Saturday 28 May

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Saturday 28 May

WHERE BOOKS, IDEAS & CREATIVITY BLOOM
20 -30 MAY 2016
INCLUDING:
Eileen Atkins,
Joan Bakewell, Melvyn Bragg,
Edmund de Waal, Zaha Hadid,
HRH Princess Michael of Kent,
James Shapiro, Tim Berners-Lee,
Andrew Marr, Michael Morpurgo,
Ian McEwan, Nicholas Hytner,
Martin Rees, Jeanette Winterson
and many more...
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WELCOME
Located in the glorious South Downs National Park in
East Sussex, Charleston was the home of Bloomsbury
group artists Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant. Pioneers
of early 20th century British art, Bell and Grant created
a hub of artistic and intellectual activity. Home also to
Clive Bell and John Maynard Keynes, guests included
Vanessa Bell’s sister Virginia Woolf, Roger Fry, Lytton
Strachey, T.S. Eliot and E.M. Forster.
Today, Charleston is open to the public as a house museum and provides the stunning setting
for the Festival. All of its activities are looked after by the Charleston Trust, an independent
registered charity that receives no public or government funding for its everyday running
costs. For more information about Charleston and its many other activities and events, visit
charleston.org.uk.
Charleston would like to give special thanks to its four Associate Partners, who
generously support the Charleston Festival and the Trust throughout the year:
Hurst
Hurstpierpoint College
Pre-Prep | Prep | Senior School | Sixth Form
Charleston is grateful to the following for their generous support:
This year is Charleston’s centenary - the
Nicholas Hytner, Jeanette Winterson
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and Eileen Atkins)
100 anniversary of artists Vanessa Bell and
Duncan Grant coming to live in Sussex, on
• biography and autobiography are
the recommendation of Virginia Woolf. Duncan
intrinsic to Bloomsbury and feature
Grant and David Garnett needed a rural base in
strongly (Joan Bakewell, Ted Hughes,
order to undertake farm labour, a requirement
Stephen Spender and many more)
for conscientious objectors in WW1.
• science is covered by Lord Rees,
From the word go, Charleston was a place
Astronomer Royal, and the Keynes
of dissent and debate as well as creativity
Prize, awarded to Sir Tim Berners-Lee,
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and conviviality. The Festival, now in its 27
acknowledging one of the most
significant inventions of our age
year, has always tried to reflect these values.
This is a bumper Festival with an extra
two days and a celebratory dinner with
Her Royal Highness Princess Michael of
Kent. Our themes are eclectic, but some
topics dominate:
• a rt is at the heart of Charleston, and
several sessions include artists, architects
and writers about art (Zaha Hadid, Edmund
de Waal, Julian Bell and many others)
• we mark the 400 anniversary of the
death of Shakespeare (James Shapiro,
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• fiction is represented by three Booker
and three Orange Prize winners
Our aim is to startle and delight. Experiment
with something new, join in the Festival
conversation, laugh and argue. The Garden
will be looking its best, the Shop will be full
of enticing new products, the Tea Tent and
Bar perfect meeting places.
Help us celebrate 100 free-thinking years
at Charleston.
Diana Reich
Artistic Director
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The Ondaatje Foundation • Nira Wright
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Attenborough Centre for the Creative Arts
will make a significant contribution
to performing arts education and practice
for generations to come.’
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An artist’s impression of the new Attenborough Centre for the Creative Arts
With its 50-year history of supporting the arts,
the University of Sussex is looking forward to
the opening of its Attenborough Centre for
the Creative Arts, in spring 2016.
The Attenborough Centre will be a vibrant
creative hub containing flexible performance,
research, teaching and exhibition spaces.
Sussex has always been proud if its
pioneering spirit. The Attenborough Centre,
housed within one of the University’s iconic
Basil Spence buildings, will embody that spirit
though a diverse range of events in its public
programme.
For more information visit
www.sussexac.uk/acca
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FRIDAY 20 MAY
FRIDAY 20 MAY
12pm • Tickets £14
CENTENARY CELEBRATION
ART AND ISOLATION
Carmen Callil, Christopher Hampton,
Virginia Nicholson and Claire Tomalin
with William Nicholson
Julia Blackburn and Olivia Laing
This year is the 100 anniversary of Bloomsbury in Sussex and
Charleston’s ethos still resonates with many contemporary creators.
Biographer Claire Tomalin reflects on the relationship between Woolf and
Katherine Mansfield; Carmen Callil, doyenne of publishing, talks about the influence
of Virginia Woolf on her pioneering role in re-discovering women writers; Christopher
Hampton, screenwriter and director of the film Carrington, looks back on the experience;
Virginia Nicholson has known Charleston since childhood. In adulthood, the legacy provided
her with her launch pad as a social historian. Author and screenwriter William Nicholson
helps to keep the celebrations high-spirited.
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SUPPORTED BY MAYFIELD SCHOOL
FRIDAY 20 MAY
2.30pm • Tickets £14
CULTURAL RECONSTRUCTION
Lara Feigel with Antony Beevor
What do Rebecca West, Ernest Hemingway, Martha Gellhorn
Marlene Dietrich, George Orwell, W.H Auden, Stephen Spender
and Billy Wilder have in common? They all travelled to Germany
shortly after the end of WW2. Some to tell the world what they
had witnessed and others to help rebuild a devastated country in
the belief that renewal could be achieved via culture. Lara
Feigel’s The Bitter Taste of Victory traces their experiences
and offers a new perspective on post-war Europe.
She discusses whether they achieved their goals with
Antony Beevor, one of our foremost historians.
Charleston painted by Vanessa Bell
with Nicolette Jones
Are artistic
temperament and
loneliness linked?
