IN A celebration of music, literature and the arts, the annual Windsor Festival will once again host an enchanting series of high quality events around Windsor’s finest venues.

The highly respected arts festival will be located within and around the grounds of Windsor Castle, by kind permission of Her Majesty The Queen, from September 16 until 29.

This year, Windsor Festival presents an impressive literary line-up with 16 events taking place over the course of the Festival. Guests include novelist and writer of biographies Max Egremont, the man behind the curtain at Royal Tournaments and the Queen’s Jubilees Sir Michael Parker and Julie Summers, who’ll give a heart-warming and humorous talk about the Women’s Institute during the Second World War in Jambusters.

There will also be a captivating line-up of events at Theatre Royal Windsor, including the Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain, London Festival Opera’s Viva Verdi!, which commemorates one of the most influential opera composers of the nineteenth century, and an appearance by Tim Brooke-Taylor.

Tim, best known as one of TV comedy trios The Goodies, has been delighting audiences with his gentle, zany humour ever since joining the famous Cambridge Footlights back in the 1960s.

Tim will be at the Theatre Royal in conversation with broadcaster Chris Serle - best known for his work as a reporter on That’s Life with Esther Rantzen - sharing anecdotes and film clips from a career spanning over 50 years.

Charles Moore shares his insight, drama and wit from the pages of his biography of Margaret Thatcher on Thursday, September 20 at 8pm.

Seven years after the end of her extensive spell as Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher chose journalist and political commentator Charles Moore to write her authorized biography, on condition it would not be published in her lifetime. The Windsor Festival now has a rare opportunity to hear from a biographer in a particularly unusual position.

Charles was granted full access to all of Margaret Thatcher’s personal and government papers and interviews with those who worked most closely with her, in the knowledge that this information would never be read by Lady Thatcher herself.

Martin Denny, Windsor Festival’s director, said: “We feel that with such a wide range of entertainment, it caters for everyone who might come to the Festival. There will be something for everyone to enjoy.

“So as summer draws to a close once again on this Royal Town, we invite you to immerse yourself in the variety of talent presented.”

The full programme and booking information is available at windsorfestival.com.