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Jenny Uglow 617
Words & Pictures: Writers, Artists
and a Peculiarly British Tradition
6pm / Blue Boar Marquee, Christ Church / £7.50
Jenny Uglow, the author of biographies of William
Hogarth and Thomas Bewick, explores the fascinating
relationships between British artists and writers.
Starting with Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress and moving
on to Milton, Hogarth, Fielding, Wordsworth and
Bewick, she explores the subtleties of the relationship
between words and text in some of our most famous
works of literature, and how one can influence the other.
Sponsored by Belgravia Gallery
Leslie Clack
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Oscar Wilde – More Lives than One
6.30-8pm / Maison Francaise, Norham Road / £8.00
Dear Conjunction is the brilliant Anglo-French theatre
company, whose patron was Harold Pinter. They are
coming over from Paris to offer a dazzling evening
with Oscar Wilde. Les Clack’s inspired performance
at last year’s Edinburgh Festival was hailed by a
critic as ‘an exceptional piece of work in writing,
performance and direction’. The award-winning
writer Godfrey Howard introduces the programme to
tell us about Oscar at Oxford, where he ‘aimed to burn
with one clear flame’.
FRIDAY APRIL 2009
Ffion Hague
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Preview Screening
of Arena:
T.S. Eliot introduced by
Anthony Wall and Adam Low
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6-7.30pm / Christ Church Cathedral School,
Brewer Street / £7.50
Arena contributes to the BBC’s Poetry Season with a
profile of T.S. Eliot which, with the unprecedented
co-operation of the Eliot Estate, tells the story of one
of the 20th century’s most celebrated and elusive writers
for the first time.
The Pain and Privilege:
The Women in Lloyd George’s Life
8pm / Hall, Christ Church / £7.50
Prime minister, devoted public servant, Lloyd George
was also a habitual womanizer who was cited in two
divorce cases, and was rumoured to have fought a
duel over a woman in Argentina. In her lively book,
Ffion Hague, Cardiff-born wife of former Tory leader
William Hague, explores the scandalous love life of
her compatriot, and illuminates his complex and often
controversial attitude to women.
Sponsored by Blackwell
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