Chipping Campden Literature Festival 2025
Cidermill Theatre hosts Chipping Campden Literature Festival
Chipping Campden Literature Festival was founded in 2010 by Vicky Bennett, and since that time has become renowned for presenting a series of thought provoking, original, and wide-ranging events featuring some of the world's greatest writers. From 2024 onwards she was joined by her husband Charlie as Co-Director.
Events at Cidermill Theatre
Friday 25th & Saturday 26th April 7:00pm Waiting for Godot
Saturday 26th April 12:00pm Samuel Beckett and Medicine
Saturday 3rd May 5:30pm On Tuscany: From Brunello to Bolgheri
Sunday 4th May 2:30pm In Search of Beethoven
Monday 5th May 10:30am The Picnic, 12:00pm Making The Weather, 2:00pm The Robert Winston Lecture
3:30pm The Story of a Heart and John Berger: Ways of Learning, 5:00pm Wild Thing, 6:30pm The Eagle and The Hart
8:00pm My Shakespeare & She Speaks
Tuesday 6th May 5:00pm The Power & The Glory, 7:00pm Colette, The Paris Muse, and Hidden Portraits
Wednesday 7th May 7:00pm Early Buster Keaton
Thursday 8th May 7:00pm Bitter Crop
Friday 9th May 12:00pm The Universal History Of Us, 5:00pm The Peep Show, 6:30pm The Enigma Girl, 8:00pm What A Way To Go
Saturday 10th May 10:30am Gambling Man, 12:00pm How The World Made The West and Myths Of Geography, 2:00pm Our Island Stories and Worrell, 3:30pm Muslims Don’t Matter, 5:00pm The Lie Of The Land, 6:30pm Seutonius
Tickets available from https://www.campdenmayfestivals.co.uk/
What some of our authors say about us:
Loyd Grossman
"Inspiring writers, enthusiastic audiences and a beautiful setting are the ingredients that make the Chipping Campden Literature Festival one of the best in the land"
Gilliam Slovo
"The Chipping Campden hosts looked after me so well, and the audience was wonderfully engaged. A great experience"
Patrick Gale
"However gruelling an author’s touring schedule, a chance to appear at Chipping Campden is a reliable treat"
Peter Frankopan
"A glorious festival – one of the loveliest in the UK"
Michael Billington
"I have always relished coming to the Chipping Campden Literature Festival because of the beauty of the location and the informed and alert nature of both the audience and the interviewers"
Jane Martinson
"One of my favourite Literature Festivals. The audience for my talk was so engaged and the location and atmosphere wonderful"
Professor Sir Stanley Wells
“It’s always a joy to speak to the well informed and enthusiastic audiences of the Chipping Campden Literary Festival - and in such beautiful surroundings too!”
Rupert Christiansen
"One of the most delightful of all literary festivals - such a pleasure to talk about my book to such an appreciative audience in the loveliest of Cotswold villages"