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| Take It Green and Slow at UK Festival |
| The Ways With Words literature fest 2008 |
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Nigel Watson (NigelXL5)  |
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Published 2008-07-15 08:30 (KST) |
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 | |  Launch party. | | | ©2008 Nigel Watson | |
The Ways With Words literature festival started on Friday with a flurry of excitement as political commentator Martin Bell arrived in a motorized tuktuk from Totnes railway station.
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| Celebrating its 17th year, Ways With Words features 200 writers and 150 events, which contrasts with the first festival that had only 50 events and 60 writers. Sponsored this year by The Daily Telegraph, it is one of the biggest events of this type in the United Kingdom and the only one that provides residential accommodation for writers and booklovers. One of its great features is that it is set in the stunning grounds and estate of the medieval Dartington Hall in Devon, England.
At the launch party, festival organizer Kay Dunbar said that this year's theme was to be green and slow. Festivalgoers would get the chance to unwind and enjoy poetry and literature in the peaceful and inspiring surroundings of the estate away from the stresses of the modern world.
On their Web site, Dunbar, along with co-organizer Stephen Bristow, state:
"We started Ways With Words in 1991 and thought we would like to run a one-off literature festival at Dartington Hall. One festival was obviously not going to satisfy the large number of people who came to the first festival and so Ways With Words became an annual event.
"Word about the festival spread quickly and we received invitations from all over the place to run festivals in other parts of the country. As you can see from our web site we now run a number of festivals of different sizes as well as creative holidays abroad.
"Ways With Words has always existed to promote both the written and the spoken word. We want to bring people together in beautiful surroundings to make contact with writers, journalists and experts in various fields -- to talk, to argue, to listen, to engage and to learn."
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Speakers at this year's festival include bestselling author Kate Mosse introducing her new book Sepulchre, Oona King discussing her role in Tony Blair's government, Jonathan Dimbleby unraveling the secrets of modern Russia, Jonathan Fenby looking at the key themes in Chinese history, Lord David Owen discussing the mental and physical health effects on political leaders and Jon Snow putting forward his views about the Iraq war. Other highlights among many are Radio 4 presenter Jenni Murray talking about her family secrets and Gervase Phinn taking a comic look at life as a school inspector in the Yorkshire Dales.
Themed days will cover topics about the environment, women's lives, psychology, science, travel, art and history.
The full program for Ways With Words, which runs from July 11 to July 20, is available at: www.wayswithwords.co.uk.
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