Otley Courthouse Programme Spring-Summer 2022

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Otley Courthouse January—August 2022
Dr Annie Gray Steve Tilston & Jez Lowe Jo Caulfield
Saturday 7 May
8pm
£17
Anniegray.co.uk
Talk
DR ANNIE
GRAY: SERVING
WINSTON – THE
LIFE AND TIMES
OF GEORGINA
LANDEMARE,
CHURCHILL’S
LONGEST
SERVING COOK
Dr Annie Gray is one of Britain’s
leading food historians. She
is a panellist on BBC Radio
4’s The Kitchen Cabinet and
appears on TV, including The
Victorian Bakers and food
programmes with Nigel Slater,
Heston Blumenthal and James
Martin.
Georgina Landemare was
the longest serving cook for
Churchill across Downing
Street, Chequers and
Chartwell. The talk will cover
her life and career along with
the food she cooked, the
impact of rationing at No. 10,
and the relationship she had
with her illustrious employers.
The talk is both a celebration
of a determined cook, and a
reminder that behind every
great man lies a woman who
can make a mean custard.
Friday 13 May
8pm
£15
Stevetilston.com
Music
STEVE TILSTON
& JEZ LOWE
Two of the UK acoustic/folk
scene’s finest songwriters join
forces for a series of concerts
filled with songs, music, chat
and intimate insights into
the approach to their craft.
Listen in as they rekindle the
spontaneity of their latenightliving-room
song swaps.
Jez Lowe is a multiple BBC Folk
Award nominee and icon of the
UK acoustic scene. He tours
with his band The Bad Pennies
and with The Pitmen Poets
and is a principal writer on the
award-winning BBC series The
Radio Ballads
Steve Tilston, described as
“a complete guitarist” and
“a singer songwriter of rare
talent,” has toured with John
Renbourn’s Ship of Fools,
traditional singer Maggie
Boyle, Ballet Rambert, and with
daughter Martha. He’s won
a BBC Folk Award, appeared
on Later with Jools Holland
and BBC4’s Songwriters
Circle, hasbeen covered by a
who’s who of the folk scene
and was the inspiration for
the Hollywood movie Danny
Collins, starring Al Pacino!
Saturday 14 May
8pm
£15
Age 14+
Jocaulfield.com
Comedy
JO CAULFIELD:
VOODOO DOLL
Jo is bringing her hugely
successful Edinburgh Festival
show Voodoo Doll to Otley.
Expect bad attitude and
good jokes. Never one to take
herself too seriously, Jo says
the things you’d like to say to
people but fear you would lose
your job or get arrested over.
Unreasonable neighbours,
call centres, snobby ghosts,
prosecco drinkers, being
married forever, and rude
children. Nothing and no one
escape her acerbic tongue.
A guaranteed night of cathartic
laughter. It is over 5 years since
Jo last performed in Otley, so
we are thrilled to welcome her
back.
“One of Britain’s smartest
comics. She never fails to nail
the laugh.” The Scotsman
“Wonderfully sharp and bitchy,
one of the finest comics at
work.” The Observer