Julia Blackburn’s
Threads: The
Delicate Life of
John Craske and
Olivia Laing’s The
Lonely City are
meditations on
art, loss, creativity
and the solitary
state. Threads is
a quest for an
undiscovered
genius, the reclusive Norfolk fisherman who
became an artist: “This is a book to remind you
that wonders are scattered like jewels in the
most ordinary places” (The Times). Olivia Laing’s
Lonely City is New York, where she immersed
herself in the work of artists including Hopper
and Warhol: “Laing is a masterful biographer,
memoirist and critic” (Helen MacDonald,
author of H is for Hawk). Chaired by Nicolette
Jones, critic and journalist.
SUPPORTED BY THE ONDAATJE FOUNDATION
FRIDAY
20 MAY
MOTHERING SUNDAY:
A ROMANCE
Graham Swift with Claire Armitstead
Graham Swift’s new novel, Mothering Sunday,
opens in 1924 with an intimate tryst between
an orphaned servant girl and the young male
scion of a neighbouring estate and reveals the
impact of this assignation on her life throughout
the following decades. It is a humane, moving
and unpredictable story of self discovery. Swift
previously won the Booker Prize with Last
Orders and the Guardian Fiction Prize with
Waterland, both of which were made into films.
Claire Armitstead is Head of Books, Guardian
and Observer.
SUPPORTED BY EFG PRIVATE BANK
SUPPORTED BY SOTHEBY’S
SATURDAY 21 MAY
SATURDAY 21 MAY
SECRETS AND LIES
THE CRIME WRITER
Helen Dunmore and Luke Harding
Jill Dawson and Donna Coonan
with Stephanie Merritt
with Lennie Goodings
The Cold War and the break up of the Soviet Union
lend themselves to dramatic stories. Helen Dunmore’s
novel Exposure, a spy thriller set in the 1960s,
revolves around the effect on the family when a civil
servant is imprisoned for selling secrets to Russia.
Luke Harding’s A Very Expensive Poison is the true story of the
murder of Alexander Litvinenko, ex KGB spy, in London in 2006. What do these
books tell us about subterfuge, corruption and revenge? Luke Harding is the author
of The Snowden Files, Wikileaks and Mafia State. Helen Dunmore is the Orange Prize-winning
author of fourteen novels. Chaired by Stephanie Merritt, author of historical thrillers featuring a
16th century spy, the latest of which is Conspiracy.
Patricia Highsmith’s work has been enjoying a renaissance
with the success of the film Carol, based on her novel The
Price of Salt. Many of her books have been adapted into films,
including Strangers on a Train and The Talented Mr Ripley. Jill Dawson’s
new novel, The Crime Writer, is an ingenious blend of fact and fiction,
delving into Highsmith’s mind whilst being a thriller in its own right.
“Beautifully written and a must for all Highsmith fans” (Phyllis Nagy, Carol
scriptwriter and friend of Highsmith). In conversation with Donna Coonan and
Lennie Goodings, Editorial Director and Publisher of Virago.
SUPPORTED BY CHARLOTTE STREET HOTEL
SUPPORTED BY BIRKBECK, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON
SATURDAY 21 MAY
SATURDAY 21 MAY
CATHARSIS
STOP THE CLOCKS
Marion Coutts and Max Porter with Alex Clark
Joan Bakewell with Jon Snow
How does one transform grief into art? Marion Coutts’ The Iceberg:
A Memoir (winner of the Wellcome Book Prize) describes her partner
Tom Lubbock’s death from a brain tumour, which robbed the
renowned art critic of speech and language. “A fierce love lettercum-elegy. This is far more than
just another book about
grief” (Marina Warner).
Max Porter’s Grief is the Thing with Feathers
sprang from the death of his father. It is also a homage to Ted
Hughes. “An agile, life-affirming account of mourning” (The Sunday
Times), it was shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award and the
Goldsmiths Prize. Alex Clark is a broadcaster, critic and editor.
Joan Bakewell is one of the most inspirational women in Britain.
A pioneer television broadcaster and journalist, she has been the
government’s Voice of Older People,
is a Labour Peer and President of
Birkbeck College. She has also
written two novels, radio
plays and an autobiography.
Now in her 80s, in Stop the
Clocks she examines the world that shaped her and the
one that she will leave behind. Jon Snow is an influential
broadcaster and Channel 4 News anchor.
SUPPORTED BY CAFFYNS LAND ROVER, LEWES
SUPPORTED BY MERCHANT GOURMET
SUNDAY 22 MAY
SUNDAY 22 MAY
FIRST COUPLES
GENESIS
Flora Fraser and Daisy Hay with Nicolette Jones
Julian Bell with Julia Neuberger
Flora Fraser’s A Revolutionary
Marriage: George and Martha
Washington and Daisy Hay’s Mr and Mrs
Disraeli: A Strange Romance, have surprising
parallels, despite different centuries and cultures.
Martha Washington and Mary Anne Disraeli were
wealthy widows, older than their ambitious second husbands. Although
unlikely matches, both were devoted partnerships. George Washington
was Commander-in-Chief in the American War of Independence. Benjamin
Disraeli presided over the expansion of the British Empire. Were their
relationships fuelled by power, romance, or both? Flora Fraser’s other books
include The Unruly Queen. Daisy Hay’s previous book was the awardwinning Young Romantics. With Nicolette Jones, critic and journalist.
The artist Julian Bell’s most recent project is a sequence
of 36 paintings based on the Book of Genesis, also
available in a published version, together with the biblical
text. “Genesis is about stories that are steeped in the great
weight of human experience: the relationships that humans have
with each other and the relationship they have with God and the
environment” (Julian Bell). Baroness Julia Neuberger is Senior Rabbi
at West London Synagogue and a cross bench member of the House of
Lords. Do their interpretations of the Book of Genesis coincide? Julian Bell,
grandson of Vanessa Bell, is represented by St Anne’s Galleries, Lewes.
