the Ilkley Literature Festival programme

Includes 

children’s and 

young people’s 

events 

programme 

1–17 October 2010 

Michael Parkinson • John Simpson • Jenny Eclair • Ellen MacArthur 

Peter Snow • Alastair Campbell • Matthew Parris • Louise Rennison 

Shappi Khorsandi • Brian Patten • Carol Ann Duffy • Niall Ferguson … 

www.ilkleyliteraturefestival.org.uk

getting to the festival 

Ilkley Visitor Information Centre 

For information on hotels, restaurants, Ilkley and 

the Dales. Tel: 01943 602319 or go to 

www.visitilkley.com 

By bus 

Buses run daily from across Yorkshire. Call 

Metroline on 0113 245 7676 for timetables. 

Or go to www.wymetro.com 

By train 

There are regular trains to and from Leeds and 

Bradford which take 30 minutes. Connections 

throughout the UK can be made in Leeds. 

For information call National Rail Enquiries on 

08457 48 49 50 or go to www.nationalrail.co.uk 

By car 

Ilkley lies on the A65 from Leeds to Skipton. 

Leeds, Harrogate and Bradford are a 45 minute 

drive away. 

By air 

Leeds Bradford International Airport is just 15 

minutes drive away. Regular flights run to major 

cities throughout the UK and beyond. 

For information call 0113 250 9696 or go to 

www.leedsbradfordairport.co.uk 

All Saints Primary School, Easby Drive LS29 9BE 

Audley Clevedon, Ben Rhydding Drive LS29 8AQ 

Bettys, 32 The Grove LS29 9EE 

Car Park and Toilets 

Clarke Foley Centre, Cunliffe Rd LS29 9DZ 

Craiglands Hotel, Cowpasture Rd LS29 8RQ 

Ilkley Lawn Tennis Club, Stourton Rd LS29 9BG 

Ilkley Moor Vaults, Stockeld Rd LS29 9HD 

Ilkley Playhouse, Weston Rd LS29 8DW 

Kings Hall, Station Rd LS29 8HB 

Otley Courthouse, Courthouse St, Otley LS21 3AN 

Panache, Church St LS29 8DE 

Rombalds Hotel, Wells Rd LS29 9JG 

St Margaret’s Church Hall, Queens Rd LS29 9TZ 

The Grove Bookshop, 10 The Grove LS29 9EG 

The Happiness Centre, 32a Leeds Rd LS29 8DS 

The Manor House, Church House, Education 

Rooms LS29 9DT 

The Wheatley Arms, Wheatley Lane, 

Ben Rhydding LS29 8PP 

Tourist Visitor Centre, Station Rd LS29 8HA 

White Wells, Ilkley Moor LS29 9RF 

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Box Office 01943 816714 www.ilkleyliteraturefestival.org.uk 

festival diary at a glance 

Key to icons 

Signed events with BSL interpreter 

Headline/Kings Hall events 

SEPTEMBER 

Children’s and All Ages events 

Young People’s events 

Free Fringe events 

1. Thurs 23rd 7pm The Wheatley Arms Crime and Curry Supper with Sophie Hannah 

2.. 28.9–31.10 Exhibition Manor House Museum Celebrating Jacquetta Hawkes 

OCTOBER 

3. 2.10–14.11 Exhibition Manor House Museum Faces of Poetry 

4. Fri 1st 7 .30pm Kings Hall John Simpson 

5. Sat 2nd 11am–1pm Manor House 

Don Paterson Masterclass: Poetry for the 

Deadly Serious 

6. Sat 2nd 11am–1pm St. Margaret's Hall Jeremy Dyson Masterclass on Creativity 

7. Sat 2nd 12–12.45pm Ilkley Playhouse The Trouble with Dragons with Debi Gliori 

8. Sat 2nd 12.30–2pm Church House Bring-Share Poetry Lunch 

9. Sat 2nd 1.30pm Ilkley Playhouse The Running Sky: Tim Dee and Horatio Clare 

10. Sat 2nd 2pm Ilkley Playhouse Victoria Glendinning on Elizabeth Bowen 

11. Sat 2nd 2pm Kings Hall Terry Eagleton: The Nature of Evil 

12. Sat 2nd 2–2.15pm Manor House Faces of Poetry Face-to-Face: Don Paterson 

13. Sat 2nd 2.30pm St. Margaret's Hall A Case of Exploding Talent: New Writing in Pakistan 

14. Sat 2nd 3pm Ilkley Playhouse Elsie and Mairi go to War: Diane Atkinson 

15. Sat 2nd 3–5pm Church House Poetry Surgery with Antony Dunn 

16. Sat 2nd 3.30pm Ilkley Playhouse Don Paterson: Reading Shakespeare's Sonnets 

17. Sat 2nd 4.30pm St. Margaret's Hall Lyndall Gordon on Emily Dickinson 

18. Sat 2nd 4.45pm Ilkley Playhouse 

How English became the World's Language: Robert 

McCrum 

19. Sat 2nd 5.15pm Ilkley Playhouse It's A Long Way FRINGE 

20. Sat 2nd 7.30pm Kings Hall 

Shappi Khorsandi: A Beginner's Guide to 

Acting English... 

21. Sat 2nd 7.30pm St. Margaret's Hall The Brontës Revisited: Juliet Barker 

22. Sat 2nd 8pm Ilkley Playhouse A Tribute to Alan Plater 

23. Sat 2nd 9–10.30pm Ilkley Playhouse 

Ilkley Liming with John Agard, Daljit Nagra, 

Charlie Dark and Michelle Scally Clarke 

24. Sun 3rd 11am–1pm Manor House 

Linda Green: The Truth about Writing Chick Lit 

Workshop 

25. Sun 3rd 12.30–1pm Ilkley Playhouse Introducing the Festival Mushaira 

26. Sun 3rd 1.30–4.30pm Ilkley Playhouse Multi-lingual Mushaira: Gathering of Poets 

27. Sun 3rd 2pm Ilkley Playhouse Kisses on a Postcard: Terence Frisby 

28. Sun 3rd 2–3.30pm 

Meet outside 

Rombalds Hotel 

Ilkley at the Time of WW1 – Walk 

29. Sun 3rd 2–4pm Manor House Jackie Kay Fiction Masterclass 

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with Skipton Building Society 

30. 

31. 

Sun 3rd 2.30 & 3.45pm All Saints School The Nutcracker Ballet Workshop 

32. Sun 3rd 2.30–4pm Manor House Madeleine Waller: Faces of Poetry Talk 

33. Sun 3rd 3–3.45pm Kings Hall Louise Rennison 

34. Sun 3rd 4–5pm Ilkley Playhouse Valerie Bloom: Children's Poetry Event 

35. Sun 3rd 4pm 

Audley Clevedon, 

Ben Rhydding 

Jane Eyre: The Well-Dressed Governess 

36. Sun 3rd 4.30pm St. Margaret's Hall Gardening in Yorkshire: Joe Maiden 

37. Sun 3rd 5pm Ilkley Playhouse 

Anne Chisholm and Alexandra Harris on Frances 

Partridge 

38. Sun 3rd 7.30pm Kings Hall Brian Patten 

39. Sun 3rd 7.30pm St. Margaret's Hall Red: Jackie Kay, Nii Ayikwei Parkes and Simon Murray 

40. Mon 4th 11.30am–2.15pm The Wheatley Arms Lunch with Bookbinder Dominic Riley 

41. Mon 4th 2.30–3.30pm The Wheatley Arms Bookbinding Masterclass 

42. Mon 4th 5.30–6.30pm The Wheatley Arms Bookbinding Drop In Clinic 

43. 

Mon & 

Thurs 4th, 

7th, 11th, 

14th 

6–7pm 

Manor House 

Reading James Joyce's Ulysses: 

Guided Reading Group 

44. Mon 4th 7.30pm Craiglands 

John O'Farrell: An Utterly Exasperated History of 

Modern Britain... 

45. Mon 4th 7.30pm Ilkley Playhouse Robert Goddard: Long Time Coming 

46. Mon 4th 7.45pm Ilkley Playhouse Paul Murdin: Secrets of the Universe 

47. Mon 4th 9pm Ilkley Playhouse The Poetry School in York and Leeds – Live FRINGE 

48. Mon 4th 9pm Ilkley Playhouse Their Spirits, My Demons: John Ormond FRINGE 

49. Tues 5th 6–7pm Manor House 

Close Reading 1: Poems by Carol Ann Duffy and 

Simon Armitage 

50. Tues 5th 7.30pm Kings Hall Ellen MacArthur 

51. Tues 5th 7.45pm Ilkley Playhouse Bettany Hughes on Socrates 

52. Tues 5th 7.30pm Ilkley Playhouse The Baverstock Lecture: Stephen Coleman 

53. Tues 5th 9.15pm Ilkley Playhouse Flying with the Moon FRINGE 

54. Wed 6th 6.30–8pm Manor House 

Faces of Poetry and Jacquetta Hawkes Exhibitions – 

Festival Private View 

55. Wed 6th 7.45pm Ilkley Playhouse 

Old Land, New Land: Jacquetta Hawkes' poetic 

geography – with Christine Finn 

56. Wed 6th 7.30pm All Saints Church Andrew Graham-Dixon on Caravaggio 

57. Wed 6th 7.30pm Ilkley Playhouse Robin Ince's Bad Book Club 

58. Wed 6th 8.30–10pm Ilkley Happiness Centre The Unlikely Poetry of Michael Conneely FRINGE 

59. Thurs 7th 2–4.30pm St. Margaret's Hall Poetry Alive! Open Mic and Networking Event 

60. Thurs 7th 2–4pm Rombalds Hotel Michèle Roberts Fiction Masterclass 

61. Thurs 7th 7.30pm Rombalds Hotel 

Carcanet Press with Michael Schmidt and Peter 

Sansom 

62. Thurs 7th 7.30pm St Margaret’s Hall Michèle Roberts and Helen Simpson 

63. Thurs 7th 7.30pm Ilkley Playhouse Anatole Kaletsky: Capitalism 4.0 

64. Thurs 7th 7.30pm Ilkley Playhouse Christopher Frayling: Horace Walpole's Cat 

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65. Thurs 7th 7.30pm Manor House Ian Vince: The Lie of the Land 

66. Thurs 7th 9pm Ilkley Playhouse A Flambard Affair FRINGE 

67. Thurs 7th 9pm Ilkley Playhouse An Domhan Eile by Lucht Focail FRINGE 

68. Fri 8th 11am–12pm 

Meet at the Cow and 

Calf Rocks Car Park 

Lie of the Land – Walk 

69. Fri 8th 7.30pm Ilkley Playhouse Hops and Glory and IPA: Pete Brown 

70. Fri 8th 7.30pm Ilkley Playhouse Helen Dunmore: The Betrayal 

71. Fri 8th 7.30pm St. Margaret's Hall Wendy Moffat on EM Forster 

72. Fri 8th 7.30pm Clarke Foley Centre 

The Arctic and the Global Economy: Charles 

Emmerson 

73. Fri 8th 9–9.30pm Ilkley Playhouse Stand Up with Ash Caton FRINGE 

74. Sat 9th 10am–4pm Ilkley Tennis Club 

The Excitement of South Asian Literature 

– Day School 

75. Sat 9th 11am–4pm Across Ilkley Words on the Streets: Poetry Busking 

76. Sat 9th 11am–1pm St. Margaret's Hall Writing for Teenagers with Bernardine Evaristo 

77. Sat 9th 11am–1pm Manor House 

Character and Voice in Short Story: 

Jane Rogers Workshop 

78. Sat 9th 1.15–2.15pm Manor House Meet Open College of the Arts 

79. Sat 9th 2.30–4.30pm Manor House 

Write an Historical Children's Story Workshop: 

Livi Michael 

80. Sat 9th 2–3pm Kings Hall 

Professor Marcus du Sautoy: The Number Mysteries 

For adults and young people 10-11 upwards 

81. Sat 9th 2pm Ilkley Playhouse Map of a Nation: Rachel Hewitt 

82. Sat 9th 2pm All Saints Church Poems of Praise with Antony Dunn 

83. Sat 9th 2.30pm St. Margaret's Hall 

A Winter on the Nile: Tim Butcher and 

Anthony Sattin 

84. Sat 9th 3.45–4.30pm Ilkley Playhouse Hello Mum: Bernardine Evaristo 

85. Sat 9th 4.30pm St. Margaret's Hall The Israeli–Palestinian Conflict: Avi Shlaim 

86. Sat 9th 5.30pm Ilkley Playhouse Maths for Mums and Dads 

87. Sat 9th 6.45–7.15pm Otley Courthouse The Magnificent Seven Deadly Sins FRINGE 

88. Sat 9th 7.30pm Otley Courthouse 

A Blood Wedding in Wensleydale. 

North Country Theatre 

89. Sat 9th 7.30pm Kings Hall Peter Snow 

90. Sat 9th 8pm Ilkley Playhouse 

Poetry and Music with Harriet Walter, Kate 

Littlewood & Peter Evans 

91. Sat 9th 7.30pm Ilkley Playhouse Simon Armitage 

92. Sat 9th 7.30pm St. Margaret's Hall Late for Tea at the Deer Palace: Tamara Chalabi 

93. Sat 9th 9pm Ilkley Playhouse Seeing the Future – Poetry 

94. Sat 9th 9.15pm Ilkley Playhouse The Ties That Bind FRINGE 

CHILDREN'S AND YOUNG PEOPLE'S WEEKEND 

189. 

190. 

191. 

192. 

193. 

194. 

Sat 9th 

Sat 9th 

10.15am, 11.30am, 

2.15pm & 3.30pm 

10am–11.30am & 

1.30pm–3pm 

All Saints School 


Eureka! Jump to the Beat 

The Magical World of Mina with Manasamitra 

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195. Sat 9th 10.30–11.30am All Saints School Make a Play with Multi Story Theatre Company 

196. Sat 9th 10.30–11.15am All Saints School Story Time with Helen Stephens 

197. Sat 9th 11.45am All Saints School Tip Tap Went the Crab with Tim Hopgood 

198. Sat 9th 12 noon Ilkley Playhouse Magic, Maths and Mystery 

199. Sat 9th 1.45pm Ilkley Playhouse The Joshua Files with MG Harris 

80. Sat 9th 2–3pm Kings Hall Professor Marcus du Sautoy: The Number Mystery 

200. Sat 9th 2–3.30pm All Saints School Jazzy Books – Making Workshop 

201. Sat 9th 2–3pm All Saints School Spin A Rap! Workshop 

202. Sat 9th 3.45pm All Saints Hall Draw Horrible Science Cartoons with Tony de Saulles 

203. Sat 9th 5–6pm Ilkley Playhouse Twelve Wild Ducks: Multi Story Theatre Company 

204. Sun 10th 11am–1pm Otley Courthouse Kev F's Comic Art Masterclass 

99. Sun 10th 2–3pm Ilkley Playhouse 

The Princess' Blankets: Carol Ann Duffy 

and John Sampson 

100. Sun 10th 2pm Ilkley Playhouse What on Earth Happened? Christopher Lloyd 

YOUNG PEOPLE'S AFTERNOON 

96. Sun 10th 2–6pm Otley Courthouse Cool Voices WordsFest 

95. Sun 10th 11am–1pm Rombalds Hotel Creative Adventure: Barbara Trapido Masterclass 

97. Sun 10th 2pm–4pm 

Begins and ends at the 

Manor House 

All Ages Poetry Workshop: The Song of the River 

98. Sun 10th 2pm Kings Hall Peter Hain on Nelson Mandela 

101. Sun 10th 3pm St. Margaret's Hall Barbara Trapido: In Conversation 

102. Sun 10th 3.45pm Ilkley Playhouse Vitali Vitaliev: The Russian Clive James? 

103. Sun 10th 4pm Craiglands 

Polly Toynbee and David Walker: 

Did the Labour Party Change Britain? 

