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Date Posted: 02:55:36 08/23/07 Thu
Author: Ian Taylor
Subject: J B Priestley Night, 13th September, Ilkley

Dear Colleague

You may wish to circulate details of the following event to your members - tickets are £10 including a two-course meal, readings and performances. The venue is licensed (drinks not included).
To book visit www.priestleynight.com

J.B. PRIESTLEY NIGHT

Thursday 13th September, 7.00 pm. Yorkshire Deli Cafe, 27 The Grove Promenade, Ilkley, LS29 8AF.

Piping in the meat and potato pie, followed by a meat and potato pie supper (or cheesy leek bake for the veggies) with peas and pickled red cabbage; sticky toffee pudding for afters; topped and tailed by readings from J.B. Priestley's works.

To celebrate the birthday of Bradford's most famous son, and arguably one of Britain's greatest 20th Century writers, Glyn Watkins, the creator of the J.B,Priestley Night, brings a show of pies and good companionship to Ilkley.

On September 29th, 1940, during the worst days of the Blitz, Priestley made a broadcast on the BBC about visiting Bradford shortly after an air-raid. He talked of a small shop that displayed

'...a giant, almost superhuman, meat and potato pie... out of that pie there came at any and every hour when the shop was doing business, a fine rich appetising steam...'

He had heard the shop had been destroyed, but discovered it open and doing business, and that:

'... the great pie, still brown, crisp, succulent and steaming away like mad. Every puff and jet of steam defied Hitler, Goering, and the whole gang of them. It was glorious.

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