Monday, 2nd March 2009

Main House

10.30am – James Fergusson Talks to Michael Buerk
The war in Afghanistan

12pm Adrian Fort
Archibald Wavell: From Boer War to WWII

2pm Ann Lingard
The elbalmer’s book of recipes – An illustrated talk

3.30pmRebecca Abrams
Science, research and fiction

5pmVesna Maric and Kapka Kaasabova
Different cultures, different teenage years

7.30pmSandi Toksvig
‘Available’ one woman show

Studio

11.45amJohn Morrison
Windermere: Transforming lives – An illustrated talk

2.15pmStephen Matthews
‘King Arthur lives in Merrie Castle’: Carlisle in the Arthurian Literature of the Middle Ages

3.45pmRobert Drake
A solitary trade: the art of craft of drystone walling

5.15pmSue Allan
Cumbrian Voices an illustrated talk