P R O G R A M M E

Thursday 29 September

Exhibition: Illustrations from Greene’s books for children

15.30 – 16.30 A Festival Event for Berkhamsted School’s Sixth Form,
Old Hall, Berkhamsted School
Sixth-form event with Neil Sinyard speaking to English A-level students. Possible second event for Media Studies students with an experienced film editor.
This event includes the announcement of the titles for the GGBT Creative Writing Awards for 2012.

17.30 – 19.30 Social Gathering and Buffet Supper at The Gatsby.
Two courses and coffee with a vegetarian alternative. Please order on the Ticket Application Form and pay by Friday 23 September if you intend to be present.
The restaurant is under The Rex cinema on the High Street.
Cost: £15.

19.45 – 21.30 Film Night at The Rex Cinema
Film: Brighton Rock
111 mins; UK; Director Rowan Joffé. Starring Andrea Riseborough, Sam Riley, Helen Mirren. Classification: 15.
Introduced by Rowan Joffé
Cost: £8

Friday 30 September

Talks at the Town Hall, Berkhamsted

Morning Session

9.30 – 10.30 Christian Hofferbert
"Godless Greene – Changing Extremes in Greene’s Work"

10.30 Break for tea and coffee

11.00 – 12.00 Prof. François Gallix
"Graham Greene’s Books for Children"

Cost: £10.00

12.00 noon Break for Lunch

Afternoon Session

14.15 – 15.15 Martin Jenkins
"At last The Blue Plaque"

Tim Bentink
"How Greene was My Childhood"

15.15 Break for tea and coffee

15.45 – 16.45 Julian Clapp
"Brighton Rock Locations"

Cost: £10.00

Evening Session: Civic Centre, Berkhamsted

19.30 – 22.00 Film: Brighton Rock (1947)
92 minutes, UK, 1947 , starring Richard Attenborough and Carol Marsh. Classification: PG. With an introduction by Quentin Falk who will also lead a discussion afterwards.

Cost: £8.00

Saturday 1 October

Talks and Events in Deans' Hall, Berkhamsted School

Morning Session

9.30 – 10.30 Prof. Cedric Watts
"Brighton Rock: Janus and Proteus"

10.30 Break for tea and coffee

11.00 – 12.00 Prof. Joyce Stavick
"The Not-so-Quiet Americans: University Students Speak Out as Greene Film Critics"

Cost: £12

12.00 noon. Break for Lunch

Afternoon Session

14.15 – 15.15 Prof. Michael Brennan
"Faith and Authorship in the early Novels"

15.15 Break for tea and coffee

15.45 – 16.45 Lee Langley
"Traps and Escapes"

Cost: £12

Early Evening Session

18.15 – 18.30 Book Launch
Dermot Gilvary and Darren Middleton present: Dangerous Edges of Graham Greene

18.30 Birthday Toast
Andrew Bourget

18.45 – 19.45 Prof. Steve Chibnall
"Problems with Pinkie: Adapting Brighton Rock for the screen, 1947 and 2010"

Cost: £10

Late Evening Session

20.00 The Bourget-Greene Gala Dinner
(sponsored by Andrew Bourget, Graham’s eldest grandson)
Four courses with wine and coffee.
Followed by Ed Reardon
A Short Talk

Cost: £28

Saturday 1 October Alternative Event

9.30 – 16.45: A Creative Writing Workshop in Deans' Hall, Berkhamsted School

A practical one-day course which should suit aspiring adult writers of all ages

There will be one group, except for an afternoon session when delegates can select Prose Fiction OR Screenplay.

The day will include professional writers’ introductions to two disciplines (in which Graham Greene excelled), shared considerations of sample materials and the opportunity to write creatively in one of the genres.

Delegates will need to bring their own writing paper and pens or pencils.

There will be breaks for tea or coffee, but lunch is not included.

The event includes breaks and attendance at Lee Langley’s talk.

Cost: £30

The Workshop will be led by

Rebekah Lattin-Rawstrone, whose first novel was Home (Social Disease, 2008); she is currently working on her second; she teaches Creative Writing at City University (London) and The Bishopsgate Institute (London), and she is a partner of Apis Books, an independent publishing company for shorter fiction; and

William Ivory, who wrote the screenplays for Made in Dagenham (UK, 2010), which was nominated for a BAFTA Award, and Women in Love (BBC, 2011); he is a writer for television, film and stage; he is the author of A Thing Called Love (BBC, 2005) and The Sins, for which he won The Edgar Allan Poe Award in New York presented by The Crime Writers Association of America for Best TV Drama Series; he is the creator of The Invisibles (BBC1, 2007); he was awarded an honorary D.Litt. by the University of Nottingham in 2009.

Advance booking is essential to guarantee a place on the Creative Writing Workshop.
The running of the Workshop (and the attendance of the leaders listed) will depend upon there being a sufficient number of advance bookings received by the Festival Secretary by Friday 23th September 2011.
The details of the programme are subject to alteration. Changes may be seen here or on the following sites:

Sunday 2 October

Talks in Newcroft, Berkhamsted School

Morning Session Only

9.00 – 9.45 David Pearce
Founding Trustee and former director of the Festival: who better to show you around?
Prior registration is essential.
Tour of School

10.00 – 11.00 Dr Bernard Ineichen
"Spies, Lies and Dangerous to Believe—espionage in the writings of Norman Lewis and Graham Greene."

11.00 Break for tea and coffee

11.30 – 12.30 Prof. Neil Sinyard
"All writers are equal but some writers are more equal than others"

Cost: £12

12.45 – 14.00 Farewell Lunch in Old Hall, Berkhamsted School
Buffet lunch with wine

Tickets: £20

Amendments: The details of the programme are subject to alteration. Changes may be seen on this web site and on the The Festival's Facebook page

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Festival Director: Yan Christensen Yan was at the very first talk after the foundation of the Trust and has been at every Festival since, enjoying the various aspects of her involvement as trustee and as editor of A Sort Of Newsletter for several years