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We celebrated the twentieth Charleston Festival in great style with 24 events covering the usual diverse range of topics presented by internationally renowned writers, novelists, historians, politicians, actors, artists and architects. The sun shone (most of the time) and every one seemed to have a good time. Here are some pictures to prove it:
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Alain de Botton
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AS Byatt, Virginia Nicholson
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Bethan Roberts
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Charleston Festival 09
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Colm Toibin
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Deborah Devonshire, Charlotte Mosley, Adam Nicolson
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Deborah Moggach
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Doris Kearns Goodwin
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Freshwater dress rehearsal
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Freshwater dress rehearsal
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Garden picnic
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Graham Swift, James Naughtie
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Grayson Perry
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Grayson Perry
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Jeremy Paxman
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Kate Atkinson, Lynne Truss, Jeanette Winterson
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Markus Zusak
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Michael Morpurgo
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Patrick Gale, Andrew Motion
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Sheila Rowbotham
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Tea tent