Day 2 Events – Friday 25th September 2026

Morning, afternoon and evening sessions.

Morning:

The Town Hall, Berkhamsted

£26

9:45 – Dr Ken Fox: Gothicising Graham Greene – Neil Jordan’s 1999 film adaptation of The End of the Affair. 

Cinema expert and film scholar Ken Fox revisits Neil Jordan’s rendering of Greene’s celebrated 1951 novel, which celebrates its 75^th anniversary this year, in search of the Gothic.

(Break for tea and coffee 10:45-11:15)

11:15 – Adam Sisman: “Greene is my influence, not Hemingway” – John le Carré and Graham Greene.

John le Carré’s acclaimed biographer Adam Sisman reflects on the Greene-le Carré relationship which, though publicly mutually admiring, was privately complex and sometimes tense.

Afternoon:

The Town Hall, Berkhamsted

£26

14:30 – Jo Baker: Reading and Re-reading Graham Greene.

Best-selling author Jo Baker (Longbourn, The Midnight News) offers a personal perspective on Graham Greene, one novelist on another, re-reading and re-interpreting him from a contemporary vantage point.

(Break for tea and coffee 15:30-16:00)

16:00 – Robert Verkaik: The Writer and the Traitor – Graham Greene and Kim Philby.

Award-winning journalist and author Robert Verkaik will talk about his new book on Greene and Philby and consider, amongst other things, why Greene stayed loyal to a friend who was also Britain’s most notorious traitor.

Evening:

The Civic Centre, Berkhamsted

£15

20:00 – Film: England Made Me (Atlantic Productions, 1973, 97 minutes).

In the only cinematic adaptation of Greene’s 1935 novel, director Peter Duffell moves the action from Sweden to Nazi Germany. Starring Peter Finch, Michael York and Hildegard Neil. Introduced by Mike Hill.