WORDS Speakers Alphabetical List

• Adams, John 11 Jun 93 A Director’s Lot
• Adcock, Fleur 27 Sep 85 Poetry Reading
• Ahmed, Naylor 2 Oct 19 Living with 'The Archers'
• Alsop, Lenny & Oughton, Marion 8 Nov 91 Story-telling through the Ages
• Angelis, April de 9 June 06 What is useful to know about Play
• Armitage Simon & Sweeney, Matthew 19 June 92
• Astley, Neil 26 Sep 97 Publishing, Writing & Reading Poetry
• Atkins, Eileen & Glover, Julian 14 Feb 88 Teller of Tales
• Bainbridge, Beryl 8 Jan 80 About Her Novels
• Bate, Jonathon 22 Sep 06 John Clare
• Barrow Poets 15 Jun 84
• Bawden, Nina & Leon Garfield 6 Apr 84 Writing for Children
• Bayley, John 14 Jun 96 Housman’s Poetry
• Beauman, Nicola 16 Apr 10 Persephone Books
• Bell Jo, 18 July 19 The Currency of Kindness: an afternoon of poetry
• Benjamin, John - 4 July 24 From Elizabeth Ist to Elizabeth Taylor - A History of Jewellery
• Bennett Charles 21 Nov 03 A Pair of Shoes
• Berry, Cicely 13 Oct 89 The Spoken Word in the Theatre
• Billington, Michael 21 Sep 12 A Critic shares his views
• Black, Jill 12 Jun 81 The Literary Midwife
• Brett, Simon 17 Sep 10 Tickled to Death
• Briggs, Anthony 20 Sep 13 War & Peace
• Bron, Eleanor 8 Feb 02 An Evening with Ellen Terry
• Brownjohn, Alan 12 Sep 86 Reading Poetry
• Buckley, Geoffrey 13 Nov 88 No Words [Mime]
• Burns, Patrick 15th May 24 Without Fear or Favour
• Carey, John 23 Sep What Good are the Arts?
• Carter Maureen and Rayne, Sarah 13 Nov 13 From Laptop to Bookshop
• Clarke, Catherine 2 Apr 93 What Makes a Classic
• Clarke, Gillian 9 Sep 83 A Tribute to Molly Holden & Frances Horowitz
• Clarke, Gillian & Feaver Vicki 12 Jun 87 Reading their Poetry
• Clarke, Gillian, 7 Nov 14 Poems and tribute to Dylan Thomas
• Cleeves, Ann, 25 Feb 20 An Evening with Ann Cleeves
• Coe, Jonathan 9 Sep 88 The Novelist of the Nineties
• Conradi, Peter 21 Feb 03 Writing about Iris
• Cope, Wendy 19 Apr 02 Poetry Reading
• Cooper, Ben 11 Apr 14 Controlling BBC Radio 1, 4 Feb 18 Young Writers Award, 24 Feb 19 WORDS Anniversary Event
• Crace, Jim 13 Sep 96 The Novel - Who needs it; 18 Nov 18 talking about his life & works
• Crampton, Robert 24 Feb 19 WORDS Anniversary Event
• Crick, Bernard 11 Feb 84 Orwell’s 1984
• Crystal, David 8 Nov 85 Developments in Language 22 Sep 89 Pushing Language to the Limits
• Dalrymple, William 25 Feb 00 A Travel Writer in India
• Davies, Andrew 2 Mar 07 Adapting the Classics for Television
• ditto 11 Feb 83 Radio Drama
• Devlin, Ann - see Edgar, David
• Dexter, Colin 19 Feb 93 Morse
• Diamond, John 15 Apr 94 Newspeak /Tagspeak
• Donaghy, Michael 26 Apr 96 Poetry Reading
• Drabble, Margaret 1 Feb 85 Fiction Today
• ditto 11Feb 11 Patterns of the Past
• Duffy, Carol Ann 16 Sep 94 Poetry Reading
• Duffy, Carol Ann 24 Feb 12 Evening of Poetry and Music
• Duffy, Maureen 22 Sep 95 A Musician’s Life
• Dunmore, Helen 20 Mar 98 Poetry and Prose
• Edgar, David 8 Jun 12 Writing and Directing for the Theatre
• Edgar, David, Devlin, Anne & Stephen, Bill 18 May 90 Community Theatre; 24 Febuary 19 WORDS Anniversary Event
• Edmonds, Richard et Al 14 Sep 79 Mozart’s Letters
• Edmundson, Paul & Wells, Stanley 30 Apr 04 Shakespeare’s Sonnets
• Ellis, Stanley 28 Apr 95 Dialect, Accent & Regional Speech
• Ellis , Steve 11 Nov 11 Literature at the Outbreak of WWII
• Engel, Matthew 8 May 97 The Greeks to Gazza
• Ewart, Gavin 08 June79 Reading own Poetry
• Fairs, Alan & Heather with Gabriel Woolf 21 Apr 85 Far from Home ,1914 - 1918
• Fanthorpe, U A 23 Jun 95 Poetry Reading
• Feaver, Vicki 12 Nov 82 Reading Poetry
