Category: Mad Bad & Dangerous to Know
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The 2014 Festival: Mad, Bad & Dangerous to Know
The Rochester Literature Festival is proud to present its second annual festival, Mad, Bad & Dangerous to Know. We’re delighted to be opening this year with an hilarious and heart-warming one woman show with actress Sunny Ormonde – the outrageous Lilian Bellamy from BBC Radio 4’s The Archers, the world’s…
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Cafe Crawl
Enjoy poetry and story telling in the informal and chilled environment of some of Rochester High Street’s cosiest cafes.
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Murder in the Crypt – A Creative Retreat
We have decided that the site specific theatre event was not quite ready to run on the 4th October and have decided to postpone it. In its place we will be running a Creative Retreat in the Bishop’s House and would like to invite writers, poets, artists and other creatives…
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Rochester Picture Palace for Mad, Bad & Dangerous
To book tickets please visit the Eventbrite page here.
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Byron’s Teapot
A mad mix of the unusual and quirky is in order for the finale for this year’s festival. It was Lady Caroline Lamb who gave Byron the lasting epitaph of Mad, Bad & Dangerous to Know, and we know our line up for this final event will not disappoint.
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A Night at the Theatre: The Spirit of My Dream
17Percent presents an evening of new plays for the Rochester Literature Festival.
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Phil Kay: The Wholly Viable
We are delighted to bring comic storyteller Phil Kay to Rochester as part of his Wholly Viable Tour. The legendary comedian has appeared on QI and Russell Howard’s Good News, and been a guest at the Edinburgh Fringe for the last 25 years.
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While No One Was Watching
The Rochester Literature Festival welcomes author Debz Hobbs-Wyatt, whose début novel ‘While No One Was Watching’, was published last year.
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The Real Sherlock Holmes
Debut author Angela Buckley joins us to fascinate you with insights about The Real Sherlock Holmes – Detective Jerome Caminada, whose methodologies mimicked Conan Doyle’s genius.
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The Queen versus Trenton Oldfield – A Prison Diary
We are delighted to host notorious Australian, Trenton Oldfield, in “The Queen versus Trenton Oldfield – A Prison Diary” on Saturday, September 27th. Trenton spent six months at Her Majesty’s Pleasure, following his arrest for disrupting the 2012 Oxford v Cambridge Boat Race, in a successful protest highlighting the culture of…
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An Evening with Sunny Ormonde
The opening event of Mad, Bad & Dangerous to Know will be “An Evening with Sunny Ormonde” – the outrageous and raunchy Lilian Bellamy from BBC Radio 4’s The Archers, the world’s longest running soap. Sunny has been touring this hilarious and heart-warming one-woman show for the past eighteen months, and we are delighted to host her at…
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