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APRIL 2009
Gloria Hunniford interviewed
by Fiona Lindsay
Always With You
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4pm / Hall, Christ Church / £8.00
When her 41-year-old daughter, Caron Keating, died
in April 2004 after a secret seven-year battle with
cancer, Gloria Hunniford was consumed with grief.
In this moving talk, she reveals the desperation she
felt after Caron’s death, and the acute loneliness
she experienced, and how the letters she received
from fellow grievers helped her through some of her
darkest days. The black hole, she explains, is still
there, sometimes as big as ever, but she has found
a way to live with it and around it. Gloria Hunniford
talks to Fiona Lindsay – formerly with the RSC’s
festivals and events. Fiona has interviewed many of
the leading artists and actors.
Gillian Tindall 546
Footprints in Paris
4pm / Blue Boar Marquee / £7.50
This unique and intensely involving book evokes the
texture and atmosphere of a hidden Paris that has
survived against all the odds of time and chance.
Using a handful of lives and a specific location to
exemplify 200 years of history, Gillian Tindall focuses
on a few of the oldest streets in Paris’s Latin Quarter.
Her study shows how Paris has drawn into its
magnetic field people who have variously found there
education or enlightenment, a refuge or a secret
garden and sometimes even a different identity.
Sade Adeniran, Hisham Matar
and CS Richardson
Chaired by Mark Collins
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Books in Crisis: How Do We get the
Next Generation Reading
5pm / JCR, Christ Church / £7.50
The story is an international language, and as we all
know, the role it plays in learning is significant. But with
the growing influence of the internet and online content
in abundance, are today’s young people missing out
What are the consequences of a society that reads fewer
novels The Commonwealth Writers’ Prize aims to
encourage wider readership and greater literacy through
the promotion of books from across the 53 countries
of the Commonwealth. Join the panel of CWP-winning
authors Sade Adeniran from Nigeria (2008 Africa Best
First Book winner with Imagine This), Hisham Matar
from the UK (2007 Europe and South Asia Best First
book winner with In the Country of Men) and CS Richardson
from Canada (2007 Canada and Caribbean Best First
Book winner with The End of the Alphabet) who will read
from their work, and discuss these recent trends in reading
habits worldwide and what the consequences might mean
for the future of writers, cultures and literacy. Chaired by
Mark Collins, Director of the Commonwealth Foundation.
Gillian Clarke with
Peter Buckroyd, introduced
by Peter McDonald
Teaching Poetry
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5pm / Music Room, Christ Church / £5
This event is intended primarily for teachers of poetry
for the 15-18 year-old age group, Gillian Clarke (many
students’ favourite poet and a key AQA poet) will
discuss the teaching of poetry with Dr Peter Buckroyd,
previously Chief Examiner, AQA GCSE English, and the
audience. To be followed by a complimentary drink and
nibbles to allow for informal discussion.
Sponsored by Tower Poetry
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