P R O G R A M M E

• N.B. The details of the programme are subject to alteration.

• Thursday 1 October

  • 4.30 – 6.00 p.m. A Creative Writing Event for Berkhamsted School's Sixth Form Old Hall, Berkhamsted School,
  • led by Young Writers, Publishers and Members of Tales of the Decongested
  • Rebekah Lattin-Rawstrone
  • Heidi James
  • David Strickland
  • This event includes the launch of GGBT Creative Writing Awards for Young People.
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  • 5.30 – 7.00 p.m. Social Gathering and Buffet Supper, King's Arms
  • Telephone 01442 866595, fax: 01442 877782
    email: info@kingsarmshotel.com
    
  • Cost: £13.95, payable on arrival, please.
    
  • Two courses and coffee, with a vegetarian option.
    This has proved to be a popular opportunity for everyone to meet socially at the start of the Festival.
    Please contact the King's Arms by Monday 28 September, if you intend to be present.
  
  • 7.30 – 9.30 p.m. Film Night at The Rex Cinema
  • Film: The Third Man
  • (104 minutes, UK, 1949, starring Orson Welles, Joseph Cotton, Alida Valli and Trevor Howard). Classification: PG
  • Preceded by a Short Selection of Popular Film Scores composed by Austrians, played on the Zither by Cornelia Mayer, Introduced by Her Excellency Dr. Gabriele Matzner-Holzer, the Austrian Ambassador to the UK
  • Tickets: £8

• Friday 2 October

  Talks at the Town Hall, Berkhamsted

  Morning Session

  • 9.30 – 10.30 a.m. Jeremy Lewis
  • "The Other Greenes"
  • 10.30 a.m. Break for tea and coffee
  • 11.00 – 12.00 noon Dr. Rod Mengham
  • "Graham Greene in the 1930s"
  • Tickets for the morning: £8.50

  12.00 noon Break for Lunch

  Please make your own arrangements for lunch. There are a number of nearby restaurants, cafés, public houses and sandwich shops.

  Afternoon Session

  • 2.15 – 3.15 p.m. Tom Aitken
  • "Eccentric Catholics: Graham Greene and Frederick Rolfe as Spoiled Priests"
  • 3.15 p.m. Break for tea and coffee
  • 3.45 – 4.45 p.m. Fr. Mark Bosco, S.J.
  • "Graham Greene: Catholic Literary Modernist"
  • Tickets for the afternoon: £8.50

  Evening Session

  • Concert and Film at the Civic Centre, Berkhamsted
  • 7.45 – 8.45 p.m. A Selection of Compositions and Arrangements by Anton Karas, played on the Zither by Cornelia Mayer
  • Introduced by Peter Gieler, Anglo-Austrian Society
    Cornelia Mayer's performances at the Festival are sponsored by the Anglo-Austrian Society.
    

  • 8.45 p.m. Interval

  • 9.00pm-10.00pm Five Minutes, Mr. Welles
  • 30 minutes, B&W, Brooklyn Hazelhurst Productions, 2005, directed by Vincent D’Onofrio, starring the director and Janine Thériault; only ever screened officially at the Venice Film Festival; a tribute to Orson Welles, and an imagined “behind the scenes” look at the actor during his filming of The Third Man; this film is also a story about the nature of artistic creation and the conflict between art and commerce. Classification: PG
  • Preceded by an introduction

  • Tickets for the evening: £8.00
  
  Cornelia Mayer
  
  Vincent D'Onofrio

• Saturday 3 October

  Talks and Events in Deans' Hall, Berkhamsted School

  Exhibition: The Third Man

• Morning Session

  • 9.30 – 10.30 a.m. New Research on Graham Greene: a Talk sponsored by the Trust
  • Dr. Chris Hull
  • “Prophecy and Comedy in Havana: Greene’s ‘entertainment’ and the reality of British diplomacy in Cuba”
  • 10.30 a.m. Break for tea and coffee
  • 11.00 – 12.00 noon Michael Billington
  • “Graham Greene in the Theatre”
  • Tickets for the morning: £10
  • 12.00 noon – 12.10 p.m. David Pearce GGBT
  • "In Memoriam: Ken Sherwood (1935 – 2009)"
  • Co-founder of Graham Greene Birthplace Trust and the Festival.
    A Tribute

  12.10 p.m. Break for Lunch

  Please make your own arrangements for lunch. There are a number of nearby restaurants, cafés, public houses and sandwich shops.

