Events

Thursday 24th September – opening night supper The Town Hall, Berkhamsted £35 5:30pm – Reception (pay bar) 6:30pm – Opening night supper: two-course supper with coffee for those who have booked online; vegan/vegetarian options available; pay bar. Please book by Monday 15th September at the latest. Saturday 26th September – Festival Dinner Old Hall, Berkhamsted […]

Includes all events (talks, interview and films) excluding meals.

Afternoon and evening sessions. Afternoon: The Court House, Berkhamsted £8 14:15 – Walk: Graham Greene’s Common (led by Richard Shepherd). This perfect Festival curtain-raiser walk is approximately three miles (including some uphill stretches and World War I trenches, so wear stout shoes). The walk is punctuated with readings from Greene’s works. Assemble at the Court House, […]

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 75th anniversary this year, in search […]

Morning, afternoon and evening sessions. Morning: Deans’ Hall, Berkhamsted School (Castle Street) £28 9:45 – Professor Andrew Biswell: Cover Stories – Graham Greene and the artist Paul Hogarth. The director of the International Anthony Burgess Foundation, Andrew Biswell, paints a portrait of artist Paul Hogarth whose book covers for the Penguin paperback editions of Greene’s […]

Morning and lunchtime. 9:00 – Guided tour of Berkhamsted School and archives. Led by archivist Lesley Koulouris the tour takes in the famous green baize door, the Exhibition Room, Old Hall and the School chapel. Meet outside Old Hall, Berkhamsted School, Castle Street, promptly at 9 am. No booking required, a free event for festival-goers […]