Sea Fever 4 Draft Programme: Time and Tide
Friday May 1: Auditorium, Wells Maltings
Time
Event
Speaker/Chair
Event billing
Venue
10:00-11:00
1
Justin Marozzi or Sally Festing and Polly Ionides (TBC subject to Marozzi’s availability)
Local author Justin Marozzi speaks on his latest book: Islamic Empires. OR (Festing / Ionides)
Poets, Artist and Place
Auditorium
11:30-12:30
2
Peter Willis, President Nancy Blackett Trust, sailing enthusiast and journalist (former deputy editor Classic Boat)
80 years since the publication of Arthur Ransome’s Norfolk Broads’ children’s classic: The Big Six
Auditorium
13:00-14:00
3
Robert Smith MBE
A Walk Around Wellswith Wells Harbour Master, drawing from Robert’s in depth knowledge of the sea and the town of Wells.
Wells Quay and Town
13:00-14:00
4
Poetry event tbc
Auditorium
14:30-15:30
5
Mac Graham, Holkham Hall librarian
The Treasures of Holkham Library and the extraordinary story of how they came to be acquired.
Auditorium
16:00-17:00
6
Kevin Crossley-Holland in conversation with Sir Tim Lankester
Art and Artistry: a personal view.
Auditorium
17:30-18:30
7
Jonty Driver, campaigner against South African Apartheid and writer
Life and Work, Jonty Driver in discussion with Jon Cook
Auditorium
Saturday May 2
Time
Event
Speaker/Chair
Event billing
10:00-11:30
8
Richard Heffer
Schools Poetry competition
Auditorium
10:00-11:30
9
TBC
Some Poetry
Kiln Room / Handa Gallery
11:30-12:30
10
Ursula Buchan, granddaughter of John Buchan, novelist, politician and diplomatic, and author of The Thirty Nine Steps
The Life of John Buchan
Auditorium
11:30-12:30
11
Francis Pryor
Francis talks about his new book, The Fens: Discovering England's Ancient Depths.
Kiln Room / Handa Gallery
13:00-14:00
12
Henry Sutton, crime novelist and Professor of Creative Writing, University of East Anglia
Crime novels TBC
Auditorium
14:30-15:30
13
Andy Bloomfield, Holkham’s expert ornithologist
Changing – and challenging – times for nature in N Norfolk
Auditorium
16:00-17:00
14
Tony Britten, the star composer and film director,
Music and Poetry
Auditorium
17:30-18:30
15
Peter York (Sloane Ranger Handbook) and Professor Patrick Barwise
The War on the BBC
Peter and Paddy will preview one of the most important books of the year.
Auditorium
Draft, draft, draft
but here's a taste - tbc and formalised soon!!!!