Ways With Words Announces 20th Anniversary Line-up
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20th ANNIVERSARY WITH BIGGEST EVER FESTIVAL
Among the line-up of over 160 events will be:
Marcus Brigstocke, James Naughtie, Melyvn Bragg, Alan Hollinghust, Maureen Lipman, Ben Okri , Karen Armstrong, Harry Hill, Robert Winston, Howard Marks, Margaret Drabble, Douglas Hurd, Shirley Williams, Shappi Khorsandi, AC Grayling
Dartington Hall, Devon, July 8-18 2011
Announcing its 20th Anniversary line up, Telegraph Ways With Words Festival is set to celebrate this July with a programme that is larger, more diverse and more global than ever before.
The ten-day festival has become established as a major literary fixture drawing festival-goers to its stunning setting within the medieval estate and gardens of Dartington Hall in South Devon.
Celebrating 20 years of debate, exploration, laughter and literary highs, the festival, which started in 1991, attracts world-class authors, media figures and thinkers. Highlights from this summer’s programme will include:
Literary Greats
Words and stories are at the heart of the festival. Hear Alan Hollinghurst, in conversation with fellow author Philip Hensher. And catch among others: Penelope Lively, Margaret Drabble, Justin Cartwright, Paul Torday, Esther Freud, Joanna Briscoe, Jasper Fforde, Salley Vickers, Devon-based literary star Nicholas Evans and Blake Morrison who will deliver The Ted Hughes Memorial Lecture.
Major Comics
Kicking off with Marcus Brigstocke, a host of funny and familiar faces will include stand-up Shappi Khorsandi, TV Burp legend Harry Hill, Maureen Lipman, comic actress Arabella Weir, John Hegley adding a dose of the absurd and humorist Jon Ronson questioning if we are actually all psychopaths?
Global Themes
This year’s festival is the most international yet and powerfully informed voices will help unpack some of the biggest challenges facing our world. Shirley Williams and David Aaronovitch will question if nuclear weapons are right for our times? Mark Malloch Brown will share his thoughts on new global politics. Former Foreign Secretary, Douglas Hurd will give his view on British policy making abroad and the war in Afghanistan will be discussed by senior US and British journalists Toby Harnden and Sean Rayment. Motherhood in China will be exposed by Xinran, as will the plight of women in Afghanistan by fearless young journalist Zarghuna Kargar, India’s science boom will be explored by Angela Saini while historian Lord David Gilmore will tell us how Italy has became the country it is today. On a lighter note the world can be seen through the piercing eyes of AA Gill and Matthew Parris will entertain with colourful stories from British ambassador’s valedictory dispatches.
Big Ideas
Newsreader Martin Bell will join BBC4 historian Lucy Worsley to discuss the future of monarchy, rugby legend Brian Moore and a host of Telegraph journalists will debate the value of arts versus sports, attitudes to spirituality will be argued from every angle from Melyvn Bragg on The King James Bible to philosopher AC Grayling on his Secular Bible via Rabbi Lionel Blue and Karen Armstrong on global compassion. ‘Moneyless man’ Mark Boyle will talk about a year without cash, environmental journalist Lucy Siegle will talk about the true cost of cheap fashion, Lewis Wolpert will discuss ageing and festival favourite Ben Okri will close the week with his profound new essays “A Time For New Dreams”.
Festival President, Roy Hattersley, is programming the Great Hall events on Saturday 9 July with speakers he admires including Mary Warnock, Robert Winston, Robert Skidelsky and James Naughtie. In the politics corner Polly Toynbee and David Walker will discuss the legacy of Labour and David Owen will examine Coalition politics.
Google will also board Telegraph Ways With Words this year as Online Partner co-hosting two timely discussions one on ‘Free Speech: The Great Middle East Revolution’ with Libyan-born author Hisham Matar, the CEO of Index on Censorship, John Kampfner, and Tunisian blogger / activist Sami Ben Gharbia and the other throwing open the debate on ‘Google and Books: Good or Evil?’
These events jostle with many more on food, gardens, relationships, poetry, science, history, biography and philosophy. In fact something – if not for everyone – for lots of people.
Add to the mix Dartington Hall’s breathtakingly beautiful estate with its medieval courtyard, 13th Century Great Hall (the venue for lots of talks), extensive landscaped gardens with the valley of the River Dart skirting the estate. Just 2 miles away over the rolling Devon hills is the lively town of Totnes and not much further is Dartmoor. All of these things combine together to make Telegraph Ways With Words a unique and special experience.
For further information contact: Chloe Dunbar, 07976735337, chloe@wayswithwords.co.uk
The full programme for Telegraph Ways With Words is available from today online at: www.wayswithwords.co.uk
Notes to editors:
Events at Dartington run from 10am-10pm across the ten days and visitors to the festival can buy individual, day or 5 or 10-day tickets.
Individual tickets are available at £9.
Our box office opens on Monday 23 May for general booking (Mon 16 May for Festival Friends booking) when tickets will be available online or by phone: 01803 867373
Three festival package options are available: 10-day, 5-day and weekend - which include on-site accommodation and entry to all events.
Ways With Words also run literary events in Suffolk, Cumbria and Italy – do contact us for further information about these events.
