FRIDAY 2 – SUNDAY 18
OCTOBER 2015
Brian Blessed Jenny Eclair Robert Winston Zaffar Kunial Julian Clary Karen Joy Fowler Jackie Kay Peter and Dan Snow Vince Cable Simon Armitage Jay Rayner Simon Schama
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WELCOME TO ILKLEY LITERATURE FESTIVAL 2015
Festival Strands AFTER WATERLOO: THE BRONTËS AND THEIR WORLD
Claire Harman’s biography of Charlotte Brontë; Patricia Duncker on Villette, Caryl Phillips’ novel The Lost Child inspired by Wuthering Heights; Publick Transport Theatre Company’s We are Brontë; Stephen Bates on England in1815.
HIDDEN VOICES FROM THE FRONT LINE
David Omissi, Annapurna Indian Dance, David Olusoga and Yasmin Khan on the role of Black and Asian soldiers in WWI and II. Welcome to the 2015 Ilkley Literature Festival! Dive into 17 exciting days of events covering everything from how to tackle a cryptic crossword to gluten-free baking, contemporary Spanish fiction and a novel inspired by Wuthering Heights. We’re mixing household names like Brian Blessed, Vince Cable and Simon Schama with some less expected events: Julian Clary talks about his new children’s book, and feminist campaigner/journalist Caroline Criado-Perez discusses inspiring women. Authors Sophie Hannah, Karen Joy Fowler, Caryl Phillips, Tim Lott, Stephen Kelman and Jane Smiley are here to talk about their latest novels and there’ll be poetry readings by Simon Armitage, Les Murray, Jackie Kay and Ian McMillan. Not forgetting history from the Egyptians – Joann Fletcher, Romans – Tom Holland, Tudors – Alison Weir to David Olusoga on WWI and James Holland on WWII. Our children’s programme is filled with fantastic events for anyone aged 3–12 including Cathy Cassidy and performances from A Thousand Cranes and tutti frutti. Young people can meet author Sally Green, learn how to blog with Zoella’s writing coach or create a Festival newspaper! Plus our Fringe Festival offers dozens of FREE events. We look forward to seeing you in October! Rachel Feldberg Festival Director
BOOKS AND READING – FROM THE ROMANS TO THE DIGITAL AGE
Make paper or tour the Brotherton Library; hear Frank Furedi chart the history of the reader; Malcolm Chase on the history of the self help book; New Writing North’s panel on writing and reading in the digital age; Melvyn Bragg and Linda Grant debating the Future of the Book; Martin Butler on digitising the work of Ben Jonson.
WRITING ACROSS CONTINENTS
Poetry from Finland and Latvia, and from Australia with Les Murray. Fiction from Japan, Slovenia, Montenegro, Spain, and from the United States with Karen Joy Fowler, Jane Smiley, Jami Attenberg and Liza Klaussmann.
UNTOLD STORIES
From 20th century industrial oral history with David Hall to Olive Senior on the Caribbean workers who built the Panama Canal and Gulwali Passarlay’s account of life as a refugee.
SHAPING THE FUTURE
Look towards the future with Stuart Clark (astrophysics) Matthew Cobb (human genome), John Thackara (sustainable design), Sir Vince Cable, Paul Mason and Danny Dorling (economics), Michael Marmot (health) Oliver Morton (geoengineering).
MODERNISM AND T. S. ELIOT’S THE WASTE LAND
Join our The Waste Land Guided Reading Group or hear new perspectives from visual arts curator Professor Mike Tooby and poet Rommi Smith.
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FESTIVAL DIARY AT A GLANCE Your quick guide to what’s on, where and when Signed events with BSL interpreter Children’s and All Ages events
Headline/Kings Hall events Young People’s events
Free Fringe events
Events last one hour unless otherwise stated. Children and young people’s events pages 52–57. How to book page 58.
WEDNESDAY 7 – SUNDAY 11 OCTOBER 1.
Exhibition
Ilkley Art Trail
Across Ilkley
FRIDAY 2 – SUNDAY 18 OCTOBER 2.
Exhibition
Children's Book Trail
Across Ilkley
MONDAY 28 SEPTEMBER 3.
6.30–8.30pm
Ilkley Young Writers Group – taster session
Christchurch
WEDNESDAY 30 SEPTEMBER 4.
7pm for 7.30pm
Crime and Curry Supper with Frances Brody
The Wheatley Arms
John Suchet: The Last Waltz
Kings Hall
One Night of Love
Ilkley Playhouse
FRIDAY 2 OCTOBER 5.
7.30pm
233. 7.30pm
SATURDAY 3 OCTOBER 6.
10–11.20am
Story Wizards – taster session
Clarke Foley Centre
7.
11am–1pm
Patricia Duncker Masterclass
Manor House Education Room
8.
11am–1pm
Make A List Poetry Workshop with Beverley Nadin
St Margaret's Hall
9.
11am–3pm
Writing Festival Reviews Workshops
Church House
10.
12–12.45pm
Looking–Glass Girl: Cathy Cassidy
Ilkley Playhouse
11.
1–3pm
FRINGE EVENT Poetry Ramble
Meet at Ilkley Lido Car Park
12.
1.30pm
Portraits: Elaine Feinstein
Ilkley Playhouse
13.
1.45pm
Bog Bodies Uncovered: Miranda Aldhouse-Green
Ilkley Playhouse
14.
2pm
Word Play: Gyles Brandreth
Kings Hall
15.
2–4pm
Writing for Children: Barbara Henderson Masterclass
Manor House Education Room
16.
2.30pm
Charlotte Brontë’s Villette and the Gothic: Patricia Duncker
Christchurch
18.
2.30pm
Northern Writers Awards Roadshow
Rombalds Hotel
19.
3.15pm
John Berger’s Way of Seeing: Tom Overton
Ilkley Playhouse
20.
3.45pm
Of Mutability: Jo Shapcott and Zaffar Kunial
Ilkley Playhouse
21.
4pm
A Medieval Islamic Library, Lost and Found: Fozia Bora
Church House
22.
4.30pm
The Raj at War: Yasmin Khan
St Margaret's Hall
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SATURDAY 3 OCTOBER 23.
4.30pm
The Last of Britain: Michael Nath and Nick Groom
Rombalds Hotel
24.
5pm
Sophie and the Sibyl: Patricia Duncker
Ilkley Playhouse
25.
5.30pm
Writing and Reading in the Digital Age
Ilkley Playhouse
26.
6pm
FRINGE Meeting Uncle Albert and friends
Church House
27.
7.30pm
Caroline Lucas: Honourable Friends?
Kings Hall
28.
7.30pm
Elaine Feinstein on Sylvia Plath
St Margaret’s Hall
29.
7.30pm
The Quality of Silence: Rosamund Lupton
Ilkley Playhouse
30.
7.45pm
FRINGE Never the Twain?
Church House
31.
8pm
Nine Lives: Performance
Ilkley Playhouse
33.
9pm
Inside The Fall: Steve Hanley and Olivia Piekarski in Conversation with Dave Haslam Found: Film Showing
34.
9.30pm
FRINGE Memories of William Edward Forster
Ilkley Playhouse
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Clarke Foley Centre Ilkley Playhouse
SUNDAY 4 OCTOBER 35.
10am–1pm
Paper Making Masterclass: Jonathan Korejko
Clarke Foley Centre
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Try the Art of Translating a Poem: Zaffar Kunial Workshop
Manor House Education Room
37.
1–4.30pm
Multi-lingual Mushaira: Gathering of Poets
Ilkley Playhouse
38.
2pm
David Crystal
Kings Hall
39.
2pm –5pm
Paper Making Masterclass: Jonathan Korejko
Clarke Foley Centre
40.
2pm
Spark, the Goblin Wizard with Dominic Berry
Ilkley Playhouse
41.
4pm
Sophie Hannah: In Conversation
Ilkley Playhouse
42.
4.30pm
Max Hastings: The Secret War – Spies, Ciphers and Guerrillas
Kings Hall
43.
4.30pm
A History of the Nazi Concentration Camps: Nikolaus Wachsmann
St Margaret’s Hall
44.
5.30pm
Prisoners of Geography: Tim Marshall
Ilkley Playhouse
45.
6pm
The Munich Art Hoard: Catherine Hickley
Ilkley Playhouse
46.
7.30pm
Walking Away: Simon Armitage
Kings Hall
47.
7.30pm
The Unknown Universe: Stuart Clark
Ilkley Playhouse
48.
7.30pm
Forgotten Soldiers of Empire: David Olusoga
St Margaret's Hall
49.
7.30–9.15pm
Dracula: Performance
Otley Courthouse
50.
8pm
The Lady of Misrule: Suzannah Dunn
Ilkley Playhouse
6–7pm
T. S. Eliot’s The Waste Land: Guided Reading Group
Manor House Education Room
52.
6.30pm
The Art of Being Normal: James Dawson, Lisa Williamson and Sam Hepburn
Ilkley Playhouse
53.
7.30pm
Stuart Maconie: The Pie at Night
Kings Hall
54.
7.30pm
Inventing the Universe: Alister McGrath
All Saints Church
MONDAY 5 OCTOBER 51.
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MONDAY 5 OCTOBER 55.
7.30pm
We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves: Karen Joy Fowler
Ilkley Playhouse
56.
7.30–9.30pm
Poetry Banquet
Panache
57.
8pm
Naturalists in Paradise: John Hemming
Ilkley Playhouse
58.
9pm
FRINGE An Evening with Edwin Waugh
Ilkley Playhouse
59.
9.30pm
FRINGE Orthos Presents: A Night of Aconite Prose
Ilkley Playhouse
TUESDAY 6 OCTOBER 60.
1.30pm
Jessica Souhami: Children’s Book Show
Kings Hall
61.
6pm
Treasures of the Brotherton Collection – Festival Private View
Brotherton Library, University of Leeds
62.
6pm
Exploring the Work of Les Murray
Outside the Box
63.
7.30pm
The Walter Swan Memorial Lecture
Ilkley Playhouse
64.
7.30pm
Alison Weir
Ilkley Playhouse
65.
7.30–9.15pm
Martin Bell: The End of Empire
Kings Hall
66.
9pm
FRINGE Ilkley’s International Entrepreneurs
Ilkley Playhouse
67.
9pm
FRINGE The Joel Dean Experience
Ilkley Playhouse
WEDNESDAY 7 OCTOBER 68
7.30pm
The War in the West – A New History: James Holland
Clarke Foley Centre
69.
7.30pm
A New Africa Breaks Free: Alex Perry
Ilkley Playhouse
70.
7.30pm
The Extraordinary Birth and Troubled Life of the BBC: Charlotte Higgins
Ilkley Playhouse
71.
9pm
FRINGE Red Shed Readings presents: Cresties
Ilkley Playhouse
72.
9pm
FRINGE The New Gentlemen of Verona
Ilkley Playhouse
THURSDAY 8 OCTOBER 73.
2–4.30pm
Poetry Alive! Open Mic and Networking Event
Ilkley Moor Vaults
51.
6pm
T. S. Eliot’s The Waste Land: Guided Reading Group
Manor House Education Room
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6–7.30pm
Future of the Book Debate
Great Hall, University of Leeds
75.
7–10pm
Gourmet Food and Premium Indian Lager Evening
Aagrah
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7.30pm
Life After Dark: Dave Haslam
Ilkley Playhouse
77.
7.30pm
Brian Blessed: Absolute Pandemonium
Kings Hall
78.
7.30pm–9pm
A Journey with T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land: Mike Tooby, Rommi Smith and Damien O’Keeffe
Ilkley Playhouse
79.
7.30pm
Aftershock: Matthew Green
St Margaret's Hall
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9pm
FRINGE Those Coal Town Days
Ilkley Playhouse
81.
9.30pm
FRINGE Ilkley Voices: What Lies Beneath...
Ilkley Playhouse
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FRIDAY 9 OCTOBER 82.
7.30pm
Dynasty: Tom Holland
Clarke Foley Centre
83.
7.30pm
Melvyn Bragg: Now is the Time
Kings Hall
84.
7.30pm
Jellyfish: Janice Galloway and Vicki Jarrett
Ilkley Playhouse
85.
7.30pm
86.
7.30–9.30pm
87.
9.15–10.45pm
Dying to Better Ourselves – Uncovering the Caribbean’s St Margarets Hall Hidden Histories: Olive Senior Fire in the North Sky: Epic Tales from Finland with Nick Ilkley Playhouse Hennessey, Kristiina Ilmonen, Kaisa Liedes and Timo Väänänen Festival Quiz
Ilkley Playhouse
SATURDAY 10 OCTOBER 88.
10am–12 noon
Poets’ Drop in and Advice Session: Zaffar Kunial
Friends of Ham
89.
10.30am–11am
Suitcase Circus Performance
Ilkley Bandstand
90.
11am–4pm
Press Pack: Write a Review
Church House
91.
11am–1pm
Tessa Hadley Masterclass
St Margaret's Hall
Quinntessential Baking with the Bake Off’s Frances Quinn and Howard Middleton More Alike than Unalike: Workshop with Janice Galloway and Vicki Jarrett
Kings Hall
92.
11am
93.
11am–1pm
89.
11.30am–12 noon
Suitcase Circus Performance
Ilkley Bandstand
94.
12 noon
The Dinosaur That Pooped a Show!
Ilkley Playhouse
95.
1.30pm
Song for My Father: Ian Clayton
Ilkley Playhouse
96.
2–4pm
Words on the Edge – Poetry Workshop: Zaffar Kunial
Manor House Education Room
97.
2.30pm
The Wimpy Kid Show
Ilkley Playhouse
98.
2.30pm
The Past: Tessa Hadley
St Margaret's Hall
99.
3.30pm
Manor House Education Room
Indian Voices of the Great War: David Omissi
Ilkley Playhouse
100. 3.45pm
FRINGE Tell Tales Workshop
All Saints’ School
101. 4.30pm
Inglorious?: Mark Avery
Ilkley Playhouse
102. 4.30pm
The Crossing and Man on Fire: Andrew Miller and Stephen Kelman
St Margaret's Hall
103. 5.15pm
The Race to Crack the Genetic Code: Matthew Cobb
Ilkley Playhouse
104. 5.30pm
FRINGE Songs of Joy and Hope
Church House
105. 7.30pm
Caryl Phillips and Robert Antoni: Readings and In Conversation
Clarke Foley Centre
106. 7.30pm
Designing Tomorrow’s World Today: John Thackara
Ilkley Playhouse
107. 7.30pm
Annapurna Indian Dance Company with Ian Clayton
Ilkley Playhouse
108. 7.30pm
Waiting for the Past: Les Murray
St Margaret’s Hall
109. 7.30pm
Word Blend: Ilkley Young Writers Group
Church House
110. 9pm
FRINGE Common Ground
Ilkley Playhouse
111. 9.30pm
FRINGE The First Telling
Ilkley Playhouse
216. 10–11.30am
Elen Caldecott Writing Workshop
All Saints' School
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SATURDAY 10 OCTOBER 217. 10–10.45am
Phil Earle: Demolition Dad
All Saints' School
218. 10am
Mud Pie Arts: Storymakers
All Saints' School
219. 11.45am
Mud Pie Arts: Storymakers
All Saints' School
220. 10.15–11am
Emily Mackenzie: Wanted
All Saints' School
11am, 11.45am, 221. 12.30pm, 2pm, 2.45pm, 3.30pm
Ilkley Library Story Sacks
All Saints' School
222. 11.45am–12.30pm Tim Hopgood: Walter's Wonderful Web
All Saints' School
223. 11.30am–12.15pm The World of A. F. Harrold
All Saints' School
224. 1–1.45pm
Kate Pankhurst: Mariella Mystery
All Saints' School
225. 1pm
tutti frutti: Snow Child
All Saints' School
226. 3.30pm
tutti frutti: Snow Child
All Saints' School
227. 1.30–3pm
A. F. Harrold Poetry Workshop
All Saints' School
228. 1.30pm
FRINGE Curly Belties
All Saints' School
229. 2.15pm
Suitcase Circus Workshop
All Saints' School
230. 3.45pm
Suitcase Circus Workshop
All Saints' School
231. 2.30–4pm
Comic Books with Jim Medway
All Saints' School
232. 3.15pm
FRINGE Artistic Penguine Convention
All Saints' School
112. 11am–1pm
Stephen Kelman Masterclass
Manor House Education Room
113. 11am–1pm
Michael Arditti Masterclass
Rombalds Hotel
235. 12.30pm
Jenny Eclair
Kings Hall
114. 2–6pm
WordsFest
Otley Courthouse
115. 2pm
Vince Cable – After the Storm
Kings Hall
116. 2pm
The Lives of Guy Burgess: Andrew Lownie
Craiglands Hotel
117. 2pm
The News from Waterloo: Brian Cathcart
Clarke Foley Centre
118. 2pm
Francis Bacon – Anatomy of an Enigma: Michael Peppiatt
Ilkley Playhouse
119. 2–2.45pm
Steve Cole
Ilkley Playhouse
120. 2pm
Writing from Latvia: Kārlis Vērdiņš
Rombalds Hotel
121. 2–4pm
Razwan Ul-Haq: Meditation and Arabic Calligraphy
Manor House Education Room
122. 2–4pm
Ilkley at the Time of WWI Walk: 1915
Meet outside Rombalds Hotel
123. 3pm
Villa America: Jami Attenberg and Liza Klaussmann
St Margaret's Hall
124. 3.30pm
The Beginnings of J.M.W. Turner: Matthew Plampin
Ilkley Playhouse
125. 4pm
Animal QC – My Preposterous Life: Gary Bell
Craiglands Hotel
126. 4pm
Widows and Orphans: Michael Arditti
Ilkley Playhouse
SUNDAY 11 OCTOBER
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SUNDAY 11 OCTOBER 127. 4–5pm
Rory Motion: Cryptic Crosswords
Clarke Foley Centre Cafe
128. 4.30pm
Paul Mason
Kings Hall
129. 4.45pm
Bilbao-Ilkley-Seville: Kirmen Uribe and Jesús Carrasco
St Margaret's Hall
130. 5pm
Pitching to an Agent
Rombalds Hotel
131. 5.15pm
The History of Egypt: Joann Fletcher
Ilkley Playhouse
132. 6pm
The Health Gap: Michael Marmot
Craiglands Hotel
133. 6.30pm–7.15pm
Rory Motion
Ilkley Playhouse
134. 7.30–9pm
Jay Rayner: My Dining Hell
Kings Hall
135. 7.30pm
Rosemary Hill on Angela Carter
St Margaret's Hall
136. 8pm
Working Lives: David Hall
Ilkley Playhouse
137. 8pm
Losing It: Helen Lederer
Craiglands Hotel
138. 1.30pm
Steve Cole
Kings Hall
139. 4–5pm
Steve Cole: for Teachers and Librarians
Kings Hall
51.
6pm
T. S. Eliot’s The Waste Land: Guided Reading Group
Manor House Education Room
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2.30pm
MONDAY 12 OCTOBER
The History of the Reader: Frank Furedi
Ilkley Rugby Club
234. 7.30pm
The Science of Everyday Life: Marty Jopson
Ilkley Playhouse
141. 7.30–8.45pm
Mark Thomas: 100 Acts of Minor Dissent – the book
Kings Hall
142. 7.30pm
Publick Transport: We Are Brontë
Ilkley Playhouse
143. 9pm
FRINGE Yorkshire's Forgotten Chekhov
Ilkley Playhouse
Treasures of the Brotherton Collection – Festival Private View
Brotherton Library, University of Leeds
145. 7.30pm
Headscarf Revolutionaries: Brian Lavery
Clarke Foley Centre
146. 7.30–9pm
Professor Robert Winston: Modifying Humans – Where Does Genetics Stop?
Kings Hall
147. 7.30pm
Jane Smiley: In Conversation
Ilkley Playhouse
148. 7.30pm
Winning Friends and Influencing People – A History of the Self Help Book: Malcolm Chase
Ilkley Playhouse
149. 9pm
FRINGE Northern Not Wanted?
