Margaret Atwood and Graeme Gibson, Corn Exchange, Brighton
Margaret Atwood's Forties childhood was spent knocking around the Canadian backwoods with her forest entomologist, proto-ecologist dad, and it shows. Interviewed alongside her husband Graeme Gibson on the Brighton Festival's closing night, the international literary prizes, like the gushing reverence with which she's introduced by Festival curator Ali Smith and received by the sell-out crowd, seems to have made littl…