Graham Greene
If you live in the UK you may well have been bombarded recently with requests from organisations large and small regarding the new legislation on Data Protection. If you are a Friend of the Graham Greene Birthplace Trust you will have received, either by post or by email, information and a request about this very […]
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International Festival 2017 Recordings of Talks
These include Guy Burgess, Soviet Spy, and Graham Greene: a talk by Andrew Lownie, literary agent and biographer of Burgess, followed by other talks.
Read MoreGraham Greene Studies Published
Joyce Stavick and Jon Wise are delighted to report that the first edition of the biennial journal dedicated to the academic study of the writings of Graham Greene has been published. It is available online, free of charge, at – https://digitalcommons.northgeorgia.edu/ggs/all_issues.html. Should you wish to purchase a print copy, this can be done via Amazon. […]
Read MoreTrust Visit to Vienna
To celebrate the 70th anniversary of the making of The Third Man, Austrian historian Brigitte Timmermann, a long-standing friend of the Graham Greene Birthplace Trust, has designed a new four-day trip to the city indelibly linked to Greene’s iconic masterpiece. It will take you back into the troubled times of Greene’s Vienna but also […]
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Call for Papers: The University of North Georgia Press, in conjunction with The Graham Greene Birthplace Trust, is issuing a Call for Papers for a peer-reviewed journal dedicated to the life and work of the English writer Graham Greene (1904 – 1991). University academics, independent researchers, and doctoral, post-graduate, undergraduate, and graduate students are invited […]
Read MoreStaging Brighton Rock
A new stage adaptation of Brighton Rock is set to tour the country in 2018. The production opens at the Theatre Royal, York on 3 February and will later appear at Brighton, Colchester, Hull, Cheltenham, Winchester, Watford, Birmingham, Newcastle, Mold, Derby and Salford. Greene’s 1938 novel has been adapted for the stage by Bryony Lavery […]
Read MoreDramatisation of Stamboul Train
In addition to the forthcoming production of A Burnt-Out Case (see below), listeners to BBC Radio 4 will be able to hear an adaptation of Graham Greene’s Stamboul Train, on Saturday 18 November, 2017 at 2.30pm. This popular 1933 noir has been dramatised by Jeremy Front.
Read MorePsst! Want to Buy Graham Greene’s Old House? …
… well you can, if you have ‘a little north’ of half a million pounds burning a hole in your pocket. The two-bedroomed cottage called ‘Little Orchard’ in Hoo Lane, Back Ends, Chipping Campden is being marketed by the agent Jackson-Stops at an asking price of £525,000. It is described as an 18th Century, Grade […]
Read MoreUpcoming Events
The soundtrack for The Third Man is in many ways as memorable as the film itself. Now there is a chance to hear again the haunting tones of the zither in a concert performed by Cornelia Mayer of Vienna. An evening of Viennese zither classics and music from The Third Man will take place at […]
Read MoreRadio Adaptation of a Burnt-out Case
An adaptation of A Burnt-Out Case will be broadcast on the 19 and 26 November. The adaptation is again the work of Nick Warburton who was interviewed at the 2016 Festival and who was in attendance this year as well. He is now a Friend of the Trust. Episode 1 of A Burnt-Out Case will […]
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