P R O G R A M M E

• Thursday 2 October

  • 5.00 – 6.00 p.m. A Young Persons' Event
  • Heidi James and David Strickland
  • Young Writers, Publishers and Members of Tales of the Decongested
  • Talks and Readings.
  • Venue: The Old Hall, Berkhamsted Collegiate School
  • This event is for Young Persons, and admission is by invitation only.
  • 5.30 – 7.00 p.m. Buffet Supper
  • The King’s Arms, High Street, Berkhamsted
  • Telephone 01442 866595 or Fax 01442 877782
  • E-mail: info@kingsarmshotel.com
  • Cost: £13.95 payable on arrival please
    (Two courses and coffee, with a vegetarian alternative.)
  • This has proved a popular opportunity for everyone to meet socially at the outset of the festival.
  • Please contact The King's Arms by Monday 29 September if you intend to be present
  • 7.30 – 9.30 p.m. Film Night: Brighton Rock
  • The Rex Cinema, High Street, Berkhamsted
  • (92 minutes, UK, 1948, starring Richard Attenborough and Carol Marsh)
  • Classification: PG
  • Introduced by Dr. Charles Drazin, Lecturer in Film Studies,
    Queen Mary College, University of London
  • Author of 'The Finest Years: British Cinema of the 1940s',
    'In Search of The Third Man', and 'Korda: Britain’s Only Movie Mogul'
  • Tickets: £8

• Friday 3 October

  Lectures and Talks at the Town Hall, Berkhamsted

  A bookstall will be open in The Town Hall throughout the day

  Morning Session

  • 9.30 – 10.30 a.m. Peter Hollindale
  • Erstwhile Senior Lecturer in English and Education, University of York
  • Author of critical studies on Shakespeare, J.M. Barrie and other writers for children,
    Original Innocence, Greene's Children: The Reading of the Nature of the Child
  
  • 10.30 a.m. Coffee
  • 11.00 – 12.00 noon Libby Purves, OBE
  • Broadcaster and Journalist for The Times and BBC Radio 4
  • Author of 'Love Songs and Lies' and other titles
  • On 'Brighton Rock' and the Short Stories
  • Tickets for the morning: £7.50

  12.00 noon Lunch

  Please make your own arrangements. There are a number of nearby pubs, cafés, sandwich shops and restaurants.

  Afternoon Session

  • 2.15 – 3.15 p.m. Revd. Dr. Ian Ker
  • Faculty of Theology, Oxford University
  • Author of 'The Catholic Revival in English Literature, 1845-1961', and many texts on Newman
  • Greene and the Catholic Revival in English Literature
  • 3.15 p.m. Tea
  • 3.45 – 4.45 p.m. Dr. Darren Middleton
  • Associate Professor of Literature and Theology
  • Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, Texas, USA
  • Author of studies including
  • 'Theology After Reading: Christian Imagination and the Power of Fiction'
  • Graham Greene's Evolutionary Theology in 'Brighton Rock', 'A Burnt-Out Case' and 'The Honorary Consul'
  • Tickets for the afternoon: £7.50

  Evening Session

  • 7.30 – 10.30 p.m. Films: Double Bill at the Civic Centre, Berkhamsted
  • Introduced by Dr. Charles Drazin,
    Lecturer in Film Studies, Queen Mary College, University of London
  • Author of 'The Finest Years: British Cinema of the 1940s',
  • 'In Search of The Third Man' and 'Korda: Britain’s Only Movie Mogul'
  • Shades of Greene: The Destructors
  • (adapted by Sir John Mortimer from a short story by Graham Greene)
  • 53 minutes, Thames Television, 1975
  • Interval
  • This Gun For Hire
  • (adapted from 'A Gun For Sale', a novel by Graham Greene)
  • 81 minutes, USA, 1942, directed by Frank Tuttle,
  • starring Alan Ladd, Robert Preston and Veronica Lake
  • Classification: PG
  • Tickets for the evening: £7.50

