programme - Ilkley Literature Festival

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35.
Sunday 3rd October 4pm
Audley Clevedon, Ben Rhydding
Jane Eyre – The Well-
Dressed Governess
The tale of Charlotte Brontë and her
fictional heroine – both women of
passionate intensity – retold through
the deceptively genteel fashions of
the 1840s.
Historical seamstress Gillian
Stapleton, from The History
Wardrobe, presents a delightful array
of replica garments to illustrate the
key costumes and scenes of Charlotte
Brontë’s well-loved novel.
£6/4 includes tea and biscuits
Supported by Audley Clevedon
Gillian Stapleton from The History Wardrobe
36.
Sunday 3rd October 4.30pm
St Margaret’s Hall
Gardening in Yorkshire:
Joe Maiden
Joe Maiden – grower, horticulturist,
seed merchant, nurseryman, TV
presenter – has had a huge following
on Radio Leeds for an amazing 36
years. His Grow With Joe is the UK’s
top local radio broadcast.
Holder of the Harlow Carr medal
he’s a real ‘dirt under the fingertips’
gardener. Now Joe is on hand to
share his Yorkshire gardening tips
and answer your questions – from
vegetables to bedding plants.
£6/4
Sponsored by The Laureates
37.
Sunday 3rd October 5pm
Ilkley Playhouse Wharfeside
Frances Partridge: Last of
the Bloomsbury Set
Renowned biographer Anne
Chisholm discusses the remarkable
life of Frances Partridge, ‘last and
nicest of the Bloomsbury set’ with
Alexandra Harris of the University
of Liverpool, whose book, Romantic
Moderns examines the ‘modern
renaissance’ of the 1930s and 40s.
Entangled in a famous love triangle
(husband Ralph initially married Dora
Carrington, Dora was hopelessly in
love with Lytton Strachey, Lytton
besotted by Ralph), Frances Partridge,
who knew everyone from Virginia
Woolf to Maynard Keynes, emerged
as one of the great British diarists of
the 20th century.
£5/3
38.
Sunday 3rd October 7.30pm
Kings Hall
Brian Patten: Heroes and
Ghosts
‘Humour, sincerity, sheer brilliance –
not to be missed.’ The Scotsman.
One of the UK’s best loved poets,
Brian Patten was one of the Liverpool
Poets with Roger McGough and the
late Adrian Henri. Tonight he reads
from his own poetry, both serious
and funny, and from the great figures
with whom he’s shared a stage: Pablo
Neruda, Stevie Smith, Laurie Lee,
Allen Ginsberg, Robert Graves – and
talks about their influences on him.
£9/7 For adults and 14+.
This event lasts 90 minutes with an
interval.
Joe Maiden
39.
Sunday 3rd October 7.30pm
St Margaret’s Hall
Red: the Anthology
– Jackie Kay, Nii Ayikwei
Parkes and Simon Murray
Jackie Kay, Forward Prize winner and
one of Britain’s most distinguished
poets, together with fellow poets Nii
Ayikwei Parkes and Simon Murray,
reads from Red, the first anthology
of contemporary Black British poetry
for ten years. Peepal Tree Press have
brought together work by 80 poets,
from tonight’s speakers to Linton
Kwesi Johnson, John Agard, Patience
Agbabi and Dorothea Smartt, each
writing with the word ‘red’ in mind
– ‘as a kind of a leap-off point, a
context, a germ’.
£6/4
In association with Peepal Tree Press
Brian Patten
40.
Monday 4th October 11.30am–
2.15pm The Wheatley Arms
Between the Covers:
Lunch with Bookbinder
Dominic Riley
Having learnt bookbinding at 16, from
Benedictine monks and then at the
London College of Printing, Dominic
Riley has spent the last ten years in
San Francisco teaching, lecturing and
restoring rare books.