Ken Livingstone, Fowey Festival of Words and Music Cornwall, Lincoln Drill Hall, Customs House, South Shields, Yvonne Arnaud Theatre, Guildford, Horsemeat

Sunday 12 May 2013 - Ken Livingstone will be chatting on stage at Fowey Festival of Words and Music

The Quay

Fowey
Cornwall
PL23 1AJ


Former MP, London Mayor, wit and raconteur Ken Livingstone. Ken Livingstone’s extraordinary political career has taken him from MP to London Mayor to respected political commentator and broadcaster.  His fervent left wing views brought him under heavy scrutiny in the 1980s from a mainstream media. During two terms as Mayor of London he won widespread public praise, introducing bus and cycle lanes into the capital and launching the world famous Oyster card scheme.  His defeat in 2008 to Boris Johnson has given him time to publish his autobiography – “You Can’t Say That” – and he will be bringing spirited and entertaining conversation to the Festival as befitting one of the UK’s leading political figures of the past 30 years.

Book tickets online:
https://www.ddmbookings.com/bookings/view.php?id=6197

On  Saturday 15th June He will be at the Lincoln Drill Hall (Not yet listed)

http://www.lincolndrillhall.com/whats-on/season-calendar/

and then Thursday 24th October at Customs House, South Shields (Not Yet listed)

http://www.customshouse.co.uk/


A review by Jeremy Miles

Some felt it was like marching into the lion’s den. ‘Red Ken’ Livingstone taking his new on-stage talk-show to true-blue Guildford. What could he be thinking of?

In fact  An Audience With Ken Livingstone went down a storm. Not only did the former London Mayor emerge from the town’s Yvonne Arnaud Theatre unscathed but he did so with rapturous applause ringing in his ears.

Things had threatened to get off to an inauspicious start. An hour before the 7.45pm show a reporter and photographer from the Surrey Advertiser were kicking their heels backstage waiting for Ken to arrive for a 6.30pm interview.

The minutes ticked by. The photographer looked at his watch. “If he’s not here in 10 minutes we’ll have to go,” he huffed. “We’re getting a pub up the road to cook us a load of horsemeat burgers. We’ve got to feed them to local people and get their reaction.” Ken arrived moments later moaning about the state of the railways. The interview went ahead, its subject blissfully unaware that he’d almost been abandoned for a plate of horsemeat  Click Here to Read More