Jenny Eclair Joins the Festival Line
Up!
Jenny Eclair is an extremely popular broadcaster,
comedian, actor and writer. She is one of only two female comedians to have won
the prestigious Perrier Award, and often features on BBC radio and television,
best known for her roles in Grumpy Old Women and Loose Women.
Moving
– Jenny Eclair’s fourth novel – reveals a writer at the height of her powers.
Gripping, heart-breaking and laced with black humour, it is a novel of family
secrets, shocking betrayals and most of all, of home. Edwina Spinner has lived
in the same house for over fifty years. It used to be a busy, crowded family
home but now Edwina lives alone and it has grown too big for her. She has
decided to sell it.
Sunday 11 October, 12,30pm, Kings Hall,
£12/10
Two more new events also recently added to the programme as
well:
Event 233: One Night of Love
One Night of Love, starring
Geraldine Woodhouse, Nick Pennington, Jan Thomas, James Kingsley and Lucy
Campbell, explores every aspect of love through the medium of poetry. Some of
the poems are very well known, others less so; some are old, others bang up to
date. An entertaining evening guaranteed!
Devised by local author,
Alan Hall, and directed by Moira
Ferguson.
Friday 2 October, 7.30pm, Ilkley Playhouse,
£6/4
Event 234: The Science of Everyday Life with Marty
Jopson
Have you ever wondered why ice floats and water is such a
freaky liquid? Or why chillies and mustard are both hot but in different ways?
Or why microwaves don’t cook from the inside out? In this fascinating scientific
tour of household objects, The One Show presenter and all-round Science Bloke
Marty Jopson has the answer to all of these, and many more,
baffling questions about the chemistry and physics of the everyday stuff we use
every day.
Monday 12 October, 7.30pm, Ilkley Playhouse,
£6/4
Tickets for these event will go on sale on Tuesday
1 September when general booking
opens.
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