prose and poetry<br />
exploring ‘the Magnificent Seven<br />
Deadly Sins’ from The Courthouse<br />
Writers who take no responsibility<br />
for any moral damage our<br />
performance may cause. In the<br />
unlikely event you are affected by<br />
the issues raised in our <strong>programme</strong><br />
please DON’T phone us!<br />
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ilkley literature festival 10<br />
with Skipton Building Society<br />
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Saturday 9th October 9.15pm<br />
The Ties that Bind<br />
Pink Lady Productions presents<br />
The Ties that Bind. Four short sharp<br />
theatrical monologues from the<br />
region’s best new female writing<br />
talent addressing the emotional,<br />
familial and societal demands that<br />
shape their characters’ lives.<br />
Adult themes are explored – not<br />
suitable for children.<br />
I05.<br />
Sunday 10th October 5pm<br />
St Margaret’s Church Hall<br />
Elsie the Sheep and the<br />
Kings of the Castle<br />
Join Elsie the sheep and her farmyard<br />
friends in a friendly game of kings of<br />
the castle. Val Noble takes you on a<br />
super, sheepy see, say, find journey<br />
through her lavishly illustrated<br />
children’s book which also features<br />
British Sign Language drawings.<br />
Join in the fun learning to sign the<br />
characters.<br />
For ages 4–94!<br />
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Sunday 10th October 5.15pm<br />
<strong>Ilkley</strong> Playhouse Wharfside<br />
The Zig Zag Path<br />
The launch of Ian M Emberson’s<br />
new narrative poem – set on an<br />
imaginary planet elsewhere in the<br />
universe – as an ebook. 200 pages<br />
long, each page is fully illustrated<br />
by the author. Enjoy a reading of the<br />
early scenes, followed by a screening<br />
of the whole. Available on the<br />
author’s website –<br />
www.ianemberson.co.uk<br />
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Monday 11th October 9pm <strong>Ilkley</strong><br />
Playhouse Wharfeside<br />
A Muddy History of Britain<br />
An illustrated trek through time<br />
with local author and ‘Muddy<br />
Archaeologist’, Gillian Hovell.<br />
Discover how to spot history’s<br />
impact – from mankind’s first arrival<br />
to the world wars – on the landscape<br />
around us.<br />
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Monday 11th October 9pm<br />
Voices From Beyond<br />
The Dark<br />
A staging by Pulitzer-prize winning<br />
author, Ariel Dorfman, of Kerry<br />
Kennedy Cuomo’s book of interviews<br />
with human rights activists from<br />
around from world, ‘from Desmond<br />
Tutu to the unknown activist on the<br />
ground’. Performed by actors and<br />
Amnesty members.<br />
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Tuesday 12th October 9pm<br />
Votes for Women!<br />
Votes for Women! – an illustrated<br />
reading of poems about the<br />
Suffragettes from Nina Boyd’s first<br />
collection, Dear Mr Asquith, given<br />
historical context with words and<br />
pictures. A fascinating study of<br />
the struggle for the vote, pursued<br />
by passionate women from every<br />
walk of life in the decade before the<br />
outbreak of war in 1914.<br />
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Thursday 14th October 9pm<br />
Cadaverine Magazine<br />
Cadaverine Magazine showcases<br />
some of their best young writers<br />
reading a selection of poetry and<br />
short fiction. Guest poet is Radio 4’s<br />
Saturday Live Poet in Residence, Kate<br />
Fox. Includes Q and A session related<br />
to writing and publishing.<br />
www.thecadaverine.com<br />
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Friday 15th October 3pm<br />
White Wells, <strong>Ilkley</strong> Moor<br />
‘That Place on <strong>Ilkley</strong> Moor’<br />
An iconic building on an iconic moor.<br />
White Wells tenant and author of<br />
The History of White Wells, Mark<br />
Hunnebell, gives a brief history of<br />
the building, from its 18th century<br />
origins and the 19th century<br />
fascination with hydropathy, to<br />
dereliction, and the renovation that<br />
saved it.<br />
Tea and coffee available<br />
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Friday 15th October 9pm<br />
The Dark Threads and<br />
Footprints In The Snow<br />
Jean Davison’s memoir The Dark<br />
