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Julian Barnes
Shashi Tharoor
SATURDAY 24 MAY
BARCLAYS WEALTH
MARQUEE
[61] 4PM, £10
Gore Vidal talks to
Adam Boulton
The legendary American wit, novelist
and politico.
Sponsored by RSA
[67] 5.30PM, £9
The Mitfords: Letters Between
Six Sisters
The Duchess of Devonshire
and Charlotte Mosley
The twentieth century filtered through
the correspondence of the most
glamorous and controversial English
literary dynasty. Debo Mitford and
Diana’s niece, who edited the letters,
talk to Hannah Rothschild.
Sponsored by Sotheby’s
[72] 7PM, £7
Will Self
The spectacular satirist turns his
unforgiving gaze on post-colonialism,
multiculturalism, intervention, and
moral relativism in the dark and
brilliant novel The Butt, winner of the
2008 Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse
Prize for comic fiction.
Sponsored by The Sensible Bookshop
[78] 8.30PM, £8
The American Election…
We Decide
Who might we elect as leader of the
free world? Jonathan Freedland chairs
Spectator editor Matthew D’Ancona,
Sarfraz Manzoor, author of Greetings
from Bury Park: Race, Religion and Rock
'n' Roll, Greenpeace Director Jonathan
Sauven, and Brecon & Radnor AM
Kirsty Williams.
[82] 9.45PM, £10
Charity Gala
Festival favourite Sandi Toksvig MCs
this year’s Variety rattle-bag of ideas,
arguments, stories and poetry. Full
line-up will be announced on 24 May.
GUARDIAN
STAGE
[62] 4PM, £7
Trick or Treatment? Alternative
Medicine on Trial
Simon Singh &
Edzard Ernst
The science writer and the world’s first
Professor of Complementary Medicine
analyse which therapies work and why.
Rigorous, clear and surprising.
Sponsored by RM Jones
[68] 5.30PM, £7
Nothing to be Frightened of
Julian Barnes talks to
Claire Armitstead
The masterly novelist discusses his
memoir: a meditation on death, God,
his philosopher brother and French
literature, with the literary editor of
the Guardian.
[73] 7PM, £8
The QI Zoo: The Book of
Animal Ignorance
John Mitchinson &
John Lloyd
The gameshow creators marvel
at elephants that walk on tiptoe,
pigs that shine in the dark, and
woodpeckers that have ears on
the end of their tongues…
Sponsored by Tanners Wines Ltd
[79] 8.30PM, £7
Chasing My Tale
Owen O’Neill
The award-winning comic yarns sheep
strangling, interrogation by an IRA
stammerer, alcoholism, kidnapping
Mick Jagger and fighting Liam Neeson
into hilarious self-ridicule.