WRITERS from Ealing are to feature heavily in this month’s Chiswick Book Festival.
The 14th year of what started life as the Ealing Literary Festival will involve a number of authors who live or have lived in the borough, as well as special events that are to take place in Ealing and Acton.
The authors include Alex Gerlis (Agent in Peril), Caroline Frost (Carry On Regardless), Catherine Pepinster (Defenders of the Faith), Chris Patten (Hong Kong Diaries), Emma Curtis (Invite Me In), Nicola Rayner (You and Me) and Susie Lynes (The Baby Shower).
Award-winning playwright Lisa Evans will chair a panel discussion on criminal fiction by three female writers.
On Tuesday, September 13, at the University of West London William Barry Theatre, Ralph Brookfield and Robert Hokum two of the authors of Rock’s Diamond Year will talk to filmmaker and publisher Cheryl Robson.
They will discuss their new anthology published to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the opening on March 17, 1962, of the Ealing Club.
The book recounts Ealing’s role in the creation of the R&B style and development of the amplified sound of guitar-based rock music that spread through clubs like the Crawdaddy, Eel Pie Island, and the Marquee to become familiar around the world.
The following day, Wednesday, September 14, the ActOne Cinema & Café will be Celebrating Michael Flanders (& Swann) with Michael Flanders' daughters, journalists Stephanie and Laura Flanders.
They will discuss his impact on comedy and the world of disability with Comedy Chronicles writer Graham McCann.
Michael Flanders was a writer and performer of comic songs, as well as an actor, broadcaster, and disability campaigner.
His partnership with pianist Donald Swann has been called ‘the most influential comedy double act’ in British culture, ahead of Morecambe and Wise, Peter Cook and Dudley Moore and the Two Ronnies, but are less widely-remembered.
Flanders lived with his family in Bedford Park till his death in 1975, and the Michael Flanders Centre in Acton was opened in his memory. Ealing Civic Society will unveil a plaque in his honour that afternoon.
Festival brochures are available now at Waterstones Ealing, Pitshanger Bookshop, Ealing Central Library and Gunnersbury Park Museum.
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