P R O G R A M M E

N.B. The details of the programme are subject to alteration.

Thursday 1 October

4.30 – 6.00 p.m. A Creative Writing Event for Berkhamsted School's Sixth Form Old Hall, Berkhamsted School,
led by Young Writers, Publishers and Members of Tales of the Decongested
Rebekah Lattin-Rawstrone and David Strickland
This event includes the launch of GGBT Creative Writing Awards for Young People.

5.30 – 7.00 p.m. Social Gathering and Buffet Supper, King's Arms
Telephone 01442 866595, fax: 01442 877782
email: info@kingsarmshotel.com
Cost: £13.95, payable on arrival, please.
Two courses and coffee, with a vegetarian option.
This has proved to be a popular opportunity for everyone to meet socially at the start of the Festival.
Please contact the King's Arms by Monday 28 September if you intend to be present.

Cornelia Mayer

7.30 – 9.30 p.m. Film Night at The Rex Cinema
Film: The Third Man
(104 minutes, UK, 1949, starring Orson Welles, Joseph Cotton, Alida Valli and Trevor Howard). Classification: PG
Preceded by a Short Selection of Popular Film Scores composed by Austrians, played on the Zither by Cornelia Mayer,
Introduced by Mr Peter Mikl, director of the Austrian Cultural Forum in London.

Tickets: £8

Friday 2 October

Talks at the Town Hall, Berkhamsted

Morning Session

9.30 – 10.30 a.m. Jeremy Lewis
"The Other Greenes"

10.30 a.m. Break for tea and coffee

11.00 – 12.00 noon Dr. Rod Mengham
"Graham Greene in the 1930s"

Tickets for the morning: £8.50

12.00 noon Break for Lunch
Please make your own arrangements for lunch. There are a number of nearby restaurants, cafés, public houses and sandwich shops.

Afternoon Session

2.15 – 3.15 p.m. Tom Aitken
"Eccentric Catholics: Graham Greene and Frederick Rolfe as Spoiled Priests"

3.15 p.m. Break for tea and coffee

3.45 – 4.45 p.m. Fr. Mark Bosco, S.J.
"Graham Greene: Catholic Literary Modernist"

4.50 – 5.10pm Prof. François Gallix
"The Discovery of The Empty Chair"

Tickets for the afternoon: £8.50

Evening Session

Concert and Film at the Civic Centre, Berkhamsted

Cornelia Mayer

7.45 – 8.45 p.m. A Selection of Compositions and Arrangements by Anton Karas, played on the Zither by Cornelia Mayer
Introduced by Peter Gieler, Anglo-Austrian Society
Cornelia Mayer's performances at the Festival are sponsored by the Anglo-Austrian Society.

8.45 p.m. Interval

9.00pm-10.00pm Five Minutes, Mr. Welles

Vincent D'Onofrio

30 minutes, B&W, Brooklyn Hazelhurst Productions, 2005, directed by Vincent D’Onofrio, starring the director and Janine Thériault; only ever screened officially at the Venice Film Festival; a tribute to Orson Welles, and an imagined “behind the scenes” look at the actor during his filming of The Third Man; this film is also a story about the nature of artistic creation and the conflict between art and commerce. Classification: PG

Preceded by an introduction

Tickets for the evening: £8.00

Saturday 3 October

Talks and Events in Deans' Hall, Berkhamsted School

Exhibition: The Third Man

Morning Session

9.30 – 10.30 a.m. New Research on Graham Greene: a Talk sponsored by the Trust
Dr. Chris Hull
“Prophecy and Comedy in Havana: Greene’s ‘entertainment’ and the reality of British diplomacy in Cuba”

10.30 a.m. Break for tea and coffee

11.00 – 12.00 noon Michael Billington
“Graham Greene in the Theatre”

Tickets for the morning: £10

12.00 noon – 12.10 p.m. David Pearce GGBT
"In Memoriam: Ken Sherwood (1935 – 2009)"
Co-founder of Graham Greene Birthplace Trust and the Festival.
A Tribute

12.10 p.m. Break for Lunch
Please make your own arrangements for lunch. There are a number of nearby restaurants, cafés, public houses and sandwich shops.

Afternoon Session

Prof David Crystal

2.00 – 3.00 p.m. Prof. David Crystal, OBE
“Going Careful in The Third Man: a Linguistic Exploration”

3.00 p.m. Break for tea and coffee

Kate Adie

3.30 – 4.15 p.m. Kate Adie, OBE
“Into Danger“
Ms. Adie's talk will focus more upon her own work than upon Greene's writing.

