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SUMMARY:2026 Meals
DESCRIPTION:Thursday 24th September – opening night supper\nThe Town Hall\, Berkhamsted \n£35 \n5:30pm – Reception (pay bar) \n6:30pm – Opening night supper: two-course supper with coffee for those who have booked online; vegan/vegetarian options available; pay bar. \nPlease book by Monday 15th September at the latest. \nSaturday 26th September – Festival Dinner\nOld Hall\, Berkhamsted School (Castle Street) \n£50 \n8:00pm – Festival Dinner: three courses with wine and coffee; vegan/vegetarian options available. \nPlease book by Monday 15th September at the latest. \nSunday 27th September – farewell lunch\nOld Hall\, Berkhamsted School \n£25 \n1:00pm – farewell lunch: two-course cold buffet\, wine and coffee; vegan/vegetarian options available. \nPlease book by Monday 15th September at the latest.
URL:https://grahamgreenebt.org/event/2026-meals/
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SUMMARY:2026 Season Ticket
DESCRIPTION:Includes all events (talks\, interview and films) excluding meals.
URL:https://grahamgreenebt.org/event/2026-season-ticket/
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SUMMARY:Day 1 Events - Thursday 24th September 2026
DESCRIPTION:Afternoon and evening sessions.\nAfternoon:\nThe Court House\, Berkhamsted \n£8 \n14:15 – Walk: Graham Greene’s Common (led by Richard Shepherd). \nThis 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\, Church Lane\, HP4 2AX. Cars are needed to reach the start at the Inns of Court War Memorial\, New Road car park so please let Richard know if you can give a lift to a car-less Festival-goer: email him at shepherd.rw@gmail.com. If wet\, there will be an illustrated talk/ readings in the Court House. \n17:30 – Festival opening: reception/supper – separate booking required \nDrinks at pay bar from 1730 and supper for those who have booked online from 1830; please book the supper by Thursday 10 September at the latest. \nEvening:\nCivic Centre\, Berkhamsted \n£15 \n20:00 – Film: A Splinter of Ice (Original Theatre Company\, 2021\, 88 minutes) followed by playwright Ben Brown Q&A \nA recording of Ben Brown’s thought-provoking 2021 stage play introduced by Mike Hill. Moscow\, 1987. Graham Greene reunites with his old MI6 boss Kim Philby. The alcohol flows\, the reminiscing too. Hovering in the air is a very big question: did Greene always know his friend was a spy and a traitor? With Oliver Ford Davies as Greene and Stephen Boxer as Philby. Playwright Ben Brown will do a Q&A at the end..
URL:https://grahamgreenebt.org/event/day-1-thursday-24th-september-2026/
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SUMMARY:Day 2 Events - Friday 25th September 2026
DESCRIPTION:Morning\, afternoon and evening sessions.\nMorning:\nThe Town Hall\, Berkhamsted \n£26 \n9:45 – Dr Ken Fox: Gothicising Graham Greene – Neil Jordan’s 1999 film adaptation of The End of the Affair.  \nCinema 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 of the Gothic. \n(Break for tea and coffee 10:45-11:15) \n11:15 – Adam Sisman: “Greene is my influence\, not Hemingway” – John le Carré and Graham Greene.  \nJohn 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. \nAfternoon:\nThe Town Hall\, Berkhamsted \n£26 \n14:30 – Jo Baker: Reading and Re-reading Graham Greene.  \nBest-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. \n(Break for tea and coffee 15:30-16:00) \n16:00 – Robert Verkaik: The Writer and the Traitor – Graham Greene and Kim Philby. \nAward-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. \nEvening:\nThe Civic Centre\, Berkhamsted \n£15 \n20:00 – Film: England Made Me (Atlantic Productions\, 1973\, 97 minutes). \nIn 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.
URL:https://grahamgreenebt.org/event/day-2-friday-25th-september-2026/
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SUMMARY:Day 3 Events - Saturday 26th September 2026
DESCRIPTION:Morning\, afternoon and evening sessions.\nMorning:\nDeans’ Hall\, Berkhamsted School (Castle Street) \n£28 \n9:45 – Professor Andrew Biswell: Cover Stories – Graham Greene and the artist Paul Hogarth. \nThe 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 novels from the 1960s to the 1980s are a great favourite of Greene readers. \n(Break for tea and coffee 10:45-11:15) \n11:15 – Ian Thomson: “Our Man in Tallinn” – Graham Greene’s chance encounter with a model spy in Estonia. \nIan Thomson\, the award-winning biographer and travel writer who spoke so engagingly last year about Greene and Haiti’s Hotel Oloffson\, takes us this time round to Estonia in 1934. \nAfternoon (including the Birthday Toast):\nDeans’ Hall\, Berkhamsted School (Castle Street) \n£37\, including Birthday Toast \n14:30 – Melanie McDonagh: Graham Greene\, Catholicism and literary turn to Rome 1900 to 1955. \nJournalist and author Melanie McDonagh will talk about her new book Converts which examines the reasons for the high conversion rate of British writers to Catholicism in the early 20th century\, not least of them being Graham Greene. \n(Break for tea and coffee 15:30-16:00) \n16:00 – Robin Ince: The Fallen Idol (1948) – from short story to the big screen. \nRobin Ince\, for many years co-host with Professor Brian Cox of BBC Radio 4’s hugely popular The Infinite Monkey Cage\, looks at the 1948 film The Fallen Idol\, directed by Carol Reed with a screenplay by Greene drawn from his story ‘The Basement Room’. \n17:00 – The Birthday Toast. \nEvening:\nOld Hall\, Berkhamsted School (Castle Street) \n20:00 – Festival Dinner – separate booking required. \nThree courses with wine and coffee: vegan/vegetarian options available. Please book online by Thursday 10 September.
URL:https://grahamgreenebt.org/event/day-3-saturday-26th-september-2026/
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SUMMARY:Day 4 Events - Sunday 27th September 2026
DESCRIPTION:Morning and lunchtime.\n9:00 – Guided tour of Berkhamsted School and archives. \nLed 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 ahead of the main morning session. \nMorning:\nDeans Hall\, Berkhamsted School (Castle Street) \n£26 \n10:00 – Cadence Rustam: Love\, loss and betrayal in Graham Greene’s The Heart of the Matter and The End of the Affair. \nCadence Rustam\, at 22 the youngest ever speaker at the Festival\, will reflect on the key themes linking the two early postwar novels which cemented Greene’s status as a writer of international repute. \n(11:00-11:30 break for tea and coffee) \n11:30 – David Belbin: A Greeneland centenary – Graham Greene in Nottingham 1925-1926. \nFocusing on Greene’s four months living and working in Nottingham in 1925-1926\, writer David Belbin shows how this short and often neglected period not only led to Greene becoming a Catholic but set his future trajectory as a novelist \nLunchtime:\n13:00 – Farewell Lunch. \nA two-course cold buffet\, wine and coffee; vegan/vegetarian options available. Please book online by Thursday 10 September.
URL:https://grahamgreenebt.org/event/day-4-sunday-27th-september-2026/
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