• Feaver Vicki & Clarke, Gillian 12 Jun 87 Reading their Poetry
• Feinstein, Elaine 24 April 16, Novelist, Playwright &Translator, 
• Fine, Anne 9 Jun 00 Writing for Adults & Children
• Forde, Nigel 9 Nov 90 Mixed Metafordes
• Fowler, Alys 22 Apr 18 Hidden Nature: A Voyalge of Discovery
• Fraser, Giles 15 Nov 13 Between Two Worlds
• Fraser, Antonia  19 Sep 14 Perilous Question and The Gunpowder Plot
• French, Judith 9 Oct 98 A Solitary Elegance - Jane Austen
• [Florence, Peter 21 Nov 03 Booked but didn’t come]
• Galloway, Janice 11 Feb 05 What’s ordinary and What’s Extra
• Gittins, Robert and Horowitz, Frances, 06 Jun 79 Hardy and his Women
• Giles, Ashley  Pat Murphy and Jim Rosenthal - " Behind The Mics " - July 12th.
• Glasgow Alex and Livings, Henry 13 Jun 80 The Northern Drift
• Glover, Julian 16 Jun 85 Beowulf
• Glover, Julian & Atkins, Eileen 14 Feb 88 Teller of Tales
• Goff, Martyn 22 Mar 91 Book Booker Bookest
• Green, B and Kanalt, T 6 Nov 81 TheFollies of 1812
• Green, Jonathan 19 Feb 99 Slang down the Ages
• Gunesekera, Ramesh 9 Feb 01 Writing and Serendipity
• Hicks, Kim 29 Sep 00 Dorothy Parker Couples?
• Harrod, Jean, May 10th 23, “ Deadly Diplomacy "
• Hart, Linda and Woolf, Gabriel 16 Sep 11 The English Years of Robert Frost
• Harvey, A and others 3 Apr 81 A Pine in Solitude
• Harvey, Anne 24 Feb 06 What the Women Thought
• Harvey, Anne, Lapotaire, Jane & Gabriel Woolf 15 Nov 92 Crime in Literature
• Harvey, Anne 12 Nov 99 Walter de la Mere
• Hart , David 21 Sep 01 The New Public Poem
• Hart, Linda and Woolf,Gabriel 16 Sep 11 The English Years of Robert Frost
• Hart, Linda & Woolf ,Gabriel 30 Aug 13 84 Charing Cross Road
• Harvey, Jonathan 10 Jun 11 Writing for Stage and Screen
• Hattersley, Roy 1 Nov 96 The Odd Couple - Writing & Politics
• Haynes, Natalie 14 Mar 14 Judging the Man Booker Prize
• Hibbert, Dominic 19 Sep 03 Wilfred Owen - a New Biograpy
• Hicks, Kim 29 Sep 00 Dorothy Parker Couples?
• Hill, Geoffrey 13 Feb 04 Goldengrove
• Hill, Geoffrey 18 Apr 80 His Poetry
• Hill, Tobias 19 Nov 04 Dancing and Walking
• Hoggart, Simon 7 Nov 08 Politacal People and Loony
• Holmes, Richard 14 Apr 89 A Dresm of Revolution
• Holroyd, Michael 20 Feb 81 On Biography
• Holroyd, Michael 20 Apr 12 A Biographical Trilogy
• Hopkinson, Amanda 11 Nov 05 Reading the World
• Hood, Stuart 9 Oct 92 The Literary Translator
• Horowitz, Frances and 06 Jun 79
• Gittins, Robert 06 Jun 79 Hardy and his Women
• Howard, Anthony 14 Apr 00 Six Years on Death Row
• Hughes, Kathryn 8 Jun 07 The Short Life and Long Times of Mrs Beaton
• Ince, Robin 20 Mar 24 Bibliomaniac
• Inge, Denise 11 Jun 10 Thomas Traherne in Love with Love
• James, P D 18 Jun 82 The CrimeNovelist
• Jenkins, Martin 11 Feb 83 Radio Drama
• Jennings, Elizabeth 10 Jun 88 Reading her Poetry
• John, Liz 2 Oct 19 Living with 'The Archers'
• Joseph, Fiona and Robert Ronsson 15 Mar 13 New Local Writing
• Joseph, Jenny 16 Apr 99 Poetry Reading
• Kay, Jackie 1 Oct 93 Poetry Reading
• Kay, Jackie 20 Jun 08 Reading and Talking
• Kennard, Luke 16 July 24 Poems and Locks
• Kington, Miles 9 Nov 07 The Serious Business of Being Funny
• Knowles, Gerry 13 Feb 98 The Lost Languages of England
• Lapotaire, Jane, Harvey, Anne & Gabriel Woolf 15 Nov 92 Crime in Literature
• Latham, Robert 11 Nov 83 Editing the Pepys Diaries
• Lavery, Bryonyl 11 Jun 99 The Art of the Playwright
• Leigh Hunt, Barbara & Pasco, Richard 16 Nov 86 Thos. Hardy - through his Poetry
• Letts, Quentin  - " Blasted Politicians !! " - July 21st.
