Kate Adie, OBE

Kate Adie, OBE, former Chief News Correspondent to the BBC, will speak to the Festival at 3.30pm on Saturday 3rd October 2009. Like Graham Greene who began his working life as a journalist and who visited war zones as a reporter, Kate is famous for her willingness to take personal risks in the interests of telling the truth about a story. The title of her talk will be Into Danger, which picks up the first two words of the title of her autobiographical book Into Danger: Risking Your Life for Work which was published last year. Kate's talk may allude to the similarities between her own life and the situations in which Greene found himself, but it will focus upon her own work.

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Prof. David Crystal, OBE

The renowned linguist and author of more than a hundred published books including the Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language (second edition, 2003), Prof. David Crystal, OBE, will talk to the Graham Greene International Festival at 2.00pm on Saturday 3rd October 2009. David is a very witty and entertaining speaker, and in addition to lecturing all over the world he has made many radio and television appearances. As a great fan of The Third Man, he has chosen to speak on the title "Going Careful in The Third Man: a linguistic exploration".