  Afternoon Session

  • 2.00 – 3.00 p.m. Prof. David Crystal, OBE
  • “Going Careful in The Third Man: a Linguistic Exploration”

  • 3.00 p.m. Break for tea and coffee

  • 3.30 – 4.15 p.m. Kate Adie, OBE
  • “Into Danger“
  • Ms. Adie's talk will focus more upon her own work than upon Greene's writing.

  • Tickets for the afternoon: £10
  
  Prof David Crystal
  Kate Adie

  Early Evening Session

  • 6.30 p.m. "To Graham Greene": The Birthday Toast
  • with a choice of red or white wine.
  • Proposed by Andrew Bourget, grandson of Graham Greene.
  • 6.45 – 7.45 p.m. Dr. Charles Drazin
  • “The Oklahoma Kid: A sympathetic portrait of writer and part-time investigator Holly Martins”
  • Tickets for the early evening: £8

  Late Evening Session

  • 8.00 p.m. Austrian Buffet Supper in Old Hall
  • with Wiener Schnitzel, Sachertorte and a selection of Austrian wines
  • Followed by Dr Brigitte Timmermann
  • with a short talk on "Anton Karas"
  • and a selection of Anton Karas' music for The Third Man, played on the Zither by Cornelia Mayer
  • Tickets: £22
  
  Anton Karas

• Saturday 3 October Alternative Event

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

  A Creative Writing Workshop in Deans’ Hall, Berkhamsted School

  Exhibition: The Third Man

  Morning and Afternoon Sessions Only

  • 9.30 a.m.– 5.00 p.m. A Creative Writing Workshop in Prose and Screenplay Writing
  • when the leaders will be
  • teaching towards a variety of styles,
  • guiding writers for the printed page and for the screen, and
  • giving tips to writers of fiction and fact
  • when the writers will be
  • writing their own texts,
  • planning their own manuscripts,
  • receiving feedback on their own words written during the day, and
  • sharing the inspiration of Prof. David Crystal's talk on the language of Graham Greene's The Third Man
  • when the GGBT Creative Writing Awards will be launched.
  • The Workshop will be led by
  • Rebekah Lattin-Rawstrone
  • Heidi James
  • Bill Ivory
  • Creina Mansfield
  • The event includes breaks for tea and coffee (at 10.30am and 3.00pm) and for lunch (12.00 noon to 2.00 p.m.) and attendance at the following talk:
  • 2.00 – 3.00 p.m. Prof. David Crystal, OBE
  • “Going Careful in The Third Man: a Linguistic Exploration”
  • Tickets for the day: £25
  • At 12.00 noon, delegates will have the opportunity to attend "In Memoriam: Ken Sherwood (1935 – 2009)", a Tribute by David Pearce to a co-founder of the Graham Greene Birthplace Trust and the Festival.
  • N.B. (i) Advance booking is essential to guarantee a place on the Creative Writing Workshop.
  • N.B. (ii) Delegates at the Workshop should bring a good supply of writing paper and pens or pencils.
  • N.B. (iii) 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 25th September 2009.
  • N.B. (iv) The details of the programme are subject to alteration. Changes may be seen here on the Festival’s website, on the Festival’s Facebook page or on the Director’s Blog http://grahamgreenefestival.blogspot.com

• Sunday 4 October

  Talks and Events in Deans’ Hall, Berkhamsted School

  Exhibition: The Third Man

  Morning Session Only

  • 9.30 a.m.– 9.50 a.m. Historic Film of Greene's Switzerland
  • 10.00 – 11.00 a.m. David Pearce
  • "Dr. Fischer of Geneva and coming to terms with terrorism"
  • 11.00 a.m. Break for tea and coffee
  • 11.30 a.m. – 12.30 p.m. Prof. Neil Sinyard
  • "Forgotten Memories and the Mystery of The Tenth Man". An Illustrated Talk
  • Tickets for the morning: £10
  • 12.45 p.m. – 2.00 p.m. Farewell Lunch in Old Hall, Berkhamsted School
  • Two courses with a choice of red or white wine
  • Tickets: £20
• • Amendments: The details of the programme are subject to alteration. Changes may be seen here on the Festival’s website, on the Festival’s Facebook page or on the Director’s Blog http://grahamgreenefestival.blogspot.com/
  • Copyright: The Trust is grateful for permission to reproduce copyright images. It has not always been possible to identify the sources of the images used, and in such cases the Trust would welcome information from the copyright owners.