Ilkley Playhouse
150. 9pm
FRINGE Vane Women present: Blue Horse
Ilkley Playhouse
TUESDAY 13 OCTOBER 144. 6pm
WEDNESDAY 14 OCTOBER 151. 6.30–7.15pm
Half Bad: Sally Green
Ilkley Playhouse
152. 7.30pm
One Man and the Battle for Rio: Misha Glenny
Clarke Foley Centre
153. 7.30pm
The Silk Roads: Peter Frankopan
Ilkley Playhouse
154. 7.30pm
Ian McMillan: In Search of the Meaning of Yorkshire
Kings Hall
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WEDNESDAY 14 OCTOBER 155. 7.30pm–9pm
Listening to Poetry with Beverley Nadin
Outside the Box
156. 7.30–10pm
Neil Hanson: Pigs Might Fly
Bettys Café Tea Rooms
157. 7.45pm
Common Ground: Rob Cowen
Ilkley Playhouse
THURSDAY 15 OCTOBER 158. 2pm
Ranulph Fiennes: Heat
Kings Hall
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T. S. Eliot’s The Waste Land: Guided Reading Group
Manor House Education Room
159. 7.30pm
In the Footsteps of Odysseus: Harry Mount
Clarke Foley Centre
160. 7.30pm
Shingle Street: Blake Morrison
Ilkley Playhouse
161. 7.30–9.15pm
Peter and Dan Snow: The Battle of Waterloo
Kings Hall
162. 7.30pm
The Gift of Stones by Jim Crace: North Country Theatre
Ilkley Playhouse
163. 9pm
FRINGE Elsewhere
Ilkley Playhouse
Experience Historical Printing at the University of Leeds
School of English, University of Leeds
6pm
FRIDAY 16 OCTOBER 164. 4pm 165. 7.30pm
Blake Remixed: Performance
Ilkley Playhouse
166. 7.30pm
Dom Joly
Kings Hall
167. 7.30pm
Oliver Morton
Ilkley Playhouse
168. 7.30–9.30pm
Yorkshire New Writing showcase
St Margaret's Hall
169. 7.30–9.30pm
Cool Voices Words Club Night
Otley Courthouse
170. 9pm
FRINGE Something in the Aire
Ilkley Playhouse
SATURDAY 17 OCTOBER 171. 10.30am–12.30pm Writing Poems with Peter Sansom Masterclass
Manor House Education Room
172. 10.30am–4.30pm
Breaking News: Make a Newspaper in a Day
Church House
173. 11am–1pm
Spouting, Squealing and Spilling the Beans – Creating Expressive St Margaret's Hall Characters for Fiction: Helen Cross Workshop
174. 1.30pm
Regency Britain in the Year of Waterloo: Stephen Bates
Ilkley Playhouse
175. 1.30–3.30pm
Fiction Masterclass – Make it Memorable: Leone Ross
Manor House Education Room
176. 1.45pm
Edward Thomas – From Adlestrop to Arras: Jean Moorcroft Wilson
Ilkley Playhouse
177. 2–3pm
Tackling Literacy through Stories: Aamir Darr
Rombalds Hotel
178. 2.30pm
The Book of Memory: Petina Gappah
St Margaret's Hall
179. 3pm
Christmas Carols from Village Green to Church Choir: Andrew Gant
Priory Church, Bolton Abbey
180. 3.15pm
John Godber, Helen Cross, Peter Samson
Ilkley Playhouse
181. 3.30pm
The Last Summer of the Water Strider: Tim Lott
Ilkley Playhouse
182. 3.45pm–4.30pm
Addingham Vocal Days present: The American Art Song
Addingham Methodist Church
183. 4.30pm
Live Reading of William Langland’s Piers Plowman
St Margaret’s Hall
184. 4.30pm
Julian Clary and David Roberts: Meet The Bolds
Kings Hall
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SATURDAY 17 OCTOBER 185. 5pm
Up Against the Night: Justin Cartwright
Rombalds Hotel
186. 5pm– 6.15pm
Closure: Short Stories from Black British Writers
Ilkley Playhouse
187. 6–7pm
ILF and The Leeds Library: News of an Exciting Project
St Margaret’s Hall
188. 6–6.50pm 189. 7.30pm
FRINGE Fantasy Plots and Fantastic Plays, with Daniel Ingram-Brown The Lightless Sky – Escape to a New Life in Britain: Gulwali Passarlay
Church House Ilkley Playhouse
190. 7.45pm
John Agard: Roll Over Atlantic
Ilkley Playhouse
191. 7.45pm
FRINGE Ilkley Soroptimists: Sharing Stories, Changing Lives
Church House
192. 8pm
Inequality and the 1%: Danny Dorling
St Margaret’s Hall
193. 9pm
FRINGE A Flower is not a Rat
Ilkley Playhouse
194. 11am–1pm
Justin Cartwright Masterclass
Manor House Education Room
195. 11am–1pm
Building Blocks of Narrative Fiction: Jacob Ross Masterclass
Rombalds Hotel
196. 1pm
A Thousand Cranes present: Me and My Cat?
Ilkley Playhouse
197. 2pm
Jonathan Dimbleby: The Battle of the Atlantic
Kings Hall
198. 2pm
M.C. Beaton: In Conversation
Clarke Foley Centre
199. 2pm
Weatherland – Writers and Artists under English Skies: Alexandra Harris
Ilkley Playhouse
200. 2–4pm
Jackie Kay Masterclass
Rombalds Hotel
201. 2–3.30pm
Roman Ilkley: Walk with Bronwen Riley and Alex Cockshott
Meet outside the Manor House Museum
202. 3pm
The Man Who Was W.G. Grace: Richard Tomlinson
St Margaret’s Hall
203. 3.30pm
Charlotte Brontë – A Life: Claire Harman
Ilkley Playhouse
204. 3.30–4.15pm
A Thousand Cranes: Origami Stories Workshop
Manor House Education Room
205. 3.30pm
Informal Festival Feedback
Kings Hall Winter Gardens
206. 4pm
Putting Poetry in the Frame: Rommi Smith and Nigel Walsh
Ilkley Playhouse
SUNDAY 18 OCTOBER
207. 4.30pm 208. 4.45pm
Do It Like a Woman... and Change the World: Caroline Criado-Perez Mothers, Fathers: Goran Vojnović and Andrej Nikoladis in Conversation
Kings Hall St Margaret's Hall
209. 5pm
Journey to Britannia AD 130: Bronwen Riley
Clarke Foley Centre
210. 5.15pm
Stevie Smith: Will May
Ilkley Playhouse
211. 6pm
Editing Digitally: Ben Jonson for the 21st Century
Ilkley Playhouse
212. 7pm
Jackie Kay and Zaffar Kunial
Clarke Foley Centre
213. 7.30pm
Simon Schama: The Face of Britain
Kings Hall
214. 7.30pm
Spindles: Short Stories from the Science of Sleep
St Margaret's Hall
215.
Open Mic
Ilkley Playhouse
8.30pm–10pm
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2–18 OCTOBER 2015
@ilkleylitfest
S S E R P STOP Three new events added! FRIDAY 2 OCTOBER
SUNDAY 11 OCTOBER
MONDAY 12 OCTOBER
233. Ilkley Playhouse Wildman 7.30pm £6/4
One Night of Love
One Night of Love, starring Geraldine Woodhouse, Nick Pennington, Jan Thomas, James Kingsley and Lucy Campbell, explores every aspect of love through the medium of poetry. Some of the poems are very well known, others less so; some are old, others bang up to date. An entertaining evening guaranteed! Devised by local author, Alan Hall, and directed by Moira Ferguson.
234. Ilkley Playhouse Wildman 7.30pm £6/4
The Science of Everyday Life: Marty Jopson 235. Kings Hall 12.30pm £12/10
Jenny Eclair
Jenny Eclair is an extremely popular broadcaster, comedian, actor and writer. She is one of only two female comedians to have won the prestigious Perrier Award, and often features on BBC radio and television, best known for her roles in Grumpy Old Women and Loose Women. Moving – Jenny Eclair’s fourth novel – reveals a writer at the height of her powers. Gripping, heart-breaking and laced with black humour, it is a novel of family secrets, shocking betrayals and most of all, of home. Edwina Spinner has lived in the same house for over fifty years. It used to be a busy, crowded family home but now Edwina lives alone and it has grown too big for her. She has decided to sell it.
Have you ever wondered why ice floats and water is such a freaky liquid? Or why chillies and mustard are both hot but in different ways? Or why microwaves don’t cook from the inside out? In this fascinating scientific tour of household objects, The One Show presenter and all-round Science Bloke Marty Jopson has the answer to all of these, and many more, baffling questions about the chemistry and physics of the everyday stuff we use every day.
2–18 OCTOBER 2015
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EXHIBITIONS AND OPENING EVENTS WED 7–SUN 11 OCTOBER
MONDAY 28 SEPTEMBER
FRIDAY 2 OCTOBER
10AM–5PM
6.30PM
7.30PM
1. Across Ilkley Opening times: Wed–Sun, 10am–5pm FREE
3. Christchurch on The Grove 6.30–8.30pm FREE with refreshments Age 12–18
Ilkley Art Trail
It’s back! After a year’s gap, forty-five top quality regional artists exhibit their work in venues around the town for five days during the Festival. Full programme available in venues across Ilkley from September or online: www.ilkleyarttrail.org.uk Come and enjoy the whole town as it becomes an art gallery. In association with Ilkley Arts.
Ilkley Young Writers Group – taster session Teenagers who love creative writing are invited to try tonight’s free session and see if they’d like to join our weekly group. No experience needed.
WEDNESDAY 30 SEPTEMBER 7PM 4. The Wheatley Arms 7pm for 7.30–9.30pm £20 includes two-course curry supper (with vegetarian option) and coffee
Crime and Curry Supper: Death in the Dales with Frances Brody Ilkley Art Trail
FRI 2–SUN 18 OCTOBER 2. Across Ilkley FREE Age 3–103!
Children’s Book Trail
Discover exciting children’s books (and lots of great shops) as you search Ilkley for books hidden in shop windows. Look out for the Trail window stickers to help you. All correct entries will be entered into a Prize Draw after the Festival. (Prize draw for under 12s only!) Collect your instructions, map and an entry form at Festival venues, the Grove Bookshop or Ilkley Visitor Information Centre.
Enjoy a delicious curry then sit back for a fascinating talk by Frances Brody, author of the Yorkshirebased mystery novels featuring Kate Shackleton – First World War widow turned sleuth. Frances talks about A Death in the Dales, her latest book set in Langcliffe and Settle, which finds the only witness to the killing of a local publican plagued with guilt... In association with The Wheatley Arms.
Festival opening 5. Kings Hall 7.30–8.30pm £14/12
John Suchet: The Last Waltz
John Suchet was the face of ITV news for 32 years, presenting News at Ten and the early evening news as well as anchoring countless special event programmes, including ITN’s election coverage, the Budget and Princess Diana’s funeral. Now a hugely popular presenter on Classic FM, he is a noted authority on Beethoven and classical music. Tonight he opens the Festival with the story of the Strauss family dynasty. Sponsored by LCF Law.
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SATURDAY 3 OCTOBER 10AM
11AM
12 NOON
6. Clarke Foley Centre 10–11.20am with supervised break FREE with juice and biscuits Age 8–11
10. Ilkley Playhouse Wharfeside 12–12.45pm £6/4 Age 9+
Looking–Glass Girl: Cathy Cassidy
Story Wizards: Children’s Reading and Creative Writing Group
Join Cathy Cassidy, bestselling author of the much loved series The Chocolate Box Girls and get ready to fall down the rabbit hole all over again, 150 years on from Alice In Wonderland. Alice is thrilled when Savannah invites her to a Wonderlandthemed sleepover, but an accident suddenly changes everything.
Children who love reading and creative writing are invited to have fun creating stories and exploring books at today’s free session. Parents welcome to stay.
11AM 7. Manor House Education Room 11am–1pm £15/10
Thinking about Fiction & Narrative Structures: Patricia Duncker Masterclass
A masterclass concentrating on narrative structure: one of the central problems writers face in creating convincing fiction, led by noted novelist Patricia Duncker. You’ll be considering the simple linear narrative – usually one central protagonist facing a sequence of obstacles, reversals or surprises. What are the advantages and dangers of fragmented or double narratives, and multiple narrators? You’ll be discussing specific examples, and thinking about method and technique. For experienced writers who read widely and are determined to finish a work of fiction. Please book in advance.
Beverley Nadin
8. St Margaret’s Hall 11am–1pm £6
Make a List: Poetry Workshop with Beverley Nadin
Join Festival Apprentice Poet in Residence, Beverley Nadin as she asks when does your shopping list become a poem? The list is playful, recognisable, and strangely imperative. What ‘whole’ do the parts portray, organised in this way? Can a list have progression and closure, tone and voice? We’ll consider examples and create poems of our own to add to a long list of lists. 1PM For all levels. Please book in advance.
9. Church House 11am–3pm £8/6 includes press tickets
Writing Festival Reviews Workshop
Find out how to write articles and reviews for the Festival blog, with journalist Victoria Benn. Whether you’re a beginner or seasoned critic, become part of the ILF blogging team and we’ll give you tickets to events throughout the Festival and post your work on our website. Please bring packed lunch. For adults. Please book in advance.
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11. Meet at Ilkley Lido car park 1–3pm FREE
Poetry Ramble FRINGE EVENT
Join Jeremy Young on a poetic ramble around Ilkley. Write poetry, take pictures and create sketches as you journey through the picturesque landscape. Bring pen and paper, camera, sarnies, flask etc. Walking boots recommended.
2–18 OCTOBER 2015
@ilkleylitfest
SATURDAY 3 OCTOBER 1.30PM
2PM
2.30PM
12. Ilkley Playhouse Wharfeside 1.30–2.30pm £6/4
16. Christchurch on The Grove 2.30–3.30pm £6/4
Portraits: Elaine Feinstein
Elaine Feinstein, distinguished poet, novelist, playwright, translator and Ted Hughes biographer, reads from Portraits, her new, long-awaited poetry collection. Feinstein looks back on more than 60 years of literary life and the people she’s known, including Jean Rhys, Emanuel Litvinoff and Sylvia Plath. A wonderful reader, she captivates any audience.
1.45PM
Charlotte Brontë’s Villette (1853) and the Gothic: Patricia Duncker After Waterloo: the Brontës and their World
14. Kings Hall 2–3pm £12/10
Word Play: Gyles Brandreth
They say all political careers end in tears. In Gyles Brandreth’s case it’s tears of laughter as the former MP and Government Whip, Just A Minute regular and survivor of QI and Have I Got News for You takes us on a rollicking roller-coaster ride around his amazing world of words, with stories from his years in entertainment and politics. No hesitation or repetition, but a bit of deviation guaranteed. ‘Wildly funny, incredibly indiscreet.’ Daily Mail
Writer and academic Patricia Duncker, Professor of Contemporary Literature at the University of Manchester, explores Brontë’s Villette, a novel described as a ‘too subversive to be popular’. And yet contemporary reader George Eliot saw Villette as ‘still more wonderful than Jane Eyre’, arguing that there was ‘something almost preternatural in its power.’ All the Brontës used the Gothic in their novels as a common literary currency of the times. But what is different about Villette? How does Charlotte electrify the tropes and motifs fashionable for 50 years and transform the novel into an unsettling, strange and passionate tirade on women’s consciousness and identity?
15. Manor House Education Room 2–4pm £15/10 13. Ilkley Playhouse Wildman 1.45–2.45pm £6/4
Bog Bodies Uncovered: Miranda Aldhouse-Green
Writing for Children: Barbara Henderson Masterclass
There’s never been more interest in writing for children, but it’s not as easy as the best authors make it appear. In Over the past two centuries, peat cutters in the bogs of northern Europe this practical writing workshop, OCA tutor and children’s author Barbara have periodically unearthed the remains of prehistoric people so well- Henderson (aka Bea Davenport) preserved that skin and marks of injury covers the plot, characters and survive, betraying the violence of their language needed for child or teenage readers, using prompts and exercises death. Who were these unfortunate to help you start or develop your own people, and why were they killed? story for young people. Drawing on the latest research For all levels. Please book in advance. and evidence, Professor Miranda Aldhouse-Green of Cardiff University uncovers the truth behind these real murder mysteries.
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Patricia Duncker
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SATURDAY 3 OCTOBER PLEASE NOTE CHANGE OF DATE AND VENUE FOR THIS EVENT
3.45PM 20. Ilkley Playhouse Wildman 3.45–4.45pm £5/3
MONDAY 12 OCTOBER
Of Mutability: Jo Shapcott and Zaffar Kunial
17. Ilkley Rugby Club 7.30pm £6/4
The History of the Reader: Frank Furedi
A feast of poetry with Forward, Costa and National Poetry Prize winning poet and Professor of Creative Writing at Royal Holloway, Jo Shapcott. Shapcott‘s work, surreal, scientific and with a vein of sardonic humour, offers frequently surprising angles on the everyday. Today she reads with the Festival’s Poet in Residence, Zaffar Kunial, a Faber New Poet and former Wordsworth Trust Poet in Residence. Kunial’s debut pamphlet, Faber New Poets 11, was published in 2014.
Books and Reading – from the Romans to the Digital Age Why are we hooked on the power of reading? Celebrated social historian, pundit and public intellectual, Frank Furedi, explores the history of the act of reading, from the hierarchies of ancient Rome to the esteemed 19th century ‘men of letters’ and 21st century readers’ relationship with culture and society. Furedi, who left Hungary for England in 1956, is Emeritus Professor of Social Science at the University of Kent.
SATURDAY 3 OCTOBER 2.30PM
Frank Furedi
4PM
3.15PM 19. Ilkley Playhouse Wharfeside 3.15–4.15pm £5/3
John Berger’s Way of Seeing: Tom Overton
Internationally celebrated art writer, John Berger (Ways of Seeing) is one 18. Rombalds Hotel of the most influential writers of the 2.30–3.30pm FREE last fifty years. Tom Overton, editor Northern Writers’ of Portraits, Berger’s latest book, Awards Roadshow cataloguer of Berger’s archive and a Each year New Writing North’s Henry Moore Institute Research Fellow Northern Writers’ Awards support 2014–15, reveals how Berger connects new and established writers who live the artist and history in revolutionary and work in the North of England to ways – from the prehistoric paintings develop their work and connect to the of the Chauvet Caves to Cy Twombly. publishing and broadcast industries Overton illuminates Berger’s new through an open programme of ways of thinking about artists from awards and bursaries. Join Chief Rembrandt to Henry Moore, while Executive Claire Malcolm and a panel maintaining the essential connection of previous winners and industry between politics, art and the wider speakers to find out more about how study of culture. to enter and develop your writing ambitions. Presented in association with New Writing North. www.northernwritersawards.com
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21. Church House 4–5pm £6/4
A Medieval Islamic Library, Lost and Found: Fozia Bora Books and Reading – from the Romans to the Digital Age
In Egypt towards the end of the 1100s, the so-called Shi’ite century of Islamic history, Sunni general Saladin deposed the Shi’ite ruling family and in the aftermath, the famed royal library was dispersed. Saladin, it was said, had deliberately destroyed the intellectual legacy of his predecessors. In this lively exploration of medieval Islamic politics and book culture, Fozia Bora of the University of Leeds examines the legends generated by the episode, and traces the survival of this world-renowned collection of literary treasures. In association with the University of Leeds.
2–18 OCTOBER 2015
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SATURDAY 3 OCTOBER 4.30PM
23. Rombalds Hotel 4.30–5.30pm £5/3
The Last of Britain: A Conversation about Britishness with Michael Nath and Nick Groom
22. St Margaret’s Hall 4.30–5.30pm £6/4
The Raj at War: Yasmin Khan
Hidden Voices from the Front Line Yasmin Khan, writer, historian and Associate Professor of History at Oxford, examines the important contribution and overlooked lives of ordinary Indians on the home front in WWII. Khan’s first book, The Great Partition: The Making of India and Pakistan, won the Royal Historical Society’s Gladstone Prize. Her latest, The Raj at War, is a people’s history of India’s experience of the Second World War.
Must national ideas always end in a punch-up? Nick Groom’s study of English customs, The Seasons: An Elegy for the Passing of the Year, and Michael Nath’s tale of three nations, British Story: A Romance, were books of the year in The Observer and The Morning Star. Here, in conversation, they consider custom, character, identity, and the land, in terms of elegy and romance. Nath, whose first novel, La Rochelle, was shortlisted for the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Westminster. Nick Groom is Professor of English at the University of Exeter.
5.30PM 25. Ilkley Playhouse Wildman 5.30–6.30pm £5/3
Writing and Reading in the Digital Age
Books and Reading – from the Romans to the Digital Age Join book blogger Simon Savidge (Savidge Reads), author and You Tube vlogger Jen Campbell (The Bookshop Book) and publisher Rachael Kerr (Unbound) in conversation with New Writing North’s Claire Malcolm to explore how writers and readers are making their way in the digital world. How are book bloggers changing book reviewing and impacting on what we read? How can writers benefit from crowd-funding and digital publishing? The panel will explore these and many other issues of interest to readers and aspiring writers. In association with New Writing North.
5PM 24. Ilkley Playhouse Wharfeside 5–6pm £5/3
Sophie and the Sibyl: Patricia Duncker
Patricia Duncker, award winning novelist and Professor of Contemporary Literature at the University of Manchester, discuses Sophie And The Sibyl, her witty post modern comedy of manners set in Berlin, whence George Eliot (‘the Sibyl’) most feted writer in Europe, has fled after scandalising English society. Today Duncker reflects on how her neo-Victorian Romance merges real life and fiction and critiques the conventions of the historical novel. This event begins with the results of the 2015 Festival Short Story Competition. Sponsored by Leeds Trinity University.
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6PM 26. Church House 6–7pm FREE
Meeting Uncle Albert and friends FRINGE EVENT
Stephen Wade, Leeds writer and storyteller, takes you back to the village he knew as a bairn, backed up by readings from his new short story collection, Uncle Albert, from Priory Press. You’re promised jokes, tall tales and readings from the fictional village of Gawpham in the 40s and 50s.
