programme - Ilkley Literature Festival

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Sunday 17th October 5pm
Ilkley Playhouse Wharfeside
Jill McGivering:
From News to Fiction
Conversations about Empires
Jill McGivering, senior BBC
broadcaster, Asia specialist and Ilkley
resident has covered foreign news
for BBC radio and television news
for 18 years. Her first novel, The Last
Kestrel, set in Afghanistan, draws
on her reporting trips, embeds with
British forces in Helmand Province
and preoccupation with the civilian
population and their stories. In
discussion this evening, she considers
how her experience as a reporter
informs her fiction.
£5/3
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Sunday 17th October 6pm
Craiglands
Francis Pryor: The Making
of the British Landscape
From suburban streets that trace the
boundaries of long vanished farms
to the Norfolk Broads, formed when
medieval peat pits flooded – evidence
of our effect on Britain is everywhere.
Eminent historian, archaeologist, Time
Team regular and former president of
the Council for British Archaeology,
Francis Pryor explains how to read
the clues preserved in our fields,
roads, towns and villages.
£6/4
185.
Sunday 17th October 7.30pm
St Maragret’s Hall
The Three Sisters: Indian
Cookery Talk and Demo
Born in Kashmir and brought up in
Derbyshire, Priya, Sereena and Alexa
Kaul learned to cook watching their
mother and grandmother. With
families themselves and craving the
recipes of their childhoods, they
created a spice box with thirteen
essential flavours and simplified
traditional dishes to suit their hectic
lifestyles. This evening they’ll be
talking about growing up in Kashmir,
Delhi and Derbyshire, bickering
happily between themselves and
thanks to the St Margaret’s kitchen,
demonstrating how to cook healthy,
easy and authentic Indian food.
£6/4 includes tastes!
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Sunday 17th October 8pm
Craiglands
Roddy Doyle
Roddy Doyle is one of the leading
figures of contemporary Irish fiction
and critically acclaimed author of
The Commitments and the Booker
Prize-winning Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha.
A decade ago Doyle began a trilogy
of novels re-examining the history of
Ireland in the 20th Century. Now he
completes the trilogy with The Dead
Republic, examining the dangerous
ways modern Irish history has been
mythologised.
£7/5
Sponsored by Aimhigher and University of
Bradford
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Sunday 17th October 8.30pm
Ilkley Playhouse Wildman
Festival Open Mic
The chance for anyone to perform
their own work. Poetry, prose,
stand-up it’s all fair game. But you’ve
only got three minutes to convince
your audience and win £200 and the
coveted Open Mic title; 2nd prize £75;
3rd prize £25.
It’s not only performers who enjoy
this frenzied night out – come along
and bring your friends.
Phone 01943 816714 or email admin@
ilkleyliteraturefestival.org.uk by
midnight Sept 30th to put your name
in the hat. The first 20 people drawn
at random on Oct 1st get the chance
to perform.
£5
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Thursday 21st October 7.30pm
St Margaret’s Hall
Festival Feedback Session
Join the Festival Team to let us know
your thoughts on this year’s Festival
over a glass of wine – and put your
name in the hat for free tickets to
next year’s headline event!
FREE
STOP PRESS
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Simon Hoggart
Renowned political sketch writer
and Guardian columnist Simon
Hoggart will be joining us for an
event during the Festival. Check
the website for details of time
and venue.
£9/7
Our website will also give you all
the latest information on ticket
availability.
Roddy Doyle
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