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Monday 18 August events <strong>for</strong> adults continued<br />
Dan Cruickshank<br />
THE PINSENT MASONS EVENT<br />
6.30pm I RBS Main Theatre I £9.00 £7.00<br />
The Catherine Palace near St Petersburg, the Hanging Temple in China’s<br />
Shanxi, the Lupanare brothels in Pompeii, and an igloo in Greenland –<br />
hugely popular broadcaster Dan Cruickshank tells the story of architecture<br />
in all its diversity through buildings which have impressed, astonished or<br />
changed our perception of the world.<br />
Lin Anderson, Alex Gray<br />
& Aline Templeton<br />
CRIME FICTION<br />
6.45pm I Peppers Theatre I £9.00 £7.00<br />
BSL<br />
culture<br />
crime<br />
Three of our finest crime writers reveal their influences. Lin Anderson’s latest<br />
novel Easy Kill centres on the killing of young prostitutes, and Alex Gray’s Pitch<br />
Black features the brutal stabbing of a footballer. Aline Templeton’s DI Fleming<br />
investigates two murders in rural Galloway in Lamb to the Slaughter.<br />
The Politics of Food<br />
environment<br />
FOOD AND SOCIETY<br />
7.00pm – 8.15pm I Highland Park Spiegeltent I £9.00 £7.00<br />
Join leading figures in a discussion on the food cycle, from safeguarding<br />
the livelihoods of farmers, the inexorable rise of the supermarket, to<br />
sourcing the best produce locally. Harriet Lamb heads the UK’s Fairtrade<br />
Foundation, Graham Harvey is a food campaigner, and leading<br />
environmental writer Carolyn Steel’s book examines the relationship<br />
between the growth and function of cities and the production of food.<br />
David Kinloch & Richard Price<br />
SCOTTISH POETRY<br />
7.30pm I Writers’ Retreat I £6.00 £4.00<br />
A glorious double bill featuring two of Scotland’s leading poets. David Kinloch<br />
reads from his new series of poems about Scottish painters and their<br />
relationship with France. Richard Price’s latest collection Greenfields lyrically<br />
evokes a childhood in Renfrewshire.<br />
Tom Devine<br />
SCOTTISH HISTORY<br />
8.00pm I RBS Main Theatre I £9.00 £7.00<br />
poetry<br />
history<br />
What was Scotland’s role in the British slave trade and the campaign to<br />
abolish it The pre-eminent authority on modern Scottish history turns his<br />
attention to Scotland’s relationship to slavery and reflects that Scotland is<br />
only now, reluctantly, starting to reflect on the less heroic aspects of its<br />
involvement in the Empire. Chaired by Iain Macwhirter.<br />
Charles Leadbeater<br />
SOCIETY AND CULTURE<br />
8.30pm I ScottishPower Studio Theatre I £9.00 £7.00<br />
An in-depth exploration of how the web is changing our world. Charles<br />
society<br />
Leadbeater has advised governments and companies on innovation, and his<br />
latest book We-think: the power of mass creativity charts the rise of mass,<br />
participative approaches to innovation from science and open source<br />
software, to computer games and political campaigning.<br />
Andrew Brown & Daniel Kalder travel<br />
TRAVEL AND ADVENTURE<br />
8.30pm I Peppers Theatre I £9.00 £7.00<br />
Language Quiz<br />
culture<br />
Travel writing with a twist. In Dreaming of Sweden, Andrew Brown describes<br />
THE CHAMBERS EVENT<br />
his love-hate relationship with the country while examining the end of the<br />
7.00pm I ScottishPower Studio Theatre I £9.00 £7.00<br />
Swedish Utopian dream. In Strange Telescopes Scottish writer Daniel Kalder<br />
We are delighted to have the extremely popular Chambers Language<br />
relates his bizarre and comic adventures as he pursues a treasure hunt<br />
Quiz at the festival <strong>for</strong> another year! Come and join our panel guests,<br />
through the <strong>for</strong>mer Soviet Union.<br />
including Christopher Brookmyre, as they battle their brains against the<br />
weirdest and most wonderful language questions and conundrums. Spiegelbar<br />
Chaired by Mark Billingham.<br />
MUSIC<br />
From 9.00pm I Highland Park Spiegeltent I Free – open to all<br />
Come and enjoy a relaxing drink with live music in our atmospheric travelling<br />
ballroom. A great place to end your festival day. The band line-up is available<br />
from the In<strong>for</strong>mation Desk in the Entrance Tent.<br />
Sponsored by Highland Park<br />
Food and society<br />
Food production, air miles, intensive farming, the<br />
Book now at www.edbookfest.co.uk or 0845 373 5888 <strong>See</strong> <strong>page</strong> <strong>74</strong> / <strong>75</strong> <strong>for</strong> <strong>booking</strong> <strong>details</strong><br />
40 EDINBURGH INTERNATIONAL BOOK FESTIVAL 9 – 25 August 2008<br />
dominance of supermarkets, the search <strong>for</strong> fresh<br />
and authentic food – our eating habits have become a<br />
political, ethical and environmental barometer. We’ve<br />
invited the leading experts to talk about how what was<br />
once a matter of basic survival now brings troubling<br />
industrial and moral conundrums. And we celebrate,<br />
with joy, the Year of the Potato!<br />
LATECOMERS WILL NOT BE ADMITTED AFTER THE START OF EVENTS & NO REFUNDS WILL BE GIVEN<br />
EVENTS ARE 1 HOUR LONG UNLESS OTHERWISE STATED & TAKE PLACE IN CHARLOTTE SQUARE GARDENS
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