104. Sun 10th 4pm Ilkley Playhouse The Golden Age of Arabic Science: Jim al-Khalili 

105. Sun 10th 5pm St. Margaret's Hall Elsie the Sheep and the Kings of the Castle FRINGE 

106. Sun 10th 5.15pm Ilkley Playhouse Ian M Emberson: The Zig Zag Path FRINGE 

107. Sun 10th 6pm Craiglands Danger Close: Colonel Stuart Tootal In Conversation 

108. Sun 10th 7.30pm Craiglands Lenin Ate My Homework: Alexei Sayle 

109. Sun 10th 7.30pm Kings Hall Carol Ann Duffy and John Sampson 

110. Sun 10th 7.30pm St. Margaret's Hall 

The Long Road Home: Matthew Kelly 

and Ben Shephard 

111. Sun 10th 7.30pm Ilkley Playhouse 

Venice City of Masks: Mary Hoffman and Michelle 

Lovric 

112. Mon 11th 1.30pm Kings Hall Primary Schools Event: Morris Gleitzman 

113. Mon 11th 4.15–5.15pm Kings Hall Morris Gleitzman: for teachers and librarians 

114. Mon 11th 6.30–8.30pm Ilkley Library Ilkley Lit Fest Young Writers Group: free taster 

115. Mon 11th 7.30pm Kings Hall Will Self: In Conversation 

116. Mon 11th 7.30pm Craiglands Matthew Parris and Andrew Bryson: Parting Shots 

117. Mon 11th 7.30–9.30pm Panache Restaurant Poetry Banquet 

118. Mon 11th 7.30pm Ilkley Playhouse 

The Truth about MI5 and MI6: Keith Jeffery and 

Christopher Andrew 

119. Mon 11th 7.45pm Ilkley Playhouse Richard Fortey: The Hidden Landscape: 

120. Mon 11th 9pm Ilkley Playhouse A Muddy History of Britain FRINGE 

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121. Mon 11th 9pm Ilkley Playhouse Voices From Beyond the Dark FRINGE 

122. Tues 12th 2pm Kings Hall Gervase Phinn: A Yorkshire Lad 

123. Tues 12th 6–7pm Manor House 

Close Reading 2: Poems by Jo Shapcott 

and Ruth Padel 

124. Tues 12th 7.30pm Kings Hall Jenny Eclair: Chin up Britain 

125. Tues 12th 7.30pm Ilkley Playhouse Our Billie: Ian Clayton 

126. Tues 12th 7.30pm Ilkley Playhouse Nearly Lear: Theatre Performance 

127. Tues 12th 9pm Ilkley Playhouse Votes for Women! FRINGE 

128. Wed 13th 3pm Rombalds Hotel Tea with Elizabeth Noble and William Nicholson 

129. Wed 13th 7.30pm Craiglands 

Magnificent Seven: Yorkshire's Golden Decade: 

Andrew Collomosse, Richard Hutton and Don Wilson 

130. Wed 13th 7.30pm Bettys Café Tea Rooms Jack Sheffield 

131. Wed 13th 7.30pm Ilkley Playhouse Mrs Gaskell's 'Nice American' – the Ilkley Connection 

132. Thurs 14th 7.30pm Kings Hall Michael Parkinson 

133. Thurs 14th 7.30pm Ilkley Playhouse David Nobbs 

134. Thurs 14th 7.30pm Ilkley Playhouse Blake Morrison: The Last Weekend 

135. Thurs 14th 7.30pm St. Margaret's Hall 

Zimbabwe – Hope and Despair: Philip Barclay and 

Miles Tendi 

136. Thurs 14th 7.30pm Bettys Café Tea Rooms Jack Sheffield 

137. Thurs 14th 9pm Ilkley Playhouse Cadaverine Magazine FRINGE 

138. Fri 15th 3pm 

White Wells, 

Ilkley Moor 

‘That Place on Ilkley Moor’ FRINGE 

139. Fri 15th 7.30pm Kings Hall George Alagiah: Food For Thought 

140. Fri 15th 7.30pm Ilkley Playhouse Bipolar Ringmaster: with actor Eric MacLennan 

141. Fri 15th 7.30pm Ilkley Playhouse Kate Fox News 

142. Fri 15th 7.30pm St. Margaret's Hall 

Martin Wainwright and Dr Patrick Eyres: 

A Hundred Shades of Blue 

143. Fri 15th 7.30–9.30pm Otley Courthouse Cool Voices Club Night 

144. Fri 15th 8pm Manor House Ray Hearne 

145. Fri 15th 8.30–9.30pm Your Front Room? Poetry House Party with Jo Shapcott 

146. Fri 15th 9pm Ilkley Playhouse The Dark Threads and Footprints in the Snow FRINGE 

147. Fri 15th 9.15pm Ilkley Playhouse Shakespeare's Sonnets by Five Voices FRINGE 

148. Sat 16th 9.30am–1.30pm Ilkley Moor Photo Safari with John Morrison 

149. Sat 16th 10.30am–4.30pm Church House Breaking News: Make a Newspaper in a Day 

150. Sat 16th 11am–1pm Manor House Jo Shapcott Masterclass 

151. Sat 16th 11am–1pm St. Margaret's Hall 

Stephen Grey: the Investigative Journalist's 

Masterclass 

152. Sat 16th 1.30pm Ilkley Playhouse 

Witness the Night: Kishwar Desai and Aminatta 

Forna 

153. Sat 16th 2pm Ilkley Playhouse Joseph O'Connor 

154. Sat 16th 2pm–4pm Manor House Writing the News: Workshop with Kate Fox 

155. Sat 16th 2.15pm Manor House Faces of Poetry Face-to-Face: Jo Shapcott 


Reporting Afghanistan: Stephen Grey and 

James Fergusson 

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157. Sat 16th 3.30pm Ilkley Playhouse Audrey Niffenegger: In Conversation . 

158. Sat 16th 4pm Ilkley Playhouse Jo Shapcott and Ruth Padel 

159. Sat 16th 4.30pm St. Margaret's Hall The Young Romantics: Daisy Hay 

160. Sat 16th 5pm Ilkley Playhouse Six Exciting Things – Ilkley Lit Fest in the Spotlight 

161. Sat 16th 6pm Ilkley Playhouse The Pennine Way and the Watershed: John Morrison 

162. Sat 16th 7.30pm Kings Hall Alastair Campbell in Conversation: Prelude to Power 

163. Sat 16th 7.30pm Ilkley Playhouse Frankenstein with Ben Haggarty and Sianed Jones 

164. Sat 16th 8pm Ilkley Playhouse 

Cranford Behind the Scenes – Sue Birtwistle and 

Susie Conklin 


Jacquetta Hawkes and her Circle: Dr Christine Finn 

and Dr Jon Wood 

166. Sat 16th 9.15pm Ilkley Playhouse The Writers' Group Exposed! FRINGE 

167. Sat 16th 9.15pm Ilkley Moor Vaults Festival Quiz with Marcus Berkmann 

168. Sun 17th 11am–1pm Manor House 

How Words Behave Together – Masterclass with 

Ruth Padel 

169. 

170. 

Sun 17th 1.30pm & 4pm All Saints School 

When We Lived in Uncle's Hat: Tutti Frutti and 

York Theatre Royal 

171. Sun 17th 1.45pm Ilkley Playhouse If I am Not for Myself: Mike Marqusee 

172. Sun 17th 2pm 

Meet outside Manor 

House Museum 

Robert Collyer's Ilkley – Walk 

173. Sun 17th 2pm Ilkley Playhouse 

Writing Historical Fiction: Maria McCann, 

Emma Darwin, RN Morris & Rose Melikan 

174. Sun 17th 2pm Craiglands Margaret Drabble: In Conversation 

175. Sun 17th 2–4pm Manor House Reading Local, Writing Local with Andrew McMillan 

176. Sun 17th 2.30pm St. Margaret's Hall The Tangled Bank: Ruth Padel 

177. Sun 17th 2.30pm Kings Hall Niall Ferguson: High Financier 

178. Sun 17th 2.30–4.30pm All Saints School Write an Adventure Story Workshop Ceci Jenkinson 

179. Sun 17th 3.30pm Ilkley Playhouse Anna Pavord: The Curious Gardener 

180. Sun 17th 4pm Ilkley Playhouse Douglas Dunn and Antony Dunn 

181. Sun 17th 4pm Craiglands Louis de Bernières 

182. Sun 17th 4.30pm St. Margaret's Hall 

An Enlightened Life: Nicholas Phillipson on 

Adam Smith 

183. Sun 17th 5pm Ilkley Playhouse Jill McGivering: From News to Fiction 

184. Sun 17th 6pm Craiglands Francis Pryor: The Making of the British Landscape 

185. Sun 17th 7.30pm St. Margaret's Hall The Three Sisters: Indian Cookery Talk and Demo 

186. Sun 17th 8pm Craiglands Roddy Doyle 

187. Sun 17th 8.30pm Ilkley Playhouse Festival Open Mic 

188. Thurs 21st 7.30pm St. Margaret's Hall Festival Feedback Session 

205. Wed 13th 7.30pm Craiglands Simon Hoggart 

206 Sun 10th 3pm Manor House 

Jacquetta Hawkes: A Land Revisited 

With Community Archeologist Gavin Edwards 

Events for children and young peopl e on pages 40-44 

Details of how to book on page 48 

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index of authors 

author event no. author event no. author event no. author event no. 

Andrew, Christopher 118 Eagleton, Terry 11 Kaul, Priya, Sereena & Pavord, Anna 179 

Agard, John 23 Eastaway, Rob 86, 198 Alexa 185 Phillipson, Nicholas 182 

Alagiah, George 139 Eclair, Jenny 124 Kay, Jackie 29, 39 Phinn, Gervase 122 

al-Khalili, Jim 104 Emmerson, Charles 72 Kelly, Matthew 110 Pryor, Francis 184 

Armitage, Simon 91 Eureka! 189, 190, 191, 192 Khorsandi, Shappi 20 Rennison, Louise 33 

Atkinson, Diane 14 Evans, Peter 90 Littlewood, Kate 90 Roberts, Michèle 60, 62 

Barclay, Philip 135 Evaristo, Bernardine 76, 84 Lloyd, Christopher 100 Rogers, Jane 77 

Barker, Juliet 21 Eyres, Patrick 142 Lovric, Michelle 111 Sampson, John 99, 109 

Berkmann, Marcus 167 Ferguson, Niall 177 MacArthur, Ellen 50 Sansom, Peter 61 

Birtwistle, Sue 164 Fergusson, James 156 Maiden, Joe 36 Sattin, Anthony 83 

Bloom, Valerie 34 Finn, Christine 55, 165 Manasamitra 193, 194 Sayle, Alexei 108 

Brown, Pete 69 Forna, Aminatta 152 Marqusee, Mike 171 Scally Clarke, Michelle 

Bryson, Andrew 116 Fortey, Richard 119 McCann, Maria 173 

23, 96 

Butcher, Tim 83 Fox, Kate 137, 141, 154 McCrum, Robert 18 Schmidt, Michael 61 

Campbell, Alastair 162 Frayling, Christopher 64 McGivering, Jill 107, 183 Self, Will 115 

Chalabi, Tamara 92 Frisby, Terence 27 McMillan, Andrew 75, 93, Shapcott, Jo 145, 150, 158 

Charles, Philip 96, 201 Gleitzman, Morris 112, 113 

96, 175 Sheffield, Jack 130, 136 

Cherriman, Becky 96 Glendinning, Victoria 10 Melikan, Rose 173 Shephard, Ben 110 

Chisholm, Anne 37 Gliori, Debi 7 Michael, Livi 79 Shlaim, Avi 85 

Clare, Horatio 9 Goddard, Robert 45 Moffat, Wendy 71 Simpson, Helen 62 

Clayton, Ian 125 Gordon, Lyndall 17 Morris, RN 173 Simpson, John 4 

Cockshott, Alex 28 Graham-Dixon, 

Morrison, Blake 134 Snow, Peter 89 

Coleman, Stephen 52 Andrew 56 Morrison, John 148, 161 Stapleton, Gillian 35 

Collomosse, Andrew 129 Green, Linda 24 Mullin, Katy 43 Stephens, Helen 196 

Conklin, Susie 164 Grey, Stephen 151, 156 Multi Story Theatre Sutherland, Kev F 96, 204 

Dark, Charlie 23 Haggarty, Ben 163 Company 195, 203 Tendi, Miles 135 

Darwin, Emma 173 Hain, Peter 98 Murdin, Paul 46 Tootal, Stuart 107 

de Bernières, Louis 181 Hannah, Sophie 1 Nagra, Daljit 23 Toynbee, Polly 103 

de Saulles, Tony 202 Harris, Alexandra 37 Nicholson, William 128 Trapido, Barbara 95, 101 

Dee, Tim 9 Harris, MG 199 Niffenegger, Audrey 157 Tutti Frutti 169, 170 

Desai, Kishwar 152 Hay, Daisy 159 Nobbs, David 133 Vince, Ian 65, 68 

Dixon, Mike 131, 172 Hewitt, Rachel 81 Noble, Elizabeth 128 Vitaliev, Vitali 102 

Doyle, Roddy 186 Hoggart Simon 205 Noble, Val 105 Wainwright, Martin 142 

Drabble, Margaret 174 Hoffman, Mary 96, 111 North Country Theatre 88 Walker, David 103 

du Sautoy, Marcus 80 Hopgood, Tim 197 O’Connor, Joseph 153 Walker, Ged 96 

Duffy, Carol Ann 99, 109 Hughes, Bettany 51 O’Farrell, John 44 Waller, Madeleine 37 

Dunmore, Helen 70 Hutton, Richard 129 Padel, Ruth 158, 168, 176 Walter, Harriet 90 

Dunn, Antony 8, 15, 47, Ince, Robin 57 Parkes, Nii Ayikwei 39 Wilson, Don 129 

49, 59, 82, 97, 117, Jeffery, Keith 118 Parkinson, Michael 132 Wood, Jon 165 

123, 145, 180 Jenkinson, Ceci 178 Parris, Matthew 116 

Dunn, Douglas 180 Jones, Sianed 163 Paterson, Don 5, 12, 16, 

Dyson, Jeremy 6 Kaletsky, Anatole 63 Patten, Brian 38 

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welcome to the Ilkley ilkley Literature literature Festival festival 2010 

full to the brim with inspiring events! 

Meet novelists Margaret Drabble, Roddy Doyle, Michèle Roberts, Louis de Bernières, Helen Dunmore, 

Aminatta Forna and Joseph O’Connor. Enjoy Alexei Sayle and John O’Farrell. Change your mind about 

maths with Marcus du Sautoy, assess the Labour government with Polly Toynbee. 

Or you can delve into South Asian Literature with Leeds and Leeds Metropolitan Universities and revel in 

Ilkley Liming with John Agard and Daljit Nagra. We’ll be celebrating archaeologist Jacquetta Hawkes’ 

centenary and launching our Stanza Stones project with events exploring Words, Land and Landscape, 

from Time Team’s Francis Pryor to Will Self. 

All this, plus lots for the family to do and over 30 free events for all ages! 

Rachel Feldberg, Festival Director 

The Festival is delighted to announce the launch of our exciting Stanza Stones project in collaboration 

with Simon Armitage. The project, which will run until June 2012, will be triggered by a new poem 

from Simon inspired by the wild landscape of the Pennine Watershed, which will act as a creative 

springboard for groups of young writers, dancers and film makers. It is hoped that the poem, inscribed 

on a series of Stanza Stones, will then form a permanent trail across the Watershed. 

Stanza Stones is part of the imove programme which celebrates and challenges the relationship between people and 

their moving bodies through a series of exciting and innovative arts project across Yorkshire. Inspired by London 2012, 

imove is funded by Legacy Trust UK, Yorkshire Forward and Arts Council England. Find us at www.imoveand.com 

2010 Festival Poet in Residence 

Antony Dunn will be offering readings, workshops, an intergenerational project with schools and older 

people and the chance to get involved in the Ilkley Poetry Map. 

Apprentice Poet in Residence Andrew McMillan will be introducing the new generation of outspoken 

young poets, on the streets and in performance. 

Events for children and young people can be found on pages 40-43. 

No induction 

loop system at 

St Margaret’s 

Church Hall or 

Craiglands Hotel. 



Refreshments 

• The Bar will be open before, after (and where appropriate during) evening events at Ilkley 

Playhouse and the Kings Hall. Soft drinks, tea and coffee available. 

• The Festival Café serving tea, coffee and delicious cakes, is open at Ilkley Playhouse during 

Festival evenings and weekends. 

Event and Access Information 

• All venues are accessible with accessible toilets except the first floor of the Manor House 

Museum and Ilkley Moor Vaults upstairs. 

• St Margaret’s Hall is an uphill walk from the station. Allow 15–20 minutes. 

• Selected events are BSL interpreted. Working dogs welcome. Detailed access information 

from www.ilkleyliteraturefestival.org.uk or call 01943 816714. 

• Events last one hour unless otherwise stated and include 15–20 minutes s audience 

questions. 

• After events, authors sign books which are available from the Festival bookstall run by our 

partners, The Grove Bookshop, at each venue. Some authors attract lengthy queues! 

If you’d like a large print/audio copy of this brochure call 01943 816714


curtain raiser and exhibitions 

1. 

Thursday 23rd September 7pm 

The Wheatley Arms 

Festival Curtain Raiser: 

Crime and Curry Supper 

with Sophie Hannah 

Bestselling crime fiction writer and 

poet Sophie Hannah has received 

international critical acclaim and 

her novels have been translated into 

more than 15 languages. Following a 

delicious two-course supper, join her 

as she reveals the secrets of her latest 

psychological crime novel, A Room 

Swept White. 

An evening of suspense and intrigue … 

£15 includes two-course supper and 

coffee. 7pm for 7.30pm. 

In conjunction with The Wheatley Arms 

2. 

28th September – 31st October 

Manor House Museum 

2010 Festival Exhibition 

Celebrating Jacquetta 

Hawkes 

Archaeologist, poet, journalist and 

film-maker: Jacquetta Hawkes was 

passionate about the past, nature 

and the arts. 2010 is her centenary 

year. This exhibition uses treasures 

from her archive at the University of 

Bradford to tell her fascinating story, 

in particular her connections with 

artists such as Barbara Hepworth, 

Henry Moore, and her second 

husband, Bradford-born novelist and 

playwright J.B. Priestley. 

FREE See Events 54, 55, 165. 

Opening times: Tues 1–5pm. 

Weds–Sat 11am–5pm. Sun 1–4pm. 

In association with the University of 

Bradford 

3. 

2nd October–14th November 


2010 Festival Exhibition 

Faces of Poetry: National 

Portrait Gallery 

A National Portrait Gallery exhibition 

featuring some of the most important 

poets of the late twentieth century. 

Madeleine Waller’s images of Jo 

Shapcott and Lemn Sissay; iconic 

portraits of James Fenton and Thom 

Gunn by Dudley Reed and Arthur 

Tress; Norman McBeath’s black 

and white studies of Don Paterson, 

Douglas Dunn and Tom Paulin; and 

images of Seamus Heaney and Blake 

Morrison by Britain’s best-known 

literary photographer, Mark Gerson. 

FREE 

Opening times: Tues 1–5pm, Weds– 

Sat 11am–5pm , Sun 1–4pm. 

Courtesy of Bradford Museums and 

Galleries 

festival 

opening 

4. 

Friday 1st October 7.30pm 

Kings Hall 

Festival Opening: 

John Simpson 

John Simpson is one of the 

world’s most experienced and 

authoritative journalists. BBC 

World Affairs editor and a former 

presenter of the Nine O’Clock 

News, he’s witnessed 30 years of 

upheaval, reporting from the Gulf, 

Afghanistan, Iraq and Tiananmen 

Square. Tonight he opens the 

2010 Festival, talking frankly to 

Ruth Pitt, Executive Director of 

Screen England, about his life as 

a foreign correspondent and the 

reality of a ‘free’ press. 

£10/8 

Sponsored by Hebridean Island Cruises 

Jacquetta Hawkes 

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5. 

