Chichester Festivities - Literary

What? 17 days of world-class music, fireworks, talks, jazz, comedy, exhibitions and spectacular outdoor events. Included here because a thin literary stream seems a good enough reason to get there for a sensory indulgence!

Who? (a bit thin for our general guidelines, but the broader prog looks fab)

Where? Chichester - AA Route Planner | multimap

How much? Various. Check site

Festival Website: Chichester Festivities

When? 25 June - 11 July, 2010 (provisional dates)

2009 Program Below 26 June - 12 July, 2009 -

Sunday, June 28 at 18:00 Gavin Esler, former chief North America correspondent for the BBC, examines the themes of power and scandal

Monday, June 29 at 18:00 In an illustrated talk, Dirk Bogarde's official biographer John Coldstream, presents Ever, Dirk - The Bogarde Letters.

Tuesday, June 30 at 18:00 In an illustrated talk John Bridcut, producer of The Passions of Vaughan Williams and Britten's Children, discusses the relevance of their lives in the understanding of their music.

Tuesday, June 30 at 20:00 Julian Clary is one of Britain’s best loved comedians. His visit to Chichester will follow the publication of his latest novel Devil in Disguise – and is sure to be an hilarious evening.

Thursday, July 2 at 18:00 The world’s problems and possibilities, and their future, are analysed with unique authority by Chris Patten.

Friday, July 3 at 18:00 Helen Rappaport gives her view of the powerful and compelling story of the Romanovs.

Saturday, July 4 at 15:00 Diarist, biographer and much-loved Radio 4 contributor Gyles Brandreth blurs the lines of fact and fiction with a series of classic English murder mysteries.

Saturday, July 4 at 18:00 The award winning Panorama journalist’s book, I am Justice, is the extraordinary and moving story of a young Ghanaian man, Justice Amin.

Sunday, July 5 at 18:00 Leading actor Antony Sher's acclaimed and nakedly direct autobiography Beside Myself both inspires and informs.

Monday, July 6 at 18:00 At the age of 39½ Jasper Rees fished his French horn out of the attic and took it to the British Horn Society Festival. Then he set himself a near impossible target: to stand up in front of a paying audience in twelve months’ time and play a Mozart concerto

Tuesday, July 7 at 18:00 Melvyn Bragg, presenter of The South Bank Show and Radio 4's In Our Time, explores the fascinating subject of the presence of autobiography in his recent novels.

Saturday, July 11 at 18:00 The doyenne of women reporters, and Damed for services to journalism, Ann Leslie's life and career as a foreign correspondent is the stuff of a picaresque novel. more...