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SATURDAY 3 OCTOBER 7.30PM
29. Ilkley Playhouse Wildman 7.30–8.30pm £5/3
The Quality of Silence: Rosamund Lupton Untold Stories
Caroline Lucas © JJ Waller
27. Kings Hall 7.30–8.30pm £14/12
Caroline Lucas: Honourable Friends?
When Lucas, ‘Ethical Politician of the Year’ and former leader of the Green Party, was elected MP for Brighton Pavilion she became witness to Parliament’s absurdities and baffling customs – an outsider in an institution fossilised by tradition and self-interest. Tonight she reveals what it’s like to defend the interests of your constituents, challenge the establishment and balance the demands of work and family with a radical political mission.
Yasmin and her deaf, sign language using, daughter Ruby arrive in Alaska. Within hours they are driving across a frozen wilderness, looking for Ruby’s father. And someone is watching them in the dark. Rosamund Lupton, best selling author of Sister and Afterwards, the second biggest-selling fiction title of 2011, introduces her new, tense thriller. Former critic and screenwriter, Lupton also worked at the Royal Court Theatre. Folllowing this event, why not stay on for Event 33 (Found).
30. Church House 7.45–8.45pm FREE
Never the Twain? Untold Stories FRINGE EVENT
At first sight, it might seem that Razwan Ul-Haq and Christina Longden have very little in common. But a serendipitous meeting at a Yorkshire literature festival founded a new friendship between two authors; one that embraces Islam, Christianity, class and culture – as well as injecting plenty of comedy into their writing styles.
8PM 31. Ilkley Playhouse Wharfeside 8–9pm £7/5 young people 12+ welcome
Nine Lives
Untold Stories Written by Zodwa Nyoni Performed by Lladel Bryant Directed by Alex Chisholm ‘…unforgettable solo drama about one of the key experiences of our time.’ The Scotsman One man and a suitcase filled with the past, uncertainty, high heels, African dancing shells and hope. Outed, Ishmael seeks sanctuary in the UK, but is this evidence enough? As he waits to hear his fate, Zodwa Nyoni (former ILF Apprentice Poet in Residence and West Yorkshire Playhouse/Channel 4 Writer in Residence 2014) threads humour and humanity together to tell the personal story behind the headlines.
28. St Margaret’s Hall 7.30–8.30pm £6/4
Elaine Feinstein on Sylvia Plath
Elaine Feinstein has praised Sylvia Plath as ‘the most talented poet of her generation’ and expressed anger that Plath didn’t live to become the major poet of the age. Tonight, the multiaward winning poet and translator, whose work includes a highly regarded biography of Ted Hughes, talks about the life and work of one of the greatest inspirations behind her own writing, and offers an alternative perspective on Plath’s untimely end and the impact it had on her literary legacy.
7.45PM
Presented by Leeds Studio in association with West Yorkshire Playhouse.
Elaine Feinstein
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2–18 OCTOBER 2015
@ilkleylitfest
SATURDAY 3 OCTOBER 8PM
SUNDAY 4 OCTOBER 9PM
10AM
33. Ilkley Playhouse Wildman 9–10pm £4
35. Clarke Foley Centre 10am–1pm £15/10
Untold Stories
Books and Reading – from the Romans to the Digital Age
Found
32. Clarke Foley Centre 8–9pm £6/4
Inside The Fall: Steve Hanley and Olivia Piekarski in Conversation with Dave Haslam
Following Rosamund Lupton’s event, film maker Charlie Swinbourne introduces his short Film4 documentary Found. It features the personal stories of three profoundly deaf people who tell us directly to camera, using an interrotron device, about their memories of school and growing up and the day they discovered the deaf world and saw sign language for the first time. The programme conveys a sense of what the deaf community means to those who find it, for both deaf and hearing viewers. Film has full voice over and subtitles. Introduction and Q&A will include sign language interpretation.
Paper Making Masterclass
Create your own handmade paper, with expert papermaker and artist Jonathan Korejko who introduces the joys of paper with a literary theme. Shakespeare wrote about roses, Wordsworth mentioned daffodils and here Korejko pays homage to Dickens, Tennyson and others as he mixes flowers, plants and metaphors into a vat of pulp recycled from old books and pulp fiction. Discover how art, literature and nature can be blended together. Please book in advance. Wear old clothes!
11 AM 36. Manor House Education Room 11am–12.30pm £7/5
9.30PM
Try the Art of Translating a Poem
Bass player Steve Hanley’s critically acclaimed book The Big Midweek lifts the lid on life inside The Fall, Britain’s most idiosyncratic band. Steve’s stories get up close and personal with an eccentric cast of band mates, offering unprecedented insight into the highly-charged creative atmosphere within The Fall and the relentless work ethic which won them high-art respectability and a unique place in popular music history. William Edward Forster by Henry Tanworth Wells ‘..as vivid and true a picture of band life 34. Ilkley Playhouse Wharfeside as I’ve read.’ The Wire 9.30–10.30pm FREE
Writing across Continents
ILF’s 2015 Poet in Residence, Zaffar Kunial, leads an inspiring workshop for anyone who’s ever wondered how to go about translating a poem. Working from a word by word translation (provided), try your hand at getting to the heart of the original and bringing it to life in English. A practical morning with fun exercises to try. No language skills needed. For all levels. Please book in advance.
Memories of William Edward Forster FRINGE EVENT
Local Historian Dennis Warwick tackles the subject of William Edward Forster, well-known 19th century industrialist, local philanthropist and Liberal Party statesman.
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SUNDAY 4 OCTOBER 1PM
39. Clarke Foley Centre 4.30PM 2–5pm £15/10 37. Ilkley Playhouse Wharfeside 1–4.30pm FREE with banquet kindly Paper Making Masterclass Books and Reading – from the provided by Panache
Multi-lingual Mushaira: Gathering of Poets
Enjoy Urdu, Hindi, Bengali, and Gujarati poetry readings – with English translation. We’ll be welcoming some of the most prominent South Asian poets in the North. In association with Bazm-E-Tadeeb International.
2PM
Romans to the Digital Age Repeat of Event 35. Please book in advance.
40. Ilkley Playhouse Wildman 2–3pm £6/4 Age 5–11
Spark, the Goblin Wizard with Dominic Berry
Spark’s magic rhymes can turn anything into anything, even bogeys into pink ribbons. But something terrible is happening in the enchanted forest. With lyrics, laughs and lots of joining in, poet Dommy B needs your help to save the day! This event begins with a short reading by the winners of the Children’s Poetry Competition. Sponsored by The Grammar School at Leeds.
David Crystal © Hilary Crystal
4PM 38. Kings Hall 2–3pm £10/8
David Crystal
Acclaimed writer, editor, lecturer, broadcaster and authority on the English Language, David Crystal is Honorary Professor of Linguistics at the University of Wales, Bangor. The punctuation of English generates a disproportionate degree of uncertainty and passion! Professor Crystal leads us through the minefield with characteristic wit, clarity and common-sense, giving a fascinating account of the origin of every kind of punctuation and offering advice on how it can be used to meet the needs of every occasion.
41. Ilkley Playhouse Wildman 4–5pm £6/4
Sophie Hannah: In Conversation
Internationally bestselling crime writer and poet Sophie Hannah discusses her work with James Nash, with readings from her latest volume of poetry, Marrying the Ugly Millionaire and her standalone psychological thriller, A Game For All the Family. Sophie will also be talking about her experience of writing The Monogram Murders, a bestseller in more than twenty countries and the first Hercule Poirot novel to be published since Agatha Christie’s death.
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42. Kings Hall 4.30–5.30pm £14/12
Max Hastings: The Secret War – Spies, Ciphers and Guerrillas in WWII
A vivid portrait of the role played by espionage, code-breaking and intelligence on all sides in the Second World War – with startling stories of daring, deception and hardship – from Sir Max Hastings. A renowned author, journalist and broadcaster whose work has appeared in every British national newspaper, Hastings has reported on conflicts around the world for the BBC and is former editor-inchief of the Daily Telegraph and the Evening Standard. Presented in association with Clive Conway Productions Ltd.
2–18 OCTOBER 2015
#ilf15
SUNDAY 4 OCTOBER 4.30PM
5.30PM
7.30PM
44. Ilkley Playhouse Wharfeside 5.30–6.30pm £5/3
Prisoners of Geography: Tim Marshall Shaping the Future
46. Kings Hall 7.30–8.30pm £12/10
6PM
Walking Away: Simon Armitage
Nikolaus Wachsmann
43. St Margaret’s Hall 4.30–5.30pm £5/3
KL: A History of the Nazi Concentration Camps Nikolaus Wachsmann Untold Stories
In a ‘monumentally impressive’ book which seems certain to become the definitive history of the Nazi concentration camps, Nikolaus Wachsmann, Professor in Modern European History at Birkbeck College, explores the context and organisation of these immense genocidal machines. He draws a vivid picture of life inside the camps and gives a voice to the ‘social deviants’, criminals and unwanted ethnicities often forgotten. Author of the prize-winning Hitler’s Prisons, Wachsmann is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.
Simon Armitage © Paul Wolfgang Webster
Ever wondered why Putin is so obsessed with Crimea or why the USA was destined to become a global superpower? Former Sky News Diplomatic Editor, Tim Marshall argues that all leaders are constrained by geography, their choices limited by mountains, rivers, seas and concrete. A leading authority on foreign affairs, Marshall has reported for Sky, ITV and the BBC from 30 different countries.
Catherine Hickley
45. Ilkley Playhouse Wildman 6–7pm £6/4
The Munich Art Hoard: Catherine Hickley
Catherine Hickley, the world’s leading journalist in the field of Nazi-looted art tells the story of Hitler’s art dealer, Hildebrand Gurlitt, and his secret legacy – an incredible art collection including work by Matisse, Picasso, Degas, Otto Dix and Albrecht Duerer hidden in a non-descript Munich apartment. Sponsored by NADFAS.
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Simon Armitage, award winning poet, playwright, novelist, lyricist, broadcaster and the new Professor of Poetry at Oxford University, reads journey poems and extracts from Walking Away, the sequel to his bestselling memoir Walking Home. Tramping through Devon and Cornwall, Armitage swapped the Pennine Way for the South West Coast Path, reading every night in harbour pubs, beach cafes and at one stage, a Celtic roundhouse. Sponsored by Centre for Culture and the Arts at Leeds Beckett University.
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SUNDAY 4 OCTOBER
MONDAY 5 OCTOBER
7.30PM
6PM
47. Ilkley Playhouse Wharfeside 7.30–8.30pm £6/4
51. Manor House Education Room 6–7pm Mon 5, Thu 8, Mon 12 & Thu 15 October £15/12 includes all four sessions
The Unknown Universe: Stuart Clark
T. S. Eliot’s The Waste Land: Guided Reading Group
Shaping the Future
In 2013, the European Space Agency released a map that challenged our understanding of the Universe. Tonight astrophysicist and noted journalist Stuart Clark asks whether Newton’s famous laws of gravity need to be rewritten. Are the once immutable laws of physics changing? Author of the acclaimed The Sun Kings and a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society, Clark is renowned for presenting the complex world of astronomy to the general public.
Modernism and The Waste Land
James Hornsby
49. Otley Courthouse 7.30–9.15pm £8/6
Dracula
A spine-chilling one man adaptation of Bram Stoker’s classic gothic-horror novel. Actor James Hornsby has worked with some of the country’s leading playwrights: Alan Ayckbourn, Dame Kay Mellor and the renowned John Godber at Hull Truck. Hornsby brings to life a cast of well known characters, from John Harker and Mina his beautiful fiancée, to the crazed bug-eating Renfield and of course the demonic Transylvanian Count himself! In association with Otley Courthouse.
David Olusoga
48. St Margaret’s Hall 7.30–8.30pm £5/3
Forgotten Soldiers of Empire: David Olusoga
8PM 50. Ilkley Playhouse Wildman 8–9pm £6/4
Following hugely popular reading groups in previous years, Georgina Binnie, from the School of English at the University of Leeds, offers an expert guide to T. S. Eliot’s complex, multi-layered, post-WWI poem, The Waste Land. Exploring the relationship between modernism (the literary period defined by technological and social innovation) and myth in Eliot’s seminal work. Sessions timed to ensure you don’t miss other events. Details of what to study will be sent to participants. See also Event 78. In association with the University of Leeds.
6.30–7.30PM 52. Ilkley Playhouse Wildman 6.30–7.30pm £5/3 Age 12–adult Groups welcome
The Art of Being Normal: James Dawson, Lisa Williamson and Sam Hepburn
Think YA (young adult) fiction is just about attractive vampires and bleak futures? Think again. Join us for a discussion on how books for young Forget everything you thought you World War I was a multi-racial, multipeople can explore ‘difficult’ subjects knew about Lady Jane Grey and join national struggle, fought in Africa and offer a more diverse and honest Suzannah Dunn, former director of and Asia as well as Europe but four the MA in novel writing at Manchester representation of young people – with million non-white soldier’s stories University, for an exposé into the crisis James Dawson (author of All of the have remained in the shadows. David that gave England a ‘nine days queen’. Above and Stonewall Schools Role Olusoga, British Nigerian historian, Model), Lisa Williamson (The Art The Lady Of Misrule is the latest of documentary maker and BBC Dunn’s distinctive bestselling novels on of Being Normal) and Sam Hepburn producer, describes how Europe’s the lives and loves of the Tudors (The (If You Were Me). Their most recent Great War became the World’s War, books cover sexuality, gender identity Queen’s Sorrow, The Confession of exposing the era’s racial obsessions, Katherine Howard, The May Queen). and accusations of terrorism in their which dictated which men would serve portrayals of contemporary teen life. and to what degree they would suffer.
Hidden Voices from the Front Line
The Lady of Misrule: Suzannah Dunn
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2–18 OCTOBER 2015
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MONDAY 5 OCTOBER 7.30PM
55. Ilkley Playhouse Wharfeside 7.30–8.30pm £6/4
We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves: Karen Joy Fowler
Writing across Continents
53. Kings Hall 7.30–8.30pm £14/12
Stuart Maconie: The Pie at Night
Karen Joy Fowler shot to prominence with We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves, her fascinating, funny, disturbing depiction of one family. Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, winner of the PEN/Faulkner, it sold over a million copies worldwide. The author of six previous novels including The Jane Austen Book Club and three short story collections spanning literary fiction, fantasy and science fiction, tonight Fowler reflects on her work and inspiration.
Industry, toil and grime; its manufacturing roots mean we still see the North of England as a hardworking place. But, more than anywhere else, the North has always known how to get dressed up and have a good time. Stuart Maconie, TV and radio presenter, co-host of BBC Radio 6 Music’s Radcliffe and Maconie Show, journalist, columnist, author and one of the UK’s bestselling travel writers goes in search of what, exactly, that entails.
54. All Saints Church 7.30–8.30pm £6/4
Inventing the Universe: Alister McGrath
8PM 57. Ilkley Playhouse Wildman 8–9pm £6/4
Naturalists in Paradise: John Hemming
John Hemming tells the story of the amazing achievements of Alfred Wallace, Henry Bates and Richard Spruce, three self-educated young naturalists who went to the Amazon in the 1840s. Yorkshireman Spruce was a passionate botanist, Wallace and Bates were close to Charles Darwin and together they became outstanding explorers of the world’s greatest river and ecosystem. Dr John Hemming, an expert on the Amazon, has experienced many of their adventures.
9PM 58. Ilkley Playhouse Wharfeside 9–10pm FREE
An Evening with Edwin Waugh FRINGE EVENT
56. Panache Restaurant 7.30–9.30pm £15 includes two-course buffet
Poetry Banquet
Join Poet in Residence, Zaffar Kunial, Leading scientist and theologian, and Apprentice Poet in Residence, Alister McGrath, is Andreas Idreos Beverley Nadin, at a ‘word banquet’. Professor of Science and Religion at Enjoy the delicious South Asian buffet, Oxford University and author of The hear some of Zaffar and Beverley’s Dawkins Delusion and the critically work and share your own poems or try acclaimed C.S. Lewis: A Life. Tonight reciting (or reading) someone else’s! he explores the themes of his latest If you would like to read, please come book, Inventing the Universe, an accessible, scholarly, engaging account 15 minutes early and let Zaffar know. In association with Panache. of the big questions of faith and science, from the origins of life to burdens of proof and the existence of God.
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On the 5 October 1875 Edwin Waugh presented an evening of humorous readings, poetry and song here in Ilkley. Tonight, on the 140th anniversary, Sid Calderbank, Lancashire’s foremost interpreter and performer of Victorian Dialect, recreates Waugh’s concert with musical accompaniment from the Red Rose Strings.
9.30PM 59. Ilkley Playhouse Wildman 9.30–10pm FREE
Orthros Presents: A Night of Aconite Prose FRINGE EVENT
Follow Orthros, guardian of the Underworld, into the darkness to hear heartbreaking and disturbing stories. Steve Toase and LMA BaumanMilner sprinkle grave dirt and rattle dungeon doors in this unsettling performance.
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TUESDAY 6 OCTOBER 1.30PM
7.30PM
60. Kings Hall 1.30–2.30pm SOLD OUT
63. Ilkley Playhouse Wildman 7.30–8.30pm £5/3
Special event for primary schools.
The Walter Swan memorial lecture has been set up by the Walter Swan Trust in memory of Walter Swan, writer, actor, theatre director, and for several years, artistic director of Ilkley Playhouse. The inaugural lecture will be delivered by writer, playwright and broadcaster Nick Ahad. An experienced commentator on theatre and the arts, Nick is also an accomplished playwright and screenwriter.
Jessica Souhami: Children’s Book Show
6PM 61. Brotherton Library, University of Leeds LS2 9JT 6–7pm £5 please book in advance
Treasures of the Brotherton Collection – Festival Private View
Books and Reading – from the Romans to the Digital Age
The Walter Swan Memorial Lecture
In association with The Walter Swan Trust.
Join our special Festival visit to a display of the treasures at the University of Leeds Library, featuring some of the spectacular rare books and manuscripts from the Brotherton Collection, created by industrialist Lord Brotherton during the 1920s. University Library staff will be on hand to answer your questions as you enjoy treats from the Library’s internationally renowned Special Collections, which cover everything from cookery to Medieval manuscripts. Parking available in the University car park on Woodhouse Lane. In association with the University of Leeds.
62. Outside the Box 6–7pm £3
Exploring the Work of Les Murray
65. Kings Hall 7.30–9.15pm £14/12
Martin Bell: The End of Empire
The distinguished former BBC war reporter and famously Independent MP for Tatton, Martin Bell, discusses his days as a foreign correspondent in some of the bloodiest conflicts of recent years. He also introduces The End of Empire, a powerful, personal account of his time as a soldier in the British army in Cyprus in the late 1950s during the rebellion against British rule. This event is in two halves with an interval. Presented in association with Clive Conway Productions Ltd. Sponsored by Hebridean Island Cruises.
Nick Ahad
64. Ilkley Playhouse Wharfeside 7.30–8.30pm £6/4
Alison Weir
Alison Weir is the UK’s biggest selling female historian, her books span historical novels and biography. The Writing across Continents Tudors are a major focus in her work Festival Poet in Residence Zaffar and it’s a period she has described Kunial leads a friendly session as ‘the most dramatic in our history’. exploring the work of leading Tonight she reflects on The Lost Tudor Australian poet Les Murray in advance Princess, her biography of Margaret of Murray’s reading later in the Festival. Douglas, Countess of Lennox, whose See also Event 108. eventful life spanned the reigns of four Tudor monarchs.
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2–18 OCTOBER 2015
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TUESDAY 6 OCTOBER
WEDNESDAY 7 OCTOBER
9PM
7.30PM
70. Ilkley Playhouse Wildman 7.30–8.30pm £5/3
66. Ilkley Playhouse Wildman 9–10pm FREE
The Donald Baverstock Lecture
Ilkley’s International Entrepreneurs
The Extraordinary Birth and Troubled Life of the BBC: Charlotte Higgins
FRINGE EVENT
In 1883, three Bradford industrialists built a factory town in Marki, Poland. It was dubbed a ‘second edition of Saltaire’ and ‘the Polish Bournville or Port Sunlight’. Dr. Sarah Dietz describes this little-known story, which combines local history with a case of extraordinary international enterprise.
67. Ilkley Playhouse Wharfeside 9–10pm FREE
The Joel Dean Experience FRINGE EVENT
Joel Dean and his chums invite you to get lost in fiction. Dean and co. explore the boundaries between Art and life, challenging the distinctions between fiction and reality. A meta-theatrical experience.
68. Clarke Foley Centre 7.30–8.30pm £6/4
The War in the West – A New History: James Holland
Much of what we think we know about World War II is steeped in myth rather than fact and James Holland feels the achievements of Britain have been downplayed over the years. Sunday Times bestselling author, historian and TV presenter of Battle of Britain, D-Day and VE Day anniversary celebrations, Holland deploys deep research, incisive analysis, and a profound sense of humanity to revise our understanding of one of the most significant events in history.
