PAST FESTIVALS

Sat 7 May 6.30pm

Patrick Mackie and Charlie Bennett take a fresh look Mozart’s life and work

Mon 9 May 7.30pm

Beethoven and Schubert

Tue 10 May 7.30pm

A Bach Celebration

Wed 11 May 7.30pm

Chopin

Thur 12 May 7.30pm

Haydn, Fanny Mendelssohn, Brahms

Fri 13 May 7.30pm

Krommer, Mozart, Beethoven

Sat 14 May 10.30am

Working with three advanced singers

Sat 14 May 7.30pm

Beethoven, Sibelius, Debussy, Chopin

Sun 15 May 7.30pm

Dvorak, Vaughan Williams, James B Wilson, Fela Sowande

Mon 16 May 7.30pm

Mark-Anthony Turnage, Schubert

Tue 17 May 7.30pm

Haydn, Elgar, Holst

Wed 18 May 7.30pm

Schubert, Schumann, Bartok

Thur 19 May 10.30am

Working with three advanced pianists

Thur 19 May 7.30pm

Beethoven, Tchaikovsky, Dvorak

Fri 20 May 6.30pm

JS Bach St Matthew Passion

Sat 21 May 7.00pm

Mendelssohn, Mozart, Schumann

Tue 10th – Fri 13th & Tue 17th 1.05pm – 2.05pm

Fine young musicians at the start of their career

Tue 3 May 11am - 1pm

Plotting a novel with Maggie Hamand

Tue 3 May 12noon

Justine Picardie presents her latest biography

Tue 3 May 3.30pm

Paul Reeves finding lost treasures

Tue 3 May 7pm

Jacqueline Riding and Meg Sanders in conversation

Tue 3 May 8.30pm

Loyd Grossman’s illustrated account of 17c Rome

Wed 4 May 10am

Carole Angier’s presentation on WG Sebald

Wed 4 May 11.30am

Miranda Seymour, Cicely Havely and Caroline Sanderson discuss Jean Rhys and Jane Eyre

Wed 4 May 2pm

Clover Stroud discusses with Meg Sanders the loss of Nell Gifford

Wed 4 May 3.30pm

Patrick Gale’s novel on Charles Causeley

Wed 4 May 7pm

Richard Beard and Robert Verkaik discuss boarding schools & inherited wealth

Wed 4 May 8.30pm

Tim Brighouse and Mick Waters argue for a new age of schooling

Thur 5 May 10am

Janina Ramirez reveals how women were struck out of history

Thur 5 May 11.30am

Anna Keay explores the interregnum through the lives of nine contemporaries

Thur 5 May 2pm

Kate Hughes on how we can preserve our climate, forests and seas

Thur 5 May 3.30pm

Michael Billington and Sam Walters reminisce on thirty years of British theatre

Thur 5 May 7pm

Alison MacLeod and Lara Feigel discuss DH Lawrence and Lady Chatterley’s Lover

Thur 5 May 8.30pm

Charlotte Higgins shares her reinterpretation  of Greek Myths with Judith Affleck

Fri 6 May 10.30am

Simon Potter’s critical examination of 100 years of the BBC

Fri 6 May 12noon

Francesca Stavrakopoulou and Craig Bishop discuss the origins monotheistic religion

Fri 6 May 2.30pm

Paul Henry at Ann Allen’s ‘open mic’ session

Fri 6 May 3pm

Screenplay by Ian McEwan based on his 2015 novel

Fri 6 May 7pm

Duncan Minshull and Sally Bayley discuss memoir and the magic of walking

Fri 6 May 8.30pm

Anna Whitehouse entertains with her unputdownable, glare of social media novel

Sat 7 May 10.30am

Thomas Harding charts the 1823 uprising of enslaved people in British Guyana

Sat 7 May 12noon

Sarah Churchwell traces the creation of Margaret Mitchell's epic 1936 bestseller Gone With the Wind

Sat 7 May 2pm

Zoë Playdon and Finn Mackay discuss a 1967 transgender legal hearing, and sex, gender and sexual identity today

Sat 7 May 3.30pm

Richard Overy recasts the way in which we view WWII

Sat 7 May 5pm

Julian Haynes and Sue Cook discuss the 1974 disappearance of John Stonehouse MP

Sat 7 May 6.30pm

Patrick Mackie and Charlie Bennett take a fresh look Mozart’s life and work