S P E A K E R S

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Richard Combs

Richard Combs
Richard Combs is a film critic, lecturer and broadcaster. He edited the BFI publication Monthly Film Bulletin for 17 years, and has written for Sight and Sound magazine, national newspapers, the Times Literary Supplement, and for many years had a weekly column in the BBC Listener. He now teaches at the National Film and Television School and writes most frequently for Film Comment magazine at the Lincoln Center in New York.
Professor Peter Evans

Professor Peter Evans
Peter William Evans is Emeritus Professor of Film Studies at Queen Mary, University of London. Author of several books on Hollywood, Spanish and British cinema, his book on Carol Reed (Manchester University Press) was published in 2005. His most recent book is Top Hat (Wiley-Blackwell, 2010), and he is currently writing a British Film Institute Classic on Douglas Sirk's Written on the Wind.
Quentin Falk

Quentin Falk
It is nearly 30 years since Quentin Falk published his first book, Travels in Greeneland: The Cinema of Graham Greene. With the active participation of Greene himself, who was on the cusp of his 80th birthday, as well as contributions from other writers and directors involved in the many adaptations down the years, Falk’s book was short-listed for the Mobil/BFI Film Book of the Year Award. A former editor of Screen International as well as, subsequently, author of books on Alfred Hitchcock, Anthony Hopkins, Lew Grade, The Rank Organisation, and Albert Finney, Falk is film critic of The Catholic Herald and a regular feature writer for BAFTA Online.
Clive Francis

Clive Francis
Clive Francis is a professional actor with long experience of work on stage, television and radio. He aapeared in "The Return of A| J Raffles", the last of Graham Greene's plays to be staged in the West End, and in a touring production of "Travels with my Aunt". He is also a caricaturist and book illustrator with exhibitions and books to his name. He drew a cartoon of Greene for the Centenary Festival, read from Greene's works at the 2005 Festival and gave a talk at the 2007 Festival.
Professor François Gallix

Professor François Gallix
Emeritus Professor of Contemporary English literature at Paris IV-Sorbonne. He has published several books and articles in this domain. His current research is on Graham Greene. He has published an unfinished novella by Greene in The Times and in The Strand and translated it into French, with bibliography, filmography and introductions: La Chaise vide et autres récits inédits (Robert Laffont, 2 vol. 2011). He is also doing research on Chesterton's Father Brown's detective stories.
Jack Gold

Jack Gold
Jack Gold was born 1930 in London...schooled in a dozen locations during evacuation years...Graduated at U.C.L. in Economics and Law. Trained at BBC in film editing. Directed over two hundred short documentaries for Tonight with reporters Alan Whicker, Fyfe Robertson, Malcolm Muggeridge and others. Also many international feature documentaries.
Directed over fifty fiction films both in TV and Features including Naked Civil Servant, Bofors Gun, Goodnight Mr. Tom, Coppard, Death in the Morning, Aces High, Inspector Morse, Medusa Touch, Escape from Sobibor, Man Friday, The Chain and of course The Tenth Man. Winner of over twenty international awards. At present tutoring at the National Film and TV School.
Mike Hill

Mike Hill
Mike Hill is a retired History teacher living in West Yorkshire. His interest in Greene has been sustained and deepened by his attendance at every festival since 1998. He was for three years the festival director, and he is currently editor of the Birthplace Trust’s quarterly A Sort of Newsletter.
Dr Christopher Hull

Dr Christopher Hull
Dr Christopher Hull has taught in the Department of Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies at the University of Nottingham since 2004, where he is an active member of its Centre for Research on Cuba. In 2011 he researched Graham Greene’s original manuscripts and personal papers in the United States after receiving a British Studies Fellowship from the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin.
William Ivory

William Ivory
Writer for television, film and stage; author of Women in Love (BBC, 2010), A Thing Called Love (BBC, 2005), The Sins for which he won The Edgar Allan Poe Award in New York presented by The Crime Writers Association of America for Best TV Drama Series; creator of The Invisibles (BBC1, 2007); honorary D.Litt., University of Nottingham, 2009
Rebekah Lattin-Rawstrone

Rebekah Lattin-Rawstrone
Her first novel was Home (Social Disease, 2008); she is currently working on her second; she teaches Creative Writing at City University (London) and The Bishopsgate Institute (London), and she is a partner of Apis Books, an independent publishing company for shorter fiction.
Creina Mansfield