• Saturday 4 October

  Lectures and Talks in Deans' Hall,
  Berkhamsted Collegiate School

  A bookstall will be open in Deans’ Hall throughout the day

  Morning Session

  • Exhibition: Brighton Rock

  • 9.30 – 10.30 a.m. Prof. François Gallix
  • Professor of Contemporary Literature in English at the University of the Sorbonne, Paris
  • Author of books and articles on twentieth century British authors, including Graham Greene.
  • Manager of conferences on 'The Power and the Glory' at the Sorbonne
  • The Riddles of Graham Greene: 'Brighton Rock' as a literary Catholic detective story
  • 10.30 a.m. Coffee
  • 11.00 – 12.00 noon Prof. Neil Sinyard
  • Reader in Film Studies, University of Hull
  • Author of critical texts on Greene, Zinnemann, Hitchcock, Spielberg and others
  • Feuds, Frauds and the Great Sausage Scandal: Some reflections on the strange tortured friendship of Graham Greene and Noel Coward
  • An Illustrated Talk
  • Tickets for the morning: £9

  12.00 noon Lunch

  Please make your own arrangements. There are a number of nearby pubs, cafés, sandwich shops and restaurants.

  Afternoon Session

  • 2.15 – 3.15 p.m. Gail Vida Hamburg
  • Journalist and Journalism Professor, Roosevelt University, Chicago, USA
  • Author of 'The Edge of the World'
  • Alden Pyle – Signifier of American Exceptionalism from the Puritans to George Bush – and how the 'Quiet American' found his way into my Novel
  • "...he was in his element now, with the whole universe to improve...",'The Quiet American',
  • An Illustrated Talk
  
  • 3.15 Tea
  • 3.45 – 4.45 p.m. Chris Mullin, MP (Sunderland South)
  • Author of 'A Very British Coup', 'The Last Man Out of Saigon' and 'The Year of the Fire Monkey'
  • My Brief Career as a Novelist – with thanks to Graham Greene
  • Tickets for the afternoon: £9

  Evening Session

  The Prize Draw will take place before the Birthday Toast

  • 6.15 p.m. The Birthday Toast: "To Graham Greene"
  • Wine for the Toast, and all teas and coffees on Saturday and Sunday, have been generously provided by The Tablet.
  • 6.30 – 7.30 p.m. Dr. Brigitte Timmermann
  • Historian and Author of 'The Third Man's Vienna'
  • "I never knew the old Vienna before the war, with its Strauss music, its glamour and easy charm": The Vienna Sigmund Freud left behind in 1938, and Graham Greene rediscovered in 1948
  • An Illustrated Talk
  • Tickets for the evening: £6
  
  • 8.00 p.m. Buffet Supper in Old Hall
  • with wine and coffee (with a vegetarian alternative).
  • To be followed by an After-Dinner Speech by
  • Jon Snow
  • Broadcaster and Journalist, Presenter of Channel 4 News,
  • Author of 'Shooting History: A Personal Journey',
  • Royal Television Society's Journalist of the Year 2006 and
  • Winner of BAFTA's Dimbleby award.
  • Tickets: £20, payable in advance

• Sunday 5 October

  Sixth Form Centre, Berkhamsted Collegiate School

  Morning Session Only

  • 10.00 – 11.00 a.m. David Pearce
  • Trustee of the Graham Greene Birthplace Trust
  • Former Director of the Graham Greene Festival
  • 'Stamboul Train' and the Timetable for 1932:
    Branch lines, the wrong sort of snow, and "Going all the way"
  • 11.00 a.m. Coffee
  • 11.30 – 12.30 p.m. Prof. Cedric Watts
  • English Department, University of Sussex
  • Author of critical studies on Shakespeare, Keats, Hardy, Conrad, Greene and others
  • Greene and the god Janus
  • Tickets for the morning: £7.50
  • 12.45 p.m. Farewell Lunch
  • Cold buffet with wine and coffee (with a vegetarian alternative)
  • Venue: The Old Hall, Berkhamsted Collegiate School
  • Tickets £18, payable in advance

THE END OF THE 2008 FESTIVAL

Festival Director: Dermot Gilvary,

e-mail: dng@oakham.rutland.sch.uk

Dermot Gilvary has taught English language and literature at Oakham School, Rutland, for many years, and has contributed to the development of the International Baccalaureate. He is involved in examining and teacher-training for the IB in Europe and North America, and was an advisor on Dr. Brigitte Timmermann's 'The Third Man's Vienna' (2005). He worked on the design of Oakham's Queen Elizabeth Theatre, and is the author of the farcical comedy 'Trouble at t' Test' (2007). He is planning another play, this time on an aspect of Graham Greene.