programme - Ilkley Literature Festival
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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