Threads was described by Dorothy<br />
Rowe as ‘essential reading’ and by<br />
a reviewer as ‘destined to become<br />
a classic in the genre of psychiatric<br />
autobiography’. Jean’s reading is<br />
supported by Angel Heart, reading<br />
from her short story collection,<br />
and by members of Leeds Survivors<br />
Poetry group.<br />
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Friday 15th October 9.15pm<br />
<strong>Ilkley</strong> Playhouse Wharfeside<br />
Shakespeare’s Sonnets<br />
by Five Voices<br />
A powerful performance of well<br />
and lesser known sonnets by Liam<br />
Fitzsimons, Mary Heycock, Síle<br />
Moriarty, Ian Parks and Ed Reiss.<br />
The five voices bring distinctive<br />
tones; the readings bring out the<br />
dramatic qualities latent in the<br />
sequence, making connections to<br />
each other and the plays.<br />
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Saturday 16th October 9.15pm<br />
The Writers’ Group<br />
Exposed!!!<br />
Members of the Yorkshire Art Circus<br />
Writer Development Programme<br />
re-unite to share a variety of forms<br />
from poetry, prose, electronic and<br />
children’s literature. Be a fly on the<br />
wall as some of Yorkshire’s upcoming<br />
writers read, perform and discuss<br />
their work. Stay afterwards for the<br />
Q and A.<br />
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acknowledgements<br />
The <strong>Festival</strong> would like to thank<br />
the following organisations for<br />
their support during 2010<br />
Headline Sponsor<br />
Skipton Building Society<br />
Print Sponsor<br />
Spellman Walker<br />
Major Sponsor<br />
Welcome to Yorkshire<br />
Event Sponsors<br />
Audley Clevedon<br />
Bradford Aimhigher and<br />
the University of Bradford<br />
Bradford Girls’ Grammar<br />
School<br />
Bradford Grammar School<br />
Garbutt & Elliott<br />
The Grammar School at Leeds<br />
Granta<br />
Hebridean Island Cruises<br />
<strong>Ilkley</strong> Book Club<br />
<strong>Ilkley</strong> Brewery<br />
Panache<br />
Rombalds Hotel<br />
Schofield Sweeney Solicitors<br />
Skipton & Wharfedale<br />
Decorative & Fine Arts<br />
Society<br />
Specsavers<br />
Spooner Industries Ltd<br />
The Laureates<br />
Corporate Friends<br />
The Wheatley Arms<br />
<strong>Festival</strong> Gold Friends<br />
Sir Rodney Brooke CBE DL<br />
Peter Marshall<br />
Podcast Partner<br />
Yorkshire Post<br />
Event Partners<br />
Audley Clevedon<br />
Bazm-E-Tadeeb International<br />
Bettys Café Tea Rooms<br />
Bradford Library Services<br />
Crick Crack Club<br />
Children’s Bookshow<br />
Eureka! The National Children’s<br />
Museum<br />
FMCM<br />
Friends of the Manor House<br />
Friends of Donald Baverstock<br />
The Grove Bookshop<br />
The History Wardrobe<br />
<strong>Ilkley</strong> Playhouse<br />
Leeds Metropolitan University<br />
Manor House Museum, <strong>Ilkley</strong><br />
MLA Renaissance<br />
National Portrait Gallery<br />
Northern Ballet Theatre<br />
Otley Courthouse Arts and<br />
Resource Centre<br />
Open College of the Arts<br />
Panache<br />
Renaissance One<br />
Speaking of Books<br />
Triple PA<br />
University of Leeds<br />
University of Bradford<br />
University of Sunderland<br />
The Wheatley Arms<br />
White Wells<br />
Supporters<br />
All Saints C of E Primary School,<br />
<strong>Ilkley</strong><br />
&Co<br />
BBC Radio Leeds<br />
Bradford Library Service<br />
Brontë Parsonage<br />
The Children’s University<br />
Chapeltown Children’s Centre<br />
Clarke Foley Centre<br />
Craiglands Hotel<br />
Education Bradford<br />
The Happiness Centre<br />
<strong>Ilkley</strong> Business Forum<br />
<strong>Ilkley</strong> Grammar School<br />
<strong>Ilkley</strong> Moor Vaults<br />
<strong>Ilkley</strong> Playhouse<br />
<strong>Ilkley</strong> Lawn Tennis and Squash<br />
Club<br />
<strong>Ilkley</strong> Visitor Information Centre<br />
Kings Hall<br />
Laisterdyke Business and<br />
Enterprise College<br />
Leeds Children’s University<br />
Leeds Library Service<br />
Rombalds Hotel<br />
Roundhay School<br />
St Margaret’s Church Hall<br />
YUM!<br />
Publishing Partners<br />
Atlantic Books<br />
Beautiful Books<br />
Bloomsbury<br />
Constable and Robinson<br />
Ebury Publishing<br />
Faber & Faber<br />
Granta and Portobello Books<br />
Great Northern Books<br />
Guardian Books<br />
Hachette Children’s Books<br />
