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Your support makes all the difference.*Jamie Oliver came to the festival on Tuesday to talk about recipe books, school dinners and how he'd like to be "a modern-day Fanny Cradock (you haven't seen me in a dress, mate)". But the right-on message about feeding "proper grub" to children was confused, for some, when he and his posse arrived in two enormous 4x4s.
*Jamie Oliver came to the festival on Tuesday to talk about recipe books, school dinners and how he'd like to be "a modern-day Fanny Cradock (you haven't seen me in a dress, mate)". But the right-on message about feeding "proper grub" to children was confused, for some, when he and his posse arrived in two enormous 4x4s.
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* 11.15am, Town Hall: Python-turned-medieval expert Terry Jones asks if Chaucer was murdered, and if so, why?
* 11.30am, Town Hall: Antony Beevor, author of Stalingrad and Berlin, on the Chekhov family, divided between Nazi Germany and Stalinist Russia.
* 6pm, Everyman: The last eight months of the Second World War in Europe involved 100 million people in a titanic struggle. Celebrated military historian and journalist Max Hastings tells the extraordinary story.
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