The Bath Literature Festival , held annually in Bath, Somerset , England , was an important date in the national literary calendar, playing host to an array of journalists , novelists , poets , politicians , actors , comedians , writers and biographers between 1995 and 2016.
20-527: Established in 1995 and supported by Andrew Brownsword , the festival is sponsored by The Independent . In 2003 writer and broadcaster Sarah LeFanu became Artistic Director. The 2008 Festival included Tariq Ali , Martin Amis , Margaret Drabble , A. C. Grayling and Steven Berkoff . In 2009, James Runcie became Artistic Director. In 2014, Viv Groskop took over as Artistic Director. The Bath Literature Festival has now been superseded by The Bath Festival,
40-571: A half years before leaving to develop other business interests. In the late 1990s he commissioned the artist John Pascoe to paint the reception room ceiling of his Royal Crescent home in Bath. Brownsword has used these monies to purchase property and hotels forming the group, Andrew Brownsword Hotels (The Bath Priory, Gidleigh Park in Devon, and Sydney House in Chelsea, London ). In 2006 ABode Hotels
60-517: A new multi-arts festival with literature and music at the heart. This article about a literary festival is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This article related to a British festival is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Andrew Brownsword Andrew Douglas Brownsword CBE DL (born 1947) is an English entrepreneur who established the Forever Friends company. He has regularly featured on
80-751: Is a past president of Voluntary Service Overseas (VSO), of the Campaign to Protect Rural England (CPRE), of the Soil Association and of the RSPB . He is chair of the Richard Dimbleby Cancer Fund, the charity established in 1966 in memory of his father. He was chairman of the Index on Censorship 's Board of Trustees from 2008 until 2013, when he was succeeded by David Aaronovitch . He is patron of several other charities. Dimbleby
100-720: Is a registered charity which aims to buy and loans works of art to mainly UK based museums. The collection includes works by Thomas Gainsborough . He was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2014 Birthday Honours for services to the arts, heritage, and health in Bath and South-West England. Brownsword is also a member of the charitable Society of Merchant Venturers . Married to Christina, Brownsword has two daughters. A methodist , having become heavily involved in The Prince's Trust , he
120-462: Is known to King Charles III . Brownsword sponsored the £1 million development of the markethall at Poundbury , designed by John Simpson & Partners and based on early designs, particularly the one in Tetbury . Jonathan Dimbleby Jonathan Dimbleby (born 31 July 1944) is a British presenter of current affairs and political radio and television programmes, author and historian. He
140-538: Is the son of Richard Dimbleby and younger brother of television presenter David Dimbleby . Dimbleby was educated at Charterhouse , a boys' independent school in Surrey. He later studied farm management at the Royal Agricultural College and graduated in 1965. He then studied philosophy at University College, London . He was later elected an honorary fellow but resigned in 2015 in protest at
160-549: Is the son of the Second World War war correspondent Richard Dimbleby , who was later to become presenter of the BBC TV current affairs programme Panorama . His elder brother David Dimbleby is also a commentator on current affairs and presenter of BBC programmes. Jonathan wrote a biography of his father in 1975. Dimbleby married author, journalist, and broadcaster Bel Mooney in 1968. They have two children: Kitty,
180-530: The Forever Friends genre in a flat above a Chinese takeaway in Reading, Berkshire in the early 1980s: "I wanted to develop a teddy bear that appealed to adults as well as children. I based Forever Friends specifically on the teddy bear that Sebastian Flyte carried around in Brideshead Revisited . It became the bear found in the attic." The success created a financial income to develop
200-727: The Sunday Times Rich List , with an estimated fortune of £190 million. Brownsword attended The Harvey Grammar School in Folkestone and then trained as a chef . He started the Andrew Brownsword Collection, a publishing business founded in Bath in 1971. Brownsword started by selling greeting cards to retailers like WH Smith from boxes out of the back of his car. In 1987, he agreed to market artist Deborah Jones Teddy Bear design, developing