Harper Collins<br />
Hodder<br />
John Murrays<br />
Little Brown<br />
Macmillan<br />
Octopus<br />
Orion<br />
Peepal Tree Press<br />
Penguin Books<br />
Random House<br />
Scholastic<br />
Simon and Schuster<br />
Thames and Hudson<br />
Transworld<br />
Verso<br />
A special thanks to all<br />
our <strong>Festival</strong> stewards and<br />
volunteers, to the Friends of the<br />
<strong>Festival</strong> and to Geoff Thorpe for<br />
his tireless support over many<br />
years.<br />
<strong>Festival</strong> Staff<br />
Director: Rachel Feldberg<br />
<strong>Festival</strong> Manager: Gail Price<br />
Marketing and Sponsorship:<br />
Abbey Vale<br />
Audience Development:<br />
Dawn Cameron<br />
Admin Assistant: Kate Holmes<br />
Press: Anita Morris Associates<br />
Graphic Design:<br />
Richard Honey, dg3<br />
Technical Director:<br />
Richard Speight<br />
Asst Technical Director:<br />
Adam Welch<br />
Technical Team:<br />
Chris Bradbury, David Wallbank<br />
Volunteers’ Coordinator:<br />
Abbey Vale<br />
Assistant Directors:<br />
Judy Passmore, Liz Palliser,<br />
Glynis Hughes, Annie Lathan,<br />
Gail Ferrin, Fiona Goh<br />
Arts Trainee: Milan Lad<br />
Marketing Intern: Robyn Ellis<br />
Copy Assistant: Robert Lawlor<br />
Café Manager: Fiona Drake<br />
Stage Managers: Emma Black,<br />
Kate Parry, Lauren Burgess,<br />
Alyson Howe, Bekki Bryan,<br />
Amy Balderston, Laura Spurgeon<br />
Box Office Administrators: Laura<br />
Beddows, Lucia Cox<br />
Box Office Administrator<br />
(Venues): Mary Varley<br />
<strong>Festival</strong> Photographers:<br />
Paul Floyd Blake, David Collins<br />
Web Site maintenance:<br />
CDS Studios<br />
<strong>Festival</strong> Poet in Residence<br />
Antony Dunn<br />
Apprentice Poet in<br />
Residence:<br />
Andrew McMillan<br />
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tickets<br />
Online<br />
Book your tickets online at any time from 9am<br />
Tuesday 31st August via our secure website.<br />
Visit www.ilkleyliteraturefestival.org.uk<br />
A booking fee of £2 applies on all online orders.<br />
By Post<br />
Just complete the Booking Form opposite and send<br />
it to:<br />
<strong>Ilkley</strong> <strong>Literature</strong> <strong>Festival</strong>, The Manor House,<br />
2 Castle Hill, <strong>Ilkley</strong>, LS29 9DT<br />
Postal booking opens on Tuesday 31st August.<br />
Applications are dealt with in date order. A booking<br />
fee of £2 applies.<br />
(Advance postal booking – for Friends of the <strong>Festival</strong><br />
only – opens on Wednesday 18th August)<br />
By Phone<br />
Call the Box Office on 01943 816714 Monday–Friday<br />
10am–4pm and Saturday 10am–1pm.<br />
Telephone booking opens at 9am Tuesday 31st<br />
August (then at 10am daily). A booking fee of £2<br />
applies on all telephone orders.<br />
(Advance telephone booking – for Friends of the<br />
<strong>Festival</strong> only – opens on Wednesday 18th August).<br />
In Person<br />
Please note you cannot book in person at the<br />
<strong>Festival</strong> Office.<br />
Tickets can be bought in person from:<br />
<strong>Ilkley</strong> Visitor Information Centre, Station Road<br />
(Opening hours Mon and Weds – Sat 9.30am–5pm,<br />
Tues 10am–5pm. Closed Sundays. NB The TIC will<br />
open at 9am on Tues 1st September only).<br />
The Grove Bookshop, The Grove, <strong>Ilkley</strong><br />
(0pening hours Mon – Sat 9am–5.30pm,<br />
Sun 11.30am–4.30pm)<br />
Friends’ discounts cannot be claimed when booking<br />
through <strong>Ilkley</strong> Visitor Information Centre or the Grove<br />
Bookshop<br />
Unsold tickets and returns<br />
All unsold tickets and returns will be available from<br />
the venue box office 30 minutes before the start of<br />
each event. Returns are usually available at most (but<br />
not all) sold out events.<br />
For non-headline events, tickets are generally<br />
available on the door. However you are strongly<br />
advised to book in advance to avoid disappointment.<br />
Tickets cannot be exchanged or refunded. The Box<br />
Office can only accept tickets for resale if an event<br />
has sold out and this is subject to a 10% admin<br />
charge. All refunds on return tickets will be made after<br />
the <strong>Festival</strong>.<br />
All details are correct at the time of going to press<br />
(Aug 2010).<br />
