Day 3 – Saturday 27th September 2025

Morning session

Deans’ Hall, Berkhamsted School (Castle Street)

£27

9:45 – Who Killed Kolly Kibber: A Deep Dive into the Difficulty of Adapting Brighton Rock: The novelist and film scholar Shirley Day will contrast Greene’s original, the theatrical adaptation, and two distinct film versions to reveal why Brighton Rock continues to fascinate and frustrate those who attempt to bring it to life.

10:45 – Break for tea and coffee

11:15 – ‘Dear heart’: The Graham Greene-Catherine Walston Correspondence, 1947-1978: The historian Kevin Ruane (next year’s Festival director!) will discuss his vast project of editing the largest collection of Greene’s correspondence.

Break for lunch

Afternoon session

Deans’ Hall, Berkhamsted School (Castle Street)

£37, including Birthday Toast

2:30 – Graham Greene’s Achill: A Record of Love: The oral historian Angela Maye-Banbury will create a picture of the island where Graham Greene and Catherine Walston spent some of their happiest times.

3:30 – Break for tea and coffee

4:00 – ‘My Best Entertainment’: The Ministry of Fear – Creina Mansfield and Mike Hill discuss the extraordinary story of Nazi spies and a mysterious cake, which Greene wrote while stationed in Sierra Leone.

5:15 – The Birthday Toast