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Festival Programme
Devon Writers
“The river walks in the valley singing, letting her veils blow”
Ted Hughes, ‘Torridge’
Joss Ackland
Sat 24th Sep, 2011, 6:00pm - 7:00pm
St Mary’s Church £8.00
My Better Half and Me. Joss Ackland CBE needs no introduction as a leading actor on stage and screen. This evening he will talk to TV presenter Judy Spiers...
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David Carter – History Walk 1
Sat 24th Sep, 2011, 1:30pm - 3:30pm
St. Mary’s Hall £5.00
Lost Appledore. A walking tour of historic Appledore, starting from St Mary’s Hall. Following the sell-out walks last year, local historian David Carter has come up with a brand new walk...
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Trevor Hill
Mon 26th Sep, 2011, 4:00pm - 5:00pm
St. Mary’s Hall £5.00
A Century of Social Change: 1910-2010 The first County secondary school in Devon was founded in Barnstaple in 1910 and From Grammar to Park celebrates its history in words...
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David Carter – History Walk 2
Mon 26th Sep, 2011, 1:30pm - 3:30pm
St. Mary’s Hall £5.00
Lost Appledore. Another chance to join local historian David Carter on this brand new walk for the 2011 Festival. The title of the walk is Lost Appledore and David...
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John Riddington-Young
Tue 27th Sep, 2011, 11:00am - 12:00pm
Appledore Hall £5.00
The Hospital Revolution: a View from Inside. John Riddington-Young is the senior surgeon at the North Devon Hospital. Based on a professional lifetime’s experience,he presents a desperately needed exposé...
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Laurence Shelley
Tue 27th Sep, 2011, 4:00pm - 5:00pm
St. Mary’s Hall £5.00
On Chance Road: A Thumbprint of Britain. Where are we heading? Local author Laurence Shelley hitchhiked from the Lizard to the far north of Scotland asking everyone he met...
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Tue 27th Sep, 2011, 1:30pm - 3:30pm
St. Mary’s Hall £5.00
Lost Appledore. Another chance to join local historian David Carter on this brand new walk for the 2011 Festival. The title of the walk is Lost Appledore and David...
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Hugh Michael Bone
Wed 28th Sep, 2011, 11:00am - 12:00pm
Appledore Library £5.00
J H Taylor. This book Taylor’s Gold, charting the times of John Henry Taylor has been published by The Royal North Devon Golf Club at Westward Ho!, said to be...
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Peter Villiers: Orwell, Kipling & Conrad
Wed 28th Sep, 2011, 4:00pm - 5:00pm
St. Mary’s Hall £5.00
Orwell, Kipling and Conrad: Three authors and an assessment. George Orwell remains world-famous for Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four, and Rudyard Kipling famous for his poem If. Joseph Conrad is...
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Martin Dorey
Thu 29th Sep, 2011, 11:00am - 12:00pm
St. Mary’s Hall £5.00
The Camper Van Cookbook. Who hasn’t dreamed of escaping the humdrum and hitting the road in a classic VW camper? In the Camper Van Cookbook Martin Dorey, North Devon...
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Tim Kevan
Thu 29th Sep, 2011, 2:00pm - 3:00pm
St. Mary’s Hall £5.00
Law and Disorder. Tim Kevan reads extracts from his two comedy novels Law and Peace and Law and Disorder (which The Times described as “a cross between The Talented...
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Jan Mazzoni: The Snow Fox Diaries
Thu 29th Sep, 2011, 4:00pm - 5:00pm
St. Mary’s Hall £5.00
The Snow Fox Diaries. Come and hear Jan Mazzoni in conversation with Maggie Murray on the subject of her thought-provoking new novel The Snow Fox Diaries. Set against the...
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Anthony Tucker-Jones
Fri 30th Sep, 2011, 4:00pm - 5:00pm
St. Mary’s Hall £5.00
Killing bin Laden. A former Defence Intelligence Officer gives us the inside story. On the 10th anniversary of 9/11, author Anthony Tucker-Jones discusses the rise of Osama bin Laden...
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Peter Christie
Sun 2nd Oct, 2011, 11:30am - 12:30pm
St. Mary’s Hall £6.00
Bideford’s First Policeman. The true story of Bideford’s first policeman. Up until 1836 Bideford had no professional police force at all but in that year P.C.Elias Palmer arrived from...
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