SUNDAY 22 MAY
SUPPORTED BY THE ONDAATJE FOUNDATION
SUNDAY 22 MAY
NOTABLE WOMEN
Simon Garfield and Helen Simonson with Nicolette Jones
A HOUSE FULL OF DAUGHTERS
A Notable Woman: The Romantic Journals of Jean Lucey Pratt, edited by
Simon Garfield, and The Summer Before the War by Helen Simonson,
chart shifting landscapes for women in society. Pratt’s diaries, 19251986, have become a word-of-mouth sensation: “Timeless, funny and
utterly absorbing” (Hilary Mantel). Helen Simonson’s The Summer
Before the War is set in East Sussex in 1914: the arrival
of a free-thinking woman and the coming of WW1 test old ways. Helen
Simonson’s previous novel was Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand. Simon Garfield’s
non-fiction books include Just My Type, On the Map, To the Letter and
My Dear Bessie. With Nicolette Jones, critic and journalist.
Juliet Nicolson with Joanna Trollope
SUPPORTED BY NIRA WRIGHT
SUPPORTED BY MAYER BROWN
Photo © Barker Evans
In her insightful and frank memoir, A House Full
of Daughters, Juliet Nicolson uncovers seven
generations of unconventional family history,
seen through the prism of mothers passing
the baton to daughters - for good and ill.
The context shifts from 19th century slums
in Malaga to the salons of Washington,
Chelsea in the 60s and New York in the 80s. “A mesmerising story of
daughterhood in which the personal is mixed with the historical
to extraordinary effect” (Antonia Fraser). Juliet Nicolson is a
historian and the granddaughter of Vita Sackville-West. Joanna
Trollope is one of our most successful writers of contemporary
fiction. Her most recent novel is Balancing Act.
MONDAY 23 MAY
TUESDAY 24 MAY
6.30pm to 10pm • Tickets £95 or £125 VIP*
Tables of 10: £900 or £1,200 VIP*
OUR FINAL CENTURY?
CHARLESTON FESTIVAL DINNER
Ian McEwan and Martin Rees
Her Royal Highness Princess Michael of Kent
and John Lahr
“One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.”
(Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own)
Photo © Annalena McAfee
Lord Rees, Astronomer Royal, cosmologist and space scientist, has long
warned that human beings are now in the unique position of being
able to destroy the planet due to our ever-heavier ‘footprint’ on
the global environment and the runaway consequences of
increasingly powerful technologies. He discusses whether
we only have a 50:50 chance of reaching the end of the
century with Ian McEwan, our most science-savvy novelist. Do literary authors
have a role to play in trying to save us from ourselves? Lord Rees was, until
recently, President of the Royal Society and Master of Trinity College, Cambridge.
Ian McEwan’s most recent novel is The Children Act.
MONDAY 23 MAY
THE CHARLESTON-EFG
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES PRIZE
We are honoured to announce the 2016 recipient of the Keynes Prize: Sir Tim Berners-Lee.
Sir Tim Berners-Lee is the inventor of the Web. A graduate of Oxford University, Sir Tim
invented the Web in 1989. In 2001 he became a Fellow of the Royal Society. In 2004 he
was knighted by H.M. Queen Elizabeth and in 2007 he was awarded the Order of Merit.
He is the Founder and Director of the World Wide Consortium (W3C) and
the World Wide Web Foundation. He is President of the Open Data Institute
in London and is a Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Sir Tim is a long-time defender of Net Neutrality and the openness of the Web
John Lahr
John Lahr will talk about his recently
published book, Joy Ride, a cornucopia of
stories about the theatre. “His writing exalts,
honours and dignifies the profession, and
more importantly, the art.”(Tony Kushner).
Joy Ride is a delightful celebration of the lives
of the theatricals.
John Lahr is Hollywood royalty, the son of
Bert Lahr, the Lion in The Wizard of Oz. He is
a regular contributor to The New Yorker and
was the magazine’s senior drama critic for
twenty-one years. His many books include
the biography of Tennessee Williams.
On the evening, guests will enjoy hearing the two speakers, as well as
a sumptuous three-course meal, inspired by Jans Ondaatje Rolls’ The
Bloomsbury Cookbook, which will provide a true taste of the food the
Bloomsbury group used to enjoy at Charleston.
All profits from this dinner will go towards our Centenary Project
which will see the building of a new gallery, collections store,
education centre and a new auditorium, as well as allowing vital
preservation and conservation works to the listed barns at Charleston.
Photo © Paul Clarke
The Prize was established to award an individual of exceptional
talents in the spirit of John Maynard Keynes’ work and legacy. The
panel of advisors comprises: Dame Liz Forgan (Chair); Keith Gapp
(Head of Strategy and Marketing, EFG International); Professor Simon
Keynes; Nigel Newton, CEO of Bloomsbury Publishing and Chairman
of The Charleston Trust; Professor Michael Proctor, Provost of King’s
College, Cambridge; Lord Robert Skidelsky, Emeritus Professor of
Political Economy and author of the definitive Keynes biography.
Her Royal Highness
Princess Michael of Kent
Princess Michael will talk about the final volume
of her Anjou trilogy of novels, Quicksilver, which
focuses on an ambitious merchant of humble
origins who became one of the richest and
most powerful men in 15th century France and
confidante of the Anjou royal family. Their
stories interlink and eventually unravel in a
devastating fashion.
The narrative is enriched by Princess Michael’s
insider’s perspective on royal life. The Princess
has pursued a successful career writing on
historical topics. She lives with her husband,
Prince Michael of Kent, in Kensington Palace.
Sir Tim Berners-Lee
SUPPORTED BY
EFG PRIVATE BANK
This year we are hosting the first ever Charleston Festival Dinner and
are delighted to announce that we have two exceptional speakers:
*VIP ticket includes a welcome drink, reserved seating, a book of choice from the
speakers and VIP parking.
This event is NOT included within the All Events ticket.
