programme - Ilkley Literature Festival
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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
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