Saturday 2nd October 

11am–1pm Manor House 

Don Paterson Masterclass: 

Poetry for the Deadly 

Serious 

Don Paterson will conduct an open 

seminar-style workshop and discuss 

all aspects of the poetic art, looking 

at the business of poetic composition 

as a technical, practical and spiritual 

exercise, and focussing on every stage 

of the process from inspiration to 

publication. 

£12/8 

Please bring pen, paper and two 

or three good questions. For 

intermediate and experienced writers. 

Places limited – please book in 

advance. 

6. 


11am –1pm St Margaret’s Hall 

Jeremy Dyson Masterclass 

on Creativity 

Explore how to get from the spark 

of an idea to the finished thing – be 

it story, sketch, script or novel with 

novelist and scriptwriter Jeremy 

Dyson, co-creator of the awardwinning 

BBC series, The League of 

Gentlemen. 

£12/8 

All levels of experience. Please bring 

pen and paper. Places limited – please 

book in advance. 

7. 


12 noon–12.45pm 

Ilkley Playhouse Wildman 

Stormy Weather and The 

Trouble with Dragons with 

Debi Gliori 

An enchanting event full of drawing 

and storytelling for younger children 

from the immensely popular author 

and illustrator of scores of much loved 

children’s books, including No Matter 

What, The Trouble with Dragons and 

Stormy Weather. 

£4 Family event age 5–7. 

8. 


12.30–2pm Church House 

Bring–Share Poetry Lunch 

Poet in Residence Antony Dunn 

offers a delicious opportunity to 

mingle with your fellow festivalgoers. 

Bring and share not just 

your lunch, but your favourite 

poem. Poems about Yorkshire, or 

by Yorkshire writers particularly 

welcome – but bring anything you 

think will tickle our taste buds. Special 

cream cake award for those who can 

recite their favourite poem by heart! 

£5 includes tea and coffee 

9. 

Saturday 2nd October 1.30pm 

Ilkley Playhouse Wharfeside 

The Running Sky: 

Tim Dee and Horatio Clare 

The Running Sky, Tim Dee’s 

extraordinary and inspiring account 

of his bird watching life has been 

acclaimed as a classic, taking us 

from clouds of breeding seabirds to 

nightjars like giant moths. 

This afternoon he talks to Horatio 

Clare, fellow radio producer (Front 

Row, The Verb) and journalist (The 

Guardian, Sunday Times, Daily 

Telegraph) whose latest book, Single 

Swallow, follows a barn swallow’s 

annual migration from Cape Town 

to the hills of South Wales, Clare’s 

childhood home. ‘Travel writing at its 

very best – enthralling, passionate … 

and utterly, utterly brilliant.’ 

£5/3 

10. 

Saturday 2nd October 2pm 


Love’s Civil War: Victoria 

Glendinning 

Hundreds of miles separated 

celebrated writer Elizabeth Bowen 

and the Canadian diplomat, Charles 

Ritchie, but their affair lasted 

32 years. Her love letters reveal 

the novelist at her most brilliant: 

passionate, intelligent, eloquent, 

strong-minded and wonderfully 

funny. Victoria Glendinning, the 

acclaimed award-winning biographer 

of Bowen, Leonard Woolf, Anthony 

Trollope, Edith Sitwell and Vita 

Sackville-West, explores Bowen’s 

love letters and Ritchie’s remarkably 

candid diaries. 

£6/4 

11. 


Kings Hall 

Terry Eagleton: The Nature 

of Evil 

Why should evil appear so glamorous 

and seductive? Why does goodness 

seem so boring? Terry Eagleton, 

former Professor of English at Oxford 

and widely regarded as Britain’s 

most influential living literary 

critic, launches a surprising and 

witty defence of the reality of evil. 

Drawing on literary, theological, 

and psychoanalytic sources from 

Thomas Aquinas to Thomas Mann, 

he suggests that evil is a real 

phenomenon with palpable force. 

£9/7 

Terry Eagleton 

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12. 

Saturday 2nd October 2–2.15pm 


Faces of Poetry Face-to- 

Face: Don Paterson 

As part of the opening of this prestigious 

exhibition, poet Don Paterson comes 

face-to-face with his own image as he 

gives a unique short reading in front 

of celebrated Scottish photographer 

Norman McBeath’s portrait. 

FREE 

13. 


St Margaret’s Hall 

A Case of Exploding Talent: 

New Writing in Pakistan 

Filled with almost 200 million people 

speaking nearly 60 languages, brought 

into nationhood under the auspices 

of a single religion but destabilised by 

deep separatist fissures and conflicts 

with its neighbours, Pakistan is one 

of the most dynamic places in the 

world. In this panel discussion, writers 

featured in literary magazine Granta’s 

Pakistan issue explore the frisson and 

fractures of new writing in Pakistan. 

£5/3 includes a cup of chai 

Sponsored by Granta 

14. 



Elsie and Mairi go to War: 

Diane Atkinson 

They met at a motorcycle club in 

1912, a motorcycling divorcee in 

bottle-green leathers, and a brilliant 

18 year old mechanic. 

In 1914, they roared off ‘to do their 

bit’, and within a month were driving 

ambulances to military hospitals, 

where the ‘Angels of Pervyse’ became 

celebrities. But, as author and former 

Museum of London lecturer Diane 

Atkinson reveals, adjusting to 

peacetime was as challenging as war. 

£5/3 

See Event 28 for a glimpse of Ilkley at 

the time of WW1. 

15. 

Saturday 2nd October 3–5pm 

Church House 

Poetry Surgery 

Trouble with one of your poems? 

Book yourself in to see the Festival’s 

Poetry Doctor, Antony Dunn, for a 

30 minute session. 

Send your ailing poem and 

contact details to: info@ 

ilkleyliteraturefestival.org.uk or post 

to Poetry Surgeries, ILF, Manor House, 

Ilkley, LS29 9DT. 

£5 First come, first served. 

16. 



Don Paterson: Reading 

Shakespeare’s Sonnets 

Don Paterson, an award-winning 

sonneteer and lyric poet in his own 

right, offers an illuminating guide to 

Shakespeare’s much loved sonnets. 

In a series of mesmerising and highly 

entertaining commentaries, Paterson 

explains the inner workings of the 

poems – their hidden structures 

and techniques, their narratives 

and brilliance – as actors bring the 

sonnets to life. 

£5/3 

17. 



Lyndall Gordon: Emily 

Dickinson and the Surge 

in the Brain 

Fellow of St Hilda’s Oxford, acclaimed 

biographer and James Tait Black 

award winner, Lyndall Gordon 

(whose previous subjects include 

Mary Wollstonecraft, Virginia 

Woolf and Charlotte Brontë) turns 

her attention to Emily Dickinson, 

dispelling the myth of a quaint, 

helpless creature, disappointed in 

love. Instead she reveals a fiercely 

passionate nature, damaging family 

feuds and a closely guarded secret … 

£6/4 

Supported by the Friends of Ilkley 

Literature Festival 

Robert McCrum 

18. 



How English became the 

World’s Language: Robert 

McCrum 

Conversations about Empires 

Robert McCrum, former literary 

editor of the Observer and for 20 

years editor-in-chief of Faber & Faber, 

investigates the beginnings of the 

English language. How did slavery 

affect the way we speak today? Why 

does American culture continue to 

spread? Linking language, culture, 

history and power, McCrum traces 

the way English responded to a 

changing world and its ever increasing 

influence across the globe. 

£5/3 

19. 



It’s a Long Way 

Poems and handmade books from 

Mary Thomson. 

FREE FRINGE EVENT 

See page 45 for full details. 

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20. 


Kings Hall 

Shappi Khorsandi: 

A Beginner’s Guide 

to Acting English 

Known for her warm, witty stand up, 

Britain’s Best Young Female Comic 

takes us into her world as a six year old 

– and plunges us into the vibrant heart 

of a loud, loving Iranian family. Join 

Shappi Khorsandi as she grapples with 

her family’s escape from the Ayatollah, 

unfamiliar cheese sandwiches and the 

London of the 1970s. 

£9/7 

After Shappi head for event 23! 

Shappi Khorsandi 



21. 



The Brontës Revisited: 

Juliet Barker 

Juliet Barker’s biography, The Brontës, 

was the most radical reassessment 

of Yorkshire’s most famous literary 

family ever written. 

Now, sixteen years later, Juliet has 

completely revised and updated it, 

breathing new life into this modern 

classic. She talks about The Brontës 

and recently discovered material 

she has incorporated into this new 

edition. 

£5/3 

22. 



A Tribute to Alan Plater 

Members of Ilkley Playhouse pay 

tribute to the much loved writer of 

Z Cars, Softly Softly and Close the 

Coalhouse Door, who died earlier this 

year. Brought up in Hull, Alan was a 

stalwart supporter of Ilkley Literature 

Festival and always maintained his 

strong Yorkshire connection. Tonight 

includes extracts from his plays, TV 

work and books; ranging from the 

Beiderbecke trilogy to Peggy for You; 

and features, as backcloth, some of 

the jazz music he loved so much. 

A warm, funny and poignant evening 

is guaranteed. 

£5/3 

23. 


9–10.30pm 


Ilkley Liming: spoken word 

meets carnival 

Featuring John Agard, Daljit 

Nagra and Charlie Dark with 

special guest Michelle Scally 

Clarke 

Based on a Trinidadian cultural 

institution, this evening will mash up 

Caribbean carnival sensibilities with 

dance music and poetry readings. 

Between sets by famous names, like 

poets John Agard, and Daljit Nagra 

and DJ Charlie Dark, the audience are 

invited to chat, dance and meet the 

artists over a beer. 

‘Amazing … one of a kind.’ 

£7/5 

24. 

Sunday 3rd October 11am–1pm 

Manor House 

Linda Green: The Truth 

about Writing Chick Lit 

It’s not as easy as many people think 

to write commercial women’s fiction. 

It’s a tough market with demanding 

readers who want an original pageturning 

novel with unforgettable 

characters who will make them laugh 

and cry. Linda Green, author of three 

top 30 bestselling paperbacks, takes 

you through a sheaf of practical 

exercises to help your book stand out 

from the crowd. 

£12/8 




25. 

Sunday 3rd October 12.30 –1pm 


Introducing the Festival 

Mushaira 

Haven’t been to our Mushaira before, 

don’t quite know what to expect? 

Come to this short introduction to 

the history and form of the Mushaira 

and ask any questions you want. 

Everyone welcome. 

FREE 

26. 

Sunday 3rd October 

1.30–4.30pm 


Multi-lingual Mushaira: 

Gathering of Poets 

Poets and listeners are warmly invited 

to join the Festival’s annual Mushaira 

which is dedicated to the memory 

of poet and Festival Board Member, 

Hafeez Johar. 

Come and enjoy Urdu, Hindi, Bengali, 

English and Gujerati poetry readings 

– with English translation. We’ll be 

welcoming eminent guest, Saud 

Usmani, and some of the most 

prominent South Asian poets in the 

North – make sure you join them. 

Always a very friendly atmosphere! 

FREE with Indian banquet kindly 

provided by Panache 

In association with Bazm-E-Tadeeb 

International 

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Jackie Kay 

27. 

Sunday 3rd October 2pm 


Kisses on a Postcard: 

Terence Frisby 

‘Put one kiss if it’s horrible … three if 

it’s really nice.’ 

Terence Frisby traces his heartwarming 

experiences as an evacuee 

in wartime Britain transplanted from 

suburban London to a tiny Cornish 

village. Known for his famous play, 

London’s longest-running comedy 

and the worldwide smash hit, There’s 

A Girl In My Soup, Frisby has worked 

extensively as actor, director and 

producer for nearly 50 years. 

£6/4 

Sponsored by Hebridean Island Cruises 

28. 

Sunday 3rd October 2–3.30pm 

Meet outside Rombalds Hotel 

The Home Front – Ilkley at 

the Time of WW1 

Local historian Alex Cockshott 

leads a walk round the Ilkley of the 

First World War – a time when local 

women with suffragette sympathies 

turned to raising money for the 

troops and collecting wounded 

soldiers from the station in their own 

motor cars. 

Followed by tea and coffee at 


£5 includes refreshments 

See also Event 14. 

Sponsored by Rombalds Hotel 

29. 

Sunday 3rd October 2–4pm 

Manor House 

The Other Life: Jackie Kay 

Fiction Masterclass 

An inspiring workshop with poet and 

fiction writer Jackie Kay exploring 

ideas of doppelgangers and roads not 

taken. 

Kay’s first novel, Trumpet won 

the Guardian Fiction Prize and her 

collection of short stories, Wish I Was 

Here won the Decibel Writer of the 

Year award. Her memoir Red Dust 

Road has just been published to great 

acclaim. 

£12/8 




30 & 31. 


2.30–3.30pm and 3.45–4.45pm 


The Nutcracker Ballet 

Follow Northern Ballet Theatre’s 

dance artist into the sparkling world 

of the Sugar Plum Fairy. 

£4 Age 5–7 and 8–12. 


In association with Northern Ballet Theatre. 

National Tour Partner: Leeds Metropolitan 

University 

32. 

Sunday 3rd October 2.30–4pm 


Faces of Poetry Talk: 

Madeleine Waller 

Award-winning, Australian born, 

London-based photographer 

Madeleine Waller, gives an insider’s 

guide to the Faces of Poetry 

exhibition, which centres on a group 

of her images, newly acquired by the 

National Portrait Gallery. Trained as a 

photojournalist, Waller whose clients 

include The Sunday Telegraph and 

The Independent, specialises in 

portraiture, placing literary subjects in 

environments that have informed and 

shaped their work. 

FREE 

33. 

Sunday 3rd October 3–3.45pm 

Kings Hall 

Louise Rennison 

The misadventures of Tallulah Casey. 

The Queen of Teen, author of the 

Georgia Nicolson books, talks about 

her hilarious new series. 

£6 adults £5 teenagers Age12–17. 



34. 

Sunday 3rd October 4–5pm 


Valerie Bloom: 

Children’s Poetry Event 

Favourite children’s author Valerie 

Bloom in a lively, performance poetry 

event for the whole family. 

£5 adults £4 children. Age 7–11. 


This event begins with a short reading 

by the winners of the Children’s 

Poetry Competition. 

Sponsored by Bradford Grammar School. 

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35. 


Audley Clevedon, Ben Rhydding 

Jane Eyre – The Well- 

Dressed Governess 

The tale of Charlotte Brontë and her 

fictional heroine – both women of 

passionate intensity – retold through 

the deceptively genteel fashions of 

the 1840s. 

Historical seamstress Gillian 

Stapleton, from The History 

Wardrobe, presents a delightful array 

of replica garments to illustrate the 

key costumes and scenes of Charlotte 

Brontë’s well-loved novel. 

£6/4 includes tea and biscuits 

Supported by Audley Clevedon 

Gillian Stapleton from The History Wardrobe 

36. 

Sunday 3rd October 4.30pm 


Gardening in Yorkshire: 

Joe Maiden 

Joe Maiden – grower, horticulturist, 

seed merchant, nurseryman, TV 

presenter – has had a huge following 

on Radio Leeds for an amazing 36 

years. His Grow With Joe is the UK’s 

top local radio broadcast. 

Holder of the Harlow Carr medal 

he’s a real ‘dirt under the fingertips’ 

gardener. Now Joe is on hand to 

share his Yorkshire gardening tips 

and answer your questions – from 

vegetables to bedding plants. 

£6/4 

Sponsored by The Laureates 

37. 



Frances Partridge: Last of 

the Bloomsbury Set 

Renowned biographer Anne 

Chisholm discusses the remarkable 

life of Frances Partridge, ‘last and 

nicest of the Bloomsbury set’ with 

Alexandra Harris of the University 

of Liverpool, whose book, Romantic 

Moderns examines the ‘modern 

renaissance’ of the 1930s and 40s. 

Entangled in a famous love triangle 

(husband Ralph initially married Dora 

Carrington, Dora was hopelessly in 

love with Lytton Strachey, Lytton 

besotted by Ralph), Frances Partridge, 

who knew everyone from Virginia 

Woolf to Maynard Keynes, emerged 

as one of the great British diarists of 

the 20th century. 

£5/3 

38. 


Kings Hall 

Brian Patten: Heroes and 

Ghosts 

‘Humour, sincerity, sheer brilliance – 

not to be missed.’ The Scotsman. 

One of the UK’s best loved poets, 

Brian Patten was one of the Liverpool 

Poets with Roger McGough and the 

late Adrian Henri. Tonight he reads 

from his own poetry, both serious 

and funny, and from the great figures 

with whom he’s shared a stage: Pablo 

Neruda, Stevie Smith, Laurie Lee, 

Allen Ginsberg, Robert Graves – and 

talks about their influences on him. 

£9/7 For adults and 14+. 

This event lasts 90 minutes with an 

interval. 

Joe Maiden 

39. 



Red: the Anthology 

– Jackie Kay, Nii Ayikwei 

Parkes and Simon Murray 

Jackie Kay, Forward Prize winner and 

one of Britain’s most distinguished 

poets, together with fellow poets Nii 

Ayikwei Parkes and Simon Murray, 

reads from Red, the first anthology 

of contemporary Black British poetry 

for ten years. Peepal Tree Press have 

brought together work by 80 poets, 

from tonight’s speakers to Linton 

Kwesi Johnson, John Agard, Patience 

Agbabi and Dorothea Smartt, each 

writing with the word ‘red’ in mind 

– ‘as a kind of a leap-off point, a 

context, a germ’. 

£6/4 

In association with Peepal Tree Press 

Brian Patten 

40. 

Monday 4th October 11.30am– 

2.15pm The Wheatley Arms 

Between the Covers: 

Lunch with Bookbinder 

Dominic Riley 

Having learnt bookbinding at 16, from 

Benedictine monks and then at the 

London College of Printing, Dominic 

Riley has spent the last ten years in 

San Francisco teaching, lecturing and 

restoring rare books.


Meet at 11.30am for coffee and 

homemade cookies, then enjoy the 

fascinating story of The Great Omar, 

the most elaborate and opulent 

binding ever created, which went 

down with the Titanic. Followed by a 

delicious lunch plus coffee. 

