FESTIVAL 2025 @ Theatre by the Lake, Keswick

3:00pm

Ian Tyler
The Drowning of Haweswater

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11:30am

Sinclair McKay
Saint Petersburg

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1:30pm

Luke Pepera
Motherland and 500,000 Years of African Culture

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3:30pm

Will Hutton
How to Remake Britain

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5:30pm

Angus Winchester
A Journey up a Lakeland Valley

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7:30pm

Natalie Haynes
Why Do Goddesses Matter?

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10:30am

Andrew Ziminski
Church Going - A Stonemason’s Guide to Churches

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12:30pm

Rebecca Wilson
Georgian Feminists

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2:30pm

Sue Prideaux
Wild Thing - A Life of Paul Gaugin

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4:30pm

Dorothy Armstrong
Beneath Our Feet

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6:30pm

Christopher Harding
The Light of Asia

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10:30am

Katie Hale (Workshop)
Mining for Stories

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2:30pm

Polly Atkin (Workshop)
Conversations Through Birds

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11:30am

Mike Thornton
Mr Cornish and Mr Lowry: A Tale of Two Artists

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1:30pm

Peter Conrad
Dickens the Enchanter

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3:30pm

Julian Baggini & Pen Vogler
Feast and Famine

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5:30pm

George Monbiot
Understanding Neoliberalism

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7:30pm

Highly Suspect
The Death of the Great Detective ~ A Murder Mystery

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10:30am

Alan Cleaver
Postal Paths

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12:30pm

Jovan Nicholson
Winifred Nicholson and Cumbrian Rag Rugs

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2:30pm

Kathleen Jones
Reading my Mother

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4:30pm

Sharon Blackie
Wise Women

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6:30pm

Tim Barker
Shakespeare in Cumbrian Dialect

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10:00am

Poetry Breakfast

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10:30am

Darren Harper (Workshop)
A Philosophy of Simplicity

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2:30pm

Alan Cleaver (Workshop)
Bookbinding

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11:30am

Max Adams
The Mercian Chronicles

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1:30pm

Lucy Mangan
How Reading Shapes Our Lives

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3:30pm

Sarah Perry
Sarah Perry in Conversation with Sarah Hall

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5:30pm

Ann Cleeves
Vera, Jimmy and Matthew

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7:30pm

Polly Toynbee & David Walker
Where Do We Go From Here?

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Elsa Richardson
Rumbles: A Curious History of the Gut

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12:30pm

Hilary Bradt
Adventures in Travel and Publishing

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2:30pm

Helen Mort
Ethel Haythornthwaite – Countryside Revolutionary

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4:30pm

Chloe Dalton
Raising Hare

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6:30pm

Philip Marsden
Under a Metal Sky: A Journey through Minerals, Greed and Wonder

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3:00pm

Helen Farish
The Penny Dropping

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10:30am

Kathleen Jones (Workshop)
The Landscape of your Life

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11:30am

Tom Palmer
Tom Palmer and the Cumbrian Young Writers Prize-giving

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1:30pm

L J Ross
A Sense of Place

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3:30pm

Simon Armitage
An Afternoon with the Poet Laureate

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5:30pm

Alan Johnson
Harold Wilson

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7:30pm

James Rebanks
The Place of Tides

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10:30am

Hetta Howes
Poet, Mystic, Widow Wife

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12:30pm

Stuart Gillespie
Is Our Food System Broken?

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2:30pm

Lucia Osborne Crowley
Witnessing the Trial of Ghislaine Maxwell

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4:30pm

Andrew Seaton
The Surprising Survival of the NHS

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6:30pm

Jack Ashby
Nature's Memory -Behind the Scenes at the World's Natural History Museums

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10:00am

Becky Cole
Becky's Storytime

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5:00pm

Four Cumbrian Poets
Kelly Davis, Kerry Darbishire, Ilse Pedler and Elizabeth Stott

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10:30am

Marie-Elsa Bragg (Workshop 1)
Spirituality and Creative Writing

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2:30pm

Marie- Elsa Bragg (Workshop 2)
Spirituality and Creative Writing

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10:30am

Mike Berners-Lee
Climate of Truth

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12:30pm

Anne Sebba
The Women’s Orchestra of Auschwitz

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2:30pm

Diarmaid MacCulloch, Rev Richard Coles, Marie- Elsa Bragg
Making Sense of Christianity and Sex

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4:30pm

Reverend Richard Coles
Festival Finale with the Reverend Richard Coles

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10:00am

Stephen Matthews
A View of Delft: Sonnets after Vermeer

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12:00pm

Robert Farrah
A Lighthouse Keeper's Memoir

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2:00pm

David Felton
Cumbria: 1,000 Years of Maps

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4:00pm

Chris Wadsworth
Rediscovering Percy Kelly

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3:00pm

Allan Todd
For the Earth to Live

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10:30am

Kelly Davis (Workshop)
Poetry is a House of Many Rooms

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7:30pm

Joanne Harris
An Evening with Joanne Harris and Vianne

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7:30pm

David Nicholls
An Evening with David Nicholls

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