Sunday 12th November

Sunday 12th November

10.00 – 11.00

Kate Pankhurst

Children’s author and illustrator Kate Pankhurst leads an interactive session celebrating historic women who changed the world. A descendant of suffragette Emmeline Pankhurst, Kate is also the author of bestselling picture book Fantastically Great Women Who Changed The World.

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Sunday 12th November

14.00 – 15.00

Simon Jenkins

Revered author and journalist Simon Jenkins has travelled the length and breadth of Great Britain, from Waterloo to Wemyss Bay, Betws-y-Coed to Beverley, to select his hundred favourite railway stations. His journey is documented in a beautiful new book Britain’s Hundred Best Railway Stations, published this September by Penguin.

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Sunday 12th November

16.00 – 17.00

Henry Blofeld in conversation with Nicholas Lezard

For over half a century, Henry Blofeld has conveyed his unfailing enthusiasm for the game of cricket as a much loved broadcaster and journalist. Now that ‘Blowers’ has decided to declare his Test Match Innings closed, he joins us at the Dulwich literary Festival to discuss his life in the commentary box.

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Sunday 12th November

19.00 – 20.30

Alan Hollinghurst in conversation with Razia Iqbal

‘Today’s outing was to Dulwich, to see the picture gallery. She had been there, unrememberingly, before, when she was small enough to ride in a backpack, little ranee on a jogging elephant, her view of the paintings relieved by the back of her father’s neck. Though he said ‘Look!’ from time to time they had gone there entirely for his own pleasure.’

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