WEDNESDAY 25 MAY
WEDNESDAY 25 MAY
EXAMINED LIVES
NEUROTRIBES
Ruth Scurr and
Frances Wilson
Steve Silberman with Alexander Masters
John Aubrey and Thomas De
Quincey are similar figures in English
literature: both known mostly for
a single book: Aubrey’s Brief Lives
and De Quincey’s Confessions of an
English Opium Eater. Both were at
the heart of the culture of their day
yet both ended their lives fearing
that they had failed. Ruth Scurr’s
John Aubrey: My Own Life is a tour de
force, told in his own words. “It is
light, ingenious, inspiring, a book to
reread and cherish” (Hilary Mantel).
Frances Wilson’s Guilty Thing: A Life of
Thomas De Quincey, tells the richesto-rags story of the rackety Romantic
writer who inspired Dickens,
Dostoevsky, Woolf and Joyce.
SUPPORTED BY ART FUND
Steve Silberman’s Neurotribes
won the 2015 Samuel
Johnson Prize and is a
bestseller here and in the
US. It unearths the secret
history of autism and tells
the stories of people
who think and behave
differently. “Neurotribes is a
sweeping and penetrating
history... presented with
a rare sympathy and
sensitivity. It is fascinating
reading” (Oliver Sacks).
His background melds psychology
and literature and, as a teenager, he studied with Allen
Ginsberg, William S. Burroughs and Gregory Corso. His
TED talk, ‘The Forgotten History of Autism’, has been
viewed one million times. With Alexander Masters,
author of Stuart: A Life Backwards and A Life Discarded.
SUPPORTED BY MAYER BROWN
WEDNESDAY
25 MAY
WEDNESDAY 25 MAY
DOUBLE LIVES
THE
SECRET
WAR
Andrew Lownie
and Adam Sisman
with Robert McCrum
Max Hastings
“As gripping as
any spy thriller,
Max Hastings’
account of the critical role of intelligence in
the Second World War is the best yet” (The
Sunday Times). Packed with fascinating new
material, The Secret War is global in scope. Its
vivid cast of characters includes Alan Turing and
the codebreaking geniuses of Bletchley Park as
well as their counterparts in Europe and the
Far East. Max Hastings has a novelist’s eye for
the telling detail and The Secret War is as much
a story about human nature as about codebreaking. Vintage
Max Hastings on
the British genius
for all things
deceptive.
S UPPORTED BY H URSTPIERPOINT
COLLEGE
Guy Burgess is
famously one of
the Cambridge spies.
As an Apostle, he
interacted with many
characters associated
with Bloomsbury. Andrew
Lownie’s Stalin’s Englishman
reveals that despite Burgess’
dissolute reputation, he was
regarded by the Russians
as the central figure in the
notorious spy ring. Adam
Sisman’s biography of John le Carré
lifts the lid on the great spy writer’s early
life and reveals that the influence of his
reprobate father was even more formative
than his years in MI5 and MI6. Can Andrew
Lownie and Adam Sisman explain our
national fixation with espionage? Chaired
by Robert McCrum
writer and Associate
Editor of the Observer.
SUPPORTED BY HERBERT SCOTT LTD
THURSDAY 26 MAY
THURSDAY 26 MAY
WE BRITISH
THE WHITE ROAD
Andrew Marr
Edmund de Waal with Amanda Levete
SHAKESPEARE IN
TURBULENT TIMES
Andrew Marr takes a break from interrogating the great and the
good and focuses on his passion for poetry - the art form in which
the British have always excelled. Covering a period of 1500 years, he
recounts the history of the British people through the words of the poets
who are our chroniclers. Expect to be entertained, surprised and moved. “Marr
is the ideal history teacher that most people never had at school”(Literary Review).
Andrew Marr is one of our most distinguished journalists and broadcasters. He has
published many books of non-fiction and two novels.
Edmund de Waal is an internationally
renowned potter and ceramicist and the author
of The Hare with Amber Eyes. The focus of his
new book is a quest to divine the mystery of
porcelain - a material that is at the heart of his
creativity. His journey begins and ends in China,
but takes him to many places, including Dachau,
along the way. Amanda Levete is a RIBA Stirling
Prize-winning architect. Her studio’s recent
commissions include the extension of the
V&A. She too is obsessed with ceramics. They
discuss their shared fascination, which has also
transfixed emperors and alchemists.
SUPPORTED BY HURSTPIERPOINT COLLEGE
THURSDAY 26 MAY
JANE AUSTEN V CHARLOTTE BRONTË
Claire Harman and John Mullan with Virginia Nicholson
In the bicentenary of the birth of Charlotte Brontë and 200 years since the publication
of Jane Austen’s Emma, her most revolutionary novel, the debate still rages as to who
is the most illustrious representative of English literature. Austen advocates claim
that no one matches her sensitive ear for hypocrisy and irony. Brontë champions
assert that her imaginative passion reigns supreme. Who better to try to
resolve the contest than Claire Harman, current biographer of Charlotte
Brontë, and John Mullan, Professor of English Literature and author
of What Matters in Jane Austen? The audience will have the
final say. Moderator Virginia Nicholson, social historian,
is entirely impartial.
Photo by Steve Scholfield © BBC
THURSDAY 26 MAY
SUPPORTED BY RATHFINNY WINE ESTATE
James Shapiro with Nicholas Hytner
In the 400th anniversary
of the death of William
Shakespeare, his work
continues to inspire.
But his life is shrouded
in shadow. By focusing
on one year in
Shakespeare’s life,
1606, James Shapiro
triumphantly
succeeds in relating
his plays to the
context of his
times and reveals
how a momentous
12 months in England - the year of the
Gunpowder Plot, and the plague - led to the
creation of King Lear, Macbeth and Antony and
Cleopatra. Nicholas Hytner was Director of
the National Theatre 2003-2015, where he
produced many Shakespeare plays. He will
open a new theatre on the Thames in 2017.