£16 including coffee, cookies and 

two-course set lunch 


41. 

Monday 4th October 2.30– 


Bookbinding Masterclass 

Share the passion of Master 

Bookbinder, Dominic Riley whose 

work features in collections 

worldwide including the British 

Library and Rylands Library, 

Manchester. 

Dominic will be showing examples 

of rare, interesting – and sometimes 

quirky – books. 

£5 includes coffee and cake 


42. 

Monday 4th October 5.30– 


Bookbinding: Drop In Clinic 

A unique opportunity to bring old 

books from home for advice on how 

best to refurbish them, with Master 

Bookbinder Dominic Riley. 

FREE 


43. 

Mondays and Thursdays, 

4th, 7th, 11th and 14th October 

6–7pm Manor House 

Reading James Joyce’s 

Ulysses: Guided Reading 

Group 

Get to grips with the book everyone 

wishes they’d read … 

Following last year’s hugely popular 

Darwin reading group, James 

Joyce expert Dr Katy Mullin, from 

the Department of English at the 

University of Leeds, offers an inspiring 

guide to this landmark of twentieth 

century literature. At its heart 

Ulysses is about one day in the life of 

advertising salesman, Leopold Bloom. 

Concentrating on four key episodes, 

Katy Mullin invites readers to join 

her in exploring Joyce’s compelling, 

imaginative world. 

£10/8 includes all four sessions 

Sessions timed to ensure you don’t 

miss other events. Details of key 

chapters to study will be posted on: 

www.ilkleyliteraturefestival.org.uk 

In conjunction with the University of Leeds 

44. 

Monday 4th October 7.30pm 

Craiglands 

John O’Farrell: An Utterly 

Exasperated History of 

Modern Britain … 

John O’Farrell, former comedy 

scriptwriter for Spitting Image and 

Smith and Jones, and a frequent guest 

on TV’s Grumpy Old Men and Have I 

Got News For You, comes bang up to 

date with a hilarious modern history 

asking ‘How the hell did we end up 

here?’. Revel in the bizarre events, 

ridiculous characters and stupid 

decisions that have shaped Britain 

since 1945! 

£7/5 

Robert Goddard © Graham Jepson 

45. 



Robert Goddard: 

Long Time Coming 

‘They said Eldritch Swan was dead. 

But after 36 years in an Irish prison 

Eldritch is back …’ 

Robert Goddard’s first novel, Past 

Caring was an instant bestseller. 

His books enthral readers with 

their edge-of-the-seat pace and 

labyrinthine plotting. Tonight ‘the 

master of manipulation’ describes the 

pleasures and pitfalls of incorporating 

historical fact into contemporary 

fiction. It’s what history doesn’t tell us 

that provides his inspiration. 

£6/4 

46. 



Paul Murdin: Secrets of 

the Universe 

World-renowned astronomer 

Paul Murdin tells the stories which 

changed our view of the Universe: 

how we discovered the shape of the 

Earth, the principles of relativity, the 

existence of Pluto and cosmic marvels 

like black holes and interstellar 

nebulae. 

In a richly illustrated talk, Professor 

Murdin, senior Fellow at the 

Cambridge Institute of Astronomy, 

explains the science, personal 

struggles and quirks of fate behind 

the revelations. 

£5/3 Adults and young people 13+. 

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47. 

Monday 4th October 9pm 


The Poetry School in York 

and Leeds – Live 

Seven poets. Seven minutes each. 

Introduced by Poet in Residence 

Antony Dunn. 



48. 



Their Spirits, My Demons: 

John Ormond 

John Ormond introduces his 

humorous, emotive book about 

growing up in an emotionally 

unstable home. 



49. 

Tuesday 5th October 6–7pm 

Manor House 

Close Reading 1: Poems by 

Carol Ann Duffy and Simon 

Armitage 

If you’ve ever read a poem and 

struggled to find a way into it, you 

can be sure you’re not the only one. 


offers a close reading workshop for 

those who’d like to know more about 

getting to the heart of a poem. A 

lively interactive workshop, exploring 

poems by poets appearing at the 

Festival. 

£5 

See also Event 123 

Places limited – please book in 

advance. 

Ellen MacArthur 

50. 

Tuesday 5th October 7.30pm 

Kings Hall 

Ellen MacArthur 

Last October Ellen MacArthur, twice 

Sailor of the Year, World Champion 

and one of the greatest sportswomen 

in the world, announced her 

retirement from competitive sailing. 

How could the woman who set so 

many records give up racing, what 

had she discovered that was so 

important? Tonight she talks about 

her last ten years and the fateful trip 

to South Georgia which changed her 

life. 

£9/7 

Sponsored by Spooner Industries Ltd 

51. 



The Hemlock Cup: Bettany 

Hughes on Socrates 


Socrates was famously executed in 

c.399 BC. Piecing together a unique 

combination of archaeological, 

geological and historical clues, 

acclaimed classical historian Fellow of 

Kings College London and renowned 

television history presenter, Bettany 

Hughes, recreates Socrates’ world in 

5th Century BC Athens. The result is 

a unique picture of the man whose 

fundamental questions – How should 

we best live? What makes us good? – 

underpin much of modern thinking. 

£6/4 

52. 



The Baverstock Lecture – 

The Media and Public 

Debate: Noise, Signals and 

Democracy 

Stephen Coleman, Professor of 

Political Communication at the 

University of Leeds, reflects on how 

modern media has changed the ways 

in which we can contribute to the 

democratic process. His most recent 

book (with Jay G Blumler) focused on 

the interplay between the internet 

and democratic citizenship, while 

his recent research explored public 

and media reactions to the televised 

leaders’ debates during the general 

election campaign. 

£6/4 

In association with the Friends of Donald 

Baverstock 

53. 



Flying with the Moon 

The search for a lost airman. Jean 

Stevens introduces her new book. 



Bettany Hughes


Andrew Graham-Dixon 

54. 

Wednesday 6th October 6.30– 

8pm Manor House Museum 

Faces of Poetry and 

Jacquetta Hawkes 

Exhibitions – Festival 

Private View 

A special evening for Festival goers. 

Relax with a glass of wine as you 

enjoy these two stunning exhibitions. 

Upstairs, the National Portrait 

Gallery’s photographs of leading 

poets is brought to life with readings 

by members of Ilkley Playhouse. 

Downstairs enjoy the fascinating 

display celebrating the life of 

archaeologist and writer Jacquetta 

Hawkes. 

FREE. Then continue your evening at 

Event 55. 

55. 

Wednesday 6th October 7.45pm 


Old Land, New Land: a 

journey through Jacquetta 

Hawkes’ poetic geography 

The lyrical writings of celebrated 

archaeologist and writer Jacquetta 

Hawkes (1910–1996) included the 

script for an experimental film about 

Barbara Hepworth, Figures in a 

Landscape (1953), which continues 

themes Hawkes explored vividly 

in A Land (1951), her noted book 

synthesising geology and literature. 

Christine Finn, Hawkes’ biographer, 

introduces the Hepworth film 

alongside a showing of A New Land, 

made to celebrate the centenary of 

Hawkes’ birth. 

£5/3 This event lasts 90 minutes 

56. 


All Saints Parish Church 

Andrew Graham-Dixon on 

Caravaggio 

‘What begins in the work of 

Caravaggio is, quite simply, modern 

painting …’ 

Andrew Graham-Dixon, leading 

art critic, presenter of six landmark 

BBC art series including A History 

of British Art and Renaissance, and 

author of acclaimed studies of 

Howard Hodgkin and Michelangelo, 

has spent ten years piecing together 

the life of tumultuous 16th century 

Italian artist, Caravaggio. Notorious 

for his brawling; famed for his intense 

emotional realism and dramatic use 

of light. 

£6/4 

Sponsored by Skipton & Wharfedale 

Decorative & Fine Arts Society 

57. 



Robin Ince’s Bad Book 

Club: The Books that Taste 

Forgot … 

Is hideous prose and ghastly poetry 

more fabulous than great literature? 

Robin Ince, multi-award-winning 

comedian, writer, TV and radio regular 

(Mock The Week, Never Mind The 

Buzzcocks, The Now Show and Loose 

Ends) has spent the 21st century 

rummaging through charity shops 

to compile the defining collection 

of the world’s worst inadvertently 

hilarious books. A voyage through 

the hinterland of underappreciated 

classics … 

£5/3 

58. 

Wednesday 6th October 

8.30 –10pm 

Ilkley Happiness Centre 

The Unlikely Poetry of 

Michael Conneely 

Visionary poetry and an ‘Open Mic’ 

for like-minded poems. Refreshments 

available. 



Thursday 7th October 

National Poetry Day 

59. 

Thursday 7th October 2–4.30pm 


Poetry Alive! Open Mic and 

Networking Event 

Celebrate National Poetry Day at our 

annual ‘Open Mic’ and networking 

event for poets from across the 

Yorkshire region – catch up with other 

writers, share your pamphlets and 

chapbooks – hosted by Antony Dunn. 

Poets wanting to read should arrive 

by 1.45pm to put their names down. 

Everyone, including non-performing 

listeners, welcome. 

FREE includes refreshments 

Robin Ince 

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60. 

Thursday 7th October 2–4pm 


Michèle Roberts Fiction 

Masterclass 

Masterclass with poet, essayist, 

critic and author Michèle Roberts. 

Emeritus Professor of Creative Writing 

at the University of East Anglia 

and previously co-director of UEA’s 

Creative Writing (Prose Fiction) MA. 

An inspiring opportunity to work with 

one of the best creative writing tutors 

in the UK. 

£12/8 

Not for beginners. Please bring pen 

and paper. Places limited – please 


61. 

Thursday 7th October 7.30pm 


Carcanet Press Evening 

with Michael Schmidt 

and Peter Sansom 

Carcanet’s founder, Professor 

Michael Schmidt, is a key figure 

in British literature, whose ‘vibrant 

and radiant poems … earthy and 

numinous’ – John Ashbery – include 

Collected Poems (Smith/Doorstop 

Books). 

Peter Sansom is co-director of The 

Poetry Business. His fifth Carcanet 

book, Selected Poems, is launched 

tonight, in a compelling evening of 

two halves. 

Michael and Peter begin by reading 

their own work and discussing 

publishing; then, after a glass of wine, 

they feature poems by Carcanet 

authors as diverse as Patricia Beer, 

John Clare, Edwin Morgan, Les Murray 

and Frank O’Hara. 

£5/3 includes a glass of wine 

Michèle Roberts © Time Warner Books UK 

62. 



In-Flight Entertainment: 

Michèle Roberts and 

Helen Simpson 

Michèle Roberts, celebrated novelist, 

poet and short story writer, discusses 

her latest collection of stories, Mud: 

Stories of Sex and Love, which take us 

to 19th Century Venice, modern-day 

France and beyond – with Helen 

Simpson, undisputed master of the 

short story genre. 

Simpson makes a welcome return 

to Ilkley with stories from In-Flight 

Entertainment which move between 

domestic and fantastic, tragic and 

comic – portraits of lives in transition. 

£6/4 

63. 



Anatole Kaletsky: 

Capitalism 4.0 

Anatole Kaletsky, Times editor-atlarge, 

former editor of the FT and 

leading economic theorist, considers 

the birth of a new economy in the 

aftermath of the current crisis. 

Pinpointing other moments in history 

when capitalism was transformed 

by financial collapse: the late 19th 

century, the 1930s and 70s, now, he 

argues, we face the transition into 

‘Capitalism 4.0’. If we recognise the 

fallibility of markets and governments 

can we create a functioning system of 

checks and balances? 

£6/4 

Sponsored by Garbutt & Elliott 

64. 



Christopher Frayling: 

Horace Walpole’s Cat 

In 1747, Walpole’s tabby fell into a 

porcelain tub in his Mayfair house. 

Thomas Gray’s Ode on the Death of 

a Favourite Cat, Drowned in a Tub of 

Gold Fishes, was Selima’s epitaph. 

Writer and cultural historian, Sir 

Christopher Frayling, former chair 

of Arts Council England and Rector of 

the Royal College of Art, explores the 

complex social and cultural life of the 

period the incident reveals. 

£5/3 

Sir Christopher Frayling 

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Helen Dunmore 

65. 



Ian Vince: The Lie of the 

Land 

From ancient volcanoes and deserts 

to long-forgotten seas, Ian Vince 

deciphers how and why we see such 

distinctive ecology, microclimates 

and patterns of human settlement 

around every corner in the UK. 

Peeling back the surface of the land 

he explains how the forces of the 

planet – volcanic mayhem, polar 

weather, lush tropical vegetation and 

bizarre creatures – have made it what 

it is today. 

£4 In asociation with Friends of the 

Manor House. 

66. 

Thursday 7th October 9pm 


A Flambard Affair 

Sensual, evocative poetry from Mary 

Robinson and Rebecca Goss. 



67. 



An Domhan Eile (The Other 

World) by Lucht Focail 

Poetry, story, music and dance from 

the popular Irish writers group. 



68. 

Friday 8th October 11am–12pm 

Meet at the Cow and Calf Rocks 

car park 

Lie of the Land Walk 

Anyone who has ever picked up 

a pebble at the seaside or a rock 

on a moorland path or longed to 

understand the ground beneath their 

feet will want to join Ian Vince as 

he ‘peels back the land’ to reveal the 

fascinating forces which have shaped 

Ilkley Moor and the Wharfe Valley 

£4 Some moorland walking – please 

wear suitable shoes and bring 

waterproofs.Refreshments and toilets 

can be found at the Cow and Calf pub. 

Ilkley Moor © Dave Smith 

69. 

Friday 8th October 7.30pm 


Hops and Glory and IPA 

Meet Britain’s best beer writer, awardwinning 

Pete Brown from Barnsley, 

as he sets off to India by canal and 

tall ship with a keg of Burton IPA 

brewed to the original recipe. Brazilian 

pirates and Iranian customs officials 

lie ahead, but will his barrel stand up 

to the original India Pale Ale – a semimythical 

beer invented 140 years 

ago to survive storms and tropical 

sunshine? 

Make up your mind as you sample 

Ilkley’s own special IPA, brewed for 

the occasion by Ilkley Brewery. 

£7/5 includes beer tasting kindly 

provided by Ilkley Brewery 

70. 



Helen Dunmore: 

The Betrayal 

Helen Dunmore is an acclaimed poet, 

novelist and short story writer. The 

Siege (shortlisted for both Whitbread 

and Orange Prizes) captured a 

family’s desperate struggle to survive 

the siege of Leningrad. Tonight she 

discusses The Betrayal, a beautifully 

written portrait of life in post-war 

Soviet Russia, returning us to the 

same city and same characters in 

1952 when the eyes of Stalin’s secret 

police are everywhere. 

£5/3 

71. 



EM Forster: Wendy Moffat 

Fans of EM Forster have long 

wondered why, after A Passage to 

India, he never published another 

novel. Wendy Moffat, Associate 

Professor of English at Dickinson 

College Pennsylvania, explores 

possible explanations as she discusses 

her ‘superbly illuminating’ revisionist 

and controversial biography, arguing 

Forster’s homosexuality was the key 

to his work, making him a true radical, 

even if he chose not to write about it. 

£5/3 

Wendy Moffat 

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Charles Emmerson 



72. 


Clarke Foley Centre 

The Arctic and the 

Global Economy: Charles 

Emmerson 

The Arctic, from the oil-fields 

of Prudhoe Bay to the shores of 

Greenland and the militarised 

borderlands of Norway, is where 

much of the world’s future history 

will be written. Geopolitics expert 

and Associate Director of the World 

Economic Forum, Charles Emmerson 

explores the history and future of this 

vast area, loaded with opportunity, 

rich in challenges. With insights from 

fishermen, politicians, scientists and 

spies who know the region. 

£5/3 

73. 

Friday 8th October 9–9.30 pm 


Stand Up with Ash Caton 

Cutting edge comedy with this 

brilliantly funny 18 year old. 



Lasts 30 minutes. 

Saturday 9th October 

All day: Children’s and 

Young People’s Events 

See pages 40–44 for details. 

74. 


10am–4pm Ilkley Tennis Club 

The Excitement of South 

Asian Literature – Day 

School (in English) 

Held in collaboration with Leeds 

Metropolitan University and the 

University of Leeds, this exciting 

event offers you the opportunity 

to find out more about the 

extraordinarily rich range of South 

Asian writing in English, with leading 

scholars in the field including 

Dr Claire Chambers, Dr Caroline 

Herbert, Dr Ananya Jahanara Kabir 

and Professor John McLeod. 

Informal, lively interactive sessions 

– from discussion on key themes to 

creative writing exercises and ‘for 

and against’ debates on particular 

topics and issues in South Asian 

writing, inspired by this year’s guests 

at the Festival. No prior knowledge 

needed – and lots of exciting things 

to discover! 

£12/8 sandwiches or hot lunches 

available at the Tennis Club, paid for 

as taken 

In association with University of Leeds and 

Leeds Metropolitan University 

75. 


11am–4pm across Ilkley 

Words on the Streets 

Meet brand new poetry voices, all 

under 25, busking across Ilkley before 

a performance of their work this 

evening. Enjoy a vibrant, eclectic 

mix of verse on the streets and in 

the courtyard of the Manor House 

Museum from Oli Hazzard, Jonathan 

Parkin, Cara Brennan, Ashna Sarkar 

and Andrew McMillan. 

FREE Location details from 


76. 


11am–1pm St Margaret’s Hall 

Writing for Teenagers with 

Bernardine Evaristo 

Author and poet Bernardine Evaristo 

leads this practical and inspiring 

creative writing workshop, exploring 

how to capture a teenage fictional 

voice for a teenage market using her 

Quick Reads novella Hello Mum as a 

model. 


For all levels. Please bring pen and 

paper. Places limited – please book in 

advance. 


77. 