69. Ilkley Playhouse Wharfeside 7.30–8.30pm £5/3
A New Africa Breaks Free: Alex Perry Shaping the Future
Twenty-five years after Live Aid, Ethiopia’s first yuppies are traders on an electronic food exchange and cash is becoming a thing of the past. Newsweek contributing editor and former TIME correspondent, journalist Alex Perry takes a vivid look at how the world gets Africa wrong, as he explores a continent rising from centuries of oppression to become an economic and political titan.
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Charlotte Higgins, the Guardian’s chief culture writer, steps behind the polished doors of Broadcasting House to investigate the BBC as she asks what does this uniquely British institution mean to us now? What threatens its continued existence? Is it worth fighting for? Higgins traces the BBC’s origins, celebrating the early pioneering spirit, unearthing forgotten characters and shedding new light on recent feuds and scandals. Supported by the Friends of Donald Baverstock.
9PM 71. Ilkley Playhouse Wildman 9–10pm FREE
Red Shed Readings presents: Cresties FRINGE EVENT
Crestie: a local word from Castleford and Featherstone meaning a scruffy person, a loser. Identity, exile, love and losing in a musical poem cycle combining poetry, music and short stories, from a group of writers loosely connected by Wakefield’s Red Shed Readings.
72. Ilkley Playhouse Wharfeside 9–10pm FREE
The New Gentlemen of Verona FRINGE EVENT
The New Gentlemen of Verona is a syllable-for-syllable rewrite of Shakespeare’s first play; The Two Gentlemen of Verona. Join writer Ash Caton and cast as they discuss adapting the play with a new comic storyline, as well as hearing contrasting excerpts of both versions.
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THURSDAY 8 OCTOBER NATIONAL POETRY DAY 7PM
73. Ilkley Moor Vaults 2–4.30pm FREE with refreshments
75. Aagrah Restaurant, The Moors Shopping Centre, LS29 9LB 7–10pm £45 per head please book in advance
Poetry Alive! Open Mic and Networking Event
Celebrate National Poetry Day at our annual open mic and networking event for poets from across the Yorkshire region. Catch up with other writers, share your pamphlets and chapbooks. Hosted by Poet in Residence, Zaffar Kunial and Apprentice Poet in Residence, Beverley Nadin. Poets wanting to read should arrive by 1.45pm to put their names down. Everyone, including non-performing listeners, welcome.
6PM 74. Great Hall, University of Leeds LS2 9JT 6–7.30pm FREE but please book in advance via www.whiterose.ac.uk
Future of the Book Debate
Gourmet Food and Premium Indian Lager Tasting Evening
Aagrah Ilkley are hosting a unique evening with Managing Director and Executive Chef Mohammed Aslam, MBE, who’ll be explaining all about the spices used to make the meal you’ll be served on the night. A Beer expert will also be on hand to explain and answer your questions about Lal Toofan, a premium full-bodied lager which perfectly complements hot and spicy Indian cuisine and there will be some special poetry surprises! For further info about the meal telephone 01943 600628 or visit www.aagrah.com In association with Aagrah Restaurant.
Books and Reading – from the Romans to the Digital Age For centuries, the bound volume held a seemingly invincible place in our culture. In the digital age nothing about the status of books is certain. How should we understand the present moment, suspended between the print culture of old and the digital future? Does digitisation herald the end of the book, a new beginning or perhaps neither? Lord Melvyn Bragg – renowned arts broadcaster and University of Leeds Chancellor – chairs a debate with James Daunt Managing Director of Waterstones, Linda Grant Orange Prize-winning author of I Murdered My Library and experts from Leeds, York and Sheffield Universities. In association with the White Rose Consortium. Part of the Debating the Book Programme. For more details on the Debating the Book Programme please see page 51.
Brian Blessed © Steve Cowell
2PM
7.30PM 76. Ilkley Playhouse Wildman 7.30–8.30pm £5/3
Life After Dark: Dave Haslam
From vice-ridden Victorian dance halls to psychedelic light shows, high street discos and warehouse raves, author, broadcaster and former Hacienda nightclub DJ, Dave Haslam, charts the development of the British nightclub, a vital aspect of UK history. Along the way he explores different subcultures, encountering the likes of Jarvis Cocker, Noddy Holder, the Chemical Brothers and Duran Duran. Haslam’s previous books include the highly acclaimed Manchester, England.
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77. Kings Hall 7.30–8.30pm £14/12
Brian Blessed: Absolute Pandemonium
There’s no one quite like Brian Blessed, actor, film star, trained undertaker, unlikely diplomat, mountaineer and brilliant storyteller. He comes to Ilkley to talk about his autobiography, Absolute Pandemonium, a riotous journey from childhood, as the son of a miner in Goldthorpe, South Yorkshire, to finding fame in Z-Cars, punching Harold Pinter and winning round George Lucas to get the role of Boss Nass in Star Wars Episode 1. A funny, life-affirming evening crammed with anecdotes.
2–18 OCTOBER 2015
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THURSDAY 8 OCTOBER 7.30PM
FRIDAY 9 OCTOBER 79. St Margaret’s Hall 7.30–8.30pm £5/3
7.30PM
Aftershock: Matthew Green
Hidden Voices from the Front Line What happens when soldiers return home, having lost friends and killed enemies? Through interviews with former combatants, their families, serving personnel, doctors and psychologists, former Reuters and Financial Times foreign correspondent, Matthew Green, looks beyond the labels of shell shock Tom Holland © Charlie Hopkinson Rommi Smith © Leeds University and PTSD to get to the heart of today’s 82. Clarke Foley Centre post-conflict experience. Green, 78. Ilkley Playhouse Wharfeside embedded with US Marines during the 7.30–8.30pm £6/4 7.30–9pm £5/3 Iraq invasion, has reported from over Dynasty: Tom Holland A Journey with T. S. Eliot’s 30 countries. Writer, historian and television documentary presenter, Tom Holland The Waste Land: won the Hessell-Tiltman Prize for Mike Tooby, Rommi Smith 9PM History for Rubicon: The Last Years and Damien O’Keeffe 80. Ilkley Playhouse Wildman of the Roman Republic. In this sequel, Modernism and The Waste Land 9–10pm FREE Dynasty, he gives a dazzling portrait A multi layered event exploring the of Rome’s first imperial dynasty, Those Coal Town Days resonances of Eliot’s iconic poem. from Augustus and Caligula to Untold Stories Poet and playwright Rommi Smith Nero via the great capital rebuilt by and actor Damien O’Keeffe give a FRINGE EVENT Augustus and the barbarian-haunted compelling reading of The Waste forests of Germany. With a cast An entertainment in verse and song Land. This is followed by input from of murderers, adulterers, druids, devised and performed by David Professor Mike Tooby, Senior Kidman and Jim Saville. Exploring the scheming grandmothers and reluctant Research Fellow at the Henry miner’s life experience and delving into gladiators, this is the family that Moore Institute (2014–15), who transformed Rome. the industry’s history, environmental is developing a participative visual impact and politics. Classic songs will arts exhibition – with a subsequent compliment moving verses, often by collaborative presentation in Leeds poets involved with mining. – on The Waste Land with Turner Contemporary art gallery in Margate, 9.30PM where Eliot wrote part of the poem while recuperating in 1922. Tooby’s 81. Ilkley Playhouse Wharfeside curatorial process is involving 9.30–10.30pm FREE people of diverse backgrounds Ilkley Voices: and celebrating the potential for challenging new perspectives. Tonight What Lies Beneath... he outlines this exciting project and FRINGE EVENT discusses how we might consider a The River Wharfe has a thousand range of responses to the poem by guises. She can lift spirits, invoke peace visual artists. and soothe troubled minds. Yet she See also Event 51. can also be murderously cruel. Lean in close with Ilkley Writers and listen to tales inspired by the river’s everchanging spirit.
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FRIDAY 9 OCTOBER 7.30PM
84. Ilkley Playhouse Wildman 7.30–8.30pm £5/3
Jellyfish: Janice Galloway and Vicki Jarrett
Melvyn Bragg © ITV
83. Kings Hall 7.30–8.30pm £14/12
Melvyn Bragg: Now is the Time
Melvyn Bragg, award winning novelist, broadcaster and acclaimed presenter of the South Bank Show and In Our Time, introduces his gripping new novel. Now is the Time is set during the 1381 Peasants’ Revolt as a vast force of common people invade London, led by former soldier, Walter (Wat) Tyler, and radical preacher John Ball. Their demands: freedom, equality and the complete uprooting of Church and state.
Olive Senior © Caroline Forbes
Author of novels, short stories, poetry, nonfiction and collaborative works with visual artists, videographers and musicians, Janice Galloway is one of the most versatile and acclaimed authors in the British Isles. Tonight she discusses Jellyfish, her powerful, sparkling new collection of short stories, inspired by David Lodge’s assertion – ‘Literature is mostly about having sex and not much about having children; life’s the other way round’. Vicki Jarrett, Edinburgh novelist and short story writer joins her to talk about her first collection of short stories, The Way Out, fairytale-like accounts of dilemmas, desires and disappointments, long-listed for both the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award and the Jerwood Fiction Uncovered Prize.
85. St Margaret’s Hall 7.30–8.30pm £5/3
Dying to Better Ourselves – Uncovering the Caribbean’s Hidden Histories: Olive Senior Untold Stories
The popular West Indian migration narrative starts with the ‘Windrush Generation’, but from 1850–1914 people from the Caribbean were lured to Panama by the promise of lucrative work on the canal and railway. Renowned, multi-award winning Jamaican poet, novelist, short story and nonfiction writer, Olive Senior, tells the compelling story of the West Indian rite of passage of ‘Going to Panama’. Drawing on official records, newspapers, books, songs, sayings and the words of the participants themselves, Senior traces who went to Panama, how and why – and reads from her short stories.
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86. Ilkley Playhouse Wharfeside 7.30–9.30pm £8/6
Fire in the North Sky: Epic Tales from Finland with Nick Hennessey, Kristiina Ilmonen, Kaisa Liedes and Timo Väänänen Writing across Continents
Be transported by the songs, stories and adventures of Finland’s cultural treasure, the Kalevala. UK storyteller Nick Hennessey and three virtuoso Finnish musicians bring these 2000 year old stories alive with a touch of offbeat fun, enchantment and music that moves between dancing flutes, intoxicating rhythms and hauntingly beautiful sung melodies. Please note this is an event in two halves with an interval.
9.15PM 87. Ilkley Playhouse Wildman 9.15–10.45pm £5
Festival Quiz
Do you know your Miss Marple from your Nancy Drew, your Little Women from your Famous Five? Popular, fun, book-based pub-style quiz that tests your literary (and not-so-literary) knowledge. Come with a team of three or four or come on your own and we’ll link you up with fellow Festival goers. Pens, paper – and prizes – supplied! Hosted by For Books’ Sake. www.forbookssake.net
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SATURDAY 10 OCTOBER 10AM
All day – Dozens of children’s and young people’s events. See pages 52–57 for details.
88. Friends of Ham 10am–12pm FREE
The Children’s Festival is sponsored by The Grammar School at Leeds.
Poets’ Drop in and Advice Session: Zaffar Kunial
Drop in and meet Festival Poet in Residence Zaffar Kunial for a chat about your poetry – or his – at any point during the morning. Bring some of your work, if you’d like to, and feel free to pick his brains for advice.
93. Manor House Education Room 11am–1pm £15/10
10.30AM 89. Bandstand on The Grove 10.30–11am & 11.30am–12 noon FREE family event for all ages
More Alike than Unalike: Workshop with Janice Galloway and Vicki Jarrett
Suitcase Circus Performance
Cheer up your Saturday morning! Join us on the bandstand for these fun circus performances from Suitcase Circus.
11AM 90. Church House
11am–4pm £5 includes ‘Press Pass’ for the afternoon Age 12–18
Press Pack: Write a Review Find out how to write great reviews, blogs and tweets then set off to a Festival event. Write up a great review in our newsroom and we’ll post it online. Bring a packed lunch. Please book in advance.
91. St Margaret’s Hall 11am–1pm £15/10
Tessa Hadley Masterclass
A practical, hands on masterclass with experienced tutor Tessa Hadley, Professor of Creative Writing at Bath Spa University and author of six novels, who regularly has stories published in The New Yorker, Granta and the Guardian. For all levels. Please book in advance.
92. Kings Hall 11am–12 noon £14/12
Quinntessential Baking with the Bake Off’s Frances Quinn and Howard Middleton
Meet two of the Great British Bake Off’s most popular stars. Frances Quinn (winner 2013) wowed the judges with her imaginative showstoppers and extraordinary baking skills. Amateur baker Howard Middleton from Sheffield caught the public’s attention with his first bake – a gluten free passion fruit and coconut sandwich cake. This morning Frances discusses her creations; honey bee bite flapjacks and giant jammy dodger shortbread, while Howard is full of ideas on how to enjoy perfect cakes, melt-in-the-mouth biscuits and gorgeous, crusty breads, all gluten-free and absolutely delicious.
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A hands-on workshop exploring notions of the particular and the universal in fiction. With examples and short exercises, participants will be encouraged to challenge and refresh their thinking about their own writing practice. For all levels. Please book in advance.
12PM 94. Ilkley Playhouse Wharfeside 12–1pm £6/4 Age 5+
The Dinosaur That Pooped a Show!
Host Alastair Watson brings the bestselling The Dinosaur That Pooped books to life with help from The Dinosaur himself! Interactive event featuring dinosaur impressions, live drawing, gross games and exclusive video clips from creators, Tom Fletcher and Dougie Poynter (McBusted). WARNING: CONTAINS DINOSAUR POO!
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SATURDAY 10 OCTOBER 1.30PM
2.30PM
3.30PM
97. Ilkley Playhouse Wharfeside 2.30–3.30pm £6/4 Age 8+
The Wimpy Kid Show
A must for all Wimpy Kid fans! Alastair Watson brings the books to life with The Wimpy Kid Draw-Along, The Wimp Wars! Quiz AND exclusive clips of author Jeff Kinney talking about the books, the films and how to draw the characters.
95. Ilkley Playhouse Wildman 1.30–2.30pm £6/4
99. Ilkley Playhouse Wildman 3.30–4.30pm £5/3
Song for My Father: Ian Clayton
Popular broadcaster and storyteller Ian Clayton will be telling tales from his latest book, Song for My Father, reflecting on what happened when his dad reappeared in his life after a 40 year absence. With characteristic wit and good humour, Ian recounts their extraordinary encounters and ponders on what happens when things don’t work out just the way we want them to.
2PM 96. Manor House Education Room 2–4pm £8/6
Words on the Edge – Poetry Workshop: Zaffar Kunial
A look at borders and edges in poetry. An edge is potentially both an end and a beginning and in this workshop Zaffar Kunial, Festival Poet in Residence, encourages you to explore how words might occupy edges and borders and the vital, sometimes surprising, role of line endings. We’ll be looking at examples from various poems and then having a go at writing poems inspired by these themes. For all levels. Please book in advance.
Indian Voices of the Great War: David Omissi Hidden Voices from the Front Line
Tessa Hadley © Mark Vessey
98. St Margaret’s Hall 2.30–3.30pm £5/3
The Past: Tessa Hadley
Tessa Hadley, a fiction writer of remarkable gifts, has been compared to Elizabeth Bowen and Alice Munro. Her new novel, The Past, the latest of five books and two collections of short stories, is a mesmerising tale of siblings meeting in their grandparents’ old house for three long, hot summer weeks. The house is full of memories but under the idyllic surface, tensions are simmering.
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David Omissi’s much lauded Indian Voices of the Great War: Soldiers’ Letters, 1914–1918 is an anthology of letters to and from Indian soldiers on the Western Front. Using translated extracts in the reports of the British military censors, Dr Omissi, Senior Lecturer in Modern History at the University of Hull, shows how people on the margins of literacy made imaginative, effective use of writing, even under impossibly restrictive conditions.
3.45PM 100. All Saints’ School 3.45–4.45pm FREE Adults and children welcome
Tell Tales Workshop FRINGE EVENT
Develop your storytelling skills with Julie Pryke. Learn how to improvise original stories for children from 3–9 years of age in this fun, interactive workshop. You’ll learn to invent new stories and not just repeat the old familiar ones.
2–18 OCTOBER 2015
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SATURDAY 10 OCTOBER 4.30PM
5.15PM
5.30PM
101. Ilkley Playhouse Wharfeside 4.30–5.30pm £6/4
104. Church House 5.30–6.30pm FREE
Mark Avery, former Director of the RSPB and influential campaigner on conservation and environmental issues, takes on the controversial issue of driven grouse shooting in Britain. In a wide ranging event, he considers the environmental impact for the grouse population, the huge economic importance and longstanding tradition of the sport and the ecological effects on the land.
FRINGE EVENT
Inglorious?: Mark Avery
Songs of Joy and Hope Join us on World Mental Health Day for a celebration of arts, creative writing and mental wellbeing. Mind in Bradford presents an inspirational selection of music and poetry. Their collected poetry anthology Something on My Mind was published last year.
7.30PM
103. Ilkley Playhouse Wildman 5.15–6.15pm £5/3
The Race to Crack the Genetic Code: Matthew Cobb Shaping the Future Stephen Kelman © Jonathan Ring
102. St Margaret’s Hall 4.30–5.30pm £5/3
The Crossing and Man on Fire: Andrew Miller and Stephen Kelman
Two highly regarded novelists discuss their work. Andrew Miller, whose previous novel Pure won the Costa Book of the Year Award, reflects on The Crossing – his subtle, almost dreamlike story of a woman who is a mystery even to those closest to her. A woman with a talent for survival, who works long hours and loves to sail – preferably on her own. Miller is joined by Stephen Kelman, whose second novel Man on Fire, the follow-up to his Booker Prize-nominated debut Pigeon English, is inspired by the life of Bibhuti Nayak, a journalist, fitness freak and world record holder for the number of kicks to the groin. An unforgettable story of faith, forgiveness, friendship and differing cultures.
Matthew Cobb, Professor of Zoology at the University of Manchester, interweaves science, biography and anecdote to tell the story of the discovery and cracking of the genetic code, a scientific breakthrough that transformed the way we think about life. Hear about theoretical deadends and ingenious experiments; cooperation and competition among some of the twentieth century’s most outstanding (and eccentric) minds and the part played by computing and cybernetics.
Robert Antoni
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Caryl Phillips
105. Clarke Foley Centre 7.30–8.30pm £7/5
Renaissance One Presents
Caryl Phillips and Robert Antoni: Readings and In Conversation
Caryl Phillips’ new novel, The Lost Child, is a story of orphans and outcasts inspired by Wuthering Heights. Born in St Kitts, he grew up in Leeds and teaches at Yale University. Equal parts Trinidadian, Bahamian, and US citizen, Robert Antoni is the author of five books and a recipient of the OCM Bocas Prize. His new book, As Flies To Whatless Boys, is a richly comic historical novel. Event part of a Tour produced by www.renaissanceone.co.uk
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SATURDAY 10 OCTOBER 7.30PM
109. Church House 7.30–8.30pm FREE
Word Blend: Ilkley Young Writers Group
106. Ilkley Playhouse Wildman 7.30–8.30pm £6/4
Designing Tomorrow’s World Today: John Thackara
The Festival’s own Ilkley Young Writers Group, all aged 12–18, with another exciting performance of their award winning poetry and prose.
Shaping the Future
John Thackara, writer, educator, producer, speaker and connector in the worlds of design and transition, has spent a lifetime roving the globe in search of design that serves human needs sustainably. Drawing on inspiring examples, from a temple-led water management system in Bali to an innovative e-bike collective in Vienna, Thackara argues that below the radar of mainstream media, global communities are creating a replacement economy from the ground up. Sponsored by Leeds College of Art.
9PM 110. Ilkley Playhouse Wildman 9–10pm FREE
Common Ground FRINGE EVENT
Les Murray
108. St Margaret’s Hall 7.30–8.30pm £5/3
Waiting for the Past: Les Murray 107. Ilkley Playhouse Wharfeside 7.30–8.30pm £5/3
The Unknown Becomes Known: Annapurna Indian Dance Company with Ian Clayton Hidden Voices from the Front Line
Annapurna Indian Dancers pay homage to the Indian servicemen of WWI. India, which in 1914 included Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Bhutan and Nepal, sent 1,105,000 personnel to support the British Empire. 74,000 troops sacrificed their lives. The evening reveals this shared history which touches on race, religion, empire and culture, with strong bearings on the present. Narrated by writer and broadcaster Ian Clayton.
Writing across Continents Born in 1938 on a dairy farm in New South Wales, Les Murray is Australia’s leading poet and one of the greatest contemporary poets writing in English. Winner of numerous awards, including the T.S. Eliot Prize and The Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry, his work resonates with reverence for the land and landscape and his belief in the Bush and Bush values. On a rare visit to England he reads from his new collection, Waiting for the Past, a Poetry Book Society Choice.
