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Anne Robinson, Rosie Boycott, Gaby Wood and Kitty Corrigan
Women in Journalism
Evento 332 • Saturday 4 June 2011, 9am • Sede del evento: Starlight Stage
New research shows the media is getting more male, even in the areas of features and lifestyle. Why? How?
Duration 45 minutes.
Sponsored by Proexport Colombia
Huw Bowen, Katharine Olson, Chris Evans
New History of Wales 4: Global Nation
Evento 333 • Saturday 4 June 2011, 9am • Sede del evento: Summer House
Isolated provincials or a global people? Where is Wales in the world?
Duration 45 minutes.
In association with The Western Mail
Siddhartha Deb
The Beautiful and the Damned
Evento 334 • Saturday 4 June 2011, 9am • Sede del evento: Llwyfan Cymru - Wales Stage
A panoramic portrait of the new India from its least advantaged countryside to its high-tech tiger economy.
Duration 45 minutes.
Clare Jacob, Ceri Radford and Amy Sackville talk to Peter Florence
The First Novel
Evento 335 • Saturday 4 June 2011, 9am • Sede del evento: Elmley Foundation Theatre
The challenge of starting out met in three ways: Jacob’s Ophelia in Pieces charts the fall and rise of a young lawyer; Radford (who attended the Festival’s Beacons Project when she was at school) conjures a comic gem of a life-crisis in A Surrey State of Affairs; Sackville’s award-winning The Still Point is an intriguing family story set across a hundred years.
Duration 45 minutes.
Robert MacCurrach
In The Bend Of The River
Evento 336 • Saturday 4 June 2011, 9am • Sede del evento: The Moot
A personal view of the Danube province of Vojvodina in northern Serbia. Chaired by Paul Blezard.
Duration 45 minutes.
Adam Stower
Silly Doggy!
Evento HF97 • Saturday 4 June 2011, 9am • Sede del evento: The Hexagon
Join the illustrator of Bottoms Up! and see why little Lily’s new dog is a dog with a difference. With jokes and general merriment for all.
Maya Jasanoff
Liberty's Exiles
Evento 337 • Saturday 4 June 2011, 10am • Sede del evento: Elmley Foundation Theatre
Extraordinary tales of the defeated individuals who left America after the British departed in 1783 to seek refuge elsewhere in the British Empire. Chaired by writer and critic Michael Prodger.
Rolf Heuer talks to Jon Snow
Discovery
Evento 338 • Saturday 4 June 2011, 10am • Sede del evento: Oxfam Stage
The Large Hadron Collider is now running at CERN in Geneva, the world’s greatest collaborative science project, and its most exciting. The Director General discusses what might be discovered and what’s at stake.
Cerys Matthews
Tales From The Deep
Evento 339 • Saturday 4 June 2011, 10am • Sede del evento: Sky Arts Studio
Cerys breathes new beauty into Welsh legends, with poetry and songs. Magical.
Grahame Davies talks to Merryl Wyn Davies
The Dragon and the Crescent
Evento 340 • Saturday 4 June 2011, 10am • Sede del evento: Summer House
Nine centuries of contact between Wales and Islam. Chaired by the Director of the Muslim Institute.
Paolo Piccirillo, Kallia Papadaki, Anna Lewis and Susanne Heinrich
Scritture Giovani 2011
Evento 341 • Saturday 4 June 2011, 10am • Sede del evento: The Moot
Young writers from Italy, Greece, Wales and Germany discuss their stories commissioned on the theme of ‘Names’. Chaired by Daniel Hahn, Chair of the BCLT.
In partnership with Festivaletteratura Mantova and Literaturfestival Berlin
Entry to this event is free but you must obtain a ticket
Sponsored by Fondazione Cariplo and Illy Coffee
Eoin Colfer
Artemis Fowl And The Atlantis Complex
Evento HF98 • Saturday 4 June 2011, 10am • Sede del evento: Llwyfan Cymru - Wales Stage
Join this utterly brilliant writer in an adrenaline-fuelled exposé of his teenage criminal mastermind.
David Roberts
Dirty Bertie
Evento HF99 • Saturday 4 June 2011, 10am • Sede del evento: Starlight Stage
Bertie is particularly dirty; he’s also pretty infamous now (thanks to his terrifically smelly trumps!). Join his oh-so-clean creator for comic chaos and giggles.
Get Wild Writing With Lucy Christopher
Workshop
Evento HF170 • Saturday 4 June 2011, 10am–1pm • Sede del evento: Mess Tent
Inspiration for your next story is all around you. Join writer Lucy Christopher on a nature trail with a creative twist. Gather together various objects from your walk, bring them back to the site, and Lucy will show you how they can develop your writing.
Supported by RSPB
Poetry Masterclass With Irfan Master
Workshop
Evento HF171 • Saturday 4 June 2011, 10am • Sede del evento: The Hexagon
Join author and poet Irfan Master for a taster of where to take your poetry next. Work in progress welcome, but not compulsory.
Alfred Brendel talks to Nicola Heywood Thomas
Evento 342 • Saturday 4 June 2011, 11.30am • Sede del evento: Oxfam Stage
The pianist and poet discusses his life and work.
Supported by The Elmley Foundation
Sherard Cowper-Coles talks to Anne Robinson
Cables From Kabul
Evento 343 • Saturday 4 June 2011, 11.30am • Sede del evento: Llwyfan Cymru - Wales Stage
The grandee diplomat was Britain’s Afghan Envoy and special representative for Pakistan 2007–2010. He argues for constructive engagement in the pursuit of conflict resolution.
James Attlee
Nocturne: A Journey in Search of Moonlight
Evento 344 • Saturday 4 June 2011, 11.30am • Sede del evento: Elmley Foundation Theatre
Moonlight and its meanings, from the kitsch to the sublime – in the modern world, the ancient world, in art, books, music and in science.
Marcus Brigstocke, Carrie Quinlan and Andre Vincent
Early Edition 1
Evento 345 • Saturday 4 June 2011, 11.30am • Sede del evento: Barclays Wealth Pavilion
The satirists rip up the weekend papers.
Sponsored by Dai & Chris Davies, The Newsagents
Ed Stourton
Diary of a Dog Walker
Evento 346 • Saturday 4 June 2011, 11.30am • Sede del evento: Sky Arts Studio
The journalist considers his Time Spent Following a Lead – and the conversations, engagements and digressions that he and his best friend encounter.