Character and Voice in 

Short Story Jane Rogers 

Workshop 

Jane Rogers, OCA Course Leader 

for Creative Writing and Professor 

of Creative Writing at the University 

of Sheffield, leads a workshop on 

character and voice in the short 

story. She’ll look at examples of 

effective characterisation from 

other writers, and explore ways into 

creating character through a range of 

exercises. Come prepared to write! 

£12/8 



advance. 

In association with Open College of the Arts 

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78. 


1.15–2.15pm Manor House 

Meet Open College of 

the Arts 

If you’ve always wanted to do a 

creative writing course and are not 

quite sure what it involves or if you 

want to know more about the courses 

OCA offer, including their portfolio 

scheme for experienced writers, drop 

in for an informal chat with the OCA 

tutors. 

FREE no need to book 

79. 


2.30–4.30pm Manor House 

Write an Historical 

Children’s Story Workshop 

Livi Michael leads a workshop on 

developing a children’s story from 

historical documents. Participants 

will work in groups to investigate 

actual evidence which they will use to 

create a plausible character and voice. 

Expect to do some detective work 

that will feed into your own writing. 

No experience necessary! 

£12/8 For all levels. 

Please bring pen and paper. Places 

limited – please book in advance. 


80. 

Saturday 9th October 2pm 

Kings Hall 

The Number Mysteries: 

Professor Marcus du Sautoy 

Marcus du Sautoy – footballer, 

amateur musician – Professor 

of Mathematics at Oxford and 

Simonyi Professor for the Public 

Understanding of Science, is 

passionate about popularising 

mathematics. Join him and set your 

prejudice aside – maths never used to 

be this much fun! 

Discover maths at the heart of 

everyday life with Wayne Rooney 

solving quadratic equations as he puts 

the ball in the back of the net. 

£8/5 An event for adults and young 

people from 10/11 upwards. 

81. 



Map of a Nation: Rachel 

Hewitt 

Rachel Hewitt, Research Fellow at 

Queen Mary and Westfield College, 

University of London, tells the story 

of the creation of the Ordnance 

Survey map from its inception in 

1791, through political revolutions 

and rebellions, to the vast digital 

database of the present day. An 

untold adventure, featuring intrepid 

individuals lugging brass theodolites 

up mountains to create the first 

accurate, affordable map of the 

British Isles. 

£5/3 

82. 


All Saints Parish Church 

Poems of Praise 

Festival Poet in Residence Antony 

Dunn, aided by Yorkshire poet Nigel 

Forde, presents a reading of poems 

ancient and modern, from John 

Donne to Michael Symmons Roberts, 

by way of George Herbert, Gerard 

Manley Hopkins and quite a few 

surprises … 

FREE 

Professor Marcus du Sautoy 

83. 

Saturday 9th October 2.30pm 


A Winter on the Nile: 

Tim Butcher and 



In the winter of 1849, Florence 

Nightingale was just 29 – and deeply 

unhappy. Friends suggested a trip 

to Egypt. Gustave Flaubert was on 

a similar quest. Anthony Sattin, 

inveterate Egyptian traveller, highly 

regarded journalist, broadcaster 

and travel writer (Sunday Times, 

Daily Telegraph, Independent and 

The Guardian) discusses the impact 

of journeys that altered their lives, 

with fellow journalist, former Daily 

Telegraph correspondent and bestselling 

author, Africa expert, 

Tim Butcher. 

Following his much lauded Blood 

River, Butcher’s latest book traces 

his journey across Sierra Leone and 

Liberia, 350 miles through remote 

rainforest and malarial swamps, 

following a trail blazed by Graham 

Greene. 

£5/3 

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84. 


3.45–4.30pm 


Hello Mum: 


Knife crime is having a huge impact 

on young people, and not just in the 

large cities. Much praised poet and 

novelist Bernardine Evaristo talks 

about why and how she wrote Hello 

Mum – her new book for young 

people exploring this complex issue in 

a way teenagers find compelling and 

thought provoking. 

An event for young people and all 

those who care about their future. 

£5/3 Age 12–16 plus parents, adults 

working with young people and the 

public. 

Professor Avi Shlaim 

85. 



The Israeli-Palestinian 

Conflict: Avi Shlaim 


‘Avi Shlaim … writes about the Middle 

East with exceptional wisdom and 

insight.’ Max Hastings 

The Israel-Palestine conflict remains 

one of the most bitter, violent and 

intractable conflicts of our time. Avi 

Shlaim, Professor of International 

Relations at Oxford, one of the 

world’s leading authorities on the 

Middle East conflict and a ‘supreme 

scholar of Arab-Israeli negotiations’, 

investigates the key issues, fractured 

history and future prospects for 

peace. 

£5/3 

86. 



Maths for Mums and Dads 

If helping with maths homework 

fills you with panic this is the event 

for you! Maths whizz, author Rob 

Eastaway, guides you through the 

stuff that baffles many primary 

school parents, from chunking and 

partitioning to number lines and the 

grid method. Lots of opportunity to 

ask questions and banish your fear – 

forever! 

£5/3 

87. 

Saturday 9th October 6.45– 

7.15pm Otley Courthouse 

The Seven Deadly Sins 

Wickedly imaginative poetry and 

prose from the Courthouse Writers. 



88. 


Otley Courthouse 

A Blood Wedding In 

Wensleydale 

A North Country Theatre 

collaboration with Harrogate 

Theatre 

Cold Comfort Farm meets Carmen! 

Lorca’s famous study of feuding 

families re-located to the farming 

communities of the Yorkshire Dales 

by one of the region’s most popular 

touring companies. 

When Leonard returns from fighting 

with the International Brigade he 

finds his childhood sweetheart about 

to marry an old rival … Between 

flamenco dancing sheep and hay 

throwing harvesters, the wedding 

celebrations descend into farce and 

then tragedy. 

£8/6 

Please note this is a full evening’s 

performance with an interval. 

In association with Otley Courthouse Arts 

Centre 

Peter Snow 

89. 


Kings Hall 

Peter Snow 

Peter Snow, for many years the 

indispensable face of election night 

TV, is an acclaimed broadcaster, 

presenter (Battlefield Britain, 

Newsnight, Tomorrow’s World) 

journalist and author. Tonight he 

introduces To War With Wellington, 

the story of how Wellington 

transformed an army of soldiers he’d 

described as ‘the scum of the earth’, 

into the finest fighting force of their 

time, able to defeat Napoleon at 

Waterloo. 

£9/7 

Sponsored by Audley Clevedon 

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90. 



Till Earth Outwears: 

Life Laughs Onward with 

Harriet Walter, Kate 

Littlewood and Peter Evans 

Festival favourites, RSC actor Harriet 

Walter and Radio 4 Poetry Please 

regular Kate Littlewood return to 

Ilkley with a selection of the lyric 

poetry of Thomas Hardy, both spoken 

and sung – with interjections by 

Edward Thomas, Housman, Sassoon 

and TS Eliot. Hardy’s early immersion 

in the music and dance of country 

people was absorbed into the lyricism 

of his poems and the hauntingly 

beautiful musical settings, sung here 

by renowned tenor Peter Evans, are 

by Finzi, Britten and Butterworth. 

£8/6 

Harriet Walter 

92. 



Late for Tea at the Deer 

Palace: Tamara Chalabi 


Tamara Chalabi shares her personal 

view of Iraq as she introduces this 

haunting memoir of her family’s 

tempestuous life since 1900. One of 

the most prominent families in Iraq, 

for centuries the Chalabis served 

the Ottoman Empire and, later, 

the national government. Now a 

writer and international consultant, 

Chalabi explores their dramatic story, 

from the opulence of her greatgrandfather’s 

house, to her own life 

in exile. 

£5/3 

94. 



The Ties that Bind 

Four short, sharp theatrical 

monologues from Pink Lady 

Productions. 



95. 

Sunday 10th October 11am–1pm 


Creative Adventure: 

Barbara Trapido Masterclass 

Take yourself by surprise and discover 

your powers of invention by bringing 

together a character, setting, plot 

and theme. Author Barbara Trapido, 

known for her ability to create 

engaging characters and her skill in 

juggling diverse plot lines, leads this 

energising session. 

£12/8 





91. 




A reading by the country’s leading 

contemporary poet to celebrate 

the launch of Stanza Stones – the 

Festival’s exciting new 18 month 

collaboration with Simon Armitage 

which will explore our relationship 

with the wild landscape of Yorkshire. 

Tonight Simon Armitage reads from 

Seeing Stars, his ‘wildly inventive mix 

of satire, fantasy, comedy and horror’ 

and reflects on his recent 264 mile 

walk along the Pennine Way. 

£7/5 Includes free entry to Event 93. 

93. 



Seeing the Future 

In an exciting event created by 

the Festival’s Apprentice Poet in 

Residence, Andrew McMillan, 

six young poets showcase their 

talent, culminating in a brand-new 

collaborative performance. 

Featuring Oli Hazzard; 19 year old 

Teessider, Jonathan Parkin; North 

Yorkshire’s Cara Brennan; 17 year 

old Ashna Sarkar (taking you on a 

tour of the perils of adolescence) 

and members of Leeds Young 

Authors, famed for their spoken word 

performances. 

£2 

96. 

Sunday 10th October 2–6pm 


Young People’s Cool Voices 

WordsFest 

Inspiring afternoon of laid back 

workshops for young people aged 

12–18. 

See page 44 for details. 

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97. 


begins and ends at Manor House 

All Ages Poetry Workshop: 

The Song of the River 

Join Poet in Residence, Antony Dunn, 

in an al fresco writing treat for the 

whole family. After a short session 

in the Manor House, participants 

will take a walk along the River 

Wharfe with time to try their hand 

at a writing exercise in a choice spot. 

Back together, the group will create 

a collaborative poem which will be 

added to the ‘Ilkley Poetry Map’. (See 

website) 

£3 adults £1 children For adults and 

children 10+ (no younger!) 

Please bring pen and paper. 

Please note, your child’s safety on this 

walk is your responsibility. 

98. 

Sunday 10th October 2pm 

Kings Hall 

Peter Hain on Nelson 

Mandela 

The former Labour Minister 

introduces his new biography of 

Nelson Mandela which chronicles 

the extraordinary journey of the 

ANC revolutionary who became 

the President able to heal a divided 

nation. 

Exiled from his native South Africa, 

Peter Hain first rose to prominence as 

a leading anti-apartheid campaigner 

and chair of the Stop The Tour 

campaigns which disrupted tours by 

the South African rugby and cricket 

teams in 1969/70. 

£9/7 

Peter Hain with Nelson Mandela 

99. 



The Princess’ Blankets: 

Carol Ann Duffy and 

John Sampson 

Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy and 

magical musician, John Sampson, 

with a story about a princess who 

can’t get warm. 

£5 adults £4 children Age 6–11. 


Sponsored by The Grammar School at 

Leeds 

John Sampson and Carol Ann Duffy 

100. 



What on Earth Happened? 

Christopher Lloyd 

How old is the universe? How 

are humans related to a sponge? 

Christopher Lloyd tells the story of 

the planet from the big bang till now, 

with a suitcase full of props. 

£4 Age 8–12. 


Sponsored by Bradford Girls’ Grammar 

School 

Barbara Trapido 

101. 



Barbara Trapido: In 

Conversation 

Festival favourite Barbara Trapido 

is the author of seven critically 

praised novels. She demonstrates 

a relish for almost Shakespearean 

comic plots, in her rich mix of 

chance encounters, separations and 

erotic misunderstandings. Today, 

in conversation with James Nash, 

she discusses her latest novel, Sex 

and Stravinsky, where comedy and 

sadness sit side by side as characters’ 

lives are moulded by a series of 

chance meetings across continents 

and generations. 

£6/4 

This event begins with the results 

of the 2010 Festival Short Story 

Competition. Details from: 


102. 

Sunday 10th October 3.45pm 


Vitali Vitaliev: The Russian 

Clive James? 

Vitali Vitaliev, Ukranian-born cultural 

commentator and journalist rose to 

prominence as ‘Clive James’ man in 

Moscow’. An eminent investigative 

journalist in the old Soviet Union, KGB 

attention forced him to defect. Now 

the author of cult classics (Dreams 

on Hitler’s Couch), Daily Telegraph 

columnist and TV and radio regular, 

Vitaliev shares his tremendously 

wry take on the human species and 

unique reflections on a literary life. 

£5/3 

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103. 


Craiglands 

Polly Toynbee and David 

Walker: Did the Labour 

Party Change Britain? 

Highly experienced political 

journalists, the Guardian’s Polly 

Toynbee and David Walker, Social 

Affairs Editor for the Guardian, 

former lead writer for the Times and 

presenter of BBC Radio 4’s Analysis, 

investigate Labour’s longest term 

in office, pitting election promises 

alongside government policy. Why 

did social mobility slow down on 

Labour’s watch? Did Labour policies 

actually worsen the recession? From 

the gleeful consumerism of the boom 

times to the misery of the economic 

bust, they assess the era of Blair and 

Brown and ask what have Labour 

done? Does politics ever actually 

change anything? 

£6/4 

Polly Toynbee 

104. 



The Golden Age of Arabic 

Science: Jim al-Khalili 

For over 700 years the international 

language of science was Arabic. 

From calculating the diameter of the 

earth to the origins of algebra and 

chemistry, Jim al-Khalili, theoretical 

physicist, author, broadcaster and 

Professor of Physics at the University 

of Surrey, unravels the golden age 

of Arabic science centred on 9th 

century Baghdad. Professor al-Khalili 

presented BBC4’s much praised 

Science and Islam series. 


Alexei Sayle 

105. 



Elsie the Sheep and the 

Kings of the Castle 

Val Noble takes you on a super 

sheepy see, say, sign journey! 

Age: 4–94 and families. 



106. 



Ian M Emberson: 

The Zig Zag Path 

The launch of Ian Emberson’s 

narrative poem as an ebook. 



107. 


Craiglands 

Danger Close: Colonel 

Stuart Tootal In 

Conversation 

The former Commander of 3 Para 

is the first senior officer to tell us 

the harsh truth about the war in 

Afghanistan. A soldier, academic, and 

expert in international relations he 

resigned from the army in protest 

at the Government’s treatment of 

wounded troops. Today he discusses 

the reality of the unforgiving conflict, 

described in his Sunday Times best 

seller Danger Close, with BBC foreign 

correspondent, Jill McGivering. 

£6/4 

108. 


Craiglands 

Lenin Ate my Homework: 

Alexei Sayle 

Alexei Sayle always knew his parents 

were different. They ate salad and 

read the Soviet Weekly. A central 

figure on the 1980s alternative 

comedy circuit, his career has 

included stand-up, sitcoms, films, 

a Top 20 single, and more recently, 

critically acclaimed short stories 

and novels. Enjoy his achingly funny 

portrait of an unconventional 1960s 

family. 

£7/5 

109. 


Kings Hall 

Carol Ann Duffy and 

John Sampson 

‘In the world of poetry, Carol Ann 

Duffy is a superstar.’ The Guardian. 

Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy 

in performance with acclaimed 

Edinburgh-based musician, composer 

and actor, John Sampson. 

Winner of the Whitbread, Forward 

and TS Eliot poetry prizes, Duffy 

reads from some of her latest as 

yet unpublished work and The 

World’s Wife, accessible humorous 

poems which ‘vibrate with intense 

colloquialisms, physicality, energy, 

freshness and cheek’. We meet 

Mrs Midas and Mrs Darwin. Elvis’s 

wimpled sister rocks on in a convent 

she calls Graceland; Nancy Sinatra 

gets out her boots made for walking. 

£9/7 

Sponsored by Bradford Grammar School 

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110. 



The Long Road Home: 

Matthew Kelly and 

Ben Shephard 


Wars don’t stutter out – they take 

generations to fix. After the Second 

World War, an estimated eight 

million ‘displaced persons’, including 

Southampton University history 

lecturer Matthew Kelly’s great 

grandmother and her two daughters, 

were deported to the East after 

Germany’s partitioning of Poland. 

Kelly discusses the extraordinary 

ordeal that took them from Siberia to 

Pakistan with Ben Shephard, author 

of The Long Road Home, a compelling 

study of the post-war refugee crisis 

and its aftermath. 

Shephard, producer of The World at 

War, and numerous historical and 

scientific documentaries for the BBC/ 

Channel Four is author of A War of 

Nerves: Soldiers and Psychiatrists. 

£5/3 

111. 



Venice City of Masks: 

Mary Hoffman and 

Michelle Lovric 

Two authors lauded for their work 

for adults and young people discuss 

how Venice ‘city of masks’ has 

captivated, shaped and influenced 

their writing. Mary Hoffman is the 

acclaimed author of the Stravaganza 

series of fantasy novels for young 

adults set in a parallel dimension 

16th century Italy, including City of 

Masks, set in a fictionalised and subtly 

different Venice. Novelist, writer 

and anthologist Michelle Lovric saw 

Venice for the first time at 18; from 

that moment her ambition was to 

write about the city, something she 

has done many times, most recently 

in her diabolically gorgeous novel of 

love, murder and obsession, The Book 

of Human Skin. 

£5/3 

112. 


Kings Hall 

Schools’ Event: 

Morris Gleitzman 

Australia’s funniest and best-loved 

children’s author comes to Ilkley! 

£3.50 Years 4,5 & 6. 

Bookings: 01943 816714 

113. 


Kings Hall 

(upstairs area – lift available) 

Morris Gleitzman: for 

teachers and librarians 

Teachers and librarians are warmly 

invited to come and hear Morris 

Gleitzman in conversation about his 

work, children and reading, in this 

special event. 

FREE with tea and biscuits 

Please book places in advance. 

This event lasts 60 minutes. 

Bookings: 01943 601210 

Mary Hoffman 

114. 

Monday 11th October 

6.30–8.30pm Ilkley Library 

Ilkley Lit Fest Young 

Writers Group – free taster 

Try tonight’s free session and see if 

you’d like to join the project! 

For young people 13–17. 

For full details see page 44. 

Supported by Bradford Library Services 

115. 