• Lewycka, Marina 18Mar 11 Readings
• Livings, Henry and Glasgow Alex 13 Jun 80 The Northern Drift
• Lockheed, Liz 15 Nov 15 An Evening with the National Poet for Scotland
• Lodge, David 10 Jun 83 Novels 9 Nov 12 The Craft of the Novel
• Luckham, Cyril & Violet 2 Apr 82 At home with the Gaske
• Lloyd, Peter  - March 2022 - From Script to Screen.
• McCaig, Norman 3 Mar 89 Poetry Recital
• McCrum, Robert 17 Sep 04 P. G. Wodehouse - A Life
• Bennett Charles 21 Nov 03 A Pair of Shoes
• McEwan, Ian 13 Nov 87 Short Stories and their Bizarre Tradition
• McGough, Roger 2 Feb 79 Reading own Poetry
• McKenna, Virginia & Rees, Roger 8 Feb 87 Mothers and Sons
• McMillan, Ian 19 Jun 98 Poetry Reading
• McMillan, Ian 21 Sep 07 The Big Family Show
• McMillan, Andrew 16 Sep 18 Poetry Reading
• Mantel, Hilary 4 Nov 94 The Craft of Writing
• Marsh, Jan 3 Nov 95 Biography
• Martin-Jenkins, Christopher see Jenkins 3 Apr 09 Cricket
• [Mayby, Richard 12 Nov 99 not able to come]
• Miles, Roselind 15 Feb 91 In the Beginning was the Word
• Moore, Claire et al 25 Jan 13 LONDON ROAD
• Moorehouse, Geoffrey 10 Apr 87 The Art of the Travel Writer
• Morrall Clare 11Jun 04 From Obscurity to Booker
• Morley, Sheridan 09 Nov 79 The Problems of Reviewing
• Morton, Anthony 7 Feb 95 My Betjeman
• Motion, Andrew 06 Jun 03 Poetry Reading
• Morrison, Conall 12 Sep 08 The Play’s the Thing
• Mulcahy, Betty 12 Nov 93 Stevie Smith
• Mullan, John 26 Apr 15  Jane Austen / October 2022 - Dickens Tricks.
• Murphy, Pat - July 2022 - This Sporting Life. 
• Nicholls, Graham 9 Nov 84 Samuel Johnson and Dictionary
• O’Brien, Sean 2 Jun 09 Poems
• Oliver, Stephen 13 Sep 87 Staging a Dickens Musical Oughton, Marion &Alsop,
• Oswald, Alice 19 Apr 13 [Her Poems]
• Oughton, Marion and Alsop, Lenny 8 Nov 91 Story-telling through the Ages
• Padel, Ruth 5 Mar 10 Darwin,theMan and the Life
• Page, Norman 9 Mar 90 Literary legacy of Thomas Hardy
• Page, Stephen 15 Nov 02 Balancing Books: Money, Taste and Hype in Modern Publishing, 12 Oct 23: Five Revolutions and Counting
• Parris, Matthew 7 Feb 92 A Parliamentary Writer
• Pasco, Richard & Leigh Hunt, Barbara 16 Nov 86 Thos. Hardy -through his Poetry
• Paulin, Tom 10 Jun 05 The Secret Life of Poems
• Pennington, Michael 19 Jul 15   ‘Sweet William’ Shakespeare
• Pinney, Colin 01 Apr 03 I’ve taken my fun where I’ve found it
• Plater, Alan 27 Sep 02 Drama: Who Needs It?
• Porter, Peter 21 Jun 91 Poetry recital
• Pownall, David 7 June 85 Modern Playwrighting
• Purshouse, Emma  and Johnny " Mogs " Morris - " Black Country Poetry Brunchtime " - June 29th.
• Raine, Craig 15 Apr 83 Poetry
• Rayne, Sarah and Carter Maureen 13 Nov 13 From Laptop to Bookshop
• Rees, Roger & McKenna, Virginia 8 Feb 87 Mothers and Sons
• Richards, Steve - May 2022 - Reflections on Leadership.
• Rigby, Jennifer - February 2023 - Shakespeare and Me.
• Ronsson, Robert and Joseph, Fiona 15 Mar 13 New Local Writing
• Rudkin, David 10 Sep 82 Playwrighting
• Sanghera, Sathnam 11 Sep 09 If you don’t Know me Now
• Scanell, Vernon 25 Apr 86 Own Poetry
• Stephen, Bill - sees Edgar , David
• Schmidt, Michael 13 Mar 92 Publishing & european Literature
• Scruton, Roger 21 Feb 97 Use & abuse of Language in Argument
• Scupham, Peter 8 Jun 90 Poetry Recital
• Smith, Ed 7 Jun 13 Luck in Sport and Life
• Silkin, John 18 Sep 81 The Poet
• Sinclair, John 17 Nov 89 Definition and Change
• Simpson, John 10 Nov 06 Revising the Oxford English Dictionary
• Sissay, Lenn 7 April 06 Reads and Discusses
• Smith, Margaret 18 Feb 94 Letters of Charlotte Bronte
• Southall, Brian 11 Apr 08 The Business of Music
• Spurling, Hilary 12 Oct 90 Biography & Paul Scott
• Stannard, Russel 20 Jun 97 Science for All?
• Starkey, David 29 Apr 05 Six Wives
• Stephen, Bill - see Edgar, David
• Storey, Graham 31 Oct 97 Charles Dickens - Letters
• Sweeney, Matthew & Armitage, Simon 19 Jun 92 Poetry Reading
• Taylor, Malcolm and Thomas, Aeronwy 6 Feb 09 After Milk Wood
• Taylor, Sam 1 Feb 24 My All Time Most Memorable Mistakes in Running a Bookshop
• Thomas, Aeronwy and Taylor, Malcolm 6 Feb 09 After Milk Wood
• Thwaite, Antony 7 Jun 02 Philip Larkin: Looking Back
• Toye , Joanna 13 Jul 14 Scripting the Archers / October 2021 - From The Archers to The Victory Girls.
• Treglown, Jeremy 3 Feb 89 The Art of the Reviewer
• Truss, Lynne 8 Feb 08 A Certain Age
• Turnbull, Gael 21 Sep 84 Poetry
• Uglow, Jenny 6 Nov 98 William Hogarth & Biography
• Venables, Clare 8 April 88 The Director’s approach to the Text
• Verrall, Douglas and Thomas 20 Apr 01 Fathers and Sons in Fiction
• Vickers, Salley 20 Apr 07 Novels of Salley Vickers
• Waugh, Alex 23 Jul 14 Evelyn Waugh and Madresfield
• Ween, Natalie 20 Sep 90 Arts-Speak
• Weldon, Fay 14 Feb 86 Women’s Authors
• Wells, John 24 Jan 82 Satire
• Wells, Stanley 6 Jun 86 Shakespeare Text and Performance
• Wells, Stanley & Edmundson, Paul 30 Apr 04 Shakespeare’s Sonnets
• Wertenbaker, Timberlake  1 Mar 15 Playwriting
• Wesker, Arnold 16 Feb 96 Wobbler, Annie
• Whitburn, Vanessa 9 Nov 01 The Archers - from Roots to Radio
• Woolf, Gabriel 12 Sep 80 A Victorian Penny Reading
• Woolf, Gabriel & Fairs, Alan & Heather 21 Apr 85 Far from Home ,1914 - 1918
• Woolf, Gabriel 15 July 90 Words and the French Revolution
• Woolf, Gabriel, Harvey, Anne, & Lapotaire, Jane 15 Nov 92 Crime in Literature
• Woolf, Gabriel 10 Sep 99 Robert Frost - The Road not Taken
• Woolf,Gabriel and Linda Hart 16 Sep 11 The English Years of Robert Frost
• Woolf, John with Edmonds, Richard & Davies Frederick 14 Sep 79 Mozart’s Letters
• Woolf ,Gabriel & Hart, Linda 30 Aug 13 84 Charing Cross Road
• Worthen, John 12 Nov 10 Marketing Laurence: Biography for Sale
• Yarker, James 8 Jul 18 Contemporary & Experimental Theatre

little WORDS

• Jenkinson, Ceci 26 Oct Hubble Bubble
• Corderoy, Tracey 26 Oct Tales of Trouble