You can catch up with this year’s Festival events on video and podcasts – produced by Chiswickbuzz, The Chiswick Calendar and Belle Media – by clicking the links below.
See the Festival’s full YouTube playlist here
You can buy the books on our Waterstones page or by clicking the titles below.
If you would have bought a ticket for a session, please make a donation.
Children’s Festival
– Young People’s Poetry Competition Prize Giving – Winners & poems – YouTube
– Zoe Antoniades: Cally & Jimmy – YouTube
– Joshua Seigal: Welcome to My Crazy Life – YouTube – and haikus – YouTube
– Rob Biddulph: Dog Gone – YouTube – Exclusive Chiswick preview of this Saturday Club video – YouTube
– Lucy Barnard: Ruby and Graham – YouTube
– Nicole Prust: The Sloth and the Dinglewot – YouTube
– Christiane Kerr – Yoga Animals in the Forest – YouTube
– Konnie Huq: Cookie… and the Most Annoying Girl in the World – YouTube
Art, Theatre, Music & Fashion
– 21st Century Influencers – Hogarth, Soane and A Rake’s Progress – YouTube
– Lady Antonia Fraser and Michael Billington – Harold Pinter: From Chiswick & The Caretaker to the Nobel Prize – YouTube
– Oliver Soden: Michael Tippett, The Biography – Podcast
– Loyd Grossman: An Elephant in Rome: Bernini, The Pope and The Making of the Eternal City – YouTube
– Alexandra Shulman: Clothes… and other things that matter – YouTube
– Emily Caston – British Music Videos 1966-2016 – Facebook
History & Politics
– Iain Dale and Hashi Mohamed – State of the Nation: YouTube
– Ariana Neumann: When Time Stopped:A Memoir of My Father’s War and What Remains – YouTube
– Peter Hennessy & Paddy O’Connell: Winds of Change – YouTube
– Trevor Barnes: Dead Doubles – YouTube
– Steve Richards: The Prime Ministers: Reflections on Leadership – YouTube
– Christopher Joll: Spoils of War: The Treasures, Trophies, & Trivia of the British Empire – YouTube
– Patricia and Jean Owtram: Codebreaking Sisters: Our Secret War – YouTube
– Nicholas Young: Escaping with His Life: From Dunkirk to D-Day and Beyond – YouTube
– Jonathan Oates & Paul Howard Lang: Secret Ealing – YouTube
– James Rodgers: Assignment Moscow – Reporting on Russia from Lenin to Putin – Podcast
– Polly Toynbee & David Walker: The Lost Decade 2010 – 2020 and What Lies Ahead for Britain – Podcast
– Christopher Tugendhat: A History of Britain through Books – 1900-1964 – Podcast
Food, Gardens, Wine & Sport
– Manoj Badale and Simon Hughes: A New Innings – YouTube
– David Berry: A People’s History of Tennis – YouTube
– Jo Pratt: The Flexible Family Cookbook – YouTube
– Tim Richardson: Sissinghurst, The Dream Garden – Podcast
– Mihir Bose: The Nine Waves – The Extraordinary Story of Indian Cricket – Podcast
– Ernest Hemingway – A Moveable Feast – Winetasting
Fiction
– Rosamund Lupton (Three Hours) and Diane Chandler (Only Human): Too Close to Home? – YouTube
– Jeremy Vine: The Diver and the Lover – YouTube
– Amanda Craig: The Golden Rule (Chiswickbuzz Book Club) – YouTube
– Ealing Fiction Panel: Marianne Holmes (All Your Little Lies), Ruth Heald (I Know Your Secret), Eleni Kyriacou (She Came To Stay) – YouTube
– Mavis Cheek – Amenable Women – Podcast
– Peter Hain – The Rhino Conspiracy – Podcast
Local Authors Evening at Chiswick Playhouse – YouTube
| Zoe | Antoniades | Cally and Jimmy |
| Louise | Burfitt-Dons | The Killing of the Cherrywood MP |
| Diane | Chandler | Only Human |
| Meg | Dillon | Two Cyclists, One Mother and The World |
| SR | Garrae | Death in Sight |
| Mark | Godfrey | The River Reflects |
| Vyvyan | Kinross | Information Warriors |
| Susan | Lee Kerr | The Walk Home |
| Tom | Levitt | The Courage to Meddle – the Belief of Frances Perkins |
| Alec | Marsh | Enemy of the Raj |
| Billy | Moran | Don’t Worry, Everything Is Going To Be Amazing: |
| James | Rodgers | Assignment Moscow |
Festival Extra: The War Against the BBC
– A Zoom Webinar with the authors, Patrick Barwise and Peter York, chaired by Bridget Osborne, in conjunction with The Chiswick Calendar Media Club. Patrick Barwise, Emeritus Professor of Management and Marketing at London Business School, and cultural commentator Peter York argue that our most important cultural institution is in peril as never before. Listen to the podcast here