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3 FRIDAY
APRIL 2009
Kate Adie, Robin Laurance,
Harry Sidebottom and
Stephen Venables
Chaired by Julie Summers
Eyewitness to History
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2pm / Garden Marquee, Christ Church / £7.50
Eyewitness accounts of events are by their nature
rarely impartial, but they remain critical to historians
and writers. But how reliable are they What
influence can they have And how does the historian
know what or who to trust An experienced panel
including war correspondent Kate Adie, writer and
photographer Robin Laurance, classics fellow and
novelist Harry Sidebottom and mountaineer and
historian Stephen Venables will consider the issues
involved in the use of eyewitness accounts of history.
Sponsored by Blackwell
Jenny Uglow 609
The Lunar Men:
The Friends Who Made the Future
2pm / McKenna Room, Christ Church / £7.50
Jenny Uglow is a superb explorer of 18th-century
British history. In her fascinating group biography,
she concentrates on a group of like-minded men in
the 1760s, all members of a Birmingham club called
the Lunar Society, who together and individually,
through their inventions and innovations, changed
irrevocably the world in which they lived. Matthew
Boulton, James Watt, Josiah Wedgwood, Erasmus
Darwin and Joseph Priestly were all members
of this society, and in her outstanding book Uglow
reveals the friendships, political passions, love
affairs and thirst for knowledge that drove these
inspirational men.
Supported by Wedgwood
Susie Boyt 616
My Judy Garland Life
David Whyte 613
Dangerous Liaisons
The Poetry of Revelation
and Self Discovery
2pm / Festival Room 1, Christ Church / £7.50
Self-discovery in poetry is something of a misnomer
as the self that opens up through the poetic art is
the voice of the no-self, a fiery form of silent in which
we might overhear ourselves speaking the truth.
This session will look, through David’s work and that
of others from Dante to Dickinson, at a poetry of
epiphany and revelation that exiles us from our old
home and puts us into a larger circle than one we
have made for ourselves.
2pm / Festival Room 2, Christ Church / £7.50
My Judy Garland Life will speak to anyone who has
ever nursed an obsession or held a candle to a star.
Judy Garland has been an important figure in Susie
Boyt’s life since she was three years old, comforting,
inspiring and at times disturbing her. In this unique
and very poignant book, Boyt travels deep into the
underworld of hero worship, reviewing through
the prism of Judy our understanding of rescue,
consolation, love, grief and fame.
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