Kings Hall 

Will Self: In Conversation 

Will Self performs literary acrobatics 

few writers can dream of. We’ll be 

asking about Walking to Hollywood, 

his extraordinary triptych which 

burrows through the intersections 

of time, place and psyche to explore 

some of our deepest fears with 

characteristic edgy humour. And we’ll 

be talking about his 120-mile Los 

Angeles circumambulation, which led 

to abduction by Scientologists and 

mortal combat with the reanimated 

corpse of Walt Disney … 

£9/7 

Will Self


Matthew Parris 

116. 


Craiglands 

Matthew Parris and 

Andrew Bryson: 

Parting Shots 

Times columnist, writer and TV 

presenter Matthew Parris and 

radio journalist Andrew Bryson join 

forces to talk about Parting Shots, 

their unbuttoned, indiscreet and 

very funny collection of valedictory 

despatches from ambassadors leaving 

foreign postings, which began as a 

popular BBC Radio 4 series. Matthew 

Parris is a former Conservative MP, 

Andrew Bryson a radio journalist 

working in the BBC’s Business and 

Economics Unit. 

£9/7 

117. 


Panache Restaurant 

Poetry Banquet 


invites you to ‘a word banquet’. Taste 

the delicious South Asian buffet, hear 

some of Antony’s work and bring and 

share your own poems. If you would 

like your poem to be on the ‘menu’, 

please come 15 minutes early and 

give Antony your name. 

£12 includes two course buffet. 

This event lasts approx. 2 hours. 

In conjunction with Panache 

118. 



The Truth about MI5 and 

MI6: Keith Jeffery and 

Christopher Andrew 

Two eminent professors given unique 

access to secret files. Christopher 

Andrew, Professor of Modern and 

Contemporary History at Cambridge 

is the official historian of MI5, whose 

twelve previous books include 

path-breaking studies on the use and 

abuse of secret intelligence in modern 

history. 

Keith Jeffery, Professor of British 

History at Queen’s University, 

Belfast has just completed the first 

authorised history of MI6 – an 

unprecedented study of the bestknown 

intelligence organization in 

the world. Together they discuss the 

evolution of the Secret Service and 

the role of intelligence in the world 

wars and beyond. 

£5/3 

119. 



Richard Fortey: 

The Hidden Landscape 

‘Without peer among science writers.’ 

Bill Bryson 

Prize-winning science writer, 

Natural History Museum senior 

palaeontologist and Royal Society 

fellow, Richard Fortey takes us on 

a vivid journey back in geological 

time, from the age of mammals to 

the age of trilobites. An enthralling 

exploration, revealing rocks 

which contain the story of distant 

events and dictate the regional 

characteristics of our buildings, and a 

Britain divided in two by an ocean … 

£5/3 Stay on for Event 120! 

120. 



A Muddy History of Britain 

Trek through time with local author 

and ‘Muddy Archaeologist’, Gillian 

Hovell. 



121. 



Voices From Beyond 

the Dark 

Interviews with human rights activists 

staged by Ariel Dorfman. 



Gervase Phinn 

122. 

Tuesday 12th October 2pm 

Kings Hall 

Gervase Phinn: 

A Yorkshire Lad 

One of Britain’s best loved comic 

writers and performers – and a 

natural storyteller – makes a welcome 

return to share with tales from his 

childhood. Road To The Dales: The 

Story of a Yorkshire Lad offers a 

humorous and nostalgic snapshot 

of growing up in 1950s Yorkshire, 

from summer camps to day trips to 

Blackpool. 

£9/7 

Sponsored by The Laureates 

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123. 


Manor House 

Close Reading 2: 

The poems of Jo Shapcott 

and Ruth Padel 

If you’ve ever read a poem and 

struggled to find a way into it, you 

can be sure you’re not the only one. 


offers a close reading workshop for 

those who’d like to know more about 

getting to the heart of a poem. 

A lively interactive workshop, 

exploring poems by poets appearing 

at the Festival. 

£5 See also event 49. 

Jenny Eclair 

124. 


Kings Hall 

Jenny Eclair: 

Chin Up Britain 

It’s time to return to basic 

commonsense and embrace a new 

austerity. In inimitable style, Jenny 

Eclair brings you hilarious tips for 

changing the way you live – from 

identifying your swappable skills 

(burying dead animals, tuning a 

freeview box) to a guide to gatecrashing. 

Much loved stand up comedian, first 

female winner of the Perrier award 

Jenny Eclair is co-creator of Grumpy 

Old Women. 

£9/7 

Sponsored by Specsavers 

125. 



Our Billie: Ian Clayton 

Every parent’s worst nightmare 

became reality for well known 

broadcaster, Ian Clayton. On a short 

holiday his nine year old daughter 

Billie drowned. Our Billie is his story 

of how a family attempts to come to 

terms with something which makes 

no sense. Through memories of Billie 

and his wonderfully affectionate 

portrait of the Yorkshire town 

where the family has lived for 

generations, he weaves a story of 

loss and remembering, gratitude and 

forgiveness. 

£5/3 

126. 



Nearly Lear 

‘Poignant, tragic, mischievous … and 

achingly funny’. 

King Lear, told by the King’s closest 

companion, his devoted clown, Norris. 

An emotional roller-coaster ride that 

confounds expectations of what a 

Shakespeare play should be, blending 

exuberant storytelling, music, song, 

and film alongside Shakespeare’s rich 

poetic text. 

An acclaimed one woman show by 

Canadian actor, Susanna Hamnett 

on tour from Toronto, directed by 

Edith Tankus of Kneehigh Theatre. 

£7/5 Family show adults and 10+. 

127. 



Votes for Women 

Nina Boyd’s illustrated reading of 

poems about the Suffragettes. 



128. 

Wednesday 13th October 3pm 


Tea with Elizabeth Noble 

and William Nicholson 

What happens when your previous 

love makes a surprise reappearance? 

Is it time for a second chance … or 

should you walk away? 

Elizabeth Noble, author of five 

best-selling novels including The 

Reading Group and Things I Want My 

Daughters to Know, discusses love and 

betrayal with fellow author William 

Nicholson. Playwright, screen 

writer (Gladiator, Shadowlands, 

Elizabeth: The Golden Age) and 

novelist, Nicholson’s latest novel All 

the Hopeful Lovers, set eight years 

after The Secret Intensity of Everyday 

Life, sees Belinda, wistfully reflecting 

how she’d never be unfaithful to her 

husband … 

£6 includes cream tea 

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129. 


7.30pm Craiglands 

Magnificent Seven: 

Yorkshire’s Golden Decade 

with Richard Hutton and 

Don Wilson 

Howzat! 

Seven championships, two Gillette 

cups. In one decade, by one team. 

Between 1959 and 1969, captained 

by Ronnie Burnet, Vic Wilson and 

Brian Close, Yorkshire won more 

trophies in a single decade than 

at any other time in the club’s 

illustrious history. Respected sports 

journalist Andrew Collomosse 

discusses memories of Yorkshire’s 

championship years with 

distinguished cricketers Richard 

Hutton and Don Wilson. (Brian Close 

might even drop in!) 

Andrew Collomosse, former deputy 

sports editor of the Daily Express in 

Manchester, has covered cricket for 

the Daily Telegraph and The Wisden 

Cricketer magazine. 

£7/5 

Sponsored by Audley Clevedon 

130. 


7.30pm Bettys Café Tea Rooms 

Jack Sheffield 

Following a delicious Bettys twocourse 

Yorkshire supper, sit back as 

author, former teacher and lecturer in 

education Jack Sheffield regales you 

with wonderful stories of his days as a 

village primary school head in North 

Yorkshire, from struggles with the 

new fangled typewriter to the village 

Panto. 

£29.95 including a two-course set 

meal, followed by tea or coffee 

Tickets only from Bettys Café Tea 

Rooms Ilkley 01943 608029 

131. 



Mrs Gaskell’s ‘Nice 

American’: the Ilkley 

Connection 

In the summer of 1865, Mrs Gaskell 

recorded an unexpected visit from 

‘a very nice American’. The visitor 

spent several hours in conversation 

with the renowned Victorian 

novelist, and remembered it as ‘the 

most pleasant visit … I think I had 

anywhere’. Hitherto, the visitor’s 

identity has remained a mystery. But 

Ilkley historian Mike Dixon reveals an 

explanation with a local connection, 

in this illustrated talk. 

£5/3 

Sir Michael Parkinson 

132. 


Kings Hall 

Michael Parkinson 

For three decades Sir Michael 

Parkinson interviewed the movers 

and shakers of the late twentieth 

century on his flagship BBC 

programme, singing with Bing Crosby 

and sparring with Muhammad Ali. 

Born near Barnsley and originally 

a journalist on the Manchester 

Guardian and Daily Express, Parkinson 

presented TV-am and hosted Radio 

4’s Desert Island Discs in the course of 

a long and distinguished career. 

£12/10 

Sponsored by Welcome to Yorkshire 

133. 

Thursday 14th October 7.30 pm 


David Nobbs 

David Nobbs, the celebrated creator 

of Reggie Perrin and TV sitcom A 

Bit Of A Do, has been described by 

Jonathan Coe as ‘probably our finest 

post-war comic novelist’. His latest 

novel, Obstacles To Young Love, 

spans thirty years and is a sweet and 

typically humorous story of love, faith 

and taxidermy. 

£5/3 

134. 



Blake Morrison: 

The Last Weekend 

Blake Morrison’s compelling new 

psychological thriller is the chilling 

story of a rivalrous friendship. 

Each day a series of challenges for 

higher and higher stakes. Tonight 

the celebrated Skipton-born author 

talks about the impulse behind this 

haunting tale of friendship, sexual 

passion and jealousy. Poet, novelist 

and playwright, Morrison is former 

literary editor of the Observer and 

Professor of Creative and Life Writing 

at Goldsmiths College. 

£6/4 

Blake Morrison 

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135. 



Zimbabwe – Hope and 

Despair: Philip Barclay 

and Miles Tendi 


As a young diplomat at the British 

Embassy in Zimbabwe, Philip 

Barclay saw the tumultuous 2008 

election at first hand as Robert 

Mugabe fought to cling to power. In 

an electrifying account he recorded 

the violent excesses of a hated 

clique as the country’s economy 

and public services collapsed. Now 

he discusses the country’s past and 

future with Oxford academic and 

political expert, Zimbabwean Miles 

Tendi. They consider why the world 

stood by and watched as Zimbabwe 

burned and whether power-sharing 

between Robert Mugabe and Morgan 

Tsvangirai offers the country a 

tenable way forward. 

£5/3 

136. 


Bettys Café Tea Rooms 

Jack Sheffield 

Repeat of Wednesday’s event. 

All details as Event 130. 

137. 



Cadaverine 

Cadaverine Magazine showcases 

young writers. 



138. 

Friday 15th October 3pm 

White Wells, Ilkley Moor 

‘That Place on Ilkley Moor’ 

White Wells tenant Mark Hunnebell 

gives a brief history of the iconic 

building on Ilkley Moor. 



139. 


Kings Hall 

George Alagiah: 

Food For Thought 

Why produce a crop you don’t need, 

with water you can’t afford to waste, 

for people living thousands of miles 

away? George Alagiah, presenter 

of the BBC Six O’Clock News, BBC 

Foreign Correspondent, holder of 

six international reporting awards 

and a passionate Fairtrade advocate, 

offers a compelling, round-the-world 

investigation into the global food 

chain and why it’s fit to break. 

£9/7 

140. 



Stumble Dance Circus presents 

Bipolar Ringmaster: with 

actor Eric MacLennan 

Part exploration of Bipolar Disorder 

and part celebration of circus, this 

new piece by Mish Weaver plays with 

our perceptions and expectations of 

mental ill health and performance. 

Incorporating film of new circus 

choreography, it blurs the lines 

between colourful character and 

delusion, grand achievement or 

obsession. 

£6/4 

Martin Wainwright 

141. 



Kate Fox News 

‘Had the whole audience laughing.’ 

Daily Telegraph. 

Comic poet, stand-up, Radio 4 

Saturday Live regular and sometime 

journalist Kate Fox anchors her 

dramatic life story to the big news 

events … From the Thatcher years 

via the Yorkshire Ripper to Princess 

Di and foot-and-mouth, Kate Fox 

asks where you were when the news 

broke? 

‘… funny, quirky and a wonderful 

writer.’ Sarah Millican. 

£5/3 

George Alagiah 

142. 



Martin Wainwright and 

Dr Patrick Eyres: 

100 Shades of Blue 

Martin Wainwright, Northern Editor 

of the Guardian in conversation 

with garden and social historian 

Dr Patrick Eyres, recalls how his 

grandfather created the UK’s finest 

delphinium garden in Leeds while 

leading relief work in the 1930s 

depression. Martin’s memories of 

growing up amid 100 shades of blue 

are documented in the Yorkshire 

Gardens Trust book With Abundance 

and Variety, to which Patrick has also 

contributed. 

£5/3 With free delphinium seeds! 

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Jo Shapcott 

143. 

Friday 15th October 7.30– 


Cool Voices Club Night 

Teenagers perform their own work. 

Age 12–18. 


144. 



Ray Hearne 

Singer/song writer and poet Ray 

Hearne is no ordinary songwriter. 

He relishes language, rolls it around 

his tongue and unleashes a jubilant 

jumble of images, words, rhymes 

and couplets all fighting for space 

in his songs. Who else could sing 

words like ‘prestidigitate’, ‘fettler’ 

and ‘runaroundabout town lad’ and 

make it sound like the angels came to 

Wath-on-Dearne? 

£8 available only from 01943 609393, 

Liz Bowen, 21 Stourton Road, Ilkley 

LS29 9BG. Cheques payable to Friends 

of the Manor House 

In association with the Friends of the 

Manor House 

145. 


Venue: it could be your front 

room! 

Your Own Poetry House 

Party with Jo Shapcott 

Invite Poet in Residence Antony 

Dunn and Festival poet Jo Shapcott 

to your house, and they might just 

come! They’ll give an exclusive, hourlong 

reading in your living room (or 

even your kitchen) just for you. Invite 

friends and family, or have them all 

to yourself. 

FREE 

If you live within 20 minutes drive of 

Ilkley send a short invitation, no more 

than 50 words, to: 

info@ilkleyliteraturefestival.org.uk 

or post to Poetry House Party, ILF, 

The Manor House, 2 Castle Hill, Ilkley 

LS29 9DT 

The most interesting, moving, funny 

or otherwise compelling invitation will 

win. Must arrive by Friday 1st October 

5pm. 

146. 



The Dark Threads and 

Footprints in the Snow 

Autobiography, short fiction and 

poetry from Leeds Survivors Poetry 

group. 



147. 



Shakespeare’s Sonnets by 

Five Voices 

Compelling reading of a selection of 

Shakespeare’s sonnets. 



148. 


9.30am–1.30pm 

Meet at Cow and Calf Rocks 

Car Park 

Photo Safari with 

John Morrison 

A landscape photography workshop 

around the Cow and Calf rocks, aimed 

at helping DSLR camera users take 

their photography to the next level. 

John Morrison, one of the country’s 

finest landscape photographers, 

will help you build on your skills 

to become a better, more creative 

photographer … making images that 

show not just what a landscape looks 

like, but what it feels like too. 

£20/15 

For keen photographers. 

Opportunities to show your work on 

the ILF website and be involved in the 

Stanza Stones project. Places limited 

– please book in advance. Equipment 

lists will be sent to participants. 

149. 


10.30am–4.30pm Church House 

Breaking News: Make a 

Newspaper in a Day 

A chance for teenagers to work with 

a real journalist and graphic designer 

and create a Festival newspaper. 

£5 Age 14–18. 


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150. 



Jo Shapcott Masterclass 

Calling all poets for a masterclass 

designed to focus on technical skills 

with award-winning poet Jo Shapcott. 

A writer of ingenious, acute, 

provocative poetry, with a reputation 

as one of the most original and 

daring voices of her generation. 

Bring a notebook and an open mind. 

£12/8 



advance. 

151. 


11am–1pm St Margaret’s Hall 

Stephen Grey: 

the Investigative 

Journalist’s Masterclass 

A unique opportunity to learn at 

first hand, from an immensely 

experienced and distinguished 

investigative journalist. Stephen Grey 

has written for everyone from the 

New York Times, Guardian, Times and 

Independent to the New Statesman 

and Newsweek. 

£12/8 

For writers with some experience. 



Aminatta Forna 

Kishwar Desai 

152. 



Witness the Night: 

Aminatta Forna and 

Kishwar Desai 


Two remarkable women writers and 

journalists, clear advocates of justice, 

discuss their powerful recent novels. 

Kishwar Desai has a 30 year career as 

journalist, anchor, producer and head 

of an Indian TV channel. Her first 

novel Witness the Night, longlisted 

for the Man Asian Literary Prize, is a 

powerful highly atmospheric mystery 

set in India and London’s Southhall 

with female foeticide at its core. 

Writer Aminatta Forna’s brilliant 

new novel The Memory of Love takes 

an oblique look at the Sierra Leonean 

civil war of the 1990s. Forna is the 

author of two critically admired 

novels and The Devil that Danced on 

Water, a highly praised memoir of her 

dissident father. 

£5/3 

153. 



Joseph O’Connor 

One of Ireland’s leading contemporary 

authors discusses his fictionalised 

account of the life, loves and tragically 

early death of one of his country’s 

greatest ever writers. Joseph 

O’Connor’s latest novel, Ghost 

Light, tells the story of the love affair 

between troubled genius JM Synge 

and 19 year old actress Molly Allgood 

– ‘a deeply moving, beautifully written 

story.’ Glasgow Herald. 

£6/4 

154. 

Saturday 16th October 2–4pm 

Manor House 

Writing the News: 

Workshop with Kate Fox 

Kate Fox writes topical poems for 

Radio 4’s Saturday Live and created 

‘Write Poems about The News’ Day. 

This workshop uses practical, fun 

exercises to find ways into writing 

about the news and the now. 

£12/8 


paper. 

Kate Fox 

155. 



Faces of Poetry Face-to- 

Face: Jo Shapcott 

Poet Jo Shapcott comes face to face 

with her own image, as she gives 

a unique short reading in front of 

photographer Madeleine Waller’s 

portrait. 

