{"id":6158,"date":"2026-10-22T14:28:32","date_gmt":"2026-10-22T13:28:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eatonhouseschools.com\/belgravia\/?p=6158"},"modified":"2026-10-22T14:31:15","modified_gmt":"2026-10-22T13:31:15","slug":"gyles-brandreth-is-coming-to-dukes-festival-of-stories-to-talk-about-winnie-the-pooh-at-100","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eatonhouseschools.com\/belgravia\/2026\/10\/22\/gyles-brandreth-is-coming-to-dukes-festival-of-stories-to-talk-about-winnie-the-pooh-at-100\/","title":{"rendered":"Gyles Brandreth is Coming to Dukes\u2019 Festival of Stories to talk about Winnie-The-Pooh at 100!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>If you love the Winnie-The-Pooh books by A.A Milne, you will absolutely love Gyles Brandreth\u2019s talk for children at the Dukes Festival of Stories on Saturday November 21 at Eaton House The Manor.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The author of <em>Somewhere, a Boy and a Bear<\/em> \u2013 the story of A.A Milne and Winnie-the-Pooh. It looks at a hundred years of \u2018Pooh\u2019 \u2013 his special philosophy and the reasons for his worldwide popularity. It is, in addition, an intimate biography of 3 generations of an unusual, fascinating and troubled family.<\/p>\n<p><em>Gyles Brandreth is a writer, broadcaster and former MP and Government Whip. His many books include the bestselling poetry anthology, <\/em>Dancing By The Light of the Moon<em>, and the international bestseller about spelling and punctuation, <\/em>Have You Eaten Grandma?<em> With Susie Dent, the lexicographer from <\/em>Countdown<em>, he co-hosts the award-winning podcast, <\/em>Something Rhymes with Purple<em>. Gyles presents <\/em>Great Canal Journeys<em> on Channel 4 with Dame Sheila Hancock and regularly appears on <\/em>Celebrity Gogglebox<em> with Dame Maureen Lipman. <\/em><strong>Book your Early Bird tickets by Friday 30 October at <a href=\"http:\/\/dukesfestivalofstories.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/dukesfestivalofstories.com<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you love the Winnie-The-Pooh books by A.A Milne, you will absolutely love Gyles Brandreth\u2019s talk for children at the Dukes Festival of Stories on Saturday November 21 at Eaton&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":6164,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-schools"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eatonhouseschools.com\/belgravia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eatonhouseschools.com\/belgravia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eatonhouseschools.com\/belgravia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eatonhouseschools.com\/belgravia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eatonhouseschools.com\/belgravia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6158"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.eatonhouseschools.com\/belgravia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6163,"href":"https:\/\/www.eatonhouseschools.com\/belgravia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6158\/revisions\/6163"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eatonhouseschools.com\/belgravia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eatonhouseschools.com\/belgravia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eatonhouseschools.com\/belgravia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eatonhouseschools.com\/belgravia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}