220-602: The Andrew Brownsword Group, based on greetings cards and associated gifts with a peak turnover of £65 million. The Andrew Brownsword Collection, Andrew Brownsword Gifts and the Gordon Fraser Gallery (the latter acquired in 1989), were acquired by Hallmark Cards in 1994 for an estimated £195 million. Brownsword became Chief Executive of Hallmark in Europe, a position which he held for four and
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#1732773234496240-663: The BBC to present the new flagship political programme On the Record (1988–1993). He wrote, presented and co-produced two documentary series: The Last Governor (BBC1 1997) about the final five years of British rule in Hong Kong , and Charles: The Private Man, the Public Role (ITV 1994), in which (the then) Prince Charles spoke about his first marriage and his relationship with Camilla Parker Bowles , now his wife and Queen of
260-682: The ITV series Jonathan Dimbleby in South America . In 1979 he joined Yorkshire Television , where he wrote and presented three ITV network series: Jonathan Dimbleby In Search of the American Dream (1976), The Bomb (1979), The Eagle and The Bear (1980) and The Cold War Game (1981). He also presented the ITV documentary series First Tuesday . In 1985 he joined TV-am as presenter of Jonathan Dimbleby on Sunday . In 1986 he returned to ITV as presenter of This Week . In 1988 he joined
280-638: The United Kingdom and Commonwealth Realms. From 1994 to 2006 he presented ITV's political programme, Jonathan Dimbleby . He anchored ITV's general election coverage in 1997, 2001 and 2005. He wrote and presented Russia with Jonathan Dimbleby (BBC2, 2008), An African Journey with Jonathan Dimbleby (2010), and A South American Journey with Jonathan Dimbleby (2011). In 2013 he wrote and presented Churchill's Desert War (BBC2) based on his book, Destiny in The Desert . In 2015 he wrote and presented
300-683: The death of Queen Elizabeth II , Dimbleby wrote and presented the documentary Charles, the Monarch and the Man , which aired on ITV on 13 September 2022. Dimbleby wanted to be a farmer when he left school and worked on the Royal Farm, Windsor, trained as a professional showjumper and studied at the Royal Agricultural College (now University) at Cirencester. From 1993 until 2004 he ran an organic farm near Bath , Somerset. He
320-595: The following six years reported on crises in many parts of the world. His coverage of the 1973 Ethiopian famine, The Unknown Famine, was followed by TV and radio appeals which raised a record sum nationally and internationally. His report, for which he won the SFTA Richard Dimbleby Award, was used by the incoming regime to justify the overthrow of the Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie . In 1978 he wrote and presented
340-752: The forced resignation of Tim Hunt as an honorary fellow. In July 2007 he received an honorary degree from the University of Exeter . He is an Honorary Fellow of Bath Spa University (2006) and holds an Honorary Doctorate from the University of the West of England (2018). Dimbleby began his career at the BBC in Bristol in 1969. In 1970 he joined The World at One as a reporter, where he also presented The World This Weekend . In 1972 he joined ITV's flagship current affairs programme This Week and over
360-617: The purchase of the Old Swan & Minster Mill in Oxfordshire and The Imperial Torquay. Brownsword also purchased various businesses including Paxton & Whitfield cheesemonger in London and Snow and Rock; founding local radio station Bath FM with journalist and local resident Jonathan Dimbleby ; and buying Bath Rugby . In April 2010, Brownsword sold Bath Rugby to businessman Bruce Craig . The Andrew Brownsword Art Foundation
380-579: The two-part series The BBC At War (BBC2). From 1987 to June 2019 he presented Any Questions? on BBC Radio 4 . He presented Any Answers? from 1989 to 2012. From 2016 to 2019, he was the main presenter of the BBC World Service monthly series World Questions . In April 2020, Dimbleby wrote and presented the ITV documentary Return to Belsen with Jonathan Dimbleby about the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp . In 2022, following
400-534: Was created as a city centre boutique hotel brand (of which the Royal Clarence Hotel in Exeter was destroyed by fire in 2016);. With the demise of Von Essen hotels in 2011, Andrew Brownsword Hotels acquired four properties; Buckland Manor, Amberley Castle , Lower Slaughter Manor & The Slaughters Country Inn, expanding the collection. Andrew Brownsword Hotels expanded again to 14 hotels in 2016 with
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