Friday July 16

1.00pm St Lawrence's Church                                        Young Musicians Lunchtime Concert Gavin Kibble          cello Ceri Owen             piano Programme includes Debussy and Bridge

Tickets: £6, students £5 (Series ticket of 5 for the price of 4) Book Online

6.00pm – Guildhall                                                               Climbing The Bookshelves Shirley Williams in conversation with John Miller

First elected to Parliament in 1964, Shirley Williams’s rapid rise through the ministerial ranks led to her being hotly tipped as Britain’s first woman Prime Minister. She was Education Secretary in Harold Wilson’s 1974 government, and when he retired in 1976 she stood for the deputy leadership of the Labour Party, coming within a whisker of defeating Michael Foot, but then lost her seat in the 1979 Election. In 1981 she was one of the Gang of Four who founded the SDP in despair at their old party’s factionalism. Her famous by-election victory at Crosby for her new party overturned a huge Conservative majority and pushed the SDP above 50% in the opinion polls. She discusses frankly the might-have-beens in both her career and her personal life.

Tickets: £10 Book Online Supported by Anne Fairey

7.45pm Winchester College Chapel                         Pantagruel Eliza Is The Fairest Queen Trio of lutes, citterns, flutes and voice Elizabethan Ballads, Ayres and Dances

Since their formation in 2002, Pantagruel have been delighting audiences across Europe with their semi-staged performances of Renaissance music, acclaimed by Anthony Rooley as “musicians of impeccable skill, intelligence and wit. Here is Early Music going somewhere quite new.”. In the beautiful 14th century Chapel of Winchester College, Eliza is the Fairest Queen will weave a tale around the music of the Elizabethan age, including works by William Byrd, John Dowland and Thomas Pilkington.

Tickets: £15 Book Online