13th to 15th June 2013 Literary Festival Programme
Thursday 13th June 2013
| Time | Session | Author |
|---|---|---|
| 10.30am - 11.30am | The Potter's Hand |
A. N. WILSON
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| 12.00pm - 1.00pm | Park Lane |
FRANCES OSBORNE
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| 12.00pm - 1.00pm | A Brilliant Little Operation |
PADDY ASHDOWN
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| 2.00pm - 3.00pm | Strictly Ann |
ANN WIDDECOME
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| 2.00pm - 3.00pm | Elizabeth of York: The First Tudor Queen |
ALISON WEIR
|
| 3.30pm - 4.30pm | Valentine Grey |
SANDI TOKSVIG
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| 3.30pm - 4.30pm | Other People's Shoes |
ALISON STEADMAN
SOLD OUT |
| 5.00pm - 6.00pm | Downton Abbey |
JULIAN FELLOWES
SOLD OUT |
| 5.00pm - 6.00pm | The Art of Being Idle |
SIR TIMOTHY ACKROYD & TOM HODGKINSON
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| 6.30pm - 7.45pm | An Evening of Conversation, Candour and Comedy |
KEN DODD
|
Friday 14th June 2013
| Time | Session | Author |
|---|---|---|
| 10.30am - 11.30am | The Crocodile by the Door |
SELINA GUINNESS
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| 10.30am - 11.30am | The Conquest of Everest |
DR HUW LEWIS-JONES
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| 12.00pm - 1.00pm | Churchill's First War |
CON COUGHLIN
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| 12.00pm - 1.00pm | Music and Monarchy |
DAVID STARKEY
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| 2.00pm - 3.00pm | The Drama of the Great Reform Bill 1832 |
ANTONIA FRASER in conversation with Charles Spencer
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| 2.00pm - 3.00pm | Glorious British Grub |
THE FABULOUS BAKER BROTHERS
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| 3.30pm - 4.30pm | Where the Wild Things Were; Travels of a Conservationist |
STANLEY JOHNSON
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| 3.30pm - 4.30pm | Luck |
ED SMITH
|
| 5.00pm - 6.00pm | Extremes: Life, Death and the Limits of the Human Body |
DR KEVIN FONG
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| 5.00pm - 6.00pm | The Heartbreak Hotel |
DEBORAH MOGGACH
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| 6.30pm - 7.30pm | The Truth |
MICHAEL PALIN
SOLD OUT |
Saturday 15th June 2013
| Time | Session | Author |
|---|---|---|
| 10.30am - 11.30am | War Memorial |
CLIVE ASLET
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| 10.30am - 11.30am | Patrick Leigh Fermor: An Adventure |
ARTEMIS COOPER
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| 12.00pm - 1.00pm | Return of a King |
WILLIAM DALRYMPLE
|
| 12.00pm - 1.00pm | Family Ghosts |
HARPER'S BAZAAR presents
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| 2.00pm - 3.00pm | Tudors: The History of England, Volume II |
PETER ACKROYD
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| 2.00pm - 3.00pm | The Limpopo Academy of Private Detection |
ALEXANDER MCCALL SMITH
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| 3.30pm - 4.30pm | A Lifetime in Writing |
WILBUR SMITH
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| 3.30pm - 4.30pm | BERTIE: A life of Edward VII |
JANE RIDLEY
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| 5.00pm - 6.00pm | Facing Your Fears |
FRANK GARDNER
|
| 5.00pm - 6.00pm | Beautiful |
THE UKULELE LADY
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