Supported by Heritage Lottery. Annapurna Indian Dance Company
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Poet Marilyn Longstaff and singersongwriter Pete Ryder met at Darlington Salvation Army Citadel and they have been friends for half a century. Common Ground interweaves songs and poems from their quaint upbringing – honest, moving, and funny; they take you into another time, another world. Neither of them is in the Salvation Army today.
9.30PM 111. Ilkley Playhouse Wharfeside 9.30–10.30pm FREE
The First Telling FRINGE EVENT
Local poet Mandy Sutter and Chester poet Gill McEvoy read from their 2015 collections Old Blue Car and The First Telling. They also invite poets and poetry fans to the stage to read one of their own poems or a poem by someone else that has inspired them. Or simply come and listen!
2–18 OCTOBER 2015
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SUNDAY 11 OCTOBER 11AM
116. Craiglands Hotel 2–3pm £6/4
112. Manor House Education Room 11am–1pm £15/10
The Lives of Guy Burgess: Andrew Lownie
Stephen Kelman Masterclass
Guy Burgess, immortalised in Julian Mitchell’s Another Country is the most complex and enigmatic of the Cambridge Spies. His friends included Lucian Freud, W.H. Auden and Christopher Isherwood and although regarded as unreliable, he penetrated the BBC, Foreign Office and MI6. Andrew Lownie, who has written for The Times, Spectator and the Guardian, draws on thirty years of research to chart Burgess’ life from naval cadet to exile.
A masterclass with Stephen Kelman whose first novel, Pigeon English, was shortlisted for the 2011 Man Booker Prize for Fiction and the Guardian First Book Award and translated into 25 languages. Kelman has also written several screenplays for feature films. For all levels. Please book in advance.
113. Rombalds Hotel 11am–1pm £15/10
Michael Arditti Masterclass
Two hours of handy tips and practical exercises aimed as much at those who have never had the confidence to practise their writing skills as at those who are already well on the fictional way. For all levels. Please book in advance.
2PM
114. Otley Courthouse 2–6pm £5 Age 12–18
115. Kings Hall 2–3pm £14/12
Vince Cable – After the Storm Shaping the Future
Sir Vince Cable, Liberal Democrat and former Coalition Business Secretary, made a name for himself as the nation’s ‘best loved politician’, described by Simon Jenkins as ‘the only British politician to emerge from the credit crunch a star’. Now unfettered by the restraints of Government, he talks about what really went on in the Coalition, what happens next and how the British economy should be managed over the next decade. Presented in association with Clive Conway Productions Ltd. Sponsored by Manse Capital.
WordsFest
An afternoon of inspiring workshops for young people who enjoy creative writing, including sessions on blogging with Zoella’s writing coach, plotting your page-turner and song-writing, plus a headline event with young people’s author Teresa Flavin. See page 57 for full details. Sponsored by Ilkley Book Group.
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117. Clarke Foley Centre 2–3pm £5/3
The News from Waterloo: Brian Cathcart After Waterloo: the Brontës and their World
As Europe marks 200 years since Wellington’s triumph at Waterloo, Brian Cathcart charts the three days it took the news to travel from the blood-soaked battlefield of Waterloo to the decorous dining rooms of Regency London. Professor of Journalism at Kingston University, Cathcart is a founder of the ‘Hacked Off’ campaign. He has previously been deputy editor of the Independent on Sunday and assistant editor of the New Statesman.
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SUNDAY 11 OCTOBER 2PM
120. Rombalds Hotel 2–3pm £5/3
Writing from Latvia: Kārlis Vērdiņš
Writing across Continents Latvian writer Kārlis Vērdiņš reads his poetry. Born in Riga, Vērdiņš is an author, an academic – with books on prose, poetry and essays on Latvian and foreign literature – librettist, lyricist and prolific literary critic. He has published several volumes of poetry including Cottage Cheese with Sour Cream and his latest, Pieaugušie (Adults); and translated work by T. S. Eliot and Walt Whitman.
118. Ilkley Playhouse Wildman 2–3pm £6/4
Francis Bacon – Anatomy of an Enigma: Michael Peppiatt
Artist Francis Bacon was notoriously secretive about his personal life. But since his death, secrecy has been blown apart by memoirs, lawsuits, scandals and analysis of the ‘compost that blanketed Bacon’s studio floor’. His friend and art historian, Dr Michael Peppiatt, unpacks the enigma that was Francis Bacon from the nightclubs of pre-war Berlin to the streets of Soho.
119. Ilkley Playhouse Wharfeside 2–2.45pm £6/4 Age 9–12
Steve Cole
Meet Steve Cole – the lively, bestselling, non-stop author of Astrosaurs, Cows In Action, The Slime Squad, Z-Raptor and many other books including several original Doctor Who stories!
3PM 123. St Margaret’s Hall 3–4pm £5/3
Villa America: Jami Attenberg and Liza Klaussmann
Writing across Continents
Acclaimed bestselling author of The Middlesteins, Jami Attenberg’s new novel Saint Mazie, a BBC R4 Book at Bedtime, honours the extraordinary life of Mazie Adams, big-hearted owner of The Venice movie theatre in New York who gave shelter to the homeless during the Great Depression. In association with Literature Across Frontiers. Attenberg discusses her original approach to writing historical fiction, weaving together diaries, writings and interviews, with Liza Klaussmann, bestselling author of Tigers in Red 121. Manor House Education Room Weather. Klaussmann’s latest novel, 2–4pm £12/10 Villa America, sees Scott and Zelda Razwan Ul-Haq: Meditation Fitzgerald, Pablo Picasso, Cole and Linda Porter and Ernest Hemingway and Arabic Calligraphy Books and Reading – from the summering as guests of Gerald and Sara Murphy in their coastal oasis.
Romans to the Digital Age
Using traditional Arabic calligraphy materials we will be exploring meditation and calligraphic art. Artist and author Razwan Ul-Haq will be gently guiding participants to make use of breath control as they explore the line and plasticity of Arabic script. Knowledge of the Arabic script is not necessary. For all levels. Please book in advance.
122. Meet outside Rombalds Hotel 2–4pm £7 includes tea and scones at Rombalds Hotel afterwards
Ilkley at the Time of WWI Walk: 1915 Join knowledgeable local historian Alex Cockshott for a guided walk round Ilkley as it was in 1915. She’ll be highlighting the railway station at war and the home front activities of local women. Sponsored by Rombalds Hotel.
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3.30PM 124. Ilkley Playhouse Wharfeside 3.30–4.30pm £5/3
‘A plain, uninteresting youth’ – The Beginnings of J.M.W. Turner: Matthew Plampin
Art historian Matthew Plampin’s latest novel, Will & Tom, set over a week at nearby Harewood House, offers a profound glimpse into the early life of Turner, his humble origins, fervent work ethic and rivalry with now obscure artist Tom Girtin. In this talk, Plampin explores the emergence of this awkward, secretive, irritable young man as one of the great figures of British art.
2–18 OCTOBER 2015
@ilkleylitfest
SUNDAY 11 OCTOBER 4PM
4.30PM
4.45PM
125. Craiglands Hotel 4–5pm £6/4
129. St Margaret’s Hall 4.45–5.45pm £5/3
Gary Bell QC – one of Britain’s leading lawyers, presenter of BBC’s The Legalizer – appears to be a pillar of the Establishment, but he grew up in a Nottinghamshire pit village, left school without qualifications and was a notorious football hooligan. Going to university as a mature student he’s now an award winning stand-up comic, Beverly Hills lawyer and among the country’s top defence barristers. He comes to Ilkley to tell his funny, moving, life-affirming story.
Writing across Continents
Animal QC – My Preposterous Life: Gary Bell
126. Ilkley Playhouse Wildman 4–5pm £5/3
Widows and Orphans: Michael Arditti
Michael Arditti, described by the Spectator as ‘a Graham Greene for our time’, reads from and discusses his highly acclaimed new novel, Widows and Orphans. This portrait of life in a small seaside town was hailed by Helen Dunmore in the Guardian as ‘brilliantly revealing… powerfully realistic. An uncomfortable but very readable novel about the careless greeds of the way we live now’.
Bilbao-Ilkley-Seville: Kirmen Uribe and Jesús Carrasco
128. Kings Hall 4.30–5.30pm £10/8 Please check our website for details of this event which is awaiting confirmation
Paul Mason
Shaping the Future Award winning Economics Editor at Channel 4 News, Paul Mason, asks has capitalism reached its limit? Is it changing into something new? Information technology means people are discovering new ways of doing business, from parallel currencies and time banks, to cooperatives and self-managed online spaces – all contrary to the current system of corporate capitalism. Is this our chance to create a more socially just and sustainable global economy?
Kirmen Uribe is one of the leading Spanish writers of his generation. He writes in Basque and lives in Bilbao. His first novel, Bilbao-New York-Bilbao, won the Spanish National Prize for Literature in 2009 and has been translated into fifteen languages. Praised for combining innovation and tradition with a an intense and powerful style, Jesús Carrasco’s first novel, Out In The Open, was declared Book of the Year by booksellers in Madrid and has been published worldwide. In association with Literature Across Frontiers.
5PM 130. Rombalds Hotel 5–6pm £5/3
Pitching to an Agent
Highly regarded London literary agent Andrew Lownie of the Andrew Lownie Literary Agency offers tips and advice on how to pitch your nonfiction (and fiction) work to a literary agent.
5.15PM
127. Clarke Foley Centre 4–5pm £5 includes tea and cake
131. Ilkley Playhouse Wharfeside 5.15–6.15pm £6/4
Rory Motion: Cryptic Crosswords
The History of Egypt: Joann Fletcher
Enjoy tea and cake as poet and performer Rory Motion introduces you to the secrets of how to understand – and successfully tackle – cryptic crosswords.
Professor Joann Fletcher, presenter of BBC2’s Life and Death in the Valley of the Kings and Honorary Research Fellow at the University of York, brings the history and people of ancient Egypt alive – from Ramesses II’s penchant for dying his grey hair, to how we know Mentuhotep’s chief wife bit her nails. Today she reveals how women became pharaohs and how the ancient Egyptians built the first Suez Canal.
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SUNDAY 11 OCTOBER 6PM
7.30PM
8PM
132. Craiglands Hotel 6–7pm £6/4
136. Ilkley Playhouse Wildman 8–9pm £6/4
The Health Gap: Michael Marmot
Working Lives: David Hall Untold Stories
Shaping the Future Sir Michael Marmot is one of the world’s leading doctors and public intellectuals. Drawing on forty years’ experience and evidence, from the United States to India, he argues that social injustice is the greatest killer in the world – people live shorter lives than they could or should. This afternoon he reframes everything you thought you knew about health, and challenges the way we live our lives.
6.30PM 133. Ilkley Playhouse Wildman 6.30–7.15pm £6/4
Rory Motion
An Evening of Comedy One of the most popular and innovative performers on the national circuit, Rory Motion has charmed audiences from Mozambique to Glastonbury with his deceptive laid-back style, keen intelligence and quirky wit. Poet, singer-songwriter, comedian, tree impressionist and a regular contributor to national radio – he has appeared on Booked, the BBC R4 literature panel game with Roger McGough and Miles Kington, and written and presented his own programmes on Radios 4 and 5.
134. Kings Hall 7.30–9pm £15/12
Jay Rayner: My Dining Hell If award-winning food critic Jay Rayner has learnt one thing, it’s that readers love reviews of bad restaurants. My Dining Hell is Rayner’s exploration of our love affair with reading about bad food, terrible service and dubious establishments. Hear him discuss some of his most excruciating nights out – and some of the worst reviews his own writing has inspired over the years. Please note this is an event in two parts with an interval.
Early 1950s Britain: the most industrialized nation in the world. For millions of men and women smokeblackened factories and towering slag heaps dominated their lives. David Hall bestselling writer of nonfiction and a highly successful TV producer (Yorkshire Television, BBC, Channel 4 and the History Channel) reflects on Working Lives – a unique collection of oral testimonies from workers whose stories might not otherwise be told. From mill girls who risked life and limb in noisy weaving sheds to steel workers wrestling sheets of white-hot metal and miners who hewed coal by hand on filthy coalfaces.
Sponsored by Friends of Ham.
135. St Margaret’s Hall 7.30–8.30pm £5/3
Rosemary Hill on Angela Carter
Despite being one of the most influential and best-loved of the post-war English writers, Angela Carter remains little-known as a poet. In Unicorn, the critic and historian Rosemary Hill collects together Carter’s published verse from 1963– 1971, a period in which she began to explore the themes that dominated her later work. The collection and its accompanying essays provide compelling insight into the formation of a remarkable imagination. Rory Motion
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Helen Lederer
137. Craiglands Hotel 8–9pm £6/4
Losing It: Helen Lederer An Evening of Comedy
Dubbed “the funniest woman in England” by Dawn French, writer, TV performer and actor Helen Lederer has been at the vanguard of the British comedy scene for decades. Tonight she talks about Losing It, her new novel about “desperation, denial, debt and chaos” in the life of a magazine agony aunt who agrees to lose weight for a diet pill company. The struggle to achieve perfection has rarely been as hilariously explored.
2–18 OCTOBER 2015
#ilf15
MONDAY 12 OCTOBER 1.30PM
142. Ilkley Playhouse Wharfeside 7.30–8.30pm £6/4
138. Kings Hall 1.30–2.30pm £4
Publick Transport: We Are Brontë
Steve Cole
After Waterloo: the Brontës and their World
Special event for Y5/6 school groups only. Call 01943 601210 to book.
4PM
Mark Thomas © Steve Ullathorne
139. Kings Hall Winter Gardens 4–5pm FREE with tea and biscuits but please book places in advance Tel: 01943 816714
Steve Cole: for Teachers and Librarians
Teachers and librarians are warmly invited to come and hear Steve Cole as he discusses children, literature and reading in this special event.
7.30PM
234. Ilkley Playhouse Wildman 7.30pm £6/4
The Science of Everyday Life: Marty Jopson
Have you ever wondered why ice floats and water is such a freaky liquid? Or why chillies and mustard are both hot but in different ways? Or why microwaves don’t cook from the inside out? In this fascinating scientific tour of household objects, The One Show presenter and all-round Science Bloke Marty Jopson has the answer to all of these, and many more, baffling questions about the chemistry and physics of the everyday stuff we use every day.
Unmissable, comic visual theatre, inspired by the real (and imaginary) worlds of Yorkshire’s literary siblings. Physical theatre collides with clowning and improvisation as two performers deconstruct not only gothic themes of love, madness, repression and death, but also themselves. Part play, part enquiry into the act of putting on a play, this promises to be no ordinary Brontë adaptation. ‘pure genius…a brilliant bonkers show’ Bristol Culture on Discombobulated
141. Kings Hall 7.30–8.45pm £14/12
Lakin McCarthy presents
Mark Thomas: 100 Acts of Minor Dissent – the book
Comedian Mark Thomas is well versed in the art of creative mayhem. Over the years his troublemaking has changed laws, cost companies millions and annoyed those who most deserved to be. In 2014, Mark set himself the task of committing 100 Acts of Minor Dissent in twelve months, cataloging everything from the smallest and silliest gesture to the grandest confrontations. The results are subversive, hilarious, mainly legal and occasionally inspiring. In this event – part book reading, part stand up – Mark celebrates the year’s activity.
Publick Transport in We Are Brontë
9PM 143. Ilkley Playhouse Wildman 9–10pm FREE
Yorkshire’s Forgotten Chekhov FRINGE EVENT
This event celebrates the work of Malachi Whitaker, a short story writer who leapt to fame in the 1920s. Time Out travel journalist and editor Valerie Waterhouse asks why is this former Yorkshire resident so thoroughly overlooked?
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TUESDAY 13 OCTOBER 6PM
147. Ilkley Playhouse Wildman 7.30–8.30pm £5/3
144. Brotherton Library, University of Leeds LS2 9JT 6–7pm £5 please book in advance
Jane Smiley: In Conversation
Writing across Continents
Treasures of the Brotherton Collection – Festival Private View
Renowned American author, Jane Smiley is a recipient of the PEN USA Lifetime Achievement Award for Literature and the author of numerous novels, including the Pulitzer Prize winning A Thousand Acres. She comes to Ilkley to discuss Golden Age, the final work in her dazzling trilogy of novels, set in a changing America between the 1980s and 2020.
Books and Reading – from the Romans to the Digital Age Repeat of Event 61.
7.30PM 145. Clarke Foley Centre 7.30–8.30pm £5/3
Headscarf Revolutionaries: Brian Lavery Untold Stories
Brian W. Lavery talks about his book, The Headscarf Revolutionaries, the story of the 1968 Hull Triple Trawler Disaster and the incredible fishwives’ uprising that came in its wake, led by Mrs Lillian Bilocca. Dubbed “Big Lil” by the Press, the battling fishwife became an international celebrity. The tragedy’s lone survivor made worldwide headlines too – both found out the cost of their ‘15 minutes of fame’.
146. Kings Hall 7.30–9pm £14/12
Professor Robert Winston: Modifying Humans – Where Does Genetics Stop? Shaping the Future
Researcher, doctor, writer and broadcaster, Lord Robert Winston is Britain’s best-known reproductive health expert and Professor of Science and Society and Emeritus Professor of Fertility Studies at Imperial College London. Tonight he asks does the sequencing of the human genome herald a new opportunity for medicine or is there a darker side that we ignore? Will ethical considerations prevent us from the next step – manufacturing stronger, more gifted and very intelligent children? Or will our imperfect knowledge of how our abilities are inherited mean there are some major surprises in store?
Jane Smiley © Derek Shapton
148. Ilkley Playhouse Wharfeside 7.30–8.30pm £5/3
Winning Friends and Influencing People – A History of the Self Help Book: Malcolm Chase
Books and Reading – from the Romans to the Digital Age Our appetite for self-improvement books seems endless. The greatest of them all, Samuel Smiles’ Self-Help (1859), actually originated in Leeds. Yet it was not the first, nor was it the most popular among Victorian readers. From The Housewife’s Reason Why to modern classics like How to Stop Worrying and Start Living, here’s a fascinating history that tells us much about our ancestors, their aspirations and fears. In association with the University of Leeds.
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2–18 OCTOBER 2015
@ilkleylitfest
TUESDAY 13 OCTOBER
WEDNESDAY 14 OCTOBER
9PM
6.30PM
149. Ilkley Playhouse Wildman 9–10pm FREE
151. Ilkley Playhouse Wildman 6.30–7.15pm £4 Age 12+
Northern Not Wanted?
Half Bad: Sally Green
Don’t miss your chance to meet Sally Green, author of the hugely ‘But you’re not a London publisher!’ successful Half Bad – the fast paced said a broadsheet literary editor. supernatural thriller series set in a Does geography and class dictate modern England where witches and what is published? Come and listen humans warily coexist. Her books have to publishers Bluemoose Books and been translated in to over 50 different author Michael Stewart. Hear from languages worldwide and a Hollywood the Hebden Bridge independents, who film is already in the pipeline. ‘The new are fighting the good fight with award Hunger Games … brilliant and utterly winning books and a Hollywood film compelling’ Kate Atkinson. to boot!
150. Ilkley Playhouse Wharfeside 9–10pm FREE
Vane Women present: Blue Horse Untold Stories FRINGE EVENT
The Vane Women collective read from Joanna Boulter’s Blue Horse; a modernist masterpiece. These poems demand to be heard, but Joanna has Alzheimer’s and can no longer perform her own work. Here, her fellow poets and friends give these poems a voice.
7.30PM 152. Clarke Foley Centre 7.30–8.30pm £6/4
One Man and the Battle for Rio: Misha Glenny Misha Glenny is a former BBC Central Europe correspondent. His books include McMafia, the award winning The Rebirth of History and The Fall of Yugoslavia. His latest unflinching investigative work, Nemesis: One Man and the Battle for Rio, is the true story of an ordinary man who became the drug cartel king of the largest favela in the city, and Brazil’s most wanted criminal.
153. Ilkley Playhouse Wharfeside 7.30–8.30pm £6/4
The Silk Roads: Peter Frankopan
An extraordinary retelling of world history from the Eastern perspective. Peter Frankopan, Senior Research Fellow at Worcester College, Oxford, and Director of the Centre for Byzantine Research at Oxford University, charts the rise and fall of empires and the forces that have driven the flow of ideas and goods across the world for over a thousand years.
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Ian McMillan © Adrian Mealing
FRINGE EVENT
154. Kings Hall 7.30–8.30pm £12/10
Ian McMillan: In Search of the Meaning of Yorkshire
With his father born in Scotland, poet Ian McMillan is worried: is he Yorkshire enough? Join a living legend as he discusses his new book, Neither Nowt Nor Summat: In search of the meaning of Yorkshire. Few are better qualified to define the essence of this diverse and sprawling county with as much wit, humour and poetry as The Bard of Barnsley himself.
155. Outside the Box 7.30–9pm FREE
Listening to Poetry with Beverley Nadin
Join Apprentice Poet in Residence, Beverley Nadin in the relaxed surroundings of Outside the Box, to listen to recordings of well known poets reading their work. We’ll be dimming the lights and letting you soak up the atmosphere.