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20th ANNIVERSARY WITH BIGGEST EVER FESTIVAL
Among the line-up of over 160 events will be:
Marcus Brigstocke, James Naughtie, Melyvn Bragg, Alan Hollinghust, Maureen Lipman, Ben Okri , Karen Armstrong, Harry Hill, Robert Winston, Howard Marks, Margaret Drabble, Douglas Hurd, Shirley Williams, Shappi Khorsandi, AC Grayling
Dartington Hall, Devon, July 8-18 2011
Announcing its 20th Anniversary line up, Telegraph Ways With Words Festival is set to celebrate this July with a programme that is larger, more diverse and more global than ever before.
The ten-day festival has become established as a major literary fixture drawing festival-goers to its stunning setting within the medieval estate and gardens of Dartington Hall in South Devon.
Celebrating 20 years of debate, exploration, laughter and literary highs, the festival, which started in 1991, attracts world-class authors, media figures and thinkers. Highlights from this summer’s programme will include:
Literary Greats
Words and stories are at the heart of the festival. Hear Alan Hollinghurst, in conversation with fellow author Philip Hensher. And catch among others: Penelope Lively, Margaret Drabble, Justin Cartwright, Paul Torday, Esther Freud, Joanna Briscoe, Jasper Fforde, Salley Vickers, Devon-based literary star Nicholas Evans and Blake Morrison who will deliver The Ted Hughes Memorial Lecture.
Major Comics
Kicking off with Marcus Brigstocke, a host of funny and familiar faces will include stand-up Shappi Khorsandi, TV Burp legend Harry Hill, Maureen Lipman, comic actress Arabella Weir, John Hegley adding a dose of the absurd and humorist Jon Ronson questioning if we are actually all psychopaths?
Global Themes
This year’s festival is the most international yet and powerfully informed voices will help unpack some of the biggest challenges facing our world. Shirley Williams and David Aaronovitch will question if nuclear weapons are right for our times? Mark Malloch Brown will share his thoughts on new global politics. Former Foreign Secretary, Douglas Hurd will give his view on British policy making abroad and the war in Afghanistan will be discussed by senior US and British journalists Toby Harnden and Sean Rayment. Motherhood in China will be exposed by Xinran, as will the plight of women in Afghanistan by fearless young journalist Zarghuna Kargar, India’s science boom will be explored by Angela Saini while historian Lord David Gilmore will tell us how Italy has became the country it is today. On a lighter note the world can be seen through the piercing eyes of AA Gill and Matthew Parris will entertain with colourful stories from British ambassador’s valedictory dispatches.
Big Ideas
Newsreader Martin Bell will join BBC4 historian Lucy Worsley to discuss the future of monarchy, rugby legend Brian Moore and a host of Telegraph journalists will debate the value of arts versus sports, attitudes to spirituality will be argued from every angle from Melyvn Bragg on The King James Bible to philosopher AC Grayling on his Secular Bible via Rabbi Lionel Blue and Karen Armstrong on global compassion. ‘Moneyless man’ Mark Boyle will talk about a year without cash, environmental journalist Lucy Siegle will talk about the true cost of cheap fashion, Lewis Wolpert will discuss ageing and festival favourite Ben Okri will close the week with his profound new essays “A Time For New Dreams”.
Festival President, Roy Hattersley, is programming the Great Hall events on Saturday 9 July with speakers he admires including Mary Warnock, Robert Winston, Robert Skidelsky and James Naughtie. In the politics corner Polly Toynbee and David Walker will discuss the legacy of Labour and David Owen will examine Coalition politics.
Google will also board Telegraph Ways With Words this year as Online Partner co-hosting two timely discussions one on ‘Free Speech: The Great Middle East Revolution’ with Libyan-born author Hisham Matar, the CEO of Index on Censorship, John Kampfner, and Tunisian blogger / activist Sami Ben Gharbia and the other throwing open the debate on ‘Google and Books: Good or Evil?’
These events jostle with many more on food, gardens, relationships, poetry, science, history, biography and philosophy. In fact something – if not for everyone – for lots of people.
Add to the mix Dartington Hall’s breathtakingly beautiful estate with its medieval courtyard, 13th Century Great Hall (the venue for lots of talks), extensive landscaped gardens with the valley of the River Dart skirting the estate. Just 2 miles away over the rolling Devon hills is the lively town of Totnes and not much further is Dartmoor. All of these things combine together to make Telegraph Ways With Words a unique and special experience.
For further information contact: Chloe Dunbar, 07976735337, chloe@wayswithwords.co.uk
The full programme for Telegraph Ways With Words is available from today online at: www.wayswithwords.co.uk
Notes to editors:
Events at Dartington run from 10am-10pm across the ten days and visitors to the festival can buy individual, day or 5 or 10-day tickets.
Individual tickets are available at £9.
Our box office opens on Monday 23 May for general booking (Mon 16 May for Festival Friends booking) when tickets will be available online or by phone: 01803 867373
Three festival package options are available: 10-day, 5-day and weekend - which include on-site accommodation and entry to all events.
Ways With Words also run literary events in Suffolk, Cumbria and Italy – do contact us for further information about these events.
Download WWW Anounces 20th Anniversary line up.doc
Download WAYS_WITH_WORDS_065.jpg
Download WAYS_WITH_WORDS_056.jpg
Download WAYS_WITH_WORDS_045.jpg
Download WAYS_WITH_WORDS_039.jpg
Download WAYS_WITH_WORDS_036.jpg
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