The Winter Tales festival offers a wide and diverse programme for everyone.  Please note that some events and free and others are £10 or £5 for students.

You can see the full programme below and explore each event, or go directly to our Eventbrite (free events ) and Epay (paid events) homepages to book multiple events.

Friday 3rd December

Time Description Cost
1-2pm Flora Johnston in conversation with James Robertson

Cancelled

Free
2.30 – 3.30pm Panel discussion. Books for the Hostile Environment: Facts, Fictions and Futures of Migration (Ulrich Schmiedel,  Laura Jeffery, Victoria Williamson, Marjorie Lotfi Gill, Nadeen Dakkak)
Cancelled
Free
2.30 – 3.30pm Uncompromising Hope: Reflecting on Incarnation with the Iona Community (Sally Foster – Fulton, Jan Sutch Pickard)
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Free
4 – 5pm O Come, All Ye Jacobites: The Hidden History of Carols (Ian Bradley)
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Free
5.15 – 6pm Carol Service
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Free
6-7pm Reception
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Free
7 – 8.15pm

 

8 – 9pm

In conversation with Robert Harris (Live on screen)
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£10/£5

 

Free

9 – 10pm Helen Bond in conversation with Charles Foster
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Free

Saturday 4th December

Time Description Cost
10 – 11am Just imagine: Science and Religion in Literature (Michael Fuller, Christopher Southgate, Richard Holloway, Jaime Wright)
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Free
11.30am – 12.30pm Cathy MacDonald in conversation with Mona Siddiqui
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Free
11.30am – 12.30pm Longing, Learning and Liturgy:  Fiction set in Theology Colleges (Rachel Mann, Catherine Fox, James Robertson)
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Free
1.15 – 2.15pm In conversation with Mara Menzies
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Free
2.30 – 3.30pm Sara Maitland & Kate McLoughlin in conversation with Jay Brown
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Free
4 – 5pm Marina Warner discusses Repair & Refuge: The Spirit of Stories with James Eglinton      (Live on screen)
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Free
5.30 – 6.30pm

6.15 – 7.15pm

Allan Little In conversation with Val McDermid
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Reception with festive treats
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£10/5

Free

7 – 8.15pm Jolyon Mitchell in conversation with Sally Magnusson
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£10/5
8.45– 9.45pm Sara Parvis in conversation with Francis Spufford
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Free

Sunday 5th December

Time Description Cost
12.15pm – 1.15pm Jewish Tales from Scotland (Hannah Holtschneider, Phil Alexander, Ellen Galford, Elisa Koch)
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Free
1.30 – 2.30 Secrets of the Sea in Literature (Lizzie Smith, Ed Newell, Christine de Luca)
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Free
1.30 – 2.30 Children’s Event: Francesca Barbini
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Free
3.15 – 3.45 Children’s Event: Michelle Sloan
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Free
2.45 – 3.45pm Creative Writing (Catherine Fox, Rachel Mann, Judith Stevenson)
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Free
3 – 4pm George Mackay Brown (Linden Bicket, Malachy Tallack, Gerry Cambridge)
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Free
4.30pm – 5.15pm The Winter’s Tale: a Tale about Tales by Judith Buchanan
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Free
5.30– 6.30pm Miles Jupp and Harriet Harris on Comedy, Religion and Literature
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£10/5