S P E A K E R S

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Tim Bentink

Tim Bentink
With many claims to fame, Tim Bentinck is probably best known as “David Archer”. What is perhaps less well known is that his roots are in Berkhamsted.
Prof. Michael Brennan

Prof. Michael Brennan
Professor of Renaissance Studies at Leeds University. Readers of ASON will know of his recent book Fiction, Faith and Authorship and he will talk to us on themes from that book.
Prof. Steve Chibnall

Prof. Steve Chibnall
Professor of British Cinema and Director of the Cinema and Television Research (CATH) Research Centre at De Montfort University, Leicester, UK. He has recently published a two-volume history of the British ‘B’ Film (BFI/Palgrave) and has also written extensively on crime cinema, including a monograph on the Boulting Brothers' adaptation of Brighton Rock (I.B. Tauris, 2005).
Julian Clapp

Julian Clapp
Brighton is a favourite destination for holidays and excursions and Brighton-born Julian Clapp has established himself as a knowledgeable tour guide, among other things, of places connected with Brighton Rock. He will give us a ‘virtual tour’ that will enhance our enjoyment of the film to be shown on the Friday evening.
Quentin Falk

Quentin Falk
is editor of the BAFTA magazine, Academy. He is also the author of books on Graham Greene, Anthony Hopkins, The Rank Organisation, Albert Finney and, imminently, Alfred Hitchcock.
Prof. François Gallix

Prof. François Gallix
Emeritus Professor of Contemporary English literature at Paris IV-Sorbonne. He has published several books and articles in this domain. His current research is on Graham Greene. He has published an unfinished novella by Greene in The Times and in The Strand and translated it into French, with bibliography, filmography and introductions: La Chaise vide et autres récits inédits (Robert Laffont, 2 vol. 2011).
Mike Hill

Mike Hill
Historian; director, Graham Greene Festival, 2005-2007; with Jon Wise co-author of a bibliographical and contextual reference book, The Writings of Graham Greene: A Reader's Guide
Christian Hofferbert

Christian Hofferbert
is in the final stages of his doctoral thesis for which he chose Changing Extremes in Greene’s works as a subject. We are pleased that he has agreed to present an aspect of his work at the Festival.
Dr Bernard Ineichen

Dr Bernard Ineichen
Social anthropologist, author of four books, with a career in medical education and research. An interest in events in Italy in 1944 led to the work of Norman Lewis, whose life and writing parallel those of his contemporary, Graham Greene.
William Ivory

William Ivory
Writer for television, film and stage; author of Women in Love (BBC, 2010), A Thing Called Love (BBC, 2005), 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; creator of The Invisibles (BBC1, 2007); honorary D.Litt., University of Nottingham, 2009
Martin Jenkins

Martin Jenkins
After many years' negotiations, Martin Jenkins finally persuaded English Heritage to commemorate Graham Greene at the house where he lived in the 1940s on Clapham Common North Side.
Rowan Joffé

Rowan Joffé
writer and director with several awards and nominations to his credit; screenplay for The American with George Clooney; 28 Weeks Later; and Last Resort. Directed The Shooting of Thomas Hurndall (BAFTA award Best Fiction Director 2009) and directed and wrote Secret Life for TV. Wrote Turkish Delight (Royal Television Society Best Drama Award 2003) and Gas Attack (Michael Powell Award for Best New British Feature at the Edinburgh Festival 2001).
Lee Langley

Lee Langley
Award-winning novelist and travel-writer Lee Langley wrote the screen adaptation of Greene’s The Tenth Man, and will be talking about the pleasures and problems of adaptation, and the lure of faraway places to writers of fiction. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
Rebekah Lattin-Rawstrone

Rebekah Lattin-Rawstrone
Her 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.
David Pearce

David Pearce
Founding Trustee and former director, Graham Greene Festival; author of Festival papers on Stamboul Train and Dr. Fischer of Geneva
Ed Reardon

Ed Reardon
During his thirty-five year career in radio and television, writing what he defiantly thinks of as ‘entertainments’, Andrew Nickolds has put words into the mouths of Lenny Henry, Ned Sherrin, Frankie Howerd, Arthur Daley and Rupert Bear. Ed Reardon (created with Christopher Douglas) is the closest he has come to reality.
Prof Neil Sinyard

Prof Neil Sinyard
Department of Film Studies, University of Hull. Author of Graham Greene: A Literary Life (2003) and many other volumes on actors and films.
Prof. Joyce Stavick

Prof. Joyce Stavick
Associate Professor of English at North Georgia College & State University, Dahlonega, Georgia, USA, where she teaches linguistics, grammar, world literature, and the novels of Graham Greene. She is currently studying names in Greene's fiction.
Prof. Cedric Watts

Prof. Cedric Watts
Well known to regular Festival-goers, Cedric Watts is Research Professor of English at Sussex University. He is an acknowledged Greene enthusiast and expert. His numerous books include Greene (Longman/Pearson 1997), praised for being "pleasurable, provocative and incisive."