SUPPORTED BY BEDE’S SCHOOL
SUPPORTED BY LANCING COLLEGE
FRIDAY 27 MAY
FRIDAY 27 MAY
THE GUSTAV
SONATA
BROKEN VOWS?
Tom Bower, Roy Hattersley and
Caroline Lucas with Allegra Stratton
SUPPORTED BY GORRINGES
FRIDAY 27 MAY
NOW IS THE TIME
Melvyn Bragg
Melvyn Bragg’s novel Now is the Time revolves
around the 1381 Peasants’ Revolt, the largest
rebellion that England has ever seen, as thousands
of commoners marched on London, urged on
by Wat Tyler and the priest John Ball, to protest
against the corruption of those in power. “A vivid
and surprisingly tender tribute to one of the
wildest moments in
Plantagenet history”
(The Times). Does
the uprising have
resonances for our
times? Melvyn
Bragg is one of our
most distinguished
broadcasters. He
has written many
award-winning
works of fiction and
non-fiction.
SUPPORTED BY
EFG PRIVATE BANK
Tony Blair, Labour’s longest serving and most popular Prime
Minister, is currently a controversial figure. Investigative journalist
Tom Bower’s new biography of Blair, Broken Vows, charts his rise
and fall. But is the current disillusionment justified? Tom Bower, an
initial admirer, has since become a critic. He discusses his negative
assessment of Blair with Roy Hattersley, former Cabinet Minister,
Deputy Leader of the Labour Party and prolific writer, and Caroline
Lucas, Green Party MP. Anchored by Allegra Stratton, National
Editor, ITV News, formerly Political Editor, BBC2’s Newsnight.
SUPPORTED BY CITY BOOKS
FRIDAY 27 MAY
THE CITY OF LIGHT
Sarah Bakewell and Steve Jones with Michael Farthing
Photo © Helen Atkinson
Rose Tremain’s new novel, The Gustav
Sonata, begins in the 1930s against the
looming prospect of the Second World
War. It revolves around the relationship
between two Swiss boys and follows
them into maturity and middle age. In
their youth, they played a dangerous
game in a derelict TB sanatorium. This
secret comes back to haunt them and
test their friendship in later life. Rose
Tremain’s award-winning novels include
the Orange Prize (The Road Home)
and the Whitbread Novel of the Year
(Music and Silence). Restoration was
made into a film. She is Chancellor of
the University of East Anglia.
Photo © Sergeant Tom Robinson
Rose Tremain
Paris has been, at different times, the world capital of science and
philosophy. Geneticist Steve Jones focuses on Paris in the revolutionary
period, when the science was as groundbreaking as the politics. The
revolutionaries were instrumental in founding modern physics, chemistry
and biology as well as liberté, egalité and fraternité. Biographer Sarah
Bakewell focuses on the birth of existentialism in Paris in the 20th century.
It is the story of thinkers, writers, artists and lovers, including Sartre, de
Beauvoir and Camus, who tackled
questions of existence against a
backdrop of rebellion, war, resistance
and liberation. Chaired by Michael
Farthing, Vice-Chancellor of the
University of Sussex.
SUPPORTED BY SOTHEBY’S
SATURDAY 28 MAY
SATURDAY 28 MAY
SATURDAY 28 MAY
WEATHERLAND
LANDSKIPPING
Alexandra Harris with Nicolette Jones
Anna Pavord with Tom Stuart-Smith
Jeremy Gavron and Adam Mars-Jones
Who would have
guessed that the British
weather, frequently a
running joke, could
be a source of
creative inspiration?
Alexandra Harris has
turned our national
obsession into an
illuminating study
of the role that it
has played in our
art and literature,
from Chaucer to
modern times,
and the effect it has had on our writers
and artists. “Weatherland is hugely ambitious,
exhilaratingly written and handsomely
produced” (A.S. Byatt). “She is a poet scholar”
(Clive James). Alexandra Harris’ previous
books are the award-winning Romantic Moderns
and a short biography of Virginia Woolf.
With Nicolette Jones, Arts journalist.
Blending nature, art, travel and social
history, Anna Pavord’s new book,
Landskipping, is saturated with a sense
of place. She examines how landscape
emerged as a cultural concept in the
18th and 19th centuries via early
guidebooks, the paintings of Constable
and Turner and the work of poets and
writers such as Wordsworth, Cobbett and
Hardy. The result is a ravishing celebration
of the British landscape. Her previous
books include the bestselling, The Tulip.
She served for ten years on the Garden
Panel of the National Trust, the last five
as Chairman. Her own landscape is
Dorset. Chaired by Tom Stuart-Smith a
landscape designer with a reputation for
making gardens that combine naturalism
and modernity.
with Imogen Lycett Green
SUPPORTED BY
SOUTH DOWNS NATIONAL PARK AUTHORITY
SUPPORTED BY SUSSEX COUNTRY GARDENER
INTIMATE STRANGERS
Jeremy Gavron’s A Woman on the Edge of Time and
Adam Mars-Jones’ Kid Gloves are homages to a parent
who was a remote figure. In Jeremy Gavron’s situation, his talented,
successful and charismatic mother committed suicide when he was
just four years old and she was under 30. In Adam Mars-Jones’ case,
his father was a formidable High Court judge. Adam Mars-Jones’ homosexuality
caused an extra barrier; Jeremy Gavron’s mother was a taboo subject in his childhood home.
What did their searches teach them about mothers, fathers, society and themselves?
Chaired by Imogen Lycett Green, co-founder of a narrative medicine programme in Brighton.
