Great Festival (as ever)
There is so much on that you really need to do a month's advance planning to make sure you don't miss anything. I found last years on-line programme useful, but in a place like Whitby it is essential to know where things are, unless teleportation comes free with the season ticket.
I would like something that can be downloaded into a spreadsheet so that I can play with it (eliminate the ones I know I won't go to).

I agree with the excellent suggestion -
"Also, under each biog, why not put the event numbers they are appearing at, saves a lot of searching. And while they are about it why not put a biog in for all performers" . Would help a lot.

The fact that you put a little info on the workshops (e.g. that it is no.4 of 5) is an improvement. But some entries are still mysterious to the uninitiated. The entry PLAYFORD would mean nothing, looking up the entries for the workshop leaders (if you had time between rushing to the other things you didn't want to miss) would give you a clue that it was some kind of dancing, but little else. One year we went to a North West clog workshop, expecting something like the Lancashire Wallopers or Camden Clog do, and found it was NW Morris. Too late to run off to one of the other good things we were missing.

You give free programmes to season ticket holders, but why, oh why do I have to faff about and waste a stamp sending for my advance copy? Please can I ask and pay in advance when I book. My husband pulls the middle out of his, so 1 souvenir programme (in advance) and 1 working programme would be enough for us. It might save the festival a few pence to give the working programme free to season ticket holders and ask them to pay for the full one. Is there a paperless, email option for advance publicity?

Keep up the good work (we've got our tickets and flat booked for next year)