FREE


156. 



Reporting Afghanistan: 

Stephen Grey and James 

Fergusson 


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. 



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. 



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 Poetry Competition. 

Details from: 


Audrey Niffenegger 

Ruth Padel ©: www.carpenterturner.co.uk 

159. 



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 


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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161. 



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 



162. 


Kings Hall 

Alastair Campbell: 


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 


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. 



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. 



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. 



The Writers’ Group 

Exposed!!! 

Yorkshire Art Circus Writer 

Development Programme re-unites to 

share poetry and prose. 



167. 


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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168. 


Manor House 

How Words Behave 

Together: Masterclass 

with Ruth Padel 

A poetry masterclass with this leading 

poet. Please bring 13 copies (can be 

on the same sheet) of up to three of 

your poems to the masterclass for 

discussion. 

£12/8 

For people already writing poetry. 



169, 170. 


and 4pm All Saints School 

Tutti Frutti and York 

Theatre Royal: When We 

Lived in Uncle’s Hat 

Round the brim of uncle’s hat and 

over the moon, in search of that most 

magical place – a home. 

£5/4 See page 43 for full details. 

171. 



If I am Not for Myself: 

Mike Marqusee 

Writer, journalist and social activist 

Mike Marqusee describes himself as a 

‘deracinated New York Marxist Jew’. 

A regular contributor (politics to 

cricket) to the Daily Telegraph, The 

Hindu and New Left Review, he leads 

us on a rich personal journey from 

the Bronx via Pakistan to London, 

introducing Jewish heretics and 

heroes, his brawling grandfather and 

the Prophet Amos. 

Disentangling Jewishness from Israel, 

he explores what it means to be a 21st 

century Jew. 

£5/3 

Emma Darwin 

172. 


Meet outside Manor House 

Robert Collyer’s Ilkley 

Robert Collyer, an Ilkley blacksmith 

and Methodist lay preacher emigrated 

to America in 1850. Entering the 

Unitarian ministry in Chicago he 

became one of the leading preachers 

of his generation. Collyer made 

numerous return visits to Ilkley and 

saw at first hand the substantial 

changes the town underwent during 

the 19th century. This walk, led 

by local historian Dr Mike Dixon, 

recaptures the transformation he 

witnessed. 

£4 

173. 



Through A Different Lens: 

Maria McCann, Emma 

Darwin, RN Morris and 

Rose Melikan on Writing 

Historical Fiction 

Four lauded historical novelists, 

who between them write crime, 

romantic adventure, literary and 

crossover fiction, come together 

to talk about what they write and 

why. Roger Morris is on the sharp 

end of outrage as well as delight for 

borrowing Dostoevsky’s detective in 

1860s St Petersburg; Maria McCann 

draws on the turbulent history of Civil 

War radicalism; Rose Melikan has 

created a Georgian heroine with more 

on her mind than card parties; and 

Emma Darwin draws on the violent, 

glamorous world of the Princes in the 

Tower. Together they discuss how 

they work with the past and how they 

leave the facts behind to reach the 

might-have-been of fiction. 

£5/3 

174. 


Craiglands 

Margaret Drabble: 


Novelist, critic and biographer, 

Margaret Drabble has for many 

years been one of the most respected 

and acclaimed contributors to 

contemporary English literature. Here 

in conversation with James Nash, 

she reflects on her long career and 

discuses her latest book, The Pattern 

In The Carpet: A Personal History With 

Jigsaws. 

£6/4 

Margaret Drabble 

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Niall Ferguson 

175. 


Manor House 

Reading Local, Writing 

Local with Apprentice 

Poet in Residence Andrew 

McMillan 

Poetry doesn’t have to be exotic or 

pretentious. By first studying the 

work of local voices, this workshop 

explores different ways poetry can 

respond to the Yorkshire landscape. 

Through processes of reportage, 

humour and mythologising, we can 

bring out the poetry which exists all 

around us in the everyday. 

£5 



advance. 

176. 



The Tangled Bank: 

Ruth Padel 

2010 is the Year of Biodiversity, a 

concept Charles Darwin invented. In 

her debut novel, Where the Serpent 

Lives, his great great granddaughter, 

Ruth Padel, produces a highly original 

vision bringing together zoology, 

conservation and the interrelatedness 

of nature, inspired by Darwin’s insight 

into the tangled relations of life. 

This afternoon she reads both from 

her novel and from her poetry 

memoir Darwin: A Life in Poems. 

£5/3 

177. 


Kings Hall 

Niall Ferguson: 

High Financier 

Acclaimed controversial historian 

Niall Ferguson, best selling author of 

The Ascent of Money, hugely popular 

presenter of the BBC series Empire, 

Professor of History at Harvard 

and Senior Research Fellow at Jesus 

College, Oxford, returns to his roots 

as a financial historian. 

In this groundbreaking biography, 

Ferguson, invited by the government 

to revitalise history’s popularity 

in schools, considers Siegmund 

Warburg, the principled refugee 

banker from Hitler’s Germany. 

£9/7 

178. 

Sunday 17th October 2.30– 

4.30pm All Saints School 

Write an Adventure Story – 

Workshop 


179. 



Anna Pavord: 

The Curious Gardener 

Anna Pavord, noted gardening 

correspondent for the Independent 

and best selling author of eight 

previous books, including The Tulip, 

brings together her thoughts on 

gardening throughout the year. 

From what to do in each month and 

how to get the best from flowers, 

plants, herbs, fruit and vegetables, 

through to reflections on the weather, 

favourite old gardening clothes, office 

greenery, Derek Jarman and garden 

design. 

£6/4 

180. 



Douglas Dunn and Antony 

Dunn 

Poet in Residence Antony Dunn fulfils 

a his ambition to read from his three 

collections of poems, including 2009’s 

Bugs, alongside legendary Scottish 

poet Douglas Dunn. 

As well as ten collections of poetry, 

including Elegies (winner of the 

1985 Whitbread Book of the Year 

Award), The Year’s Afternoon and 

The Donkey’s Ears, Douglas Dunn has 

edited The Faber Book of Twentieth- 

Century Scottish Poetry. His New 

Selected Poems was published by 

Faber in 2003. 

£5/3 

181. 


Craiglands 

Louis de Bernières 

Louis de Bernières author of the best 

selling Captain Corelli’s Mandolin 

makes a welcome return to the 

Festival. He introduces his latest book 

Notwithstanding: Stories From An 

English Village, a nostalgically funny 

depiction of English village life that 

charms and moves in equal amounts. 

£6/4 

182. 



An Enlightened Life: 

Nicholas Phillipson on 

Adam Smith 

Nicholas Phillipson, Honorary 

Research Fellow in History at 

Edinburgh University and leading 

scholar of the Scottish Enlightenment, 

sheds new light on Adam Smith, 

celebrated author of The Wealth 

of Nations and founder of modern 

economics. Yet Smith saw himself 

primarily as a philosopher. In a 

fascinating event, Phillipson explains 

how The Wealth of Nations was part 

of a much more ambitious scheme … 

£5/3


183. 



Jill McGivering: 

From News to Fiction 


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 

184. 


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. 



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! 

186. 


King’s Hall 

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 

187. 



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 

188. 

Thursday 21st October 7.30pm 


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 

205. 


7.30pm Craiglands 

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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Children’s 

Festival 

Fun things to do for children 4–12 

Children under 12 MUST BE 

ACCOMPANIED at all events 

except where indicated. 

Accompanying adults need a 

ticket for all events. 

All events last 45 minutes 

unless otherwise shown. 

Please do not bring children 

younger than the age indicated! 

7. 

Saturday 2nd October 12 noon 


Stormy Weather and The 

Trouble with Dragons with 

Debi Gliori 

An enchanting event full of drawing 

and storytelling for younger children 

with the very popular author and 

illustrator of No Matter What and 

dozens of others. 

£4 Age 5–7. 

Patron John Cunliffe 

Children’s Festival sponsors 

30 and 31. 

Sunday 3rd October 2.30–3.30pm & 3.45–4.45pm 


The Nutcracker Ballet 

Follow Northern Ballet Theatre’s dance artist into the sparkling world 

of the Sugar Plum Fairy, as you learn steps from NBT’s magical ballet, 

The Nutcracker. Why not come dressed as your favourite character? 

No previous experience needed – boys and girls welcome. 

£4 Event 30 age 5–7. Event 31 age 8–12. 

Loose comfortable clothing (make sure they can move in costumes!) and 

trainers or dance shoes. Parents must remain in the building. 

See page 12 

In association with Northern 

Ballet Theatre. National Tour 

Partner: Leeds Metropolitan 

University 

34. 

Sunday 3rd October 4p–5pm 


Valerie Bloom: Children’s 

Poetry Event 

Favourite children’s author Valerie 

Bloom, in a lively performance 

poetry event, for the whole family. 

Learn to speak some Jamaican, 

then join in the poems, calling, 

chanting and singing. Loads of fun! 

£5 adults £4 children 

Age 7–11. 

This event begins with a short 

reading by the winners of the 

Children’s Poetry Competition. 

Children’s Poetry Competition prizes sponsored by Bradford Grammar School. 

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Children’s Weekend 

Eureka! The National Children’s 

Museum is visiting the Ilkley 

Literature Festival again this year. 

189, 190, 191 & 192. 



Eureka! Jump to the Beat 

Have a whole load of fun getting 

active and finding out about your 

heart and why it’s so important. 

Join the ‘Supermarket Dash’ and race 

to find the healthy food. 

£4 Age 7–11 adults FREE. 

Must be booked in advance. 

Times: 189. 10.15am, 190. 11.30am, 

191. 2.15pm & 192. 3.30pm 

193 & 194. 


10–11.30am & 1.30–3pm 


The Magical World of 

Mina with Manasamitra 

Dress up in exciting costumes 

with face paints, then get 

ready to be part of Mina’s 

Magical World – an enthralling 

performance of storytelling, 

dance and music from the 

famous Panchatantra tales. 

£4 (includes juice) Age 5–10. 

195. 


10.30–11.30am All Saints School 

Make a Play with Multi 

Story Theatre Company 

Can you make an exciting play in just 

one hour? You can if the amazing 

Multi Story Theatre are there to 

help you. Get ready for action and 

adventure! 

£4 Age 8–12. 

Children may attend unaccompanied. 

196. 

Saturday 9th October 10.30am 


Story Time with Helen 

Stephens 

Helen Stephens brings to life her 

much loved stories – like Fleabag, 

Twinkly Night, and Poochie-Poo – 

with an entrancing joining-in event 

specially for children. 

£4 Age 5–10. 

Illustration from Tip Tap Went the Crab 

197. 


11.45am All Saints School 

Tip Tap Went the Crab with 

Tim Hopgood 

A fantastically creative event for 

younger children with Tim Hopgood 

who has twice won the Early Years 

Award for his beautifully illustrated 

books. 

£4 Age 4–6. 

199. 



The Joshua Files with 

MG Harris 

Josh thinks he’s discovered the key to 

time travel. Should he use it? Time is 

running out … 

Find out about Joshua’s amazing 

adventures in the giant sand dunes 

of Natal and tropical jungle of Brazil 

from MG Harris, best selling author 

of The Joshua Files. 

£4 Age 8–12. 

198. 

Saturday 9th October 12 noon 


Magic, Maths and Mystery 

Loads of fun maths tricks to try with 

top maths writer and radio presenter, 

Rob Eastaway. He can do amazing 

things – and even read your mind! 

£4 Age 6–11. 

80. 


Kings Hall 

The Number Mysteries: 

Prof Marcus du Sautoy 

Britain’s most famous 

mathematician with number fun 

from hopscotch to Wayne Rooney. 

£8 adults £5 children. 

Age 10/11 upwards. 

MG Harris 

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Children’s Weekend 

200. 

Saturday 9th October 2–3.30pm 


Jazzy Books – Making 

Workshop 

Create a beautiful collage with 

Sandra Flitcroft, based on 

artist Henri Matisse’s Jazz book 

illustrations. We’ll use pre-painted 

paper to do what Matisse called 

‘painting with scissors’ and add our 

own words. 

£4 Age 8–12. 


201. 



Spin a Rap! Workshop 

Poet and DJ Philip Charles has a head 

full of rhymes. You won’t be able to 

stop yourself creating a catchy rap 

once he gets started. 

£4 Age 8–12. 


202. 



Draw your own Horrible 

Science Cartoons with 

Tony de Saulles 

Learn how to draw cartoons with 

Tony de Saulles, illustrator of the 

Horrible Science series by Nick Arnold. 

(There are over fifty titles, each one 

more gruesome than the last!) 

A joining-in event where everyone will 

be able to try drawing. 

£4 Age 7–11. 

203. 


5–6pm Ilkley Playhouse 

Wharfeside 

Twelve Wild Ducks: 

Multi Story Theatre 

Company 

Be careful what you wish 

for! That’s what the Queen 

discovers when she wishes for a 

daughter. For the moment her 

beautiful daughter is born, her 

sons are transformed into wild 

ducks … 

The fantastic Multi Story 

Theatre with a play that’s full 

to the brim with cliff-hanging 

moments, as the Princess sets 

off to rescue her brothers. 


204. 



Kev F’s Comic Art 

Masterclass 

Learn how to tell stories in pictures 

and all the secrets of drawing 

cartoons with Kev F Sutherland – 

who draws for The Beano. 

Great fun – and you’ll end up with a 

comic to take home. 

£4 Age 8 –12. 


99. 



The Princess’ Blankets: 

Carol Ann Duffy and John 

Sampson 

Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy 

shares her special story The Princess’ 

Blankets, about a princess who can’t 

get warm. A fabulous poetry, music 

and fairytale show with magical 

musician John Sampson. 


Sponsored by 

The Grammar School at Leeds 

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100. 

Sunday 10th October 2pm Ilkley 

Playhouse Wildman 

What on Earth Happened? 

Christopher Lloyd 

How old is the universe? How are 

humans related to a sponge? How 

much would a complete 

T-Rex skeleton cost? Where did the 

Himalayas come from? 

Christopher Lloyd is back with a 

suitcase full of fantastic props to tell 

the story of the planet from the big 

bang till now. 

£4 Age 8–12. 

Sponsored by Bradford Girls’ Grammar 

School 

97. 

Sunday 10th October 

2–4pm begins and ends 

at The Manor House 

All Ages Poetry Workshop: 

The Song of the River 

Join Poet in Residence, Antony Dunn, 

for a short family walk along the 

River Wharfe. Find a special spot to 

write a poem about the river. Then 

help create a long group poem. 

£3 adults £1 children. Age 10+. 

Please note, your child’s safety on this 

walk is your responsibility. 

105. 


St Margaret’s Church Hall 



Val Noble takes you on a super 

sheepy see, say, sign journey! 

Age 4–94. 


See page 46 for full details 

Plus … 

169 & 170. 


1.30–2.20pm & 

4–4.50pm 


Tutti Frutti and 

York Theatre Royal 

present: When We 

Lived in Uncle’s Hat 

by Peter Stamm and 

Jutta Bauer, adapted 

for stage by Finegan 

Kruckemeyer 

A play about … how 

walls don’t make a house. And doors 

don’t make a house. A family makes a house. 

Tutti Frutti’s merry band of actor-musicians take you round the brim 

of uncle’s hat and over the moon, all in search of that most magical 

place – a home. 


178. 


2.30–4.30pm All Saints School 

Write an Adventure Story – 

Workshop 

Love writing exciting stories? Try 

this fun story-writing workshop 

with Ceci Jenkinson, author 

of The Mum Shop and 

Gnomes are Forever. 

She’ll show you how 

to plan and write a 

thrilling adventure 

story using her 

Secret Formula! 

£4 includes juice 

break 

Age 8–12. 

Children 

may attend 

unaccompanied. 

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Cool Voices 

Events for young people 

at Il kley Literature Festival 

96. 


2–6pm Otley Courthouse 

(Sign up from 1.40pm) 

Cool Voices WordsFest 

An afternoon of laid back workshop 

sessions, food (great chocolate 

cake), fun, music, poetry. 

Young people aged 12–18 only! 

With top young people’s author 

Mary Hoffman. 

1.40pm Sign up for your sessions 

2pm 

Make a manga comic with 

cartoonist Kev F (Takes up both 

sessions) 

Write song lyrics with 

Michelle Scally Clarke 

Write a short story with 

Becky Cherriman 

Tips for young poets with 

Andrew McMillan 

Create a rap with Philip Charles 

Try graffiti with Ged Walker 

Create computer games with 

experts from Sunderland Uni 

3.10 pm Headline author 

Mary Hoffman 

4 pm Chance to do a different 

workshop 

5.10pm Fast and furious poetry slam 

competition – read/perform your 

own work poetry or prose (mustn’t 

be longer than 3 minutes). Fantastic 

prizes. 

£5 for the whole afternoon 

33. 


3pm Kings Hall 


The Queen of Teen, author of the 

brilliant Georgia Nicolson books, 

tells you about her hilarious new 

series. Boys, snogging and bad 

acting guaranteed as they enrol 

on an arty summer course in the 

middle of nowhere. 

£6 adults £5 teenagers 

Age 12–17. 

84. 




A hot summer afternoon. A gang 

of youths on bikes, a teenage 

boy stabbed and left bleeding on 

the street. Find out what made 

Bernardine Evaristo write Hello 

Mum and how she researched it. 

£3 Age 12–16. 

114. 

Monday 11th October 

6.30–8.30pm Ilkley Library 

opposite Ilkley bus/rail station 

Ilkley Lit Fest Young 

Writers Group free taster 

Be part of a special weekly 

group for young writers. You’ll 

be writing poetry, short stories, 

plays and be included in our 

mega project with Simon 

Armitage. 

Try tonight’s free session and see 

if you’d like to join the project! 

FREE Age 13–17 (future sessions, 

Mondays. same time, £1 per 

session.) 

143. 

Friday 15th October 7.30 – 


Cool Voices Club Night 

Young people read/perform 

their own work: songs, 

poetry, rap, stand-up, short 

stories. MC, rap poet Philip 

Charles. A brilliant night! For a 

performer’s slot email: info@ 

ilkleyliteraturefestival.org.uk or 

come to watch. 

