THE Autumn in Malvern Festival continues with major events over the next three weekends including talks on the artist Dame Laura Knight, and on the musical relationship between Edward Elgar and Ivor Atkins.

Pamela Hurle's new biography of Lady Emily Foley, lady of the manor of Great Malvern in the 19th century, will be launched at her talk, which is already sold out.

On Sunday, October 28, the Coach House Theatre in Grange Road is the venue for a rare screening of a BBC documentary film on the conductor and composer, Leonard Bernstein, marking the centenary of his birth.

The highlight of the 2018 festival is the concert presented by Roman Simovic, leader of the London Symphony Orchestra and other musicians from the LSO, who will perform the Elgar and Debussy String Quartets in the impressive setting of Great Malvern Priory on Sunday, October 14.

And the following Saturday, October 20, the Royal Northern College of Music Ensemble play music by Haydn, Mendelssohn and Shostakovich in the Great Hall at Malvern College.

The Great Hall is also the venue for a sequence given by Malvern's distinguished chamber choir, Aldwyn Voices, on Sunday, October 21.

They are joined by the violinist and pianist Miriam Kramer and Nicholas Durcan who will perform the Elgar Violin Sonata, of 1918.

This is the centrepiece of a specially-devised programme of music, poetry and prose by the festival artistic director, Peter Smith.

The programme, called The Silence in our Hearts, marks the centenary of the end of the Great War, and is narrated by Peter Sutton.

There are also exhibitions of art in Malvern Library, Malvern Priory, the Original Artwork Store, and Elmslie House, all in or near the town centre.

For more information, visit malvernfestival.co.uk.