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5 SUNDAY
APRIL 2009
Claudio Cornini,
Tetsuya Ishikawa
and David Smith
The Credit Crunch,
Who is to Blame
822
2pm / Garden Marquee, Christ Church / £7.00
Until recently the British economy appeared sound
and prosperous. But, thanks to the Credit Crunch
and the dramatic crisis in the banking system, we
are now facing the biggest peacetime economic
decline since the 1930s. Who is to blame – the
banks, the regulators, or we the public Debating
this issue will be David Smith, Economics Editor
of The Sunday Times, and author of Free Lunch’,
Claudio Cornini, former Chairman of ABN AMRO
private banking in Italy, now Director of Cornhill &
Harvest, and associate lecturer in Finance at Padua
University, and Tetsuya Ishikawa, whose new book,
How I Caused the Credit Crunch, is a fascinating
insider’s fictionalised account of working at the
cutting edge of the global economy.
Ed Vaizey, Iain Dale
and Peter Hitchens
What is the Big
Conservative Idea
825
4pm / Garden Marquee, Christ Church / £7.50
Summer 2008: A double-digit lead in the polls. Victory
in the London Mayoral election and the Crewe and
Nantwich by-election. Big wins in the local elections.
A government on the back foot, if not on the ropes.
Things may have changed a little since, but the
Conservative Party will go into the next General
Election with a real chance of forming the government.
So what is it that sets them apart from Labour (and
the Lib Dems) What would they do in power What,
in short, is the big Conservative idea Join Ed Vaizey
MP (Conservative), Iain Dale (Conservative blogger),
Peter Hitchens (Mail on Sunday).
Harry Sidebottom &
Robyn Young
Truth in Historical Fiction
– Does it Matter
803
4pm / McKenna Room, Christ Church / £7.50
How important is it that historical fiction is based on
true historical fact Does it really matter if the author
uses a poetic licence to colour the facts a little in order
to give us a good read
Is it enough to set the scene reasonably accurately
and then add a few frills to make it more dramatic, or
do readers feel short changed if they discover that the
writer has taken historical licence
These are some of the questions that Harry Sidebottom
(Warrior of Rome) and Robyn Young (Requiem) will
address when they meet at the Festival to ask if an
imaginative fictional story with a compelling narrative
is more important than accurate historical facts
Sponsored by Blackwell
Modernism on Sea:
An Artistic Journey
Around the British Coast
Lara Feigel, Fred Gray,
Alexandra Harris,
Frances Spalding
806
4pm / Blue Boar Marquee, Christ Church / £7.50
The English seaside has inspired a rich tradition of
art. Join Lara Feigel and Alexandra Harris, the editors
of a new book on the modernist coast for a cultural
journey around England’s edges. Fred Gray and
Frances Spalding also join the discussion. The tour
starts in Margate, where T.S. Eliot spent long hours
sitting in a blustery shelter as he wrote The Waste
Land. It includes a visit to Paul Nash’s surrealist
Swanage and John Piper’s windy Dungeness, with
discoveries of a beachcomber’s horde of cultural
curiosities along the way, all illustrated with slides
and readings from seaside literature.
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