 The Festival also included platform discussions with Tom Stoppard, Michael Palin, Asif Kapadia.The third HighTide Festival in May 2009 expanded to a two-week festival, at the centre of which were three world premieres by Lydia Adetunji, Lucy Caldwell and Jesse Weaver.An expanded programme saw a collaboration with the Aldeburgh Festival on "One Evening", a fully staged concert of Schubert's Winterreise and Beckett's text, directed by Katie Mitchell, and a special performance of David Hare's "Berlin" and "Wall", performed by the author together for the first time and directed by Stephen Daldry.