programme - Ilkley Literature Festival

161.
Saturday 16th October 6pm
Ilkley Playhouse Wildman
The Pennine Way and The
Watershed: John Morrison
A Pennine journey, evoked in words
and pictures, from Edale in the Peak
to Kirk Yetholm in the Scottish
Borders. Writer and photographer,
John Morrison, co-author of two
landscape books, The Backbone
of England and The Pennine Way
explores the Pennine hills, central to
the Festival’s exciting Stanza Stones
project.
£5/3
Alistair Campbell
ilkley literature festival 10
with Skipton Building Society
162.
Saturday 16th October 7.30pm
Kings Hall
Alastair Campbell:
In Conversation
Prelude to Power
He’s back! – with the unexpurgated
version of his crucial diaries. Alastair
Campbell talks about the period from
John Smith’s untimely death to the
moment Tony Blair became Prime
Minister. A central player in New
Labour, Campbell knows, if anyone
does, why Tony Blair rather than
Gordon Brown became leader of the
Party. Find out what really happened
from the maestro of spin.
£9/7
Sponsored by Schofield Sweeney Solicitors
163.
Saturday 16th 7.30pm
Ilkley Playhouse Wharfeside
Frankenstein with Ben
Haggarty and Sianed Jones
‘I was spellbound.’ The Times.
Acclaimed storyteller, Ben Haggarty,
and musician and singer, Sianed
Jones, present an intense ‘Steam
Punk’ interpretation of Mary Shelley’s
enduring modern myth.
A story for our times, Frankenstein
speaks in lurid, bold terms of
power unleashed, the loneliness
of separation and our fear of the
unknown.
£7/5 See also Event 159.
A full evening’s event with an interval.
164.
Saturday 16th October 8pm
Ilkley Playhouse Wildman
Cranford Behind the
Scenes: Sue Birtwistle and
Susie Conklin
TV producer Sue Birtwistle and script
editor Susie Conklin, who created
the BBC adaptation of Cranford,
explain how they interwove Elizabeth
Gaskell’s timeless stories to produce
their award-winning dramatisation. In
this Gaskell centenary year, they take
us behind the scenes to reveal how
the production team recreated the
costumes, landscapes and decor of an
1840s town.
£6/4
165.
Saturday 16th October 7.30pm
St Margaret’s Hall
Jacquetta Hawkes and
her Circle
Jacquetta Hawkes’ biographer
Dr Christine Finn and Dr Jon Wood
of the Henry Moore Institute discuss
the post war arts circle which
Hawkes inhabited. It included her
friend, Henry Moore, who provided
illustrations for A Land, and the
artist Graham Sutherland; it also
encompassed the Festival of Britain.
They consider her contribution along
with that of other personalities in the
art, film and poetry scene of that vital
50s period of Britishness.
£5/3
166.
Saturday 16th 9.15pm
Ilkley Playhouse Wildman
The Writers’ Group
Exposed!!!
Yorkshire Art Circus Writer
Development Programme re-unites to
share poetry and prose.
FREE FRINGE EVENT
See page 46 for full details.
167.
Saturday 16th 9.15pm
Ilkley Moor Vaults Upstairs
Festival Literary Quiz
After huge fun last year, the Festival’s
light hearted literary quiz (with
glittering prizes) is back! Hosted by
quiz book writer, Marcus Berkmann,
it features a rotating ‘Festival team’ of
local book lovers, audience members,
Festival staff and Board vs the mighty
2010 Festival authors.
£2 in advance or on the door.
Join the Festival team on the night or
just cheer us on. Bar.
In association with Ilkley Moor Vaults
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