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Salman Rushdie
Monty Don
MONDAY 26 MAY
BARCLAYS WEALTH
MARQUEE
[145] 10AM, £5
Power House
Robert Peston (Who Runs Britain?) and
Peter Oborne (The Triumph of the
Political Class) discuss the nature of
power and influence in Britain, chaired
by Robert Yates (Extreme Nation).
[152] 11.30AM, £7
Monty Don and
Patrick Holden
The new President and the Director of
The Soil Association talk to Sky News
anchor Adam Boulton about food
production, climate change, and the
organic movement’s lead with local and
supermarket shopping.
[157] 1PM, £8
Salman Rushdie talks
to Mariella Frostrup
The novelist discusses The Enchantress
of Florence: ‘it is the hand of the master
artist, past all explanation, that gives
this book its glamour and its power, its
humour and shock, its verve, its
glory…East meets west with a clash of
cymbals and a burst of fireworks’
– Guardian.
[165] 2.30PM, £8
Boris Spassky talks
to Ronan Bennett
The legendary Grand Master discusses
Russian and Soviet chess culture, the
psychology of the game, and the 1972
Reykjavík Match of the Century World
Championships in which he lost his
title to Bobby Fisher.
Sponsored by Stream UK
GUARDIAN
STAGE
[140] 9AM, £4
Start the Day
Daniel Start explores the best lakes,
rivers and waterfalls for Wild
Swimming. In This Little Britain
Harry Bingham hymns the
eccentricities of the countries that gave
the world football, Shakespeare,
Churchill and Yorkshire pudding.
Sponsored by Wye Valley Canoes
[146] 10AM, £7
Marlborough: England’s
Fragile Genius
The historian Richard Holmes
profiles John Churchill, C17th
Duke of Marlborough, and by all
measures Britain’s greatest ever
military commander.
Sponsored by Sunderlands Hereford
[153] 11.30AM, £6
Subverting the Media
Nick Davies, author of Flat Earth
News, Alan Rusbridger, editor of the
Guardian, and Editorial Intelligence
chief Julia Hobsbawm talk to
Matthew Engel about what really goes
on in newsrooms and why our papers
are the way they are.
[158] 1PM, £6
In the Green Corner 3
Eco-firebrand George Monbiot in his
final conversation with the audience
about global sustainability and
political accountability.
[166] 2.30PM, £7
Sweet and Sour, Salt and Bitter
AA Gill talks to
John Mitchinson
The passionate and incisive food critic
entertains with Table Talk.