Tickets for the afternoon: £10

Early Evening Session

6.30 p.m. "To Graham Greene": The Birthday Toast
with a choice of red or white wine.
Proposed by Andrew Bourget, grandson of Graham Greene.

6.45 – 7.45 p.m. Dr. Charles Drazin
“The Oklahoma Kid: A sympathetic portrait of writer and part-time investigator Holly Martins”

Tickets for the early evening: £8

Late Evening Session

Anton Karas

8.00 p.m. Austrian Buffet Supper in Old Hall
with Wiener Schnitzel, Sachertorte and a selection of Austrian wines
Followed by Dr Brigitte Timmermann
with a short talk on "Anton Karas" and a selection of Anton Karas' music for The Third Man, played on the Zither by Cornelia Mayer

Tickets: £22

Saturday 3 October Alternative Event

A new and practical one-day course which should suit aspiring adult writers of all ages

A Creative Writing Workshop in Deans’ Hall, Berkhamsted School

Exhibition: The Third Man

Morning and Afternoon Sessions Only

9.30 a.m.– 5.00 p.m. A Creative Writing Workshop in Prose and Screenplay Writing

when the leaders will be
teaching towards a variety of styles,
guiding writers for the printed page and for the screen, and
giving tips to writers of fiction and fact

when the writers will be
writing their own texts,
planning their own manuscripts,
receiving feedback on their own words written during the day, and
sharing the inspiration of Prof. David Crystal's talk on the language of Graham Greene's The Third Man

when the GGBT Creative Writing Awards will be launched.

The Workshop will be led by
Rebekah Lattin-Rawstrone, Bill Ivory and Creina Mansfield

The event includes breaks for tea and coffee (at 10.30am and 3.00pm) and for lunch (12.00 noon to 2.00 p.m.) and attendance at the following talk:

2.00 – 3.00 p.m. Prof. David Crystal, OBE
“Going Careful in The Third Man: a Linguistic Exploration”

Tickets for the day: £25

At 12.00 noon, delegates will have the opportunity to attend "In Memoriam: Ken Sherwood (1935 – 2009)", a Tribute by David Pearce to a co-founder of the Graham Greene Birthplace Trust and the Festival.

N.B. (i) Advance booking is essential to guarantee a place on the Creative Writing Workshop.
N.B. (ii) Delegates at the Workshop should bring a good supply of writing paper and pens or pencils.
N.B. (iii) The running of the Workshop (and the attendance of the leaders listed) will depend upon there being a sufficient number of advance bookings received by the Festival Secretary by Friday 25th September 2009.
N.B. (iv) The details of the programme are subject to alteration. Changes may be seen here on the Festival’s website, on the Festival's Facebook page or on the Director’s Blog http://grahamgreenefestival.blogspot.com

Sunday 4 October

Talks and Events in Deans’ Hall, Berkhamsted School

Exhibition: The Third Man

Morning Session Only

9.30 a.m.– 9.50 a.m. Historic Film of Greene's Switzerland

10.00 – 11.00 a.m. David Pearce
"Dr. Fischer of Geneva and coming to terms with terrorism"

11.00 a.m. Break for tea and coffee

11.30 a.m. – 12.30 p.m. Prof. Neil Sinyard
"Forgotten Memories and the Mystery of The Tenth Man". An Illustrated Talk

Tickets for the morning: £10

12.45 p.m. – 2.00 p.m. Farewell Lunch in Old Hall, Berkhamsted School
Two courses with a choice of red or white wine

Tickets: £20

Amendments: The details of the programme are subject to alteration. Changes may be seen here on the Festival's website, on the Festival's Facebook page or on the Director's Blog http://grahamgreenefestival.blogspot.com/

Copyright: The Trust is grateful for permission to reproduce copyright images. It has not always been possible to identify the sources of the images used, and in such cases the Trust would welcome information from the copyright owners.

Dermot Gilvary is the Festival Director. He has taught English language and literature at Oakham School (Rutland, UK) for many years, where he worked on the design of the Queen Elizabeth Theatre, and he has contributed to the development of the International Baccalaureate. He is involved in examining and teacher-training for the IB in Africa, Europe, the Middle East and North America. He was an editorial advisor on Dr. Brigitte Timmermann's The Third Man's Vienna (2005), and he is co-editing a collection of Festival papers intended for publication in the USA in 2010. He captained his local clubs at rugby football and cricket, and he is the author of the farcical comedy Trouble at t' Test (2007). He is now intent upon writing another play of a whimsical nature.

email: dng@oakham.rutland.sch.uk
Director's Blog: http://grahamgreenefestival.blogspot.com