Day 4 – Sunday 1st October 2023

Morning session

Old Hall and Careers Centre, Berkhamsted School (Castle Street)

£21

9:00 – A tour of the School Archives: including a look at the Exhibition Room, the green baize door, Old Hall and the School Chapel. (Meet outside Old Hall.)

10:00 – Guarding the Fourth Power: Fictional Representations of Journalistic (Mal)Practice in Graham Greene’s Fiction: Dr. Beatriz Valverde Jiménez (Universidad de Jaén) will discuss how Greene’s fiction becomes essential in our understanding of contemporary information control and dissemination.

11:00 – Break for tea and coffee

11:30 – ‘Literary Giants in a War of Words’: Anthony Burgess and Graham Greene: Creina Mansfield and Mike Hill will describe the relationship between the two authors from its happy start to the very public falling out. What did they really quarrel about?

Lunch

Old Hall, Berkhamsted School

£32.50

1:00 – Farewell Lunch: two-course cold buffet, wine and coffee; vegan/vegetarian option.