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Justin Webb - From the Mayflower to Obama
7 July 2012 10:30 AM
Pavilion Arts Centre
Buxton Festival 2012
Justin Webb presents a wry account of the transatlantic friendship as it actually exists today – how Americans see us, how we Brits see them – and as presenter on Radio 4’s Today programme and formerly the BBC’s North American editor for eight years, he is perfectly placed to comment. Read more about this event … or
Orlando Figes - Just Send Me Word
8 July 2012 10:30 AM
Pavilion Arts Centre
Buxton Festival 2012
Just Send Me Word is the story of the relationship between Lev and Sveta, two young Muscovites separated by the Second World War and then the Gulag, where the Soviet state sent Lev for ten years on absurd and arbitrary charges. Extraordinarily, during Lev’s long exile in an Arctic camp they were able to smuggle letters to each other and even meet. Historian Orlando Figes, best-selling author of Natasha’s Dance and The Whisperers, tells the moving story of their agonising lives in Stalin’s Soviet Union and their constancy and love. Read more about this event … or
Claire Tomalin - Charles Dickens: A Life
9 July 2012 10:30 AM
Buxton Opera House
Buxton Festival 2012
Even to his contemporaries, Charles Dickens was a phenomenon: political radical, demonically hardworking journalist, the father of ten children, actor and playwright, newspaper editor, liberal campaigner, and arguably our greatest novelist. Yet the brilliance concealed a self-destructive character and a man often at war with himself. Read more about this event … or
Ian Robertson - Doctors in the (Opera) House
9 July 2012 1:00 PM
Lee Wood Hotel
Buxton Festival 2012
Doctors feature frequently in opera – think of the philandering Dr Bartolo in The Barber and Figaro or Dulcamara in L’elisir d’amore. Some are bumbling pretentious figures of fun; others are outright quacks, or evil, as is the research physician in Wozzeck. Just occasionally operatic doctors prove to be good at their job, as is the surgeon in Verdi’s La forza del destino, or Maxwell Davies’ Doctor of Myddfai. Ian Robertson, a retired professor of medicine himself, takes us on a light-hearted tour of operatic medical men (and, occasionally, women). Read more about this event … or
