Gervase Phinn

Festival Marquee | 6.30pm | £12, £10 (c)

At the peak of his story-telling powers, a phenomenal bestseller, Gervase has written a sparkling new Christmas story which does not live up to its title. A Load of Old Tripe is set in the South Yorkshire of the 1950s and tells the tale of an eleven year-old schoolboy, James Joseph Johnson. Jimmy for short. Inspiring, captivating and utterly charming, it remembers a time when heavy industry rumbled around the valleys of South Yorkshire, when each family owned a terrier and when real men ate tripe.