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Highlights from the 6th Swindon Festival of Literature: 1 - 9 May

Programme available from libraries, information and leisure centres, or by calling 771080
Saturday 1 May Wednesday 5 May
Dawn Chorus - Lawn Woods, The Planks, Old Town, 5.30am Ludovic Kennedy in conversation, with Judith Stares, and you! Swindon
Monday 3 May Museum & Art Gallery, 1 - 2pm, £4 (£3). Writer and broadcaster Ludovic
Poems & Pints - performance poetry cabaret setting D2, Kennedy considers whether God is a fiction fashioned to fulfil a timeless need
Fusion, High Street, Old Town. 8pm, £4 (£3). Tickets on Children's Poetry Workshop with poet Sara-Jane Arbury Lower Shaw Farm,
the door or from Fusion. Tel: 480083. West Swindon Aged 7 - 12, 4pm - 6pm, £3. Language development, fun with
Tuesday 4 May rhyme, and a good time! To book, call 771080 or write to the festival address.
Penny Junor (right) in conversation. Swindon Museum Clive Brain Memorial Lecture by Tony Buzan: A Dream for the Brain. Main
& Art Gallery, I pm - 2pm, £4 (£3). Penny Junor is a writer, Hall, Swindon College, Regent Circus, 5pm, no charge. Addressing the dream
broadcaster and mother, who has written about the lives of two Prime Ministers, of developing the brain's potential in a continuing learning society.
the Prince and Princess of Wales. Her latest book is Charles: Victim or Villain? Beryl Bainbridge and Bernice Rubens in conversation, with Erik Burnett-
Richard Dawkins: Unweaving the Rainbow with actress Lalla Ward. Arts Godfree. Arts Centre, 8pm, £6 (£5). Bainbridge, recently nominated Novelist
Centre, 8pm, £6 (£5). Professor Dawkins, evolutionist, Oxford University lecturer of the Year, and hailed as one of the greatest living English novelists, with prize
and TV presenter takes a close look at life, through science, made literature! winning writer Bernice Rubens.
Pulsar Poetry Evening, Butchers Arms, Greatfield, 8pm, No charge. An
IMPORTANT DECISIONS REQUIRE opportunity for allcomers to try their hand at reading or performing their poems
in a friendly and encouraging atmosphere. Further details, tel: 875941
PROFESSIONAL ADVICE Thursday 6 May
Poet in Residence Take your poems to Marcus Moore, for one-to-one or group
Buying, selling or remortgaging? workshops in Wroughton Library (tel: 464496) in the morning and Central
Library (tel: 463238) in the afternoon.
We give an efficient fully computerised service
Roger Scruton (right) in conversation, with Matt
and keep you informed throughout the process
Holland. Swindon Museum & Art Gallery, 1 - 2pm, £4
Telephone now for a quote: ( 3). Writer/joumalist/philospher with outspoken, not
very politically correct views.
Dining out with Edwina Currie - good talk, good food,
CAKTEK,KEAD & DOVE good company. De Vere Hotel, Shaw Ridge, West
S O L I C I T O R S Swindon, 7pm, £18, inc. dinner. (Reservations and
tickets direct from De Vere. Tel: 878785). Lively wide-
Commerce House, 34/35 Commercial Road, Swindon ranging talk by a significant and contemporary woman
Tel: (01793) 617617 Fax: (01793) 511249 with 'a silver tongue and a golden pen',
Friday 7 May
Scanning the Century - a Millennium-inspired discussion, with poet Simon
Q the doors to a Armitage and poetry editor Peter Forbes. Swindon Museum & Art Gallery, 12
- 1pm. £4 (£3)
new Chinese (Experience Tom Paulin: My First Acquaintance with Poets. Lydiard House, Lydiard Park,
7pm, £5 (£4) - includes wine and refreshments. Tickets from the Town Hall,
(01793) 463210.
After an extensive refurbishment we are proud to
Susan Blackmore and The Meme Machine. Swindon Museum & Art Gallery,
relaunch The Chinese Experience.
7.30pm, £2 on door. Memes are ideas, behaviours, or skills passed from person
Capture the spirit of the East and savour some of to person by imitation. Academic and broadcaster Susan Blackmore explains.
the finest Oriental cuisine in Swindon. Storytelling with Muriel Bloch and Sid Kipper. Arts Centre, 8pm, £6 (£5)
orthcomin ( vents Saturday 8 May
Benedict Allen. Swindon Museum & Art Gallery. I - 2pm, £4 (£3). Writer and
Charity May Ball Saturday 15th May, E25 per person explorer talks about his travels across the globe.
inc. Live Music, Disco, Entertainment and Buffet Alistair McGowan and Arabella Weir. Arts Centre, 7.30pm, £7 (£6). Poetry,,
meal. comedy, mimicry and anecdotes from TV and radio personalities.
Tel 01793 790180 / 532221 for Sunday 9 May
details and ticket Last day lunchtime frolic with live words, music, and song! Goddard Arms,
availability Clyffe Pypard 12 noon onwards, £3, lunch extra - tickets on the door or in
advance from the Goddard Arms. Tel: 731386
Night
Friday 28th May, Swindon Slam - Festival finale! A live, competitive, entertaining, and friendly
poetry performance, hosted, umpired, and watched over by Marcus Moore and
£20 per person
Sara-Jane Arbury, and judged, applauded, and enjoyed by you. Town Hall, 8pm
(E 15 if social
(bar from 7.30pm), £5 (£4). Poets who want to perform should ring the referee
member)
on 01453 755924, or 01793 771080.
inc. Karaoke /
Disco and Buffet Venues
meal. Swindon Museum & Art Gallery, Bath Road, Swindon. Tel: 01793 466556
Arts Centre, Devizes Road, Swindon. Tel: 01793 614837
Chinese (Experience Town Hall, Regent Circus, Swindon. Tel: 01793 463210
Pepperbox Hill, Peatmoor,West Swindon Any other enquiries: Swindon Festival of Literature, Lower Shaw Farm. Shaw,
Telephone 01793 877888 Swindon SN5 9PJ. Tel & Fax: 01793 771080.
Fax 01793 873883 To book tickets, call or visit the venue hosting the event you wish to attend.
Open 7 days a week: 12 noon to 2pm & 6pm to I I pm
* Prices subject to 10% service charge
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