Outing – to Greenway Devon
IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF AGATHA CHRISTIE
Thursday 18th March
Join us for this visit to the newly-opened and restored Greenway House, Agatha Christie’s holiday home overlooking the River Dart. The house has been lovingly-restored at a cost of over £5M and as you enter, it’s as if the family have just gone out for a walk. Littered with hats and coats in the hallway it feels as if the visitor is joining them for a private house party.
The estate’s several acres of woodland garden are famous for their camellias which are best seen in the Spring. An escorted tour of the garden is arranged for the afternoon.
Cost: Coach and garden tour: £28
Entrance fee for groups: £7.40 to non national Trust members and free
to members with cards.
Lunch can be bought from the Greenway Cafe or the Tack Room take-away
and both serve great local produce or alternatively bring a packed-lunch.
Depart: Riverside Coach Park 8.15am
Arrive back: Approximately 7.15pm.
RICHARD BERTINET presents
CHEF’S MASTERCLASS
Thursday 22nd April 12 noon – 1 pm in the egg
TRB Fundraisers are delighted to welcome world-renowned chef and baker Richard Bertinet, well-known for his award-winning cookery school, The Bertinet Kitchen, here in Bath, and his best selling books Dough and Crust. Richard will talk about his love of food, give a cookery demonstration and answer audience questions. This is a unique opportunity to pick up tips from one of Bath’s most prestigious chefs.
Mr B’s Book Emporium will be selling Richard’s publications in the foyer and following the event, Richard will be signing his books, including his new book Cook which is due to be published on 15 April 2010.
Tickets £10 from the Theatre Box Office 01225 448844
UP AND DOWN STAIRS
The History of the Country House Servant
With JEREMY MUSSON
Friday 16th April
Jeremy Musson is an architectural historian and has been Architectural Editor of Country Life for the past 10 years. Using unpublished memoirs, letters, wages, newspaper articles, Jeremy Musson pieces together the daily lives of servants from the Middle Ages through to the twentieth century. “An entertaining study of the class divide” Daily Express.
Lunch: Cod fillet with parsley sauce, new potatoes and seasonal vegetables, fresh fruit salad tart with cream, coffee.
Vegetarian option: wild mushrooms en croute with garlic cream sauce.
ANNE BOLEYN: Fatal Attractions
With G.W. BERNARD
Friday 21st May
In this groundbreaking new biography, the Editor of the English Historical Review offers a fresh portrait of one of England’s most captivating queens. Through a wide-ranging forensic examination of sixteenth-century sources, Bernard reconsiders Boleyn’s girlhood, her experience at the French court, the nature of her relationship with Henry. He also argues that the allegations of adultery that led to Anne’s execution in the Tower could be close to the truth.
Lunch: Chicken breast on sweet potato mash with basil cream sauce and seasonal vegetables, baked lemon and ginger cheesecake, coffee.
Vegetarian option: tomato, red onion and goat’s cheese millefeuille.
VENICE: An Architectural Guide
With RICHARD GOY
Friday 11th June
Each year, millions of visitors travel to Venice to admire the architectural marvels of this famed city. In this new handbook, distinguished architect and critic Richard Goy offers a convenient and accessible guide to the city’s piazzas, palazzos, basilicas, and other architectural points of interest, as well as pertinent historical details regarding Venice’s unique urban environment, insights into building materials and techniques and directions to lesser known gems.
Lunch: Fillet of salmon with a lemon crust and dill sauce, new potatoes and seasonal vegetables, dark chocolate torte with cream, coffee.
Vegetarian option: leek and gorgonzola tart with mixed leaves and new potatoes.
THE ENGLISH LAKES: An Illustrated History
With IAN THOMPSON
Friday 18th June
A lecturer in landscape architecture, Ian Thompson shows how the Romantic poets transformed the perception of the Lake District, and later the works of Turner, Ruskin, Beatrix Potter, Arthur Ransome and Alfred Wainwright, the great populariser of fell-walking, all contributed to making the region what it is today. This delightful study is crammed with fascinating detail and illustrated with Thompson’s own superb colour photography.
Lunch: Turkey escalope on roasted parmentier potatoes with mushroom sauce and seasonal vegetables, lemon sponge with custard, coffee.
Vegetarian option: butternut squash and sage risotto.
CHOOSE YOUR WEAPONS: The British Foreign Secretary:
200 Years of Argument, Success and Failure
With DOUGLAS HURD and ED YOUNG
Friday 2nd July
In this fascinating history of British political life and foreign policy Douglas Hurd and his co-writer, Ed Young, examine eleven of the most colourful and controversial Foreign Secretaries of the past two centuries, how they argued, succeeded and failed, and in the process draws conclusions with enormous relevance today.
Douglas Hurd was private secretary to Edward Heath and an MP between 1974 and 1997. He served Margaret Thatcher as Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, Home Secretary and Foreign Secretary. As an author he has written thrillers, his autobiography and a highly-acclaimed biography of Robert Peel.
Lunch: Pork chop on potato mash with wholegrain mustard sauce and seasonal vegetables, apple crumble with custard, coffee.
Vegetarian option: ratatouille and mozarella strudel with pesto.
A VISIT TO CHARTWELL – In the Footsteps of Churchill
Tuesday 6th July
Join us for this visit to the lovely house and garden where Sir Winston Churchill and his family lived for 41 years. The rooms have been kept as they were, with many personal possessions and photographs on display. You may also visit the studio in the garden and take a look at the great statesman’s paintings. After an optional lunch in the Mulberry Room, we shall have a guided tour of the garden, lakes and water garden with stunning views across the Weald of Kent and you’ll see why Churchill enjoyed living here so much.
Depart 8.15am, Return approximately 7pm
Cost: To include coach and garden tour: £30 per head
Additional: Entry to house – free to NT members with card/ £9.80 to non members – payable on the day.
Optional lunch: £13.50 per head: vegetarian flan with seasonal salad and new potatoes followed by Eton Mess.
TRIP TO THE WATERMILL THEATRE, NEWBURY
Thursday 22nd July
Join us on this trip to the beautiful Watermill theatre in West Berkshire to see the Barry Manilow musical Copacabana, directed by Craig Revel Horwood of Strictly Come Dancing fame. His previous summer productions have been award winning and instant sellouts. Lunch will be in the adjoining barn.
Depart: Bath coach park at 10.45am. Return approximately 6.30pm.
Cost: £45 to include coach, lunch and a matinee seat in the stalls.
Inclusive lunch: chicken, leek and stilton crumble with seasonal vegetables and potatoes, queen of puddings (or fresh fruit if requested at time of booking), coffee or tea. Vegetarian option: aubergine and tofu curry and seasonal vegetables.
WAIT FOR ME: Memoirs
With Deborah, Dowager Duchess of Devonshire
Friday 1st October
Deborah Devonshire — Debo to her family and friends – is 90 this year and is the youngest and the last surviving of the charismatic Mitford sisters. This new volume will offer a unique insight into a fascinating life, from her childhood in Oxfordshire and marriage, her friendships with people as diverse as Lucian Freud, Evelyn Waugh, Jack Kennedy, Tom Stoppard and Alan Titchmarsh, running one of England’s greatest and best-loved houses, Chatsworth, through her many years of public service and current status as a best-selling author and national treasure. Affectionate, shrewd and uproariously funny.
Lunch: coq au vin with mashed potatoes and seasonal vegetables, lemon syllabub, coffee.
Vegetarian option: mushroom stroganoff with scented rice.
Literary events are presented in association with: Mr B’s Emporium of Reading Delights