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WEDNESDAY 14 OCTOBER
THURSDAY 15 OCTOBER
7.30PM
2PM
7.30PM
156. Bettys Café Tea Room 7.30–10pm £35 includes a twocourse set meal and tea/coffee Tickets from Bettys Café Tea Rooms Ilkley 01943 608029
159. Clarke Foley Centre 7.30–8.30pm £5/3
In the Footsteps of Odysseus: Harry Mount
Neil Hanson: Pigs Might Fly
7.45PM 157. Ilkley Playhouse Wildman 7.45–8.45pm £5/3
Common Ground: Rob Cowen
Award winning journalist and writer Rob Cowen, author of regular columns on nature and travel for the Independent and Telegraph, is ‘one of the UK’s most exciting nature writers’. He shares his powerful evocation of how, over the course of one year, he discovered a common square mile of wood, meadow, hedge and river and its edge-land inhabitants: a fox, tawny owl, hare, badger and roe deer. Blurring the boundaries of memoir, natural history and novel, he reveals an enthralling new way of writing about nature.
Ranulph Fiennes © Graham Trott
Enjoy a delicious Bettys’ two-course Yorkshire supper before being entertained by ‘The James Herriot of pubs’ as Neil Hanson, author of the bestselling The Inn at the Top, shares more tales of Britain’s highest inn, deep in the Yorkshire Dales. The rich cast of characters includes eccentric farmers, a theatrical pet pig, a spiky punk barmaid, two wandering Australians, legendary fell walker Alfred Wainwright, and national treasure Ted Moult.
Harry Mount is a regular writer for the Spectator, The Daily Telegraph and The Daily Mail. Inspired by the heroes, locations and tales of the Odyssey, he talks about his latest book, Ancient Greece in the Footsteps of Odysseus – an entertaining combination of memoir, travelogue and meditation on this great civilisation.
158. Kings Hall 2–3pm £14/12
Ranulph Fiennes: Heat
The world’s greatest living explorer, Ranulph Fiennes, has travelled to some of the most remote and dangerous parts of the globe, raised over £14m for charity and become the oldest Briton to reach the summit of Everest. Well known for his experiences at the poles, he has now completed the Marathon des Sables – a six day race through the Sahara desert – enduring some of the hottest conditions on the planet. Sponsored by Investec.
Sponsored by Wild Goose.
Blake Morrison © Getty Images
160. Ilkley Playhouse Wildman 7.30–8.30pm £6/4
Shingle Street: Blake Morrison
Blake Morrison reads from his new poetry collection Shingle Street. Set along the Suffolk coast, the poems address a receding world – via landscape, portraits of people from the past and works that explore political issues. Born in Skipton, Morrison’s work spans memoir, poetry and journalism. Professor of Creative Writing at Goldsmiths, his much lauded book, And When Did you Last See your Father? was adapted for film. This Event begins with the results of the 2015 Festival Poetry Competition. Competition sponsored by Leeds Trinity University.
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2–18 OCTOBER 2015
#ilf15
THURSDAY 15 OCTOBER 7.30PM
FRIDAY 16 OCTOBER 162. Ilkley Playhouse Wharfeside 7.30–9.30pm £10/8
The Gift of Stones by Jim Crace: North Country Theatre
161. Kings Hall 7.30–9.15pm £16/14
Peter and Dan Snow: The Battle of Waterloo
Popular broadcasters, father and son duo, Peter and Dan Snow present an illustrated talk drawn from their new book The Battle of Waterloo Experience. The historic clash between military giants Napoleon and Wellington on 18 June 1815 changed the course of history. Here it’s discussed by two of the best contemporary military historians. Each an acclaimed author in their own right, they’ve previously collaborated on Battlefield Britain: from Boudicca to the Battle of Britain and 20th Century Battlefields. This event is in two halves with an interval. Presented in association with Clive Conway Productions Ltd. Sponsored by Yorkshire Cruise Club.
Jim Crace’s award winning historical novel is brought to the stage by firm Festival favourites North Country Theatre, whose previous brilliant adaptations have ranged from the hilarious 39 Steps to the deeply moving A Month in the Country. The village of flint knappers is safe, self-satisfied, and inward looking but a stray arrow, an amputation, and a wild woman from the salt sea marshes bring murder, mystery and cataclysmic change. Please note this is an event in two parts with an interval.
9PM 163. Ilkley Playhouse Wildman 9–10pm FREE
Elsewhere
FRINGE EVENT Inspired by the past, the future, foreign lands and other elsewheres. Enjoy an intimate, amusing and moving poetry reading from three strikingly different poets; each writing about the notion of ‘elsewhere’. Together Joanna Sedgwick, Rachel Kerr and Mark Connors promise an entertaining and thought provoking evening.
4PM 164. School of English, University of Leeds LS2 9JT 4–5pm £5 please book in advance
Experience Historical Printing at the University of Leeds
Books and Reading – from the Romans to the Digital Age The School of English at the University of Leeds has a historic print room with equipment dating back to the nineteenth century. Come and see how type was set, pages printed, and books were bound in the past. And hear why such techniques continue to be relevant today, both in the university and beyond.
7.30PM 165. Ilkley Playhouse Wharfeside 7.30–8.30pm £6/4
West Yorkshire Playhouse and LittleMighty present
Blake Remixed by Testament
World record-holding beatboxer and acclaimed rapper Testament, mixes together UK hip-hop and the iconic poetry of William Blake. Celebrating one of the great counter-cultural voices in British literary history, Blake Remixed (made in collaboration with DJ Woody, Scratch DJ World Champion) fuses music, storytelling and interactive video to create an original and exciting piece of theatre. Testament has worked with artists including Kate Tempest and Corinne Bailey Rae.
Testament in Blake Remixed
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FRIDAY 16 OCTOBER 7.30PM
168. St Margaret’s Hall 7.30–9.30pm £5/3 includes a glass of wine
New Writing Showcase Dom Joly © Rich Hardcastle
166. Kings Hall 7.30–8.30pm £14/12
Dom Joly
Following his spoof memoir (Look At ME, Look At ME!) Dom Joly’s actual memoir Here Comes The Clown: A Stumble Through Show Business takes up the story from the day the first episode of his anarchic hidden camera TV show, Trigger Happy TV, aired in 2000 and he became unexpectedly famous overnight. Joly’s real adventures in show business are no less hilarious and socially embarrassing than his infamous stunts and sketches.
167. Ilkley Playhouse Wildman 7.30–8.30pm £5/3
The Planet Remade: Oliver Morton Shaping the Future
Oliver Morton, author of The Planet Remade, examines the history of climate change and the science and politics that underpin it, offering a new – and controversial – response: geoengineering. From a stratospheric veil against the sun through to a fleet of unmanned ships seeding clouds, Morton unpicks the moral implications of human intervention in the biosphere and analyses whether geoengineering can change the world.
A showcase highlighting some of the best new poetry in the region. Chijioke Ojukwu won ILF’s Words in the City 2015 Poetry Slam with an utterly compelling performance. Beverley Nadin, the Festival’s Apprentice Poet in Residence’s poem Bees was commended in the National Poetry Competition 2014. Her poems have appeared in PN Review, The Rialto, Magma, and Stand. Lola Haskins’ newest poetry collection, How Small, Confronting Morning, is scheduled for spring 2016. Her poems have appeared in The London Review of Books, Stand, Outposts, London Magazine and the Atlantic. Javaad Alipoor, artistic director of Northern Lines, is a writer, spoken word performer and theatre maker. Eleanor Rees and Sarah Corbett are published by Liverpool University’s Pavilion Poetry. Rees’ new collection is Blood Child. Her Andraste’s Hair was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection. Corbett’s fourth book, And She Was is an experimental riff on the idea of the novel-in-verse. Her collection The Red Wardrobe was shortlisted for Forward Best First Collection and the T. S. Eliot prize. This event is in two halves with an interval.
Eleanor Rees
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169. Otley Courthouse 7.30–9.30pm £4 audience members FREE for performers
Cool Voices Club Night
Come and see talented young writers, poets, songwriters and performers aged 12–18 take to the stage to perform their own work! Plus the winners of the Young People’s Writing Competitions. If you’re aged 12–18 and would like to perform, put your name down by contacting: info@ ilkleyliteraturefestival.org.uk Details of how to enter the Young People’s Writing Competitions from: www.ilkleyliteraturefestival.org.uk Competition prizes kindly provided by Ilkley Book Club.
9PM 170. Ilkley Playhouse Wildman 9–10pm FREE
Something in the Aire FRINGE EVENT
Meet the Ackroyds, five generations of one family in a novel depicting Bradford’s rise from Victorian squalor to industrial might, told in story and song by author Stuart Campbell and balladeer Eddie Lawler. Come and share this family’s joys and disappointments, loves and losses, during the wool city’s turbulent growth.
2–18 OCTOBER 2015
@ilkleylitfest
SATURDAY 17 OCTOBER 10.30AM
11AM
171. Manor House Education Room 173. St Margaret’s Hall 10.30am–12.30pm £15/10 11am–1pm £15/10
Writing Poems with Peter Sansom Masterclass
A chance to work with ‘the most astute and effective writing tutor in the UK’ (as Simon Armitage says). Drawing on classic poems, this hugely enjoyable writing session is for new and more experienced poets. Writer in Residence with Marks & Spencer, and formerly Fellow in Poetry at Leeds and Manchester universities, Peter Sansom is co-director of The Poetry Business with Ann Sansom. Books include Writing Poems and the brand new Careful What You Wish For. All levels. Please book in advance.
172. Church House 10.30am–4.30pm £5 Age 12–18
Breaking News: Make a Newspaper in a Day
Become a real-life journalist for a day! Interview famous Festival authors and work with a journalist to create a special edition Festival newspaper. Bring packed lunch. Please book in advance.
Spouting, Squealing and Spilling the Beans – Creating Expressive Characters for Fiction: Helen Cross Workshop
175. Manor House Education Room 1.30–3.30pm £15/10
Fiction Masterclass – Make it Memorable: Leone Ross
What makes a piece of prose stand out? Using key tools and tips, Leone Ross challenges you to look at the detail of your work – the senses, the adjectives, the verbs and nouns – to tease out more original and memorable phrases and imagery.
How do you make your characters walk the walk and talk the talk? Helen Cross will guide you in creating complex, memorable and story-supple characters for all kinds of stories from 1.45PM novels to radio and screenplays. Next, she’ll show you ways of giving these characters bold, brilliant, believable voices. By the end of the session you will create taut, subtle dialogue alive with subtext that can effectively reveal your characters and power your stories forward. All levels. Please book in advance.
1.30PM 174. Ilkley Playhouse Wildman 1.30–2.30pm £5/3
Regency Britain in the Year of Waterloo: Stephen Bates After Waterloo: the Brontës and their World
A kaleidoscopic picture of British society in the year of the Battle of Waterloo. Stephen Bates evokes the sights, sounds and smells of a momentous twelve months, interweaving first-hand accounts of personal experience with the major trends and events of the Regency world – a world into which the Brontës were born. Bates is an award winning journalist writing for the Daily Telegraph, Daily Mail and The Guardian.
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176. Ilkley Playhouse Wharfeside 1.45–2.45pm £5/3
Edward Thomas – From Adlestrop to Arras: Jean Moorcroft Wilson Hidden Voices from the Front Line
Eminent literary biographer, Jean Moorcroft Wilson, lecturer at Birkbeck College and a leading expert on First World War Literature, explores the life of the poet Edward Thomasr. Ted Hughes described Thomas as ‘the father of us all’, and yet his work wasn’t published until after his death in 1917. Moorcroft Wilson is also the author of biographies of Siegfried Sassoon and Isaac Rosenberg.
ilkleyliteraturefestival.org.uk
01943 816714
SATURDAY 17 OCTOBER 2PM
3PM
3.15PM
177. Rombalds Hotel 2–3pm FREE
179. The Priory Church of St Mary and St Cuthbert, Bolton Abbey BD23 6AL 3–4pm £6/4 includes car parking
180. Ilkley Playhouse Wildman 3.15–4.15pm £6/4
Tackling Literacy through Stories: Aamir Darr
An event for parents, teachers and all those interested in children and reading. Educationalist and bookseller Aamir Darr is tackling low literacy levels through the power of children’s books. Come and hear him describe his unique project, Kahani, and some of the books he believes can make a difference to children’s lives.
2.30PM
Christmas Carols from Village Green to Church Choir: Andrew Gant
John Godber, Helen Cross, Peter Sansom
A brilliantly entertaining afternoon of readings and conversation with a trio of acclaimed writers – playwright, novelist and poet – as they talk about In the beautiful surroundings of the their relationship with the North. Priory Church, composer, lecturer in music at Oxford and former organist, John Godber is the third most performed playwright in the UK (after choirmaster and composer at Her Shakespeare and Ayckbourn). Plays Majesty’s Chapel Royal, Andrew such as Bouncers, Teechers, Up ‘n’ Gant unravels a captivating and Under, and a new black comedy, scholarly tale of the origins of some Shafted! have won him a Laurence of our favourite carols, with musical Olivier Award and seven Los Angeles illustrations. It’s a story of musicians, saints, pagans, shepherd boys, monks Circle Awards. Helen Cross’ novel, and drunks – and how Ralph Vaughan My Summer of Love, won the Betty Williams bolted the tune of an English Trask Award and became a BAFTA winning film starring Emily Blunt. She folk song about a dead ox to a poem has just completed her fourth novel by a 19th century American pilgrim. Free parking at the main Bolton Abbey and is working on a film adaptation of Spilt Milk, Black Coffee. Peter car park on production of ticket for Sansom’s acclaimed books include the this event. brilliant, brand new Careful What You Refreshments available (donations). Wish For. Peter has been company In association with The Priory Church of St poet with Marks & Spencer and is Mary and St Cuthbert. co-director, with Ann Sansom, of The Poetry Business in Sheffield.
3.30PM Petina Gappah © Okwenje Bathsheba
181. Ilkley Playhouse Wharfeside 3.30–4.30pm £6/4
178. St Margaret’s Hall 2.30–3.30pm £5/3
The Last Summer of the Water Strider: Tim Lott
The Book of Memory: Petina Gappah
Writer, journalist and popular Guardian columnist Tim Lott’s White City Blue, won the Whitbread First Novel Award. The Scent of Dried Roses, a moving account of his mother’s depression, won the J. R. Ackerley Prize. Today he reflects on The Last Summer of the Water Strider, his latest captivating 1970s-set novel, a coming-of-age and end-of-an-age story about love, the lure of idealism, innocence and decadence.
Writing across Continents Zimbabwean born writer Petina Gappah won the Guardian First Book Award for her short story collection An Elegy for Easterly. Today she talks about her debut novel The Book of Memory, the mesmerising story of an albino woman languishing in a maximum security prison in Harare, Zimbabwe, where she has been convicted for the murder of Lloyd Hendricks, her adopted father. But who was Hendricks and why does Memory feel no remorse?
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2–18 OCTOBER 2015
#ilf15
SATURDAY 17 OCTOBER 3.45PM
186. Ilkley Playhouse Wildman 5–6.15pm £5/3
182. Addingham Methodist Church LS29 0PZ 3.45–4.30pm FREE
Closure: Short Stories from Black British Writers
Addingham Vocal Days present: The American Art Song
Following a day exploring the songs of American composers, Addingham Vocal Days present an informal concert with songs/duets by Samuel Barber, Charles Ives, Aaron Copland, Leonard Bernstein and Ned Rorem – and an ensemble by Stephen Sondheim. For more information contact
[email protected] or 01943 831062.
4.30PM
184. Kings Hall 4.30–5.30pm £10/5 Age 7–adult
Julian Clary and David Roberts: Meet The Bolds
Much loved comedian, novelist and BBC R4 Just a Minute panellist, Julian Clary, and award winning illustrator David Roberts introduce The Bolds. Mr and Mrs Bold are just like you and me: they live in a nice house (in Teddington), have jobs (like writing Christmas cracker jokes) and love to have a bit of a giggle. One slight difference: they’re hyenas. A family event with hilarious readings, live-drawing and lots of laughter for all ages.
Closure is a new book of themed short stories from internationally renowned and new Black British writers. Four women, acclaimed novelist Leone Ross, last year’s SI Leeds Literary Prize winner Mahsuda Snaith and Inscribe supported writers, Nana-Essi CaselyHayford and Lynne Blackwood, will be reading their stories. Chaired by Closure editor, Jacob Ross. This event also launches the 2016 SI Leeds Literary Prize for unpublished fiction by Black and Asian women. In association with Inscribe and the SI Leeds Literary Prize.
Sponsored by The Grammar School at Leeds.
Leone Ross
5PM 183. St Margaret’s Hall 4.30–5.30pm £5/3
185. Rombalds Hotel 5–6pm £5/3
Peter Sutton, actor and playwright, reads from his new translation of William Langland’s seminal fourteenth century poem in a version which preserves the energy and alliteration of the original. Piers Plowman is a disturbing and humorous quest for how to lead a moral life, which remains astonishingly fresh and apposite today.
Acclaimed novelist Justin Cartwright’s previous work includes the Booker shortlisted In Every Face I Meet, and Whitbread Novel Award winner Leading the Cheers. This afternoon he introduces his latest his latest subtle, brilliant book Up Against the Night, about South Africa – its beautiful landscape, violent past and uncertain present.
Live Reading of William Langland’s Piers Plowman
Up Against the Night: Justin Cartwright
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ilkleyliteraturefestival.org.uk
01943 816714
SATURDAY 17 OCTOBER 6PM
7.45PM
187. St Margaret’s Hall 6–7pm FREE
190. Ilkley Playhouse Wharfeside 7.45–8.45pm £6/4
ILF and The Leeds Library: News of an Exciting Project
John Agard: Roll Over Atlantic
Dawn Cameron, the Festival’s Development Worker, introduces an innovative project the Festival has undertaken in collaboration with The Leeds Library, which has seen members of the Together for Peace organisation creating a very special book. In association with The Leeds Library.
John Agard © Paul Taylor
7.30PM 189. Ilkley Playhouse Wildman 7.30–8.30pm £5/3
Join Caribbean-British poet John Agard, winner of the Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry, in this quirky revisioning of the notorious New World Enterprise of Christopher Columbus. A voyage in verse, performed against an evocative soundscape of Atlantic murmurings, with Agard variously taking on the voices of Columbus, The Atlantic Ocean and a chorus of politically conscious mosquitoes. A one-man show that mixes the tides of cabaret and calypso with mischievous satirical wit.
191. Church House
The Lightless Sky – Escape 7.45–8.45pm FREE to a New Life in Britain: Ilkley Soroptimists: Gulwali Passarlay Sharing Stories, Untold Stories Changing Lives
The Leeds Library
188. Church House 6–6.50pm FREE Age 7+
Fantasy Plots and Fantastic Plays, with Daniel Ingram-Brown FRINGE EVENT
Meet author and playwright, Daniel Ingram-Brown and Apprentice Adventurers, Fletcher and Scoop. Hear about their exploits at Blotting’s Academy, the place where story characters are trained. Come and discover more about writing. Children must be accompanied at this event.
‘To risk my life had to mean something. Otherwise what was it all for?’ At the age of 12, Gulwali Passarlay fled the war that was destroying his home in Afghanistan. Travelling alone, mostly on foot, Gulwali was ejected from nine countries before somehow making it to Britain, where he was fostered, won a place at a top university and was chosen to carry the Olympic torch in 2012. Now 21, he’s determined to bring to life the plight of the thousands of men, women and children who risk their lives to leave behind the troubles of their homelands.
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FRINGE EVENT
“There’s nothing interesting about my life”... Challenges, opportunities, reflection, laughter and tears: everyone has a story worth telling. Get an insight into the lives of others through stories and conversation. Find out more at: www.everyvoicecounts.co.uk
2–18 OCTOBER 2015
@ilkleylitfest
SATURDAY 17 OCTOBER
SUNDAY 18 OCTOBER
8PM
11AM
2PM
194. Manor House Education Room 11am–1pm £15/10
Justin Cartwright Masterclass
Danny Dorling
192. St Margaret’s Hall 8–9pm £6/4
Inequality and the 1%: Danny Dorling Shaping the Future
Since the recession, the gap between the haves and the have-nots has turned into a chasm. But inequality is more than just economics. Being born outside the richest 1% has a dramatic impact on a person’s potential: reducing life expectancy, limiting educational and work prospects, and even affecting mental health. Leading social thinker Danny Dorling, Professor of Geography at Oxford University and former Professor of Geography at the University of Sheffield, lays bare the true cost of the division in our society and why we must urgently redress the balance. Sponsored by Big Issue In the North.
What are characters in fiction and how do we create them? Masterclass with novelist Justin Cartwright, for people who have written or started writing something, exploring pitfalls, mistakes and ways of making characters come alive. Intermediate. Please book In advance.
195. Rombalds Hotel 11am–1pm £15/10
Building Blocks of Narrative Fiction: Jacob Ross Masterclass
Jacob Ross examines the building blocks of narrative and shows you ways to produce strong, memorable stories as well as drawing on key story structures to develop your own writing. You’ll be offered fresh, productive ways of understanding both character and story development. Come prepared to discuss the challenges you encounter in your own writing. All levels. Please book in advance.
