Monday July 12

1.00pm St Lawrence's Church                                      Young Musicians Lunchtime Concert Karys Orman      clarinet Roger Owens      piano Brahms Sonata No. 1 in F minor, Op. 120 Edward German Romance Messager Solo de Concours

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6.00pm Guildhall                                    Choose Your Weapons Douglas Hurd in conversation with John Miller

"Is an ethical foreign policy a contradiction, a hypocrisy, or a realistic ambition?" This is just one of the challenging questions Douglas Hurd poses in his examination of eleven of his predecessors as Foreign Secretary. The first two, Castlereagh and Canning, were so divided by both ambition and ideas that in 1809 they met on Putney Heath armed with pistols to resolve their differences, the last ministerial duel in British political history. The other nine argued their case in less violent ways, although the consequences often affected the life-prospects of many thousands. Aberdeen and Palmerston, Derby, Salisbury, Edward Grey, Austen Chamberlain and Ramsay MacDonald, Anthony Eden and Ernest Bevin, all had different views of the role that Britain should play on the world stage. Lord Hurd explores why they succeeded or failed, and draws conclusions with enormous relevance today.

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8.00pm Discovery Centre                                         Festival Players The Swing Riots In Hampshire Devised and directed by Ronald James

In 1830 the Duke of Wellington was both Prime Minister and Lord Lieutenant of Hampshire when the farm labourers’ long struggle against poverty and deprivation erupted into crop-burning and destruction of the new threshing-machines; actions often preceded by a threatening letter to the farmer or landowner, signed by an anonymous Captain Swing. The unrest spread across the country, but there were more attacks in Hampshire than in any other county. The Government feared revolution and set up a Royal Commission – a Special Assize which toured the country for the trials of those confined for involvement in the riots. The first trials took place in Winchester.
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8.30pm The Everyman Cinema Film Preview The Secret in Their Eyes

The 2010 Winchester Festival Film Preview on July 12th is The Secret in Their Eyes, which won the Oscar this year for Best Foreign Language Film. This Argentinian thriller shuttles back and forth between the mid-1970s and the late 1990s, as a junior judicial investigator and a woman judge try to solve a rape and murder case. They discover that sinister forces have taken control of the judicial system, even before the military coup of 1976 that overthrew the elected Peronist government.

The film is directed by Juan Jose Campanella, and stars Ricardo Darin, Soledad Villamil and Guillermo Francella. All four of them, as well as Eduardo Sacheri who adapted the screenplay from his own novel, lived through that dark period in Argentinian history, and testify to the authenticity of the story, which is based on real-life events of that time.

The Secret in Their Eyes will be showing at the Everyman Cinema in Winchester on Monday, July 12th at 8.30pm, and does not go on general release until August, so the Winchester audience will be among the first in this country to have the opportunity of viewing this Oscar-winning film.

Tickets from the Everyman Box Office: 0871 906 9060