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
12.00pm - 1.00pm Park Lane FRANCES OSBORNE
12.00pm - 1.00pm A Brilliant Little Operation PADDY ASHDOWN
2.00pm - 3.00pm Strictly Ann ANN WIDDECOME
2.00pm - 3.00pm Elizabeth of York: The First Tudor Queen ALISON WEIR
3.30pm - 4.30pm Valentine Grey SANDI TOKSVIG
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
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
10.30am - 11.30am The Conquest of Everest DR HUW LEWIS-JONES
12.00pm - 1.00pm Churchill's First War CON COUGHLIN
12.00pm - 1.00pm Music and Monarchy DAVID STARKEY
2.00pm - 3.00pm The Drama of the Great Reform Bill 1832 ANTONIA FRASER in conversation with Charles Spencer
2.00pm - 3.00pm Glorious British Grub THE FABULOUS BAKER BROTHERS
3.30pm - 4.30pm Where the Wild Things Were; Travels of a Conservationist STANLEY JOHNSON
3.30pm - 4.30pm Luck ED SMITH
5.00pm - 6.00pm Extremes: Life, Death and the Limits of the Human Body DR KEVIN FONG
5.00pm - 6.00pm The Heartbreak Hotel DEBORAH MOGGACH
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
10.30am - 11.30am Patrick Leigh Fermor: An Adventure ARTEMIS COOPER
12.00pm - 1.00pm Return of a King WILLIAM DALRYMPLE
12.00pm - 1.00pm Family Ghosts HARPER'S BAZAAR presents
2.00pm - 3.00pm Tudors: The History of England, Volume II PETER ACKROYD
2.00pm - 3.00pm The Limpopo Academy of Private Detection ALEXANDER MCCALL SMITH
3.30pm - 4.30pm A Lifetime in Writing WILBUR SMITH
3.30pm - 4.30pm BERTIE: A life of Edward VII JANE RIDLEY
5.00pm - 6.00pm Facing Your Fears FRANK GARDNER
5.00pm - 6.00pm Beautiful THE UKULELE LADY

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