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KT Literary Festival Print.indd 1 12/07/2021 11:41 The Electric Palace The 17th Bridport Literary Festival welcomes all those who read books and love literature.

It is almost two years since we had to bide by the constraints of Covid 19 and, consequently, all our lives have been changed www.kitsonandtrotman.co.uk in one way or another. We tried hard to keep BridLit afloat The Bull Hotel last year but managed only one day of ‘live’ events. It proved, however, to be the sunniest of November days and those who LEGAL ADVICE AND came to listen to Raynor Winn, Barney White-Spunner and Robert McCrum were delighted. This year we are optimistic that, as we become liberated, we will be able to socialise and SERVICES FOR LIFE enjoy the programme of events we have lined up for you. • PROPERTY • WILLS & PROBATE • FAMILY MATTERS Our authors include Emma Soames who has edited the war Sladers Yard • BUSINESS & AGRICULTURE • DISPUTE RESOLUTION • EQUINE diaries of her mother, Mary Soames, Churchill’s youngest child; Lord Hain in conversation about his memoirs of a childhood in Pretoria and a career in politics; Marina Wheeler and her recollections of her mother’s family and home in India and hear our Guest Speaker, Sir Peter Westmacott, the distinguished diplomat at the George Millar Literary Dinner.

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PERFECT PITCH LAW IN A AN ENTERTAINMENT 100 pieces of classical music TIME OF CRISIS IN WORDS AND to know and love What is the right relationship MUSIC Tim Bouverie between the law and politics, judges and politicians? Harbottle and Jonas An Illustrated Talk with Music Dave and Freya are both Nearly all of us have the Jonathan Sumption partners in life and in music. In conversation capacity to enjoy classical This dynamic duo combine with Howard Davies music but too often we are the richness of traditional folk put off by not knowing where Brexit, the possible break- with their own original and to look, or what we are up of the UK, pandemics powerful song-writing. They actually looking for. We need – this is a country in crisis. have developed a distinct a guide to help us navigate In crises the law sets the and compelling signature this artistic terrain. Historian boundaries of what the sound blending concertina, Tim Bouverie, drawing upon Government can and should harmonium, banjo, stomp his lifelong passion for music, do. But in a country without box, acoustic guitar and has selected 100 favourite a written constitution such cittern with their magical classical pieces from which as the , the and closely intertwined vocal he will introduce an eclectic precise limits between legal harmonies. We welcome them selection – audibly – to obligation and convention to Sladers Yard where they inspire and comfort; some can be hazy. What are the are joined by fiddle player are well known, some are limits of law in politics? Annie Baylis, to perform idiosyncratic, others just What is the relationship songs from their latest album secret gems that need to be between law and the On the Beacon which they brought out into the light. constitution? Is having a wrote during lockdown in constitution a hindrance or a their home on Dartmoor. Time: 10.30 am help in a time of crisis? Time: 12 noon Tickets: £12 Time: 12.30 pm Tickets: £12/25 Venue: Electric Palace Tickets: £12 Venue: Sladers Yard, Sponsored by: Johnnie and Sophie Boden Venue: Electric Palace West Bay Sponsored by: Sponsored by: Soixante

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BIOGRAPHIES OF BIRDS THE LOST HOMESTEAD A family event with Stephen Moss Marina Wheeler Stephen Moss In conversation with Susannah Simons An Illustrated Talk This is a story about loss and new beginnings, Over recent years, best selling nature writer personal and political freedom. Its central and broadcaster, Stephen Moss has published event is the Partition of British India in 1947 biographies of some of our best loved birds – The when Marina’s mother and her Sikh family Robin, The Wren, The Swallow and that most were forced to flee their home, never to majestic of birds, The Swan. He traces the life return. Some years after Partition, the family cycle of the swan from its arrival in the UK in was again ‘displaced’ this time by choice Spring to its extraordinary migration to warmer when Marina’s mother, Dip Singh, married climates, and its place in popular culture, myth Marina’s father, the distinguished British and literature across the centuries. Moss will journalist, Charles Wheeler, when he was the also touch on his timely works: The Accidental BBC’s South East Asia Correspondent based in Countryside and Skylarks with Rosie which has Delhi. The book is a