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James Runcie: The Grantchester Mysteries With Malachi O’Doherty Strand Arts Centre Tuesday 14 June – 6pm Tickets: £8/£6 The Grantchester Mysteries is a series of crime fiction books of short stories by the British author James Runcie, set during the 1950s in Grantchester, a village near Cambridge in England. The books feature the clergyman-detective Canon Sidney Chambers. In October 2014, ITV launched Grantchester, a prime-time series starring James Norton as Sidney Chambers, with the second season airing in March 2016 James Runcie was born in 1959, educated at Marlborough College, Cambridge University and Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. He was a founder member of The Late Show, and made documentary films for the BBC for fifteen years. He is an award-winning film-maker, director, literary curator and the author of seven novels. He is Visiting Professor at Bath Spa University, and the Commissioning Editor for Arts on BBC Radio 4. He lives in London and Edinburgh. 34 Musical Truth With Mark Devlin Crescent Arts Centre Tuesday 14 June – 8:30pm Tickets: £6/£4 To most people, the music industry represents a source of harmless fun and entertainment. Beneath the glossy veneer, however, lies the devastating truth of who really controls these institutions, and the deeply malevolent agendas for which they’re being used. Musical Truth is the culmination of his five years of research into the true nature of the industry - from dark occult rituals, to mind-controlled artists. This book shows how these agendas fit into the much wider picture of what’s really going on in the world, and - crucially - how the power lies with us to bring it all to an end. Mark Devlin is a UK-based club and radio DJ and music journalist. His first book was Tales From The Flipside. In more recent years he has begun speaking about the dark forces that have been manipulating and controlling the mainstream music industry for decades, and how this ties into what is really going on in the world. At a Glance Festival Pull Out