1PM 196. Ilkley Playhouse Wharfeside 1–2pm £6/4 Age 5+
9PM
A Thousand Cranes present
Me and My Cat?
Calling all Junior Detectives! Join Detective K as she sets off on an exciting and hilarious adventure, A Flower is not a Rat full of mysterious clues, golden rules FRINGE EVENT and strange events. Will she solve the Ruth Steinberg tells a weave of Jewish mystery in time? stories, using music, song, poetry, mime A fast paced, action packed story for all and clowning. Join her on a journey the family. Based on the book by award through the humour and wisdom of winning Japanese children’s author and jokes and ‘wise fool’ stories, to history, illustrator, Satoshi Kitamura. myth and her own story as a Jewish woman. Ruth will be accompanied by musician Terry Simpson.
193. Ilkley Playhouse Wildman 9–10pm FREE
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197. Kings Hall 2–3pm £14/12
Jonathan Dimbleby: The Battle of the Atlantic Join Jonathan Dimbleby as the writer and broadcaster discusses his latest book The Battle of the Atlantic. He tells the extraordinary story of the longest campaign of the Second World War, including the moves and maneuverings that led to allied victory. Dimbleby interweaves fascinating contemporary diaries and letters with a thrilling narrative that tells the epic story of the men and women who contributed to the final victory. Presented in association with Clive Conway Productions Ltd.
198 . Clarke Foley Centre 2–3pm £6/4
M.C. Beaton: In Conversation
The most borrowed UK adult author in libraries, M.C. Beaton has sold 15 million books worldwide and been called ‘the Queen of the village green mystery’. Best known for her Hamish Macbeth and Agatha Raisin novels, Beaton’s latest work includes Hamish Macbeth and the Death of a Liar and Agatha Raisin and the Blood of an Englishman. Sponsored by Hebridean Island Cruises.
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01943 816714
SUNDAY 18 OCTOBER 2PM
201. Meet outside the Manor House 3.30PM Museum 2–3.30pm £5
Roman Ilkley: Walk with Bronwen Riley and Alex Cockshott
Join Bronwen Riley, managing editor of guidebooks at English Heritage and author of A Journey to Britannia which traces a trip from Rome to Hadrian’s Wall in AD 130, and local historian Alex Cockshott. They’ll be taking you Claire Harman on a guided walk round the site of Ilkley’s Roman Fort (first established 203. Ilkley Playhouse Wharfeside around AD 80) and the nearby 3.30–4.30pm £6/4 Romano-British settlement. Charlotte Brontë – A Life: See also Event 209.
Claire Harman
After Waterloo: the Brontës and their World
3PM 199. Ilkley Playhouse Wildman 2–3pm £5/3
Weatherland – Writers and Artists under English Skies: Alexandra Harris
Across the centuries, from Chaucer to Ian McEwan, writers and artists looking up at the same skies have felt very different things. Alexandra Harris, lecturer in English at the University of Liverpool and winner of the Guardian First Book Award for Romantic Moderns, considers the weather as recreated in the human imagination in a sweeping study of cultural 202. St Margaret’s Hall climates on the move. ‘Bloody cold’, 3–4pm £6/4 says Jonathan Swift in the ‘slobbery’ The Man Who Was January of 1713; Percy Shelley wants to become a cloud, John Ruskin wants W.G. Grace to bottle one. Published to mark the centenary of his death, Amazing Grace is Richard 200. Rombalds Hotel Tomlinson’s biography of recordbreaking cricketer W.G. Grace. The 2–4pm £15/10 most recognisable sporting figure of Jackie Kay Masterclass Victorian Britain, Grace transcended An unmissable masterclass with the sport to become an icon of his Jackie Kay, award winning poet and time. This definitive book also charts Professor of Creative Writing at the Grace’s private life and career as a University of Newcastle. doctor in one of sport’s great untold For intermediate and experienced stories. A historian and former playing writers. Please book in advance. member of MCC, Tomlinson is an award winning journalist.
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2016 marks the 200th anniversary of Charlotte Brontë’s birth. Claire Harman discusses her timely, intimate and definitive biography of a literary visionary whose life was every bit as dramatic as the gothic novels she created. Writer and critic Harman has lectured at Manchester, Oxford and Columbia Universities and her books include the bestselling Jane’s Fame: How Jane Austen Conquered the World. Supported by the Friends of the Festival.
204. Manor House Education Room 3.30–4.15pm £5 Age 5+ Adults do not need a ticket
A Thousand Cranes: Origami Stories Workshop
Join the star of Me and My Cat?, Kumiko Mendl, to make some origami and hear the tales of Princess Moon, The Ogres of Belching Hill and The Hidden Treasures. Three Japanese stories on one mountain told with paper, imagination and fun.
2–18 OCTOBER 2015
#ilf15
SUNDAY 18 OCTOBER 3.30PM
4.30PM
4.45PM
205. Kings Hall Winter Gardens 3.30–4.30pm FREE with tea and biscuits
208. St Margaret’s Hall 4.45–5.45pm £5/3
Mothers, Fathers: Goran Vojnović and Andrej Nikoladis in Conversation
Informal Festival Feedback Drop in for a cup of tea upstairs in the Winter Gardens with members of the Festival team and let us know your thoughts on this year’s Festival. Suggestions, brickbats, praise and ideas for next year’s Festival all welcome – PLUS put your name in the hat for guaranteed tickets to next year’s headline event.
Writing across Continents
4PM 206. Ilkley Playhouse Wildman 4–5pm £3
207. Kings Hall 4.30–5.30pm £10/8
Putting Poetry in the Frame
Do It Like a Woman... and Change the World: Caroline Criado-Perez
Poet and Playwright Rommi Smith, curator Nigel Walsh (Leeds Art Gallery) and Ilkley Literature Festival Director Rachel Feldberg, discuss their involvement in the innovative Creative Case NORTH Explorations project which provided organisations and artists with time and space for experimentation on the theme of the Creative Case for Diversity earlier this year. Rommi Smith also reads work inspired by the project which brought art and poetry together – and put hidden voices back into the frame.
Caroline Criado-Perez is one of the most vocal, tenacious campaigners of her generation, successfully campaigning for the inclusion of women on British bank notes. Journalist and feminist activist, her work has appeared in The Times, Telegraph, Guardian, Independent and New Statesman. Awarded Liberty Human Rights Campaigner of the Year 2013, today she discusses pioneering women who are reinventing what it means to be female: a female fighter pilot in Afghanistan, a climate change activist who scaled new heights and the Iranian journalist who dared to uncover her hair. Sponsored by Forward Ladies
Caroline Criado-Perez © Caitlin Mogridge
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November 2015 marks the 20th anniversary of the end of the war in former Yugoslavia. Join famous author and journalist, Andrej Nikoladis from Montenegro, and Slovenian author and film maker, Goran Vojnović, as they talk about their novels exploring the aftermath of war. A reporter sets off to discover the truth – was his birth mother one of a band of elite killers employed by the Yugoslav Secret Service? A man journeys through the Balkans in search of his fugitive war criminal father… In association with Istros Books.
5PM 209. Clarke Foley Centre 5–6pm £5/3
Journey to Britannia AD 130: Bronwen Riley
AD 130. Rome is the dazzling heart of a vast empire. Faraway Britannia is one of its most troublesome provinces: the sun is seldom seen and ‘the atmosphere in the country is always gloomy’. What awaits the traveller to Britannia? How will you get there? What do you need to pack? Combining an extensive range of sources Bronwen Riley, editor of English Heritage’s Red Guides, describes an epic journey from Rome to Hadrian’s Wall, bringing the smells, sounds, colours and textures of travel in the second century AD vividly to life.
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SUNDAY 18 OCTOBER 5.15PM
7PM
7.30PM
210. Ilkley Playhouse Wharfeside 5.15–6.15pm £5/3
Stevie Smith: Will May
Although normally associated with London’s suburbs, Stevie Smith was born in Hull, and has a good claim to be one of Yorkshire’s finest poets. Some of her greatest living fans – Jeanette Winterson, Jarvis Cocker – hear in her off-kilter lines a distinctly Northern voice. Will May, Senior Lecturer in English at Southampton University and editor of The Collected Poems and Drawings of Stevie Smith, explores the importance of the English landscape in Smith’s poetry in a talk which includes recordings of her unique poetry performances, and introduces you to her distinctive drawings.
6PM 211. Ilkley Playhouse Wildman 6–7pm £5/3
Editing Digitally: Ben Jonson for the 21st Century
Books and Reading – from the Romans to the Digital Age
Jackie Kay
212. Clarke Foley Centre 7–8pm £6/4
Jackie Kay and Zaffar Kunial
Currently Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Newcastle, Jackie Kay has published five acclaimed collections of poetry for adults, including The Adoption Papers which won the Forward Prize, a Saltire Award and a Scottish Arts Council Book Award. Tonight she reads with Festival Poet in Residence, Zaffar Kunial, a Faber New Poet and former Wordsworth Trust Poet in Residence.
Professor Martin Butler (University of Leeds) explores the possibilities and pitfalls of digital editing by demonstrating the resource of his website, The Cambridge Edition of Ben Jonson Online. This richly illustrated, multimedia space, devoted to Shakespeare’s great friend and contemporary, allows Jonson’s richly imaginative plays, poems and prose to be accessed in innovative and interactive ways. In association with the University of Leeds.
213. Kings Hall 7.30–8.30pm £28 single ticket; £37 double ticket – both single and double tickets include one copy of Simon Schama’s book (worth £30) Please note: tickets without the book are not available
Simon Schama: The Face of Britain
Renowned historian Simon Schama closes the 2015 Festival, turning his unrivalled gaze to the relationship between the sitter, the artist and the public in the creation of historical portraits – from the divine paintings of Elizabeth I and iconic photograph of ‘bulldog’ Churchill to the posthumous tribute to Amy Winehouse. Schama is University Professor of Art History and History at Columbia University and the author of sixteen books. His award winning television work includes A History of Britain. Sponsored by NADFAS.
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2–18 OCTOBER 2015
@ilkleylitfest
SUNDAY 18 OCTOBER 7.30PM
Don’t miss our
Young Writers Summer School
Friday 4 – Sunday 6 September 2015 Lineham Farm, Leeds LS16 8AZ Spindles
214. St Margaret’s Hall 7.30–8.30pm £5/3
Spindles: Short Stories from the Science of Sleep
Storytelling has an age-old fascination with sleep and dreams, but what happens when fiction writers are paired with sleep scientists? Spindles, an anthology specially commissioned by Comma Press, tackles everything from memory consolidation to parasomnia, through fiction and scientific afterwords. Join award winning short story writer Adam Marek and Dr Penelope Lewis from Manchester’s Sleep Lab as they discuss what Shakespeare called ‘nature’s second course’.
WORKSHOPS, WORDS CABARET, CAMPFIRE STORYTELLING … The perfect residential weekend for anyone aged 12–19 who loves creative writing!
£40/25 concessions inc. accommodation and meals. (Full bursaries available) More information: www.ilkleyliteraturefestival.org.uk Sponsored by
llkley Literature Festival’s Young Writers group is recruiting!
8.30PM 215. Ilkley Playhouse Wildman 8.30–10pm £5/3 FREE for performers
Open Mic
The chance for anyone to perform their own work. Poetry, prose, stand-up – it’s all fair game. But you’ve only got three minutes to convince your audience and win £200 and the coveted Open Mic title. 2nd prize £75, 3rd prize £25. It’s not only performers who enjoy this frenzied night out – come along to watch and bring your friends. Phone 01943 816714 or email
[email protected] by midnight on 30 Sep to put your name in the hat. The first 16 people drawn at random on 1 Oct get the chance to perform.
Lots of fun writing activities with other teenagers.
Young people aged 12-18 who like writing are invited to join our friendly weekly group. Mondays 6.30–8.30pm term time in Ilkley – no experience needed. Costs: £12 a term. Try the free taster session Event 3. To book a place or find out more, email
[email protected]
Put the dates in your diary now!
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Box Office opens 9am on Tuesday 30 August 2016
Debating the Book: Past, Present and Future
Join us this autumn for a wide-ranging series of events across Yorkshire – for anyone curious about books Several events are detailed elsewhere in this festival programme, including the free Future of the Book debate chaired by Melvyn Bragg at the University of Leeds on 8 October To find out more, visit whiterose.ac.uk or call 01904 435353
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Children's Festival with The Grammar School at Leeds SATURDAY 3 OCTOBER 10–11.20AM 6. Clarke Foley Centre FREE with juice and biscuits Age 8–11 (parents welcome to stay)
Story Wizards: Children’s Reading and Creative Writing Group
Children under 12 MUST BE ACCOMPANIED at all events except where indicated. Accompanying adults NEED A TICKET at all events unless otherwise stated. Please do not bring children younger than the age stipulated.
Children who love reading and creative SUNDAY 4 OCTOBER writing are invited to have fun at today’s free session writing stories and 2–3PM exploring books. No experience needed. 40. Ilkley Playhouse Wildman
12–12.45PM
SATURDAY 10 OCTOBER 10–10.45AM 217. All Saints’ School £5 Age 7+
Demolition Dad: Phil Earle
Phil Earle talks pro-wrestling, comics and superheroes as he introduces the hilarious, heart-warming adventures of Jake and his Dad – The Demolition Man!
10–11AM & 11.45AM–12.45PM
£6/4 Age 5–11
Spark, the Goblin Wizard with Dominic Berry
Spark’s magic rhymes can turn anything into anything, even bogeys into pink ribbons. But, something terrible is happening in the enchanted forest. With lyrics, laughs and lots of joining in, poet Dommy B needs your help to save the day! This event begins with a short reading Journey – Mud Pie Arts by the winners of the Children’s Poetry 218 & 219. All Saints’ School Competition.
£5 Age 3–7 Adults do not need a ticket
SATURDAY 10 OCTOBER Cathy Cassidy
10. Ilkley Playhouse Wharfeside £6/4 Age 9+
Looking-Glass Girl: Cathy Cassidy
Join Cathy Cassidy, bestselling author of the much loved series The Chocolate Box Girls and get ready to fall down the rabbit hole all over again, 150 years on from Alice In Wonderland. Alice is thrilled when Savannah invites her to a Wonderlandthemed sleepover, but an accident suddenly changes everything.
10–11.30AM
Journey
Interactive Storytime with Mud Pie Arts One grey day Clara finds a piece of
216. All Saints’ School red chalk. She draws a door and goes £5 Age 8–12 through it. Come with Clara on an Children can attend unaccompanied interactive drama session based on
Marsh Road Mysteries Writing Workshop
Elen Caldecott’s Marsh Road Mysteries series is filled with adventure and intrigue. Find out the secret to writing great stories from this award winning writer then get ready to plot your own page-turner.
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the exquisite picture book Journey by Aaron Becker. Join in, solve problems and make a chalk drawing of your adventure to take home.
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ilkleyliteraturefestival.org.uk
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SATURDAY 10 OCTOBER 10.15–11AM
11.30AM–12.15PM
1–1.45PM
220. All Saints’ School £5 Age 4–6 Adults do not need a ticket
223. All Saints’ School £5 Age 7+
224. All Saints’ School £5 Age 7+
WANTED! Ralfy Rabbit, Book Burglar
The World of A.F. Harrold
Come along and meet children’s author and poet, A.F. Harrold for a laughter-inducing session to set your Ralfy Rabbit is WANTED! He loves reading so much that he starts to steal imaginations soaring! A.F. Harrold’s books include Fizzlebert Stump and the books from Arthur’s shelf – but the Girl Who Lifted Quite Heavy then he is introduced to something wonderful! Meet author and illustrator Things and The Imaginary. Imaginary Emily MacKenzie and make your own Friends more than welcome. bunny bandit mask.
11AM, 11.45AM, 12.30PM, 2PM, 2.45PM & 3.30PM
Mariella Mystery: Kate Pankhurst
Meet Kate Pankhurst, the creator of Mariella Mystery – the totally amazing girl detective, aged 9 and a bit. Able to solve the most mysterious mysteries and perplexing problems!
1–2PM & 3.30–4.30PM
12–1PM
221. All Saints’ School FREE Family event for all ages
Fabulous Story Sacks
Ilkley Library bring stories to life using puppets and props in these drop in storytelling sessions. In association with Bradford Libraries.
10.30–11AM & 11.30AM–12 NOON 89. Bandstand on The Grove FREE Family event for all ages
Suitcase Circus
Cheer up your Saturday morning! Join us on the bandstand for these fun circus performances from Suitcase Circus.
11.45AM–12.30PM 222. All Saints’ School £5 Age 4–6 Adults do not need a ticket
Walter’s Wonderful Web Wonderful web inspired craft workshop for young children with Tim Hopgood.
94. Ilkley Playhouse Wharfeside £6/4 Age 5+
The Dinosaur That Pooped a Show!
Host Alastair Watson brings the bestselling The Dinosaur That Pooped books to life with help from The Dinosaur himself! Interactive event featuring dinosaur impressions, live drawing, gross games and exclusive video clips from creators, Tom Fletcher and Dougie Poynter (McBusted). WARNING: CONTAINS DINOSAUR POO!
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225 & 226. All Saints’ School £6/4 Age 3–7
tutti frutti and York Theatre Royal present
Snow Child by Emma Reeves
tutti frutti are back to wow young Festival audiences. As the first snow falls, a lonely couple build a small figure from the ice… But, will the Snow Child and her parents find their “happily ever after”?
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Children's Festival with The Grammar School at Leeds SATURDAY 10 OCTOBER 1.30–3PM
2.15–3.15PM & 3.45–4.45PM
227. All Saints’ School 229 & 230. All Saints’ School £5 Age 8–12 £5 Age 6+ Children can attend unaccompanied Adults do not need a ticket
3.15–4.15PM 232. All Saints’ School FREE Age 4+
The Yorkshire Penguin Things you find in A Poet’s Suitcase Circus Workshop Posse Try your hand at circus skills with Pete FRINGE EVENT Beard: Poetry Workshop A.F. Harrold, poet, performer and children’s author, leads an exciting poetry workshop filled with fun ideas to get you writing. Witness how this bearded marvel creates poetry and join in the jamboree of word-juggling jollity. No previous poetry-making experience required.
White from Suitcase Circus.
Byron, the penguin poet, 2.30–4PM needs inspiration… can you help? 231. All Saints’ School Join writer £5 Age 8–12 Peter Haney Children can attend unaccompanied and illustrator, Create Comics with Denise Webber at this interactive Jim Medway Find out how to make your own comic workshop. Bring along your own book with comic book creator Jim penguin pal (toy, book or costume!) Medway. Let’s fill this town with penguins!
2.30–3.30PM
1.30–2.30PM 228. All Saints’ School FREE Age 4–7
Meet the Belties FRINGE EVENT
A Belted Galloway bull, two little Beltie calves and a runaway chilli pepper are just some of the characters from Scottish Indie publisher Curly Tale Books. Meet the team behind the books for readings and fun activities.
97. Ilkley Playhouse Wharfeside £6/4 Age 8+
The Wimpy Kid Show
A must for all Diary of a Wimpy Kid fans! Alastair Watson brings the books to life with The Wimpy Kid Draw-Along, The Wimp Wars! Quiz AND exclusive clips of author Jeff Kinney talking about the books, the films and how to draw the characters.
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SUNDAY 11 OCTOBER
SATURDAY 17 OCTOBER
SUNDAY 18 OCTOBER
2–2.45PM
4.30–5.30PM
1–2PM
119. Ilkley Playhouse Wharfeside £6/4 Age 9–12
196. Ilkley Playhouse Wharfeside 1–2pm £6/4 Age 5+
Meet Steve Cole – the lively, bestselling, non-stop author of Astrosaurs, Cows In Action, The Slime Squad, Z-Raptor and many other books including several original Doctor Who stories!
Me and My Cat?
Steve Cole
A Thousand Cranes present
Julian Clary
184. Kings Hall 4.30–5.30pm £10/5 Age 7+
Calling all Junior Detectives! Join Detective K as she sets off on an exciting and hilarious adventure, full of mysterious clues, golden rules and strange events. Will she solve the mystery in time? A fast paced, action packed story for all the family. Based on the book by award winning Japanese children’s author and illustrator, Satoshi Kitamura.
Meet The Bolds with Julian Clary and David Roberts
Comedian and writer Julian Clary and award winning illustrator David Roberts introduce The Bolds – with hilarious readings, live-drawing and lots of laughter for the whole family.
FRIDAY 2–SUNDAY 18 OCTOBER 6–6.50PM 2. Across Ilkley FREE Age 3–103
Children’s Book Trail
Discover some exciting children’s books and enter a Prize Draw as you search Ilkley for books hidden in shop windows. (Prize draw for under 12s only!) Collect your instructions, map and an entry form at Festival venues, the Grove Bookshop or Ilkley Visitor Information Centre.
