Charlie Bennett

3.30pm Monday 4th May Justine Picardie presents Fashioning the Crown 👗👜👑 in the #Cotswolds 📚 #booksky Tickets on line: www.campdenmayfestivals.co.uk/literature/e...

Environmentalists and nature 🦅🦉🐾🦊 lovers great 📚#booksky afternoon events in #Cotswolds 7th May with @drmjwarren.bsky.social and @adamweymouth.bsky.social
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James Fox in the magnificent #Cotswolds wool church of St James' in May to present #CRAFTLAND 📚#booksky Tickets on line www.campdenmayfestivals.co.uk/literature/e...

After the huge success of our 2025 production of 'Waiting For Godot' we are very excited to be mounting our second fully professional 'In House' production. This time with Noel Coward's great play 'Private Lives' 🎭 Book online www.campdenmayfestivals.co.uk/literature/e...

Congratulations 🥂 @womensprize.bsky.social Non-fiction authors #booksky

Our local indie bookshop @borzoibookshop.bsky.social see post👇

General online booking opens today, 1st Feb. www.campdenmayfestivals.co.uk/literature/e... @edithmayhall.bsky.social 👇with us in May 😂 #booksky

YouTube video by Meg Morley Harold Lloyd: Speedy. Music by Meg Morley Trio (promo video)

Film 📽️ lovers: Meg Morley playing for "Speedy" will be with us 6 May accompanying Charlie Chaplin shorts to illustrate @jacriding.bsky.social discussion with @megster.bsky.social on #HardStreets Tickets online: www.campdenmayfestivals.co.uk/literature/e...
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10/11 April Private Lives Director: Christian Durham. Cast: Edward Bennett, Nia Gwynne, Martin Bassindale, Isobel Laidlar, Georgina Jackson Tickets on sale now 🎭https://www.campdenmayfestivals.co.uk/literature/events

Environmentalists and nature 🦅🦉🐾🦊 lovers great #booksky afternoon events in #Cotswolds 7th May with @drmjwarren.bsky.social and @adamweymouth.bsky.social Tickets online www.campdenmayfestivals.co.uk/literature/e...

In advance of our Festival lunch 5 May guest author @carol4olivefarm.bsky.social talks live on Instagram on Tuesday 3rd March at 7.30pm #booksky
Reservations for the lunch direct with the Cotswold House Hotel on 01386 840330.

4-10 May Literary Lunch, interviews & talks, film, jazz. History, Homer, nature, memoir, politics, fiction, poetry, cheffing, wine tasting. Main venue state of the art Cidermill Theatre
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Brendel is celebrated in a glorious musical evening of silliness, sublime playing and warm affection On what would have been Alfred Brendel’s 95th birthday, some of the world’s greatest musicians performed in a relaxed and joyous celebration of an outstanding musician and benevolent mentor

What privilege it was to be at this great evening and to pay tribute to a superb musician and a wonderful human being. RIP Alfred. www.theguardian.com/music/2026/j...

All My Sons at Wyndham's Theatre Book theatre tickets for All My Sons at Wyndham's Theatre in London's West End. Best ticket prices across all performances.

Saw this last week, one of the greatest things I've seen in 60 years of theatre going. www.wyndhamstheatre.co.uk/whats-on/all...

Tom Stoppard: a brilliant dramatist who always raised the temperature of the room The self-described ‘bounced Czech’ created cerebral works centred by a core of genuine emotion – and always understood the ways of our world

Lovely piece by Michael Billington on Tom Stoppard. www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/n...

Music Matters - Piano Stories - Alfred Brendel - BBC Sounds Piano technician Ulrich Gerhartz talks pianos in Brendel's last recorded conversation.

Alfred Brendel & Ulrich Gerhartz discussing pianos. A beautiful programme & wonderful tribute to Alfred. I feel privileged to have known him & welcomed him to Chipping Campden Music Festival on countless occasions.Also to know Ulrich & witness his astonishing abilities. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

One of his greatest plays which I’ve see countless times. Most memorable production was when Richard Pasco and Ian Richardson alternated the roles of Richard and Bolingbroke at the RSC in the early 1970s.

Just finished it. Absolutely stunning read. If you haven’t listened to the episode of private passions on radio 3 don’t miss it. He speaks so fluently about music as well as literature.

Attending that final concert was one of the highlights of my concert going life.

MailyEXPRESSOgraph TRIUMPH FOR REFORM AS IT SWEEPS INTO THIRD PLACE by Our Political Correspondent Hugh Kip In the most seismic upheaval in the history of politics, Nigel Farage's Reform party continued its inevitable march to Number 10 by spectacularly coming third in the Hamilton by-election. After a disastrous night for Labour which saw the party only come first and win the election, it was clear that Starmer's days are numbered. If this result were replicated in a General Election, Reform would win a massive no seats, while labour would be consigned to the dustbin of history with another massive majority. The records will show that our prediction that it would be a two horse race between the SNP and Reform became a reality - as the Scots rejected the discredited SNP and consigning them to second place. This proved, as we said, that Reform is the only option north of the border, apart from Labour. A bruised and battered Starmer was clearly on the ropes as he addressed cheering crowds, and he must now only be days away from resigning - thus paving the way for Nigel Farage and his four MPs to sweep to power.

Private Eye exposing again the utter idiocy of our politics.
This sums up *exactly* how Farage and Reform get rocket-boosted by a media, drunk on sensationalist nonsense. Unserious and irresponsible but it’ll be up to us to prove them wrong.

Hugely well deserved. A wonderful and almost unbearably moving book.

Michael Foot MP told the wonderful story of his father’s solution to the problem of not having space for any more books in the house - he bought a larger house!

I want to tell you why the case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia should matter to you.

The one power you cannot give the executive is the ability to imprison or expel anyone regardless of their legal rights. That is our key check against autocracy. And we are watching it disappear.

It's publication day of my new novel - The Best of Everything! Here I am telling you a little bit about it!

“I tried to groan, Help! Help! But the tone that came out was that of polite conversation.”

― Samuel Beckett

How wonderful. Wish I could get there. He’s such a great actor. We are doing Godot as part of Chipping Campden Literature Festival to mark 70th anniversary of first UK performance. If you want to come email Vicky and we’ll sort comp for you. Charlie

Live jazz from The Nik Payton Sextet - Aret Komlosy: Vocals, Nik Payton: Clarinet & Saxophone, Steve Fishwick: Trumpet, Richard Busiakiewicz: Piano, Dave Green: Bass, Steve Brown: Drums

Featuring Billie Holiday tracks.

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Have a great birthday Henry!

“Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent” Victor Hugoo

Tuesday 25 March
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Ben Masters THE FLITTING @grantabooks.bsky.social
Wednesday 7 May
Live event in Cotswolds: Ben & @carosanderson.bsky.social
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