SUPPORTED BY CHARLOTTE STREET HOTEL
SATURDAY 28 MAY
LIVES OF THE POETS
Jonathan Bate and Matthew Spender
with Frances Spalding
Two recent
biographies created
waves beyond the literary
pages: Jonathan Bate’s Ted Hughes: The Unauthorised
Life and Matthew Spender’s A House in St John’s Wood: In Search
of My Parents. Both books focus on celebrated poets and cultural icons
who led unconventional lives. Hughes’ work was bathed in elemental
grandeur though his life was sexually tumultuous; Stephen and Natasha
Spender preserved the façade of a perfect marriage, despite his
homosexual promiscuity. Although widely admired, each biography
provoked controversy. The writers discuss Hughes, Spender and the
pitfalls of writing about recently deceased public figures with Frances
Spalding, editor of the Burlington Magazine and biographer.
SUPPORTED BY UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX
SUNDAY 29 MAY
SUNDAY 29 MAY
PEGGY GUGGENHEIM:
THE SHOCK OF THE
MODERN
FROCK CONSCIOUSNESS
Peggy Guggenheim
was the Charles
Saatchi of her time;
her exhibitions
reliably caused a
sensation. Francine
Prose’s sympathetic
biography describes
her colourful
life. Her opening
show at her gallery in London was curated
by Duchamp; Clive Bell subsequently signed a
petition to affirm that another of her shows
contained authentic works of art (the then
Director of the Tate disagreed). She founded
an avant-garde gallery in New York and a
permanent museum in Venice. Her
personal life was equally risktaking - scandalous affairs, failed
marriages, on-off celebrity
friendships. Francine Prose
discusses the iconoclastic
female collector in a male
dominated world with Dinah
Casson, whose design
company specializes in
museum installations.
SUPPORTED
BY PELHAM
HOUSE HOTEL
THE GAP OF TIME
Susie Boyt, Linda Grant
and Justine Picardie
Clothes have “more important offices than
merely to keep us warm. They change our
view of the world and the world’s view of
us”(Orlando). Three authors who have explored
links between what we wear and our identity
discuss what Woolf described as “frock
consciousness” in their own writing and in that
of others, including the Brontës, du Maurier
and Woolf. Justine Picardie is Editor-in-Chief of
Harper’s Bazaar; her books include Coco Chanel:
The Legend and the Life and Dior by Avedon.
Susie Boyt has written four novels and a
memoir, My Judy Garland Life; Linda Grant won
the Orange Prize for When I Lived in Modern
Times; The Clothes on Their Backs won The
South Bank Show Literature Award.
SUPPORTED BY
HARPER’S BAZAAR
Jeanette Winterson
Shakespeare was a great
re-imaginer and Jeanette
Winterson’s The Gap of Time
is a response to his late play,
A Winter’s Tale. The drama
has personal significance: as
an adopted child herself, the
story of Perdita, the abandoned baby in A Winter’s Tale,
has resonances in her own life. The Gap of Time has echoes
of the original play, but tells a contemporary story of betrayal,
paranoia and redemption. The result is ”compelling, entertaining
and elegant” (Guardian). Expect a zestful performance.
Photo © Sam Churchill
with Dinah Casson
Painting of Virginia Woolf by Richard Shone
Francine Prose
SUNDAY 29 MAY
SUPPORTED BY RATHFINNY WINE ESTATE
SUNDAY 29 MAY
SHAKESPEARE’S WOMEN
Eileen Atkins
Eileen Atkins returns to Charleston with her witty and intriguing insights
into Shakespeare’s women, first delivered by Ellen Terry, the great 19th
century Shakespearean actress, in a series of lectures. They illuminate
some of Shakespeare’s most famous female characters as well as the
art of acting. Adapted by Eileen Atkins, they are transformed into a
bewitching performance of Shakespearean speeches and commentary.
“Eileen Atkins offers the delirious pleasure of seeing one great actor
inhabiting the mind and spirit of another” (Guardian).
Eileen Atkins originally premiered a version of the Ellen Terry Lectures at
Charleston, suggested by Lynne Truss. Tonight’s is an entirely reconceived
script and performance.
SUPPORTED BY HARVEYS OF LEWES
Photo © Lisa Yuskavage
MONDAY 30 MAY
MONDAY 30 MAY
CHELSEA AND
NOTTING HILL
FORGOTTEN VOICES
PRIVATE PEACEFUL
Thomas Harding and
Caroline Moorehead
Michael Morpurgo
Rachel Johnson
and Brigid Keenan
A perfect jeu d’esprit for the Bank
Holiday. Brigid Keenan and Rachel
Johnson dissect swinging ‘sixties London
and contemporary Notting Hill with
laser wit. Brigid Keenan’s memoir, Full
Marks for Trying, describes growing up
in India and taking London by storm,
working as Fashion Editor of the Sunday
Times. Rachel Johnson’s Fresh Hell is
the final volume of her Notting Hill
trilogy of novels. It has great fun at
the expense of the super rich. Brigid
Keenan’s previous book was Diplomatic
Baggage. She was an editor on Nova,
the Observer and Sunday Times. Rachel
Johnson is the author of 6 books and
the former editor of The Lady.
SUPPORTED BY
PELHAM HOUSE HOTEL
Thomas Harding’s
family originated in
central Europe and
was forced into exile
to escape Hitler’s Final
Solution. His book
The House by the
Lake tells the story
of Germany in the
last century through
the holiday home
his grandmother
left behind.
Caroline Moorehead’s Village of Secrets: Defying
the Nazis in Vichy France is the remarkable
account of how a French village helped to save
thousands who were pursued by the Gestapo.
The subject matter of both books could not be
more pertinent in our troubled times. Thomas
Harding’s previous book was Hans and Rudolf.
Caroline Moorehead’s other books include A
Train in Winter.