Creina Mansfield
Creina Mansfield is a writer and teacher. She taught in Manchester University's CCE department for ten years and now devises and teaches literature courses to the public. She has degrees from Cambridge and Manchester Universities. She has published seven works of fiction for young people, some of which have been translated into French, German, Portuguese, Italian and Danish. Her special interests are the modern novel, the theory of narrative structure and film.
Prof. Thomas O'Connor

Prof. Thomas O'Connor
School of Media Arts and Design, James Madison University, Harrisonburg, Virginia, USA and a welcome return visitor to the Festival. Award-winning independent television and film producer and writer since 1979; his film Fatima was the first nationwide documentary shown in Russia after the fall of the Soviet Union in 1989; during a NASA fellowship in 1998 he wrote and produced a documentary on the first manned lunar landing; a Los Angeles production company has taken an option on his screenplay titled Fools of Time; currently he is working on a documentary about Graham Greene
David Pearce

David Pearce
Founding Trustee and former director, Graham Greene Festival; author of Festival papers on Stamboul Train and Dr Fischer of Geneva
Adam Piette

Adam Piette
Adam Piette is a Professor at the University of Sheffield, author of Remembering and the Sound of Words (Oxford University Press, 1996) Imagination at War (Macmillan, 1995), and The Literary Cold War, 1945 to Vietnam (Edinburgh University Press, 2009). He has recently co-edited The Edinburgh Companion to Twentieth-Century English and American War Literature with Edinburgh University Press. He is Reviews Editor for The European Journal of English, guest-edited a special issue of Translation and Literature on modernism and translation, helped set up the Edwin Morgan Centre for Creative Writing at the University of Glasgow, and is co-editor of the poetry journal Blackbox Manifold.
Sarah Prescott

Sarah Prescott
Sarah Prescott is Literary Archivist in Special Collections at the University of Leeds. She is currently working on a project to promote the University’s literary collections, and encourage students to explore their potential for education and research. A key focus of her current work is the series of evolving drafts of ‘Dr Fischer of Geneva’, which is a major part of the small but significant collection of archival material relating to Greene held at Leeds.
Professor Kevin Ruane

Professor Kevin Ruane
Kevin Ruane is Professor of Modern History at Canterbury Christ Church University. He has previously written and published on many aspects of post-1945 international history, including the Cold War, the Anglo-American 'special relationship', and modern Southeast Asia. The French war in Vietnam was the theme of his doctoral research, and has since formed the subject of two of his books, War and Revolution in Vietnam (1998), and The Vietnam Wars (2000). Kevin's work on Graham Greene and Indo-China has already featured this summer in the Historical Association journal, History, and he is now working on a book-length treatment, provisionally entitled The Hidden History of Graham Greene's Vietnam.
Martyn Sampson

Martyn Sampson
Martyn Sampson trained as a critic, taking BA and PhD degrees in English at the University of the West of England in Bristol, where he taught English Literature as an Associate Lecturer. His doctoral dissertation was about the intersection between literary theory and theology in Greene’s ‘Catholic’ novels. He has presented his research at numerous academic and public venues, is the editor of two anthologies of creative writing, and has attended the festival regularly.
Prof Neil Sinyard

Prof Neil Sinyard
Reader in Film Studies, University of Hull. Author of critical texts on Greene, Zinnemann, Hitchcock, Spielberg and others.
Ian Thomson

Ian Thomson
Ian Thomson is the author of Bonjour Blanc: A Journey Through Haiti (1990), which J.G.Ballard called "hair-raising but hugely entertaining". His biography of Primo Levi (2002) won the Royal Society of Literature's W.H.Heinemann Award, while his account of Jamaica, The Dead Yard (2009), was awarded the Ondaatje Prize and Dolman Prize. In addition, Ian had edited Articles of Faith: The Collected Tablet Journalism of Graham Greene (2006). He lives in London with his wife and children, and is currently working on a book for Faber & Faber on the Baltic during World War II.
Dr Brigitte Timmermann

Dr Brigitte Timmermann
Dr. Timmermann has had a varied career in secondary and adult education; she lectures for American universities in Vienna and works as freelance researcher, travel consultant and professional tourist guide. Author of The Third Man’s Vienna, she has been a regular contributor at previous Festivals.
Dr Jon Wise

Dr Jon Wise
Dr Jon Wise is a retired English teacher living in Herefordshire. He now devotes his time to writing, mainly on naval history. He has a life-long interest in Greene and welcomes the publication of The Works of Graham Greene as a springboard to further research on the writer's prolific literary output.