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MARGARET THATCHER — on the present, the future, and the new millennium.
Wyvern Theatre,Theatre Square • Tel: 01793 524481 • 7.3Opm • £ 12.50 (l 1.50)
Unique figure in world politics, respected former Prime Minister and popular people's champion,
Margaret Thatcher is famously clear about what she thinks.This year. the twentieth anniversary of the
Falklands War, sees the publication of her latest book, Statecraft. In its pages, she brings her unrivalled political
experience to bear on the challenges of the new millennium.
Tuesday '7 May

MO MOWLAM — in conversation, with James Harrison, and with you!
Wyvern Theatre,Theatre Square • Tel: 01793 524481 • 7.30pm • £10 (£9)
People's favourite, former MR, university lecturer, member of the Shadow Cabinet, and Northern Ireland
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Secretary. Mo Mowlam has a story to tell. One of the most respected and best-loved figures in British
politics, she resigned as Cabinet Office Minister before the government's second landslide victory in 2001. In
her new book, Momentum, she tells the story, in her own words, of her time in government, and what went
on as she underwent treatment for a brain tumour. She tells the inside story of her times in Ireland and, with
the candour, warmth, and humour that are her trademarks, why she decided to leave Westminster politics.
Saturday I I May

SARAH MILES — in conversation, with Matt Holland, and with you!
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Swindon Museum and Art Gallery, Bath Road • Tel: 01793 466556 1 pm • £4 (£3)
Sarah Miles, twice married to the writer Robert Bolt, is a stage-trained actor who, during the past thirty
years, has featured in a succession of memorable films, including Blow Up (1966), Ryan's Daughter (1970) for
which she was nominated for an Oscar, and Hope and Glory (1987). She has also performed a successful one-
woman show, due to tour again later this year. Since 1990, she has concentrated more on her writing career,
and has produced three volumes of her memoirs and a novel, Beautiful Mourning, which she has also adapted
into a screenplay.
C.^nday S May

CHRIS WOODHEAD and a LITERARY LUNCH — good food, good company,
and good talk!
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Wilton Three, DeVere Hotel, Shaw Ridge Tel:01793 614837 • 12.3Opm • £25
• Includes full 3 course sit down lunch!
Chris Woodhead attended a state primary school, grammar schools, and the University of Bristol, before
working as an idealistic and progressive teacher in the early 'seventies. After eight years as an LEA officer, he
became Chief Inspector of Schools under both John Major and Tony Blair's administrations. In this unenviable
role, he was both loved and not loved. Now, free to speak his mind, he has written a book on the state of
-itish education. In Class Wars he challenges bureaucratic waste, political correctness, ideological nonsense, low
^ctations, progressive methods, and incompetence. He stands up for parents, calls for choice, and o ffers a radical
assessment of what can be done to put things right. Hear him, question him, buy his book!
Wednesday 8 May

J OHN HUMPHRYS — interviewed, by Sue Pycroft, and you!
Arts Centre, Devizes Road • Tel: 01793 614837 • 7pm • £7 (£6)
Voice of Radio 4's Today programme and one of Britain's most respected broadcasters
on radio and television, John Humphrys is also an author of note. His two
books are Devil's Advocate and The Great Food Gamble. He is able to talk
knowledgeably about many things but is particularly passionate
about the state of food we eat and how it is grown. Here is a
chance to hear his views, to get answers from someone
who is more accustomed to putting the
questions, and to meet the man who
has been described as a
national treasure.