Festival Programme for September 2011
(with Literary Events in conjunction with Blackwells Books)
Sunday 11th September (Heritage Day)  Venue
11.00 am

11.00am

12.30 am

1.00 pm

1 - 5 pm

6.30 pm
 Teddy Bears' Picnic

Art Fair, Bookstalls and Local Food stalls

Grand Opening

Literary Lunch with guest speaker Max Hastings - £25

Silver Band/Pandemonium/Betjeman Walks

Festival Songs of Praise. John Betjeman's favourite hymns
 Betjeman Park

Market Place

Market Place

The Bear Hotel

Market Place

Wantage Parish Church


Tickets will be on sale at various venues from
July. Ticket prices start at £4. Events are free
unless stated otherwise.

Vale and Downland Museum.
T: 01235 771447

Bretts Pharmacy, Grove.
T: 01235 763941

Cornerstone Arts Centre, Didcot.
(from April)
T: 01235 515144
www.cornerstone-arts.org

Direct from Jim Mitchell.
T: 01235 767975
E:enquiries@wantagebetjeman.com

*Tickets for Blackwells events are available
from Blackwells Customer Service
Department in Oxford. Tel 01865 333623



Monday 12th 
11.00am

2.00pm

4.00 pm

7.30pm		 Hardy's Jude in the Vale - Talk by Bill Fuller £5

Eliza Graham - Novelist - £5

Jim Powell - Author - £5

Poetry Slam and Quiz - Spiel Unlimited - £5		 Ridgeway Room

Ridgeway Room

Ridgeway Room

Shush




Tuesday 13th 
11.00 am

2.00 pm

2.00 pm

4.00pm

6.00 pm

8.00 pm		 Valerie Laws – Poetry Workshop - £4

Jude the Obscure walks - £5

Valerie Laws – Poetry Reading - £5

Tim Pears - Disputed Land- £5

Lucy Cavendish - Author and Journalist - £5

Sir John 'Loved and Lost' - music and poetry
 Ridgeway Room

Fawley

Ridgeway Room

Ridgeway Room

Ridgeway Room

Blue Boar Barn


Wednesday 14th 
2.00 pm

2.00 pm

4.00 pm

6.00 pm

7.00 pm

9.00 pm

 Jane Draycott – poetry reading - £5
         
Jude the Obscure walks - £5

Edward Docx – The devil's garden- £5 

*Colin Tudge - Fellow Creatures- £5

Hardy Music event with buffet - £15

Ghost Event (Witches, Ghosts and the Supernatural) - £8   
Ridgeway Room

Letcombe Bassett

Ridgeway Room

Civic Hall

Letcombe Regis

Church House
Festival Accommodation Providers

Bear Hotel, Market Place,
Wantage, Oxfordshire OX12 8AB
Tel. (01235) 766366
www.thebearwantage.co.uk

Lark Haven B&B, 5 Hunters Close,
Grove, Wantage, OX12 0PX 
Tel. 07763923000
www.larkshavenbandb.co.uk

Brook Barn Country House Accommodation, Letcombe Regis, Wantage, OX12 9JD
Tel. 020 3 027 8014
www.brookbarn.com

Bramley House B&B, Mill Orchard,
East Hanney, Wantage.
Tel. 01235 868314
email: jim.triffit@gmail.com

Greensands B&B, Reading Road, East Hendred. OX12 8JE.
Tel. 01235 833338
www.greensandsbandb.co.uk

Alfred’s Lodge,23 Ormond Road,
Wantage OX12 8EG.
Tel. 01235 762409.
www.bwithme.co.uk

Best Western Sudbury House Hotel
Folly Hill, Faringdon, Oxfordshire
SN7 8AA
Tel. 01367 241272
www.sudburyhouse.co.uk

Regis Guest House
12 Charlton Road,
Wantage, OX12 8ER
Tel. 01235 762860
www.regisguesthouse.com

Old Yeomanry House
27 Wallingford Stree,
Wantage, OX12 8AU
Tel. 01235 772778
10% Discount for
Wantage Betjeman festval revellers
www.yeomanryhouse.co.uk


Thursday 15th 
11.00 am

2.00 pm

3.00 pm

4.00pm

4.00 pm

6.00 pm

7.00pm

8.00pm
 Ros Barber – Poetry Workshop - £4

Ros Barber – Poetry Reading - £5

Natasha Solomons - Novelist - £5

*Christopher Lloyd - Children's Event - £3

Eleanor Rawling: Ivor Gurney's Gloucestershire - £5

*Alexandra Harris - Romantic Moderns- £5

'The Other Betjeman’- Jim Mitchell with Dick Squires - £5

Film: 'Tortoise in Love' plus directors talk - £5
 Ridgeway Room

Ridgeway Room

Ridgeway Room

King Alfred's Suite

Wantage Library

King Alfred's Suite

Wantage Library

Shush


Friday 16th 
11.00 am

4.00 pm

6.00 pm

7.00 pm

8.00 pm		 Antony Woodward -The Garden in the Clouds - £5

John O'Connell: The Baskerville Legacy - £5

*SJ Parris & James Aitcheson: Historical Fiction Panel - £5

St James Singers - £8

Literary Dinner with Ed Vaizey and Pam Ayres - £30		 Ridgeway Room

Ridgeway Room

King Alfred's Suite

St John Vianney

The Bear Hotel


Saturday 17th 
11.00 am


11.00am


1.00 pm

3.00 pm


5.00pm


7.30 pm


Gnomeo and Juliet - Film - £2  per adult, accompanied children free

Saul Kelly: Britain and Libya, the origins of a Special Relationship - £5

Literary Lunch with guest speaker Bill Heine - £20

Comedy Writing Panel: Kevin Cecil, Paul Mayhew-Archer, Sarah Morgan and Andrew Dawson - £5

Military History Writing Panel: Professor Gary Sheffield,
Dr Tim Benbow, Dr Saul Kelly - £5

Betjeman and Brass – Wantage Silver Band - £8

King Alfred's Suite


King Alfreds Head


King Alfred's Head

King Alfred's Suite


Civic Hall


King Alfred's Suite
For further information or to be added to our mailing list email enquiries@wantagebetjeman.com.

Tickets will be on sale from July 2011.