SUPPORTED BY UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX
Photo © Hufton + Crow
MONDAY 30 MAY
MONDAY 30 MAY
SHAPE MAKER
Zaha Hadid with Julia Peyton-Jones
The visionary architect Zaha Hadid is one of the ‘World’s
Most Powerful Women’ (Forbes List). She was awarded
the Pritzker Architecture Prize (equivalent to the Nobel)
in 2004 and is the recipient of the 2016 RIBA Gold
Medal. Her sculptural buildings include the London
Aquatics Centre for the 2012 Olympics, the Heydar
Aliyev Centre in Baku and the Oxford University Middle
East Centre. Her long association with Julia Peyton-Jones,
the innovative and inspirational Director of the
Serpentine Galleries, includes designing their first annual
architectural commission in 2000 and the permanent
Sackler Gallery in 2013. They discuss Hadid’s work,
their collaborations and the challenges for creative and
iconoclastic women.
Michael Morpurgo’s First World War
novel, Private Peaceful, is the story
of twenty-four hours at the Front,
culminating in an appalling tragedy,
seen through the eyes of a young
farm labourer transformed into
cannon fodder. It is an unflinching
examination of the horrors and
senselessness of WW1, the ineptitude
of the commanding officers and the
injustice surrounding the execution by
firing squad on, often false, grounds
of desertion or cowardice. In the
100th anniversary of the Battle of
the Somme and the centenary of
Charleston, a base for conscientious
objectors in WW1, it is a fitting
conclusion to the Festival.
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NATIONAL PARK AUTHORITY
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described as having ‘good intelligence, wide and lively interests, with an active and far-ranging mind and
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PRE-BOOK YOUR
TOUR OF THE HOUSE
Learn more about Charleston and
its Bloomsbury residents,Vanessa
Bell and Duncan Grant, on a
guided tour of the museum. Tours
run throughout the Festival.
CHARLESTON.ORG.UK/HOUSE
CHARLESTON SHOP
For Bloomsbury-inspired books,
gifts and souvenirs.
Open throughout the Charleston
Festival and year-round online.
S H O P. C H A R L E S TO N . O R G . U K
AT A GLANCE
BECOME A FRIEND
FRI 20 May 12pm CENTENARY CELEBRATION - Carmen Callil, Christopher Hampton,
Virginia Nicholson and Claire Tomalin with William Nicholson £14
FRI 20 May 2.30pm CULTURAL RECONSTRUCTION - Lara Feigel with Antony Beevor £14
FRI 20 May 5pm ART AND ISOLATION - Julia Blackburn and Olivia Laing with Nicolette Jones £14
FRI 20 May 7.30pm MOTHERING SUNDAY: A ROMANCE - Graham Swift with Claire Armitstead £14
SAT 21 May 12pm SECRETS AND LIES - Helen Dunmore and Luke Harding with Stephanie Merritt £14
SAT 21 May 2.30pm CATHARSIS - Marion Coutts and Max Porter with Alex Clark £14
SAT 21 May 5pm THE CRIME WRITER - Jill Dawson and Donna Coonan with Lennie Goodings £14
SAT 21 May 7.30pm
STOP THE CLOCKS - Joan Bakewell with Jon Snow £20
Join as a Friend of Charleston to
receive priority booking at the Festival,
discounts on all workshops and free
entry to the House. Upgrade to our
donor circle, the Omega Group, to get
four free Festival tickets per person.
HOW TO BOOK
Tickets available from
Brighton Dome Ticket Office
from 22 February 2016
Brighton Dome Ticket Office
10am - 6pm, Monday - Saturday
In person: 29 New Road, Brighton, BN1 1UG
By Phone: 01273 709709
SUN 22 May 12pm FIRST COUPLES - Flora Fraser and Daisy Hay with Nicolette Jones £14
SUN 22 May 2.30pm A HOUSE FULL OF DAUGHTERS - Juliet Nicolson with Joanna Trollope £17
Online (24hrs): www.brightonticketshop.com
SUN 22 May 5pm The Brighton Dome applies a £2 booking fee plus
postage to tickets ordered by phone or online
GENESIS - Julian Bell with Julia Neuberger £14
SUN 22 May 7.30pm NOTABLE WOMEN - Simon Garfield and Helen Simonson with Nicolette Jones £14
MON 23 May 5pm OUR FINAL CENTURY? - Ian McEwan and Martin Rees £20
MON 23 May 7pm THE CHARLESTON-EFG JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES PRIZE - Sir Tim Berners-Lee £24
TUES 24 May 6.30pm CHARLESTON FESTIVAL DINNER
Her Royal Highness Princess Michael of Kent and John Lahr WED 25 May 1pm £95/£125
EXAMINED LIVES - Ruth Scurr and Frances Wilson £14
WED 25 May 3.30pm NEUROTRIBES - Steve Silberman with Alexander Masters £14
WED 25 May 6pm THE SECRET WAR - Max Hastings £17
WED 25 May 8pm DOUBLE LIVES - Andrew Lownie and Adam Sisman with Robert McCrum £17
THUR 26 May 1pm WE BRITISH - Andrew Marr £20
THUR 26 May 3.30pm JANE AUSTEN V CHARLOTTE BRONTË Claire Harman and John Mullan with Virginia Nicholson £14
THUR 26 May 6pm THE WHITE ROAD - Edmund de Waal with Amanda Levete £20
THUR 26 May 8pm SHAKESPEARE IN TURBULENT TIMES - James Shapiro with Nicholas Hytner £20
FRI 27 May 1pm THE GUSTAV SONATA - Rose Tremain £17
FRI 27 May 3.30pm NOW IS THE TIME - Melvyn Bragg £17
FRI 27 May 6pm BROKEN VOWS? - Tom Bower, Roy Hattersley and Caroline Lucas with Allegra Stratton £17
FRI 27 May 8pm THE CITY OF LIGHT - Sarah Bakewell and Steve Jones with Michael Farthing £14
SAT 28 May 12pm WEATHERLAND - Alexandra Harris with Nicolette Jones £14
SAT 28 May 2.30pm LANDSKIPPING - Anna Pavord with Tom Stuart-Smith £17
SAT 28 May 5pm INTIMATE STRANGERS - Jeremy Gavron and Adam Mars-Jones with Imogen Lycett Green £14
CHARLESTON.ORG.UK/FRIENDS
PRE-ORDER YOUR
SOUVENIR PROGRAMME
To celebrate ‘Charleston at 100’,
a limited edition Charleston Festival
Souvenir Programme is available
(£10). Featuring in-depth interviews
with Andrew Marr, Jon Snow and
Justine Picardie.