Performers free. Juice Bar. 

£3 in advance/on the door 

Age 12–18 . 

Young Writers Competition prizes 

sponsored by Ilkley Book Club 

149. 


10.30am–4.30pm Church 

House 

Breaking News: Make a 

Newspaper in a Day 

Work with a real journalist and 

graphic designer to create a 

Festival newspaper. Write the top 

stories, interview Festival 

celebs, review events, 

dig up the gossip, 

even create a 

fashion page. 

£5 Age 14–18. 

Bring a packed 

lunch. Drinks and 

biscuits provided. 

Please note: day 

will include going out 

around Ilkley in small 

groups. 

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Tear this page out and hand it to a teenager!


fringe events 

All events at Ilkley Playhouse 

Wildman, Weston Road, Ilkley, 

LS29 8DW unless otherwise 

stated. 

Fringe events are created for the 

Festival by talented writers and 

performers from across Yorkshire. 

They’re free, fun and exciting and 

like the Fringe anywhere you take 

them as you find them! 

All Fringe events are FREE. There’s 

no need to book in advance – just 

turn up. 

I9. 


It’s a Long Way 

It’s a long way from running an art 

gallery in Ilkley to making handmade 

books in Scotland. Mary Thomson 

(formerly Sara) poet ,writer and 

curator reads recent poems and 

discusses why and how she makes 

her books, demonstrating the 

crystallisation of experience offered 

by the miniature format. 

Mary Thomson 

47. 



The Poetry School in York 

& Leeds – Live 

Seven poets. Seven minutes each. 

Exciting new voices selected from 

around 100 people who’ve taken 

part in activities run by The Poetry 

School in York & Leeds. Introduced 

by Poetry School tutor, ILF Poet in 

Residence Antony Dunn. 

48. 


Their Spirits, My Demons 

Otley based author, John Ormond, 

presents his warm, humorous 

yet emotive book, which details 

life growing up in an emotionally 

unstable home environment, 

plagued by volatile tempers and 

alcoholism. 

53. 


Flying with the Moon – 

The search for a lost airman 

‘Lancaster Bomber EE138 left its 

base at the appointed time. Nothing 

has been heard of the aircraft and 

crew since.’ (RAF Secret Operations 

Records 1943) 

Jean Stevens introduces an exciting 

and moving tale of mystery, surprise 

and discovery; the gripping story 

behind the death of a close relative. 

58. 


8.30–10pm Happiness Centre 

The Unlikely Poetry of 

Michael Conneely 

A reading at the new Ilkley Happiness 

Centre, of Michael’s nature-based, 

God-realm and love visionary poetry 

written at Glastonbury during a field 

study of new spiritual forms being 

embraced by the modern West. 

Open Mic for like-minded poems. 

Refreshments available. 

66. 



A Flambard Affair 

Sensual, evocative poetry from 

Mary Robinson and Rebecca Goss, 

reading from their first collections, 

published by Flambard Press. Mary 

Robinson’s The Art of Gardening is 

‘an immensely varied collection’. 

Rebecca Goss’s The Anatomy of 

Structures is ‘fearless, fresh and 

utterly engaging – strong on 

intelligence as well as emotion’. 

67. 


An Domhan Eile (The Other 

World) by Lucht Focail 

Lucht Focail (pronounced Luct 

fockoll – if you dare!!) are an Irish 

writers group who have fashioned 

a sequence of poetry, storytelling, 

music, song and dance to explore the 

richness of Irish myth and folklore. A 

joyful, compelling journey through 

the roots of Irish culture. 

Lucht Focail 

73. 

Friday 8th October 9–9.30pm 


Stand Up with Ash Caton 

New comedy written and performed 

by the brilliantly funny 18 year old 

Ash Caton. Wry observations on 

everything from being a teenager to 

the best way to wear a seatbelt. 

87. 


6.45–7.15pm Otley Courthouse 

The Magnificent Seven 

Deadly Sins 

Imaginative prose and poetry 

exploring ‘the Magnificent Seven 

Deadly Sins’ from The Courthouse 

Writers who take no responsibility 

for any moral damage our 

performance may cause. In the 

unlikely event you are affected by 

the issues raised in our programme 

please DON’T phone us! 

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94. 



The Ties that Bind 

Pink Lady Productions presents 

The Ties that Bind. Four short sharp 

theatrical monologues from the 

region’s best new female writing 

talent addressing the emotional, 

familial and societal demands that 

shape their characters’ lives. 

Adult themes are explored – not 

suitable for children. 

I05. 





Join Elsie the sheep and her farmyard 

friends in a friendly game of kings of 

the castle. Val Noble takes you on a 

super, sheepy see, say, find journey 

through her lavishly illustrated 

children’s book which also features 

British Sign Language drawings. 

Join in the fun learning to sign the 

characters. 

For ages 4–94! 

I06. 


Ilkley Playhouse Wharfside 

The Zig Zag Path 

The launch of Ian M Emberson’s 

new narrative poem – set on an 

imaginary planet elsewhere in the 

universe – as an ebook. 200 pages 

long, each page is fully illustrated 

by the author. Enjoy a reading of the 

early scenes, followed by a screening 

of the whole. Available on the 

author’s website – 

www.ianemberson.co.uk 

I20. 

Monday 11th October 9pm Ilkley 

Playhouse Wharfeside 

A Muddy History of Britain 

An illustrated trek through time 

with local author and ‘Muddy 

Archaeologist’, Gillian Hovell. 

Discover how to spot history’s 

impact – from mankind’s first arrival 

to the world wars – on the landscape 

around us. 

121. 


Voices From Beyond 

The Dark 

A staging by Pulitzer-prize winning 

author, Ariel Dorfman, of Kerry 

Kennedy Cuomo’s book of interviews 

with human rights activists from 

around from world, ‘from Desmond 

Tutu to the unknown activist on the 

ground’. Performed by actors and 

Amnesty members. 

I27. 


Votes for Women! 

Votes for Women! – an illustrated 

reading of poems about the 

Suffragettes from Nina Boyd’s first 

collection, Dear Mr Asquith, given 

historical context with words and 

pictures. A fascinating study of 

the struggle for the vote, pursued 

by passionate women from every 

walk of life in the decade before the 

outbreak of war in 1914. 

I37. 


Cadaverine Magazine 

Cadaverine Magazine showcases 

some of their best young writers 

reading a selection of poetry and 

short fiction. Guest poet is Radio 4’s 

Saturday Live Poet in Residence, Kate 

Fox. Includes Q and A session related 

to writing and publishing. 

www.thecadaverine.com 

I38. 


White Wells, Ilkley Moor 

‘That Place on Ilkley Moor’ 

An iconic building on an iconic moor. 

White Wells tenant and author of 

The History of White Wells, Mark 

Hunnebell, gives a brief history of 

the building, from its 18th century 

origins and the 19th century 

fascination with hydropathy, to 

dereliction, and the renovation that 

saved it. 

Tea and coffee available 

I46. 


The Dark Threads and 

Footprints In The Snow 

Jean Davison’s memoir The Dark 

Threads was described by Dorothy 

Rowe as ‘essential reading’ and by 

a reviewer as ‘destined to become 

a classic in the genre of psychiatric 

autobiography’. Jean’s reading is 

supported by Angel Heart, reading 

from her short story collection, 

and by members of Leeds Survivors 

Poetry group. 

I47. 



Shakespeare’s Sonnets 

by Five Voices 

A powerful performance of well 

and lesser known sonnets by Liam 

Fitzsimons, Mary Heycock, Síle 

Moriarty, Ian Parks and Ed Reiss. 

The five voices bring distinctive 

tones; the readings bring out the 

dramatic qualities latent in the 

sequence, making connections to 

each other and the plays. 

I66. 


The Writers’ Group 

Exposed!!! 

Members of the Yorkshire Art Circus 

Writer Development Programme 

re-unite to share a variety of forms 

from poetry, prose, electronic and 

children’s literature. Be a fly on the 

wall as some of Yorkshire’s upcoming 

writers read, perform and discuss 

their work. Stay afterwards for the 

Q and A. 

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acknowledgements 

The Festival would like to thank 

the following organisations for 

their support during 2010 

Headline Sponsor 

Skipton Building Society 

Print Sponsor 

Spellman Walker 

Major Sponsor 

Welcome to Yorkshire 

Event Sponsors 

Audley Clevedon 

Bradford Aimhigher and 

the University of Bradford 

Bradford Girls’ Grammar 

School 

Bradford Grammar School 

Garbutt & Elliott 

The Grammar School at Leeds 

Granta 

Hebridean Island Cruises 

Ilkley Book Club 

Ilkley Brewery 

Panache 


Schofield Sweeney Solicitors 

Skipton & Wharfedale 

Decorative & Fine Arts 

Society 

Specsavers 

Spooner Industries Ltd 

The Laureates 

Corporate Friends 


Festival Gold Friends 

Sir Rodney Brooke CBE DL 

Peter Marshall 

Podcast Partner 

Yorkshire Post 

Event Partners 

Audley Clevedon 

Bazm-E-Tadeeb International 

Bettys Café Tea Rooms 

Bradford Library Services 

Crick Crack Club 

Children’s Bookshow 

Eureka! The National Children’s 

Museum 

FMCM 

Friends of the Manor House 

Friends of Donald Baverstock 

The Grove Bookshop 

The History Wardrobe 

Ilkley Playhouse 

Leeds Metropolitan University 

Manor House Museum, Ilkley 

MLA Renaissance 

National Portrait Gallery 

Northern Ballet Theatre 

Otley Courthouse Arts and 

Resource Centre 

Open College of the Arts 

Panache 

Renaissance One 

Speaking of Books 

Triple PA 

University of Leeds 

University of Bradford 

University of Sunderland 


White Wells 

Supporters 

All Saints C of E Primary School, 

Ilkley 

&Co 

Artworks 

BBC Radio Leeds 

Bradford Library Service 

Brontë Parsonage 

The Children’s University 

Chapeltown Children’s Centre 

Clarke Foley Centre 

Craiglands Hotel 

Education Bradford 

The Happiness Centre 

Ilkley Business Forum 

Ilkley Grammar School 

Ilkley Moor Vaults 

Ilkley Playhouse 

Ilkley Lawn Tennis and Squash 

Club 

Ilkley Visitor Information Centre 

Kings Hall 

Laisterdyke Business and 

Enterprise College 

Leeds Children’s University 

Leeds Library Service 


Roundhay School 


YUM! 

Publishing Partners 

Atlantic Books 

Beautiful Books 

Bloomsbury 

Constable and Robinson 

Ebury Publishing 

Faber & Faber 

Granta and Portobello Books 

Great Northern Books 

Guardian Books 

Hachette Children’s Books 

Harper Collins 

Hodder 

John Murrays 

Little Brown 

Macmillan 

Octopus 

Orion 

Peepal Tree Press 

Penguin Books 

Random House 

Scholastic 

Simon and Schuster 

Thames and Hudson 

Transworld 

Verso 

A special thanks to all 

our Festival stewards and 

volunteers, to the Friends of the 

Festival and to Geoff Thorpe for 

his tireless support over many 

years. 

Festival Staff 

Director: Rachel Feldberg 

Festival Manager: Gail Price 

Marketing and Sponsorship: 

Abbey Vale 

Audience Development: 

Dawn Cameron 

Admin Assistant: Kate Holmes 

Press: Anita Morris Associates 

Graphic Design: 

Richard Honey, dg3 

Technical Director: 

Richard Speight 

Asst Technical Director: 

Adam Welch 

Technical Team: 

Chris Bradley, David Wallbank 

Volunteers’ Coordinator: 

Abbey Vale 

Assistant Directors: 

Judy Passmore, Liz Palliser, 

Glynis Charlton, Annie Latham, 

Gail Ferrin, Fiona Goh 

Arts Trainee: Milan Lad 

Marketing Intern: Robyn Ellis 

Copy Assistant: Robert Lawlor 

Café Manager: Fiona Drake 

Stage Managers: Emma Black, 

Kate Parry, Lauren Burgess, 

Alyson Howe, Bekki Bryan, 

Amy Balderston, Laura Spurgeon 

Box Office Administrators: Laura 

Beddows, Lucia Cox 

Box Office Administrator 

(Venues): Mary Varley 

Festival Photographers: 

Paul Floyd Blake, David Collins 

Web Site maintenance: 

CDS Studios 

Festival Poet in Residence 

Antony Dunn 

Apprentice Poet in 

Residence: 

Andrew McMillan 

The Ilkley Literature Festival Ltd. Registered In England and Wales Company No: 1061343 Ilkley Literature Festival is a registered charity Charity No: 501801 

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tickets 

Online 

Book your tickets online at any time from 9am 

Tuesday 31st August via our secure website. 

Visit www.ilkleyliteraturefestival.org.uk 

A booking fee of £2 applies on all online orders. 

By Post 

Just complete the Booking Form opposite and send 

it to: 

Ilkley Literature Festival, The Manor House, 

2 Castle Hill, Ilkley, LS29 9DT 

Postal booking opens on Tuesday 31st August. 

Applications are dealt with in date order. A booking 

fee of £2 applies. 

(Advance postal booking – for Friends of the Festival 

only – opens on Wednesday 18th August) 

By Phone 

Call the Box Office on 01943 816714 Monday–Friday 

10am–4pm and Saturday 10am–1pm. 

Telephone booking opens at 9am Tuesday 31st 

August (then at 10am daily). A booking fee of £2 

applies on all telephone orders. 

(Advance telephone booking – for Friends of the 

Festival only – opens on Wednesday 18th August). 

In Person 

Please note you cannot book in person at the 

Festival Office. 

Tickets can be bought in person from: 

Ilkley Visitor Information Centre, Station Road 

(Opening hours Mon and Weds – Sat 9.30am–5pm, 

Tues 10am–5pm. Closed Sundays. NB The TIC will 

open at 9am on Tues 1st September only). 

The Grove Bookshop, The Grove, Ilkley 

(0pening hours Mon – Sat 9am–5.30pm, 

Sun 11.30am–4.30pm) 

Friends’ discounts cannot be claimed when booking 

through Ilkley Visitor Information Centre or the Grove 

Bookshop 

Unsold tickets and returns 

All unsold tickets and returns will be available from 

the venue box office 30 minutes before the start of 

each event. Returns are usually available at most (but 

not all) sold out events. 

For non-headline events, tickets are generally 

available on the door. However you are strongly 

advised to book in advance to avoid disappointment. 

Tickets cannot be exchanged or refunded. The Box 

Office can only accept tickets for resale if an event 

has sold out and this is subject to a 10% admin 

charge. All refunds on return tickets will be made after 

the Festival. 

All details are correct at the time of going to press 

(Aug 2010). 

The Ilkley Literature Festival Ltd is not liable for any 

subsequent changes. Keep up to date by visiting www. 

ilkleyliteraturefestival.org.uk. 

Concessions 

The Festival offers concessions to the following 

people (proof of status may be required): 

Children and young people under 25 

Disabled People 

• People in receipt of out of work benefits e.g. 

housing benefit, income support, council tax relief 

Concessionary prices are stated after the full price for 

each event eg. £5/£3. 

Party bookings 

The Festival welcomes bookings from schools and 

established community groups as follows: 

£5 per person Kings Hall events. £3 per person 

other venues, plus one free staff ticket for every ten 

students/group members, unless otherwise stated. 

Join our mailing list 

If you would like to add yourself to the Festival 

mailing list and automatically receive the programme 

each year in late August, just call 01943 816714 or go 

to www.ilkleyliteraturefestival.org.uk. 

Friends of the festival 

If you are already a Friend of the Festival please give 

your Friends membership number on the booking 

form. 

If you are a Friend and wish to renew your 

membership at the time of booking please complete 

the renewal line on the booking form where indicated. 

If you wish to become a Friend of the Festival, 

membership re-opens on 1st September 2010. Go to 

our website www.ilkleyliteraturefestival.org.uk for full 

details or contact the office on 01943 601210. 

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ooking form 

Please enter the event number, title/author, the number of full and concessionary tickets you require and the 

amount payable. Total your order, don’t forget to enter your name and contact details overleaf, detach and 

return with payment to Ilkley Literature Festival, The Manor House, Ilkley LS29 9DT. Box Office 01943 816714. 

If you need more space please continue on a separate sheet. 

If you are a Friend of the Festival don’t forget to subtract your £1 discounts where applicable. 

NB Concession prices are listed after full price for each event e.g. £5/3 = £5 full price, £3 concession price. 

Event 

no. 

Event title/author 

no. of 

full 

tickets 

Price of 

ticket 

no. of 

conc. 

tickets 

Price of 

ticket 

Total 

for 

event 

£ 

I wish to renew my Friends membership 

£20 Single 

£32 Double 

£100 Gold Friend 

Don’t forget to add your subscription on to the final total and to subtract £1 

for each event ticket for yourself, to a maximum of £4 single/£7 double membership 

I include a donation of 

SUB-TOTAL 

Handling Charge £2 

TOTAL 

Please remember to enter your name and address etc. overleaf before returning the booking form f 

Data Protection 

We are committed to protecting your privacy. We store the information that you have provided when contacting us, registering for 

information or ordering tickets to allow us to process your orders and for marketing purposes. We may contact you from time to time 

with information about the Ilkley Literature Festival and its events. If you do not wish to be contacted in this way, please ensure that 

you tick this box: We will not sell, trade or rent your personal information to others. 

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ooking form continued 

Name 

Address 

Postcode 

Email 

Telephone 

Friends Membership No. 

Please make cheques payable to ‘Ilkley Literature Festival’ or give details below of your Switch/MasterCard/ 

Visa card (delete as appropriate). 

If paying by cheque it would be appreciated if you could write ‘an amount not exceeding (figure)’ and leave the 

box on the cheque blank, in case not all the tickets you request are available. 

Card No. Expiry date Issue Number (Switch only) 

Start date 

Signature 

Date

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