Next month we look forward to three events celebrating the release of Of Mud & Flame: The Penda's Fen Sourcebook, edited by Matthew Harle and James Machin.

Kicking off February, the BFI will be hosting a talk for all fans of David Rudkin's 1974 legendary film, Penda's Fen, on Monday the 3rd. The editors of Of Mud & Flame, Matthew Harle and James Machin, will join BFI curator William Fowler in discussing the book’s conception and creation in this event hosted at Southbank's BFI Reuben Library.

Tickets for the BFI event available HERE

Location: BFI Reuben Library • BFI Southbank, SE1 8XT
Date: Monday 3rd Feb
Time: 6:30PM
Tickets: £6.50

While unfortunately the London Review Bookshop's 28th of February evening of conversation with screenwriter David Rudkin is fully booked, the next day Whitechapel Gallery will be hosting a screening of Penda's Fen - to which tickets are still available.

This will be followed by a discussion featuring David Rudkin, the film's star Spencer Banks, and fellow cast members Christopher Douglas, Jennie Heslewood and Ian Hogg. Marking 1365 years since the death of the last Pagan King, the talk is set to be introduced by Of Mud & Flame contributor, medievalist Beth Whalley.

Tickets for Whitechapel Gallery's event available HERE

Location: Zilkha Auditorium • Whitechapel Gallery, E1 7QX
Date: Sat 29th Feb
Time: 3:30PM
Tickets: £9.50/£7.50 concs

“In the pastoral landscape of Three Choirs England, a clergyman’s son, in his last days of school, has his idealistic value-system and the precious tokens of his self-image all broken away – his parentage, his nationality, his sexuality, his conventional patriotism and faith… Below the slopes of the Malvern Hills he has encounters with an angel, and with a demon, with the ghost of Elgar, the crucified Jesus, and with Penda, England’s last pagan king." - David Rudkin

Of Mud & Flame: The Penda's Fen Sourcebook is available through the Strange Attractor Shoppe HERE
PB 368pp
210mm x 147mm
Approx 60 images
£16.99

Penda's Fen, the film, is available on DVD/Blu-Ray through the BFI shop HERE