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20 July 2012

BBC TV's William Ivory stars at Festival 2012


William Ivory (above) is a leading attraction at the Graham Greene International Festival 2012 in Berkhamsted (Hertfordshire, England, UK).

An outline of the programme is given below. More details may be seen on the printed Handbook and the Festival's website.

Graham Greene International Festival 2012:
The Programme


Berkhamsted (Hertfordshire, England, UK)

Wednesday 26th September – Sunday 30th September 2012

Festival Director: Prof. Neil Sinyard (University of Hull, UK)

The Festival is sponsored by Greene King plc.

Wednesday 26th September

19:15 – 22:00

Pre-Festival Event, Literary Quiz, Town Hall, Berkhamsted

Entry costs £8 per person, and can be secured by contacting Pippa Brush by telephone on 0044-1442 869555 or by e-mail at pippa.brush@stfrancis.org.uk

All proceeds from the quiz will be donated to the Hospice of St Francis in Berkhamsted.

Thursday 27th September

16:30 – 18:00

An event for Berkhamsted School’s Senior Students. Old Hall, Berkhamsted School

Neil Sinyard speaks to senior English students at Berkhamsted School.

This event includes the announcement of the titles for the GGBT Creative Writing Awards for 2013.

17:30 – 19:15

Social Gathering and Buffet Supper. The Gatsby, High Street

Tickets: £15

19:30 – 21:45

Film Night at The Rex Cinema, Berkhamsted

Film: The Human Factor (1979)

(115 mins; UK; Director, Otto Preminger; starring Richard Attenborough, Nicol Williamson, John Gielgud and Derek Jacobi)

Classification: 15

Introduced by Richard Combs (film critic, lecturer and broadcaster)

Tickets: £8

Friday 28th September

Morning Session

Town Hall, Berkhamsted

9:45 – 11:00

‘Researching Greene’

PhD scholars discuss their work on Graham Greene. Contributors include Creina Mansfield, Martyn Sampson and Sarah Prescott.

11:00, Break for Tea and Coffee

11:30 – 12:45

Professor Kevin Ruane (Professor of Modern History at Canterbury Christ Church University)

‘The Hidden History of Graham Greene’s Vietnam war’

Tickets: £12

12:45, Break for Lunch

Afternoon Session

Town Hall, Berkhamsted

14:15 - 15:30

Prof. François Gallix (Paris-Sorbonne University)

‘Greene, Spies and MI6’

15:30, Break for Tea and Coffee

16:00 - 17:30

Prof. Adam Piette (University of Sheffield)

‘The Third Man, Underground Intelligence and the Freudian Cold War’

Tickets: £12

Evening Session

Civic Centre, Berkhamsted

19:30

Film: The Tenth Man (1988)

(100 minutes, UK; Director, Jack Gold; starring Anthony Hopkins, Kristin Scott Thomas and Derek Jacobi)

Classification: PG

Introduced by Jack Gold (film director) who will also lead a post-film discussion

Tickets: £10

Saturday 29th September

Talks and Events in Deans’ Hall, Berkhamsted School

Morning Session

9:45 – 11:00

Ian Thomson (author)

‘Graham Greene in Tallin’

11:00, Break for Tea and Coffee

11:30 – 12:45

Dr. Christopher Hull (University of Nottingham)

‘Sex, Drugs and Communism: Greene’s visits to Cuba’

Tickets: £14

12:45, Break for Lunch

Afternoon Session

14:15 – 15:15

Prof. Peter Evans (Film Studies, Queen Mary, University of London)

‘Belgravia, Vienna, Havana: Carol Reed in Greeneland’

15:15, Break for Tea and Coffee

15.45 – 16.45

Prof. Thomas P. O'Connor introduces a screening of his own documentary film, Dangerous Edge: A Life of Graham Greene (USA, 2012)

Early Evening Session

Deans’ Hall, Berkhamsted School

18:15 – 18:45

Book Launch

Dr. Jon Wise and Mike Hill present The Works of Graham Greene: A Reader’s Bibliography and Guide by Jon Wise and Mike Hill (London and New York: Continuum, 2012, 416 pages)

and

Birthday Toast

Proposed by the Principal of Berkhamsted School, Mark Steed

18:45 – 20:00

Quentin Falk (author and critic)

‘Film adaptations of Greene’, an illustrated talk

Tickets: £12

Late Evening Session

Old Hall, Berkhamsted School

20:15

Dinner

Followed by after-dinner speaker Clive Francis (actor, caricaturist and illustrator)

Tickets: £33

Saturday 29th September Alternative Event

Deans’ Hall, Berkhamsted School

9.30 – 16.30

A New Creative Writing Workshop

A freshly devised one-day course on the relationship of character and plot in Prose Fiction and Screenplay

This event includes detailed analysis of Graham Greene's The Basement Room (later re-titled The Fallen Idol) as prose fiction and The Third Man as a screenplay, as a stimulus to participants' own writing.

It also includes the announcement of the titles for the GGBT Creative Writing Awards for 2013, breaks for tea or coffee and attendance at the Interview with Sir Derek Jacobi at 16:15.

Advance booking is essential to guarantee a place on the Creative Writing Workshop.

Workshop Leaders: Rebekah Lattin-Rawstrone (novelist and short story writer) and William Ivory (lower image above) (screenwriter for BBC TV and film and playwright).

Tickets: £35.00

Sunday 30th September

9:00 – 9:45

David Pearce (Founding Trustee and former Festival director, lecturer and author of 'Stamboul Train: The Timetable for 1932' in Dangerous Edges of Graham Greene)

Tour of some areas of the School especially associated with Graham Greene

Prior registration: essential. Meeting point: Old Hall

Free of charge

Morning Session Only

Talks in Newcroft, Berkhamsted School

10.00 – 11:00

Dr. Brigitte Timmermann (author of The Third Man's Vienna and 'Sigmund Freud and Graham Greene in Vienna' in Dangerous Edges of Graham Greene, lecturer and researcher)

The Third Man - A comparative text analysis’

11:00, Break for Tea and Coffee

11:30 – 12:45

Prof. Neil Sinyard (Festival Director)

‘Temple of Doom: some reflections on Graham Greene, Wee Willie Winkie and the Shirley Temple controversy’

Tickets: £14

Farewell Lunch in Old Hall

13:00 – 14:30

Buffet lunch with wine

Tickets: £22

Prof. Neil Sinyard: Festival Director

Prof. Sinyard taught in the Department of Film Studies at the University of Hull (England, UK). His many publications include 'Graham Greene and Charlie Chaplin' in Dangerous Edges of Graham Greene (2011), Graham Greene: A Literary Life (2003), Jack Clayton (2000), Clint Eastwood (1995), Silent Movies (1995), Mel Gibson (1993), Marilyn (1992), Classic Movies (1988), Films of Steven Spielberg (1987), Filming Literature: The Art of Screen Adaptation (1986) and Journey Down Sunset Boulevard: Films of Billy Wilder (1979).

Full details of the programme may be seen on the Festival’s website and in the printed Handbook.

Details of the programme may change. Changes may be seen on the Festival website or on its Facebook page.

Tickets may be ordered in three ways:

(i) by post from the Box Office, 42, Grange Road, Bishops Stortford, Hertfordshire, CM23 5NQ, England, UK

(ii) by telephone on 0044-1279-757517, or

(iii) by e-mail from boxoffice@grahamgreenebt.org

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