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This page lists all the scheduled events at Buxton Opera House. If you would like to see all the shows between specific dates in the future then please select your preferred start and end date. Alternatively, you may filter by category.
Cleve West - Our Plot
10 July 2012 10:30 AM
Pavilion Arts Centre
Buxton Festival 2012
Cleve West is one of Britain’s top garden designers, with six RHS medals to his name and the Best in Show prize at last year’s Chelsea Flower Show. He is also King of the Allotment, a true allotmenteer who heads off to his plot to get his hands dirty, find peace and contemplate life and nature. His passion for allotments is only matched by his talent, and his deep concern for sustainability which brings important issues down to ground level. He brings a cornucopia of tips and ideas – a combination of the practical and inspirational. Whether vegetables and herbs or flowers and fruit are in your sightlines, he has the answers to it all. Read more about this event … or
Anne Sebba - That Woman
10 July 2012 3:00 PM
Lee Wood Hotel
Buxton Festival 2012
3pm performance sold out – second performance added at 5pm
25 years after her death, Wallis Simpson remains one of the most glamorous and vilified women of the last century. In order to fully understand the real person behind the iconic image, Anne Sebba explores the mind and motivations of this enigmatic American divorcee who nearly became our Queen, and provides a wholly new interpretation of what really happened during the abdication crisis. Read more about this event … or
Anne Sebba - That Woman
10 July 2012 5:00 PM
Lee Wood Hotel
Buxton Festival 2012
3pm performance sold out – second performance added at 5pm
25 years after her death, Wallis Simpson remains one of the most glamorous and vilified women of the last century. In order to fully understand the real person behind the iconic image, Anne Sebba explores the mind and motivations of this enigmatic American divorcee who nearly became our Queen, and provides a wholly new interpretation of what really happened during the abdication crisis. Read more about this event … or
Duncan Campbell-Smith - Masters of the Post
11 July 2012 10:30 AM
Pavilion Arts Centre
Buxton Festival 2012
In charting the extraordinary story of the Royal Mail from Tudor times, Duncan Campbell-Smith recounts a series of remarkable tales. We learn how postal engineers built the first programmable computer for the wartime code-breakers of Bletchley Park and how the Royal Mail managed to continue delivering post to the front lines during two World Wars, but also how it failed to prevent the Great Train Robbery of 1963. He brings to life many of the dominant personalities in the Royal Mail’s history – from Rowland Hill, who with the Penny Post set the great Victorian expansion on its way, to Tom Jackson who led the postal workers’ biggest union through 15 stormy years. And he shows that today’s debate over the future of the Royal Mail is just the latest chapter in a centuries-old conflict between its roles raising revenue and serving the public. Read more about this event … or
