2010 Festival

The Festival is 5th – 16th May 2010. Theme this year will be “Making History”.

2010 FESTIVAL PROGRAMME:

Wednesday 5th
Evening welcome – 1915 (Parish Church)
LORD HURD (former Foreign Secretary in the government of Margaret Thatcher and holder of other senior ministerial posts).
Choose your Weapons: A History of the Foreign Secretary – 2000 – (Parish Church)

Thursday 6th
Free.

Friday 7th
ALLAN MALLINSON - (former serving cavalry officer, regimental historian and bestselling author of the Matthew Hervey novels set during and after the Napoleonic Wars).
The Making of the British Army – 2000 – (Memorial Hall)

Saturday 8th
Forum on War Reporting. Panellists include:
MARK WEBSTER (former ITN correspondent);
TIM COATES (author of Delane’s War- reports for the Times);
JAMES HOLLAND (author of The Battle of Britain);
ERICA MYERS-DAVIS (author of Under One Flag);
PETER HEAPS (broadcast engineer).
Starts – 1430 – (Memorial Hall)

SADIE JONES (rising young novelist and author of Small Wars). – 2000 – (Memorial Hall)

Sunday 9th
Festival FREE – Chalfont St Giles Gardens Open

Monday 10th
BEN MACINTYRE (author of current bestseller Operation Mincemeat). – 2000 – (Parish Church)

Tuesday 11th
DOREEN HAWKINS – Drury Lane to Dimapur: Wartime Adventures of an Actress – 1500 – (Jordans Quaker Meeting House)
DR TONY WILLIAMS (eminent historian and author of Dickens and The Crimea). – 2000 – (Reading Room)

Wednesday 12th
SIR BARRY JACKSON – (author of Medicine and Surgery in The Crimea) – 1430 – (Reading Room)
Exhibition – FN – (Parish Church)
KATHARINE MCMAHON (best-selling historical novelist and author of The Rose of Sebastopol) – 2000 – (Parish Church).

Thursday 13th
AMANDA SLOPE (craft bookbinder) – 1430 (Reading Room)
LOUIS DE BERNIERES (best-selling author of Captain Corelli’s Mandolin and other novels) – 2000 – (Parish Church).

Friday 14th
KATY CALKWELL (children’s story-teller) – morning – Infants schools.
ADRIAN TINNISWOOD (historian and author of the forthcoming Pirates of Barbary) – 2000 – (Memorial Hall).

Saturday 15th
BRIAN SEWELL (famous art critic and media personality)  – 1400 – (Parish Church) .
Friends’ Fundraising Quiz – evening (Memorial Hall).

Sunday 16th
CLEO SYLVESTRE – The Marvellous Adventure of Mary Seacole – 1500 – (Memorial Hall)
Prize giving and Festival Close – 2000 – (Parish Church).