188. Church House FREE Age 7+
Fantasy Plots and Fantastic Plays, with Daniel Ingram-Brown FRINGE EVENT
Meet author and playwright, Daniel Ingram-Brown and Apprentice Adventurers, Fletcher and Scoop. Hear about their exploits at Blotting’s Academy, the place where story characters are trained. Come and discover more about writing.
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3.30–4.15PM 204. Manor House Education Room £5 Age 5+ Adults do not need a ticket
A Thousand Cranes: Origami Stories Workshop
Join the star of Me and My Cat?, Kumiko Mendl, to make some origami and hear the tales of Princess Moon, The Ogres of Belching Hill and The Hidden Treasures. Three Japanese stories on one mountain told with paper, imagination and fun.
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events for young people MONDAY 28 SEPTEMBER
SATURDAY 3 OCTOBER
MONDAY 5 OCTOBER
6.30–8.30PM
8–9PM
6.30–7.30PM
3. Christchurch on The Grove FREE with refreshments Age 12–18
52. Ilkley Playhouse Wildman £5/3 Groups welcome Age 12–adult
The Art of Being Normal: James Dawson, Lisa Williamson and Sam Hepburn
Ilkley Young Writers Group – taster session Try tonight’s free session for young people who love writing and see if you’d like to join our weekly young writers group. No experience needed.
Think YA (young adult) fiction is just about attractive vampires and bleak 31. Ilkley Playhouse Wharfeside futures? Think again. £7/5 Groups welcome Join us for a discussion on how books for young people can explore ‘difficult’ Age 12–adult subjects and offer a more diverse Nine Lives honest representation of young SATURDAY 3 OCTOBER Written by Zodwa Nyoni people – with James Dawson (author Performed by Lladel Bryant 12–12.45PM of All of the Above and Stonewall Directed by Alex Chisholm Schools Role Model), Lisa Williamson 10. Ilkley Playhouse Wharfeside Presented by Leeds Studio in (The Art of Being Normal) and Sam £6/4 Age 9+ association with West Yorkshire Hepburn (If You Were Me). Their Playhouse Looking-Glass Girl: most recent books cover sexuality, ‘…unforgettable solo drama about one gender identity and accusations Cathy Cassidy of terrorism in their portrayals of of the key experiences of our time.’ Join Cathy Cassidy, bestselling contemporary teen life. The Scotsman author of the much loved series The One man and a suitcase filled with the Chocolate Box Girls and get ready past, uncertainty, high heels, African to fall down the rabbit hole all over dancing shells – and hope. again, 150 years on from Alice In Wonderland. Alice is thrilled when Ishmael is seeking sanctuary in the UK, Savannah invites her to a Wonderland- As he waits to hear his fate, Zodwa themed sleepover, but an accident Nyoni (former ILF Apprentice Poet suddenly changes everything. in Residence and West Yorkshire Playhouse/Channel 4 Writer in Residence 2014) uses humour and humanity to tell the personal story behind the headlines. Lladel Bryant
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2–6PM (SIGN UP FROM 1.40PM)
114. Otley Courthouse
Teresa Flavin
SATURDAY 10 OCTOBER
£5 Age 12–18 An afternoon of laid-back workshops, cake, writing and fun for young people aged 12 to 18 only! 1.40pm Choose your sessions... 2pm Plot your own page-turner with Elen Caldecott. Start blogging with Siobhan Curham (writing coach to Zoella). Be coached on your poetry by Sai Murray.
Perfect your song-writing skills with Michelle Scally-Clarke. Try out graffiti art with Ged Walker. 3.10pm Meet Teresa Flavin – the author of The Blackhope Enigma series and Jet Black Heart, a supernatural time travel story set on the North York Moors. Teresa is here to discuss her work and answer your questions! 4pm Do a second workshop. 5.10pm Fast and furious ‘slam’ – share your work from the day to win fantastic prizes! Sponsored by Ilkley Book Club.
11AM–4PM 90. Church House £5 includes ‘press’ ticket to afternoon events Age 12–18
WEDNESDAY 14 OCTOBER 6.30–7.15PM
Press Pack: Write a Review 151. Ilkley Playhouse Wildman £4 Age 12+ Find out how to write great reviews, blogs and tweets then, accompanied by staff, set off to a Festival event. Write up a review in our newsroom and we’ll post it online. Bring a packed lunch. Please book in advance.
7.30–8.30PM 109. Church House FREE
Word Blend: Ilkley Young Writers Group
Half Bad: Sally Green
Don’t miss your chance to meet Sally Green, author of the hugely successful Half Bad – the fast paced supernatural thriller series set in a modern England where witches and humans warily coexist. ‘the new Hunger Games … brilliant and utterly compelling’ Kate Atkinson
FRIDAY 16 OCTOBER
7.30–8.30PM 165. Ilkley Playhouse Wharfeside £6/4 Groups welcome Age 14–adult
West Yorkshire Playhouse and LittleMighty present
Blake Remixed
Beatboxing, spoken word, theatre and scratch DJ Testament (BBC Urban Music Award Winner) mixes his love of British hip-hop with the poetry of William Blake. Made in collaboration with Scratch DJ World Champion DJ Woody, a coming of age story with a difference.
7.30–9.30PM
The Festival’s own Ilkley Young 169. Otley Courthouse Writers Group, all aged 12–18, with another stunning performance of their £4 for audience members award winning poetry and prose. Age 12–18 plus parents
Cool Voices Club Night
Talented young writers, poets, and performers take to the stage! Plus the winners of the Young People’s Writing Competitions. If you would like to perform or enter the Writing Competitions details are available from: www.ilkleyliteraturefestival.org.uk Competition prizes kindly provided by Ilkley Book Club. Testament
FRIDAY 16 OCTOBER
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SATURDAY 17 OCTOBER 10.30AM–4.30 PM 172. Church House £5 Age 12–18
Breaking News: Make a Newspaper in a Day
Become a real-life journalist for the day! Interview famous Festival authors and work with a journalist to create a special edition Festival newspaper. Bring a packed lunch. Please book in advance.
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TICKETS AND BOOKING Online
Friends priority booking
By phone
Refunds and resale
www.ilkleyliteraturefestival.org.uk You can buy tickets for all events online from 9am Tuesday 1 September on our secure website. A handling fee of £2 applies on all online orders. You can buy tickets for all events from our Box Office on 01943 816714 from Tuesday 1 September. Box Office opening hours are Monday to Friday 10am–4pm and Saturday 10am–1pm. (Please note that telephone booking opens at 9am on Tuesday 1 September only – then at 10am daily). A handling fee of £2 applies on all telephone orders.
In person – Kings Hall events only
You can buy tickets for Kings Hall events only, either from Ilkley Visitor Information Centre or the Grove Bookshop from Tuesday 1 September until Wednesday 30 September. Ilkley Visitor Information Centre, Station Road, Ilkley LS29 8HA. Opening hours Monday and Wednesday–Saturday 9.30am–4pm, Tues 10am–4pm. Closed Sundays. (The Visitor Information Centre will open at 9am on Tuesday 1 September only) The Grove Bookshop, The Grove, Ilkley LS29 9EG. Opening hours Monday–Saturday 9am–5.30pm, Sun 11.30am–4.30pm. (Friends’ discounts cannot be claimed when booking through Ilkley Visitor Information Centre or the Grove Bookshop) For tickets to all other events please book by phone or online as above. Please note that you cannot book in person at the Festival Office.
On the door
All unsold tickets and any returns will be available from the Box Office at the venue 60 minutes before the start of Kings Hall events, 45 minutes for all other events. Returns are usually available at most (but not all) soldout events. However you are strongly advised to book in advance to avoid disappointment.
Festival Friends enjoy priority booking from Monday 17 to Wednesday 26 August. If you’d like to become a Friend of the Festival please go to the Friends page on our website for full details or contact the office on 01943 601210. All tickets are non-refundable except in the event of a cancelled performance. The Box Office can only accept tickets for resale if an event has sold out and any refund is subject to a 10% handling fee. All refunds for returned tickets will be made after the Festival. We will try to resell tickets for sold-out events but offer no guarantee that we will be able to do so. All details are correct at the time of going to press (August 2015). The Ilkley Literature Festival Ltd is not liable for any subsequent changes. Keep up to date by visiting www.ilkleyliteraturefestival.org.uk
Concessions
The Festival offers concessions to the following people (proof of status will be required):
• Children and young people under 25. • People in receipt of Disability Living Allowance or Personal Independence Payment.
• People in receipt of a means tested benefit.
Concessionary prices are stated after the full price for each event, eg £5/£3.
Group bookings
The Festival welcomes bookings from schools and established community/reading groups as follows: £6 per person Kings Hall, £5 for Craiglands Hotel, £3 per person for most events at other venues, plus one free ticket for every ten tickets booked. We regret we can’t offer group rates for events including books, transport or meals.
Data protection
We are committed to protecting your privacy. We store the information that you have provided when contacting us, registering for information or ordering tickets to allow us to process your orders and for marketing purposes. We may contact you from time to time with information about the Ilkley Literature Festival and its events. If you do not wish to be contacted in this way please let us know. We will not sell, trade or rent your personal information to others.
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FOOD AND ACCESS INFORMATION Refreshments
• At appropriate events the Bar at Kings Hall will be open before and after events and during intervals. Tea and coffee are available at all events. • The Festival Cafe serving tea, coffee, sandwiches, salads and delicious cakes, is open at Ilkley Playhouse during Festival evenings and weekends.
Event and Access Information
• All venues are accessible with accessible toilets except Friends of Ham. If you would like to take part in the Festival Poet in Residence drop in, please call the office and we will arrange an alternative venue. • St Margaret’s Hall is an uphill walk from the station. Allow 15–20 minutes. • Selected events are BSL interpreted. Working dogs welcome. Detailed access information available from www.ilkleyliteraturefestival.org.uk or call 01943 816714. • Events last one hour unless otherwise stated and usually include 15–20 minutes audience questions. • After events, authors sign books which are available from the Festival bookstall run by our partners, the Grove Bookshop, at each venue. Some authors attract lengthy queues!
If you’d like a large print/audio copy of this brochure call 01943 816714.
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INDEX OF AUTHORS author
event no.
author
event no. 186
Galloway, Janice
event no.
Agard, John
190
Ahad, Nick
63
Cassidy, Cathy
10
Gant, Andrew
179
Aldhouse-Green, Miranda
Casely-Hayford, Nana-Essi
author
84
13
Cathcart, Brian
117
Gappah, Petina
178
Alipoor, Javaad
168
Chase, Malcolm
148
Glenny, Misha
152
Annapurna Indian Dance Company
107
Clark, Stuart
47
Godber, John
180
Antoni, Robert
105
Clary, Julian
184
Grant, Linda
74
Arditti, Michael
113, 126
Clayton, Ian
95, 107
Armitage, Simon
46
Aslam, Mohammed
75
A Thousand Cranes
196, 204
Attenberg, Jami
123
Avery, Mark
101
Bates, Stephen
174
Beaton, M.C.
198
Bell, Gary
125
Bell, Martin
65
Benn, Victoria
9
Berry, Dominic
40
Binnie, Georgina Blackwood, Lynne
51 186
Blessed, Brian
77
Bora, Fozia
21
Bragg, Melvyn Brandreth, Gyles
74, 83 14
Brody, Frances
4
Bryant, Lladel
31
Butler, Martin
211
Cable, Vince
115
Caldecott, Elen Cameron, Dawn Campbell, Jen Carrasco, Jesus Cartwright, Justin
114, 216 187 25 129 185, 194
Cobb, Matthew
103
Cockshott, Alex
Green, Matthew Green, Sally
79 151
122, 201
Groom, Nick
23
119, 138, 139
Hadley, Tessa
91, 98
Corbett, Sarah
168
Hanley, Steve
32
Cowen, Rob
157
Hannah, Sophie
Criado-Perez, Caroline
207
Hanson, Neil
156
Hall, David
136
Harman, Claire
203
Cole, Steve
Cross, Helen
173, 180
Crystal, David
38
41
Curham, Siobhan
114
Harris, Alexandra
Darr, Aamir
177
Harrold, A.F.
Daunt, James
74
Haskins, Lola
168
Dawson, James
52
Haslam, Dave
32, 76
Dimbleby, Jonathan
197
Hastings, Max
42
Dorling, Danny
192
Hemming, John
57
Henderson, Barbara
15
Hennessey, Nick
86
Duncker, Patricia
7, 16, 24
Dunn, Suzannah
50
199 223, 227
Earle, Phil
217
Hepburn, Sam
52
Eclair, Jenny
235
Hickley, Catherine
45
12, 28
Higgins, Charlotte
70
Feinstein, Elaine Fiennes, Ranulph
158
Hill, Rosemary
135
Feldberg, Rachel
206
Holland, James
68
Flavin, Teresa
114
Holland, Tom
82
Fletcher, Joann
131
Hopgood, Tim
222
For Books’ Sake
87
Hornsby, James
Fowler, Karen Joy
55
Ilkley Young Writers
Frankopan, Peter
153
Furedi, Frank
17
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49 109
Ilmonen, Kristiina
86
Jarrett, Vicki
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INDEX OF AUTHORS author
event no.
author
event no.
author
event no.
Joly, Dom
166
Motion, Rory
127, 133
Shapcott, Jo
20
Jopson, Marty
234
Mount, Harry
159
Smiley, Jane
147
Kay, Jackie
200, 212
Mud Pie Arts
218, 219
Kelman, Stephen
102, 112
Murray, Les
108
Snaith, Mahsuda
186
Kerr, Rachael
25
Murray, Sai
114
Snow, Dan
161
Khan, Yasmin
22
Nadin, Beverley 8, 56, 73, 155, 168
Snow, Peter
161
Nath, Michael
Souhami, Jessica
Klaussmann, Liza Korejko, Jonathan Kunial, Zaffar
123 35, 39 20, 36, 56, 62, 73, 88, 96, 212
Lavery, Brian W
145
Lederer, Helen
137
Lewis, Penelope
214
Liedes, Kaisa Lott, Tim Lownie, Andrew Lucas, Caroline Lupton, Rosamund
86 181 116, 130 27 29
MacKenzie, Emily
220
Maconie, Stuart
53
Malcolm, Claire
18, 25
Marek, Adam
214
Marmot, Michael
132
Marshall, Tim
44
Mason, Paul
128
May, Will
210
McGrath, Alister
54
McMillan, Ian
154
Medway, Jim
231
Mendl, Kumiko Middleton, Howard
196, 204 92
Miller, Andrew
102
Morrison, Blake
160
Morton, Oliver
167
23
Smith, Rommi
Nikolaidis, Andrej
208
Suchet, John
North Country Theatre
162
Suitcase Circus
O’Keeffe, Damien
78
Ojukwu, Chijioke
168
78, 206
60 5 89, 229, 230
Sutton, Peter Swinbourne, Charlie
183 33
Olusoga, David
48
Testament 165
Omissi, David
99
Thackara, John
106
Overton, Tom
19
Thomas, Mark
141
Pankhurst, Kate
224
Tomlinson, Richard
202
Passarlay, Gulwali
189
Tooby, Mike
Peppiatt, Michael
118
tutti frutti
Perry, Alex
69
Phillips, Caryl
105
Piekarski, Olivia
32
78 225, 226
Ul-Haq, Razwan
121
Uribe, Kirmen
129
Vaananen, Timo
86
Plampin, Matthew
124
Vērdiņš, Kārlis
120
Publick Transport
142
Vojnović, Goran
208
Quinn, Francis
92
Wachsmann, Nikolaus
43
Rayner, Jay
134
Walker, Ged
114
Rees, Eleanor
168
Walsh, Nigel
206
Riley, Bronwen
201, 209
Roberts, David
184
Watson, Alastair
94, 97
Weir, Alison
64
Ross, Jacob
186, 195
Williamson, Lisa
52
Ross, Leone
175, 186
Wilson, Jean Moorcroft
176
Sansom, Peter
171, 180
Winston, Robert
146
Yoneda, Asa
140
Savidge, Simon
25
Scally-Clarke, Michelle
114
Schama, Simon
213
Senior, Olive
85
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS The Festival would like to thank the following organisations for their support during 2015. Major Sponsors Aagrah The Grammar School at Leeds Spellman Walker Media and PR Partners Big Issue in the North Event Sponsors Eversheds Forward Ladies Friends of Ham Hebridean Island Cruises Ilkley Book Club Investec Wealth & Investment LCF Law Leeds Beckett University Centre for Culture and the Arts Leeds College of Art Leeds Trinity University Manse Capital NADFAS Open College of the Arts Rombalds Hotel Wild Goose Yorkshire Cruise Club Patrons Sir Rodney Brooke CBE DL Trevor & Jennifer Bryan John & Alex Cockshott Brenda L Collins Hilary Crawford Simon Currie David Henderson Peter & Kate Roberts John Woodward Children’s Festival Patron John Cunliffe
Event Partners Bazm-E-Tadeeb International Bettys Cafe Tea Rooms Children’s Bookshow Comma Press For Books Sake Friends of Donald Baverstock The Grove Bookshop Ilkley Arts Ilkley Library Ilkley Playhouse Ilkley Young Writers Group Inscribe Leeds Art Gallery The Leeds Library Literature Across Frontiers Little Mighty
New Writing North Otley Courthouse Arts Centre Panache Peepal Tree Press The Poetry Business The Priory Church of St Mary & St Cuthbert Renaissance One Soroptimist International of Leeds University of Leeds The Walter Swan Trust West Yorkshire Playhouse The Wheatley Arms White Rose Consortium Supporters All Saints Church All Saints’ C of E Primary School BMDC Education and Learning Booths Bradford Libraries Brontë Society Christchurch Clarke Foley Centre Craiglands Hotel Dale Eddison Ilkley Moor Vaults Ilkley Visitor Information Centre Kings Hall, Ilkley Lancashire Library Service North Yorkshire Library Service Outside the Box St Margaret’s Church Hall Publishing Partners Barbican Press Bloomsbury Carcanet Chicken House Books David Fickling Books Ebury Faber Freight Books Granta & Portobello Books Hachette Children’s Books Harper Collins Head of Zeus Hodder & Stoughton Hot Key Books Istros Books Little, Brown Book Group Macmillan Children’s Books Orion Publishing Group Pan Macmillan Penguin Random House Profile Books Route Thames & Hudson Simon and Schuster Verso Vintage
Festival Staff Director: Rachel Feldberg Festival Manager: Gail Price Festival Administrator: Laura Beddows Sponsorship Director: Judy Passmore Audience Development & Outreach: Dawn Cameron Marketing Officer: Alex Corwin Volunteers Coordinator: Hayley Gillard Bookkeeper: Beverley Kitching Festival Assistant & Fringe Coordinator: Anna Turner Poet in Residence: Zaffar Kunial Apprentice Poet in Residence: Beverley Nadin Senior Box Office Administrator: Melissa Watson Box Office Administrator: Anna Dominian Box Office Administrator (Venues): Mary Varley Technical Director: Richard Speight Asst Technical Director: Chris Bradley Technical Team: David Wallbank, Andy Price, Robbie Kay, Sam Prowse, Ian Cheesebrough, Harry Drake Event Managers: Judy Passmore, Annie Latham, Gail Ferrin, Fiona Goh, Jenny Harris, Kitty Wright, Jess Penrose, Glenis Burgess, Kate Jones, Katherine Stanton Venues Coordinator: Mosa Mpetha Stage Managers: Conor Whelan, Jan Hilditch, Lauren Day, Alex Fullelove, Claire Drury, Sarah Wilson, Zoe Melia, Jess Macdonald, Hollie Bryan, Sammy Gooch Playhouse Catering: Chloe Walker PR Agency: Anita Morris Associates Copy Checking: Abbey Vale Copy Assistant: Ben Myers Festival Photographer: Paul Floyd Blake Web Site: Johnathan Kendall, Vitamin K Graphic Design: Richard Honey, dg3 Special thanks to the Friends of Ilkley Literature Festival and all the Volunteer Stewards.
The Ilkley Literature Festival Ltd. Registered In England and Wales Company No: 1061343 Ilkley Literature Festival is a registered charity Charity No: 501801
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10 The Grove, Ilkley LS29 9EG Tel 01943 609335 Fax 01943 817086 www.grovebookshop.com Open 9am–5.30pm Mon–Sat 11.30am–4.30pm Sunday
The Ilkley Literature Festival Bookshop • We sell tickets for Festival Kings Hall events
• Books signed by Festival authors will also be available at our shop on The Grove (just along from Bettys) • If you can’t get to a session but would like to reserve a signed book, just pop in or give us a call • We will be pleased to post books to you if you can’t get to Ilkley • We also have a specialist music department selling CDs and sheet music • We can order any British book in print – many delivered within 48 hours – just call 01943 609335 with your order
More than just October ... erature Ilkley Lit delivers Festival events inspiring cts all and proje nd. year rou
Words in the City taking place in June in Bradford Story Wizards, weekly book groups for 8–12 year olds Ilkley Young Writers, creative writing group for 12–18 year olds Young Writers Summer School Poetry and short story competitions Year round Author Visits to schools across the region
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