programme - Ilkley Literature Festival

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Saturday 16th October 2.30pm
St Margaret’s Hall
Reporting Afghanistan:
Stephen Grey and James
Fergusson
Conversations about Empires
Stephen Grey is an award-winning
British investigative journalist and
author, well known for revealing
details of the CIA’s program of
‘extraordinary rendition’. He writes for
the New York Times, Guardian, and
Independent and reports for Channel
4’s Dispatches, BBC Newsnight, Radio
4 and the World Service. Like his
fellow reporter, James Fergusson,
he’s reported extensively from
Iraq and Afghanistan. Fergusson,
a freelance journalist and foreign
correspondent, (Independent, Daily
Telegraph, The Economist) has
gained unique access to the Taliban.
Together they discuss the reality and
complexities of reporting the war in
Afghanistan; the fear, uncertainty and
mayhem of intensive fighting and the
questions that follow.
£5/3
157.
Saturday 16th October 3.30pm
Ilkley Playhouse Wharfeside
Audrey Niffenegger:
In Conversation
American author, Audrey
Niffenegger, is both novelist and
visual artist, achieving enormous
success in both fields. Her debut
novel, The Time Traveler’s Wife,
was a worldwide bestseller, and
hugely popular Hollywood film. In
conversation with James Nash she
discusses her new novel, Her Fearful
Symmetry – a deliciously modern
ghost story set around Highgate
Cemetery which explores familiar
themes of love, loss and identity.
£6/4
158.
Saturday 16th October 4pm
Ilkley Playhouse Wildman
Jo Shapcott and Ruth Padel
Multi-award-winning poet
Jo Shapcott reads from her new
collection Of Mutability, offering
poems by turns grave and playful,
arresting and witty, which explore the
nature of change – in the body and
the natural world, and in the shifting
relationships between people.
Ruth Padel is a prominent poet and
critic and former Chair of the Poetry
Society. She has published seven
highly praised collections including
The Soho Leopard and is celebrated
for her nature writing in both poetry
and prose, reflecting her passionate
attachment to the natural world.
£6/4
This event begins with the results
of the 2010 Festival Short Story
Competition. Details from:
www.ilkleyliteraturefestival.org.uk
Audrey Niffenegger
Ruth Padel ©: www.carpenterturner.co.uk
159.
Saturday 16th October 4.30pm
St Margaret’s Hall
The Young Romantics:
Daisy Hay
Daisy Hay, fellow of St Antony’s
College Oxford, shatters the myth
of the romantic poet as a solitary,
introspective genius. Instead she
explores the communal, emotional
existence of an astonishing early 19th
century circle. Leigh Hunt, radical
journalist and editor; the restless poet
Shelley; his brilliant wife Mary, author
of Frankenstein; Mary’s feisty stepsister
Claire Clairmont, who became
Byron’s lover; and Hunt’s charismatic
sister-in-law Elizabeth Kent.
£5/3 Follow this with Mary Shelley’s
Frankenstein, Event 163.
160.
Saturday 16th 5pm
Ilkley Playhouse Wharfeside
Six Exciting Things: Ilkley
Lit Fest in the spotlight
A chance for Festival staff and
participants to fill you in on some
of the exciting projects we’ve
been working on, from our young
Ambassadors scheme to our young
writers group, sizzling club nights,
community projects and work with
parents and children at Chapeltown
Children’s Centre. Participants will be
reading their work and there’ll be time
for discussion and questions.
FREE Just turn up.
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