The <strong>Ilkley</strong> <strong>Literature</strong> <strong>Festival</strong> Ltd is not liable for any<br />
subsequent changes. Keep up to date by visiting www.<br />
ilkleyliteraturefestival.org.uk.<br />
Concessions<br />
The <strong>Festival</strong> offers concessions to the following<br />
people (proof of status may be required):<br />
Children and young people under 25<br />
Disabled People<br />
• People in receipt of out of work benefits e.g.<br />
housing benefit, income support, council tax relief<br />
Concessionary prices are stated after the full price for<br />
each event eg. £5/£3.<br />
Party bookings<br />
The <strong>Festival</strong> welcomes bookings from schools and<br />
established community groups as follows:<br />
£5 per person Kings Hall events. £3 per person<br />
other venues, plus one free staff ticket for every ten<br />
students/group members, unless otherwise stated.<br />
Join our mailing list<br />
If you would like to add yourself to the <strong>Festival</strong><br />
mailing list and automatically receive the <strong>programme</strong><br />
each year in late August, just call 01943 816714 or go<br />
to www.ilkleyliteraturefestival.org.uk.<br />
Friends of the festival<br />
If you are already a Friend of the <strong>Festival</strong> please give<br />
your Friends membership number on the booking<br />
form.<br />
If you are a Friend and wish to renew your<br />
membership at the time of booking please complete<br />
the renewal line on the booking form where indicated.<br />
If you wish to become a Friend of the <strong>Festival</strong>,<br />
membership re-opens on 1st September 2010. Go to<br />
our website www.ilkleyliteraturefestival.org.uk for full<br />
details or contact the office on 01943 601210.<br />
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ooking form<br />
Please enter the event number, title/author, the number of full and concessionary tickets you require and the<br />
amount payable. Total your order, don’t forget to enter your name and contact details overleaf, detach and<br />
return with payment to <strong>Ilkley</strong> <strong>Literature</strong> <strong>Festival</strong>, The Manor House, <strong>Ilkley</strong> LS29 9DT. Box Office 01943 816714.<br />
If you need more space please continue on a separate sheet.<br />
If you are a Friend of the <strong>Festival</strong> don’t forget to subtract your £1 discounts where applicable.<br />
NB Concession prices are listed after full price for each event e.g. £5/3 = £5 full price, £3 concession price.<br />
Event<br />
no.<br />
Event title/author<br />
no. of<br />
full<br />
tickets<br />
Price of<br />
ticket<br />
no. of<br />
conc.<br />
tickets<br />
Price of<br />
ticket<br />
Total<br />
for<br />
event<br />
£<br />
I wish to renew my Friends membership<br />
£20 Single<br />
£32 Double<br />
£100 Gold Friend<br />
Don’t forget to add your subscription on to the final total and to subtract £1<br />
for each event ticket for yourself, to a maximum of £4 single/£7 double membership<br />
I include a donation of<br />
SUB-TOTAL<br />
Handling Charge £1.50<br />
TOTAL<br />
Please remember to enter your name and address etc. overleaf before returning the booking form f<br />
Data Protection<br />
We are committed to protecting your privacy. We store the information that you have provided when contacting us, registering for<br />
information or ordering tickets to allow us to process your orders and for marketing purposes. We may contact you from time to time<br />
with information about the <strong>Ilkley</strong> <strong>Literature</strong> <strong>Festival</strong> and its events. If you do not wish to be contacted in this way, please ensure that<br />
you tick this box: We will not sell, trade or rent your personal information to others.<br />
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ooking form continued<br />
Name<br />
Address<br />
Postcode<br />
Email<br />
Telephone<br />
Friends Membership No.<br />
Please make cheques payable to ‘<strong>Ilkley</strong> <strong>Literature</strong> <strong>Festival</strong>’ or give details below of your Switch/MasterCard/<br />
Visa card (delete as appropriate).<br />
If paying by cheque it would be appreciated if you could write ‘an amount not exceeding (figure)’ and leave the<br />
box on the cheque blank, in case not all the tickets you request are available.<br />
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