SAT 28 May 7.30pm LIVES OF THE POETS - Jonathan Bate and Matthew Spender with Frances Spalding £17
SUN 29 May 12pm PEGGY GUGGENHEIM: THE SHOCK OF THE MODERN Francine Prose with Dinah Casson £14
MON 30 May 12pm CHELSEA AND NOTTING HILL -Rachel Johnson and Brigid Keenan £14
MON 30 May 2.30pm FORGOTTEN VOICES - Thomas Harding with Caroline Moorehead £14
SHAPE MAKER - Zaha Hadid with Julia Petyon-Jones £20
PRIVATE PEACEFUL - Michael Morpurgo £17
Sat 21 May
Mon 23 May
Thurs 26 May
Sat 28 May
Mon 30 May
£56
£40
£67
£56
£59
All Events Ticket*: £525
Includes entry to 38 events, reserved seating,
VIP parking, invitation to a Festival drinks
reception and exclusive picnic hamper offer
Artistic Director: Diana Reich
Festival Manager: Carolyn Chinn
SUN 29 May 7.30pm SHAKESPEARE’S WOMEN - Eileen Atkins £24
MON 30 May 5pm Day Tickets:
Fri 20 May £50
Sun 22 May £53 Wed 25 May £56
Fri 27 May £59
Sun 29 May £65
All Events ticket is available to Friends & Omega
members only (subject to availability).
THE GAP OF TIME - Jeanette Winterson £20
MON 30 May 7pm Individual Tickets:
prices listed beside each event
*
SUN 29 May 2.30pm FROCK CONSCIOUSNESS - Susie Boyt, Linda Grant and Justine Picardie £14
SUN 29 May 5pm Priority booking via Charleston
from 15-19 February for Friends of
Charleston and Omega members only.
Requests submitted by post or email.
Friends membership starts at just £37.
For details call 01323 811626 or email
info@charleston.org.uk
PRE-ORDER WHEN YOU BUY YOUR TICKETS
The Charleston Festival is a fundraising event in aid of the
Charleston Trust (Bloomsbury in Sussex), a registered charity (no.
1107313) and a non-profit making company limited by guarantee
and registered in England & Wales (no. 5212725).
Registered office: Charleston, Firle, Lewes, East Sussex, BN8 6LL.
CHARLESTON – A UNIQUE SETTING
GETTING HERE
PLAN YOUR VISIT
Charleston is halfway between Brighton
and Eastbourne, only 6 miles east of Lewes,
off the A27.
Events: Events take place in a marquee in the
grounds of Charleston and last just over an hour,
unless otherwise stated. Please dress warmly for
evening sessions.
Give yourself plenty of time: Access to
Charleston is via a single lane farm road and
traffic flow will be controlled at peak times. We
recommend you arrive at least 30 minutes before
each event.
Minibus shuttle service: Cuckmere
Community Bus run a shuttle service from
Lewes train station direct to Charleston for all
events. For timetables and information visit
charleston.org.uk/festival.
Rail: Services run regularly from London
Victoria, Brighton and Eastbourne to Lewes
station. Taxis are available at Lewes station.
By road: Look out for signs along the A27. Car
parking is in adjacent fields so practical footwear
is recommended. As on-site parking is limited,
please consider car sharing or using the minibus
shuttle service.
Local information: For accommodation and
other local information contact the Lewes Tourist
Information Centre on 01273 483448.
Lewes
Glyndebourne
Selmeston
Berwick
Monks
Firle
Station
House
Charleston
Brighton
Berwick
A26
Church
London
Newhaven
Alfriston
Eastbourne
A23/M23
Brighton
Charleston
Bookshop/book signings: Run by City Books,
the Festival bookshop stocks a wide range of
related titles. Most events will be followed by a
book signing session.
Charleston Shop: Open throughout
the Festival and stocking a varied range of
Bloomsbury-inspired books, ceramics, textiles,
jewellery, prints and gift ideas.
Food & Drink: The Festival Tea Tent will serve a
selection of Sticky Fingers cakes, drinks, sandwiches
and light bites. For something more hearty, our
friends at The Shepherds Hut Catering Company
offer delicious, hot lamb and vegetarian meals.
Coffee connoisseurs can enjoy a hot drink from
mobile baristas, Dinkyccino. Drinks, cakes and
sandwiches are also available from the Festival Bar
inside the main marquee. All open one hour before
the first event until the start of the last event.
Picnic area: There are many nice spots to picnic
at Charleston and we politely request that furniture
is only used in designated areas to protect the
delicate historic planting in the gardens.
Access: There are designated disabled parking
spaces. The marquee, bar and bookshop are
accessible to wheelchair users though some
surfaces may be slightly uneven. An induction
loop is fitted in the marquee. For further
information or assistance please call 01323
811626 or email festivals@charleston.org.uk.
CHARLESTON .ORG .UK/FESTIVAL
For up-to-date information on all events, please refer to our website. The information in this brochure was correct at time of
going to press. Charleston reserves the right to alter the programme if necessary. © 2016 The Charleston Trust. Cover image
© Penelope Fewster. Photographs © Penelope Fewster and Axel Hesslenberg unless otherwise stated. Brochure design by
www.wheel-design.co.uk. Printed by MCR Media official print partner to The Charleston Trust (www.mcrprint.co.uk)

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