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Swiodol Wide
_ , t- . A choice selection from the festival diary. Pick up a
programme from one of the venues, a Swindon library
or the Tourist Information Centre, Regent Street
www.swindonfestivalofliterature.co.uk
Sunday 1 May, 5.30am Wednesday 4 May, 6pm new light on the relationship between the authors of Glastonbury Festival
Lawn Woods, Old Town Arts Centre, Devizes Road humans and honey bees. Tckets£5 Tales take us behind the scenes.
DAWN CHORUS. As the sun rises BARONESS HELENA KENNEDY from 614837 Tickets £5 from 466454
over sleeping Swindon, join the QC — on just law! What is the record Monday 9 May, 7pm Thursday 12 May, 12.30pm
earlybirds to launch the festival. Hear of modern governments with regard Community Arts Centre, Devizes Road
a story. sing a song, dance a jig and to fundamental democratic rights? Crossroads, WILLIAM HAGUE — the
celebrate spring. Free This and many other questions are Faringdon Road would be 'schoolboy PM
Monday 2 May, 6pm addressed. Tickets £6 from 614837 DAVID MARQUAND - looks at William Pitt, who made
Lydiard House Thursday 5 May, 7pm on the hollowing-out of it aged 24. Tickets £5 from
JANE OWEN—on gardens through Arts Centre, Devizes Road citizenship. Is the 614837
ti me. An entertaining and illustrated MAX HASTINGS — on Warriors! exclusivity of professionalism in Friday 13 May, 12.30pm
talk in a beautiful setting. T -kets £6 What make the modern fighting man. conflict with the inclusivity of Arts Centre, Devizes Road
from 770401 Tickets £5 from 614837 citizenship resulting in oppression of SURVIVING ARMAGEDDON -
Tuesday 3 May, 12.30pm Friday 6 May, 6pm the people? Presented in association solutions for a threatened planet,
Community Crossroads, Arts Centre, Devizes Road with the Swindon Civic Trust. Tickets Professorof Geophysical Hazards Bill
Faringdon Road DAVID STARKEY — the Monarchy £4 from 466454 McGuire considers catastrophe on
ROGER SCRUTON. Philosopher and of England! How England became a Monday 9 May, 8pm the planet and whether it can be
public commentator, Roger Scruton, nation state. Tickets£6from614837 Arts Centre, Devizes Road avoided. Tickets £4 from 614837
recounts his farming experiences near Saturday 7 May, 2pm - 4pm MATT HARVEY & JERRI HART Friday 13 May, 6pm
Swindon. Tickets £4 from 466454 Meet at the front of Lydiard House Poetry, wordplay and thought-proking Arts Centre, Devizes Road
Wednesday 4 May, 12.30pm STORYWALK — with ERIC comedy. Tickets £6 from 614837 XINRAN — on Sky Burial, which
Arts Centre, Devizes Road MADDERN. Tales from far and wide, Tuesday 10 May, 7pm charts Shu Wen's 30-year search
CLICK LANGUAGE of/Xenn about the cheeky wren, the North Swindon Library through Tibet for her missing husband.
— the story of a 'los dancing ash, the holy oak, ROBERT GODDARD — thriller-writer A story, which sheds light on all our
culture. Neil Bennun and the icy puddle. Tickets and master plot-maker reveals some lives. Tickets £5 from 614837
explains how the £3 from 770401 secrets! Tickets £4 from 707120 Sunday 15 May, 12.30pm
Bushmen of the south- Monday 9 May, 6pm Wednesday 11 May, 7.30pm Arts Centre, Devizes Road
ern African interior were Arts Centre Community Crossroads, Jon Snow — his personal journey
saved from extinc- BEE WILSON — on the Faringdon Road Channel 4 news presenter talks about
tion. Tickets £4 from HIVE. The acclaimed GLASTONBURY in SWINDON. 30 years as a reporter around the
614837 historian and food writer sheds Festival founder Michael Eavis, and globe. Tickets £6 from 614837

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