All set, Go! for Arts and Literature Festival

THAMES Arts and Literature festival was officially launched on Friday (10/10), with festival Directors, sponsors, supporters and the Mayor of Thame, Jeannette Matelot Green, gathering at Thame Museum, to relish the delights to come of the fifth TAL festival  – and the tasty nibbles provided by Chinnor caterer, Caroline Jones.

From L to R – Mayor Consort James Green, Mayor Jeannette Matelot Green, Steve Bannister, Yvonne Maxwell (TAL Directors), Luise & Brian Pattinson (Book House, Thame)

Appropriately continuing on the history theme, the keynote lecture, tomorrow, Wednesday, will be the first event of the five-day festival and will feature Charles Spencer, talking about his latest book, The Killers of the King,  January, 1649. The book is about what happened to all the signatories on the Death Warrant of King Charles 1st.

As Thame was intricately involved in the Civil War, being right on ‘the front line’, and the King based in Oxford, this lecture will be of particular interest to local people. And of course, the Parliamentarian General, John Hampden, died of his wounds after the battle of Chalgrove, here in Thame.

Tickets for Charles Spencer’s talk have already sold out but there are still tickets left for several of the 29 other events on during the festival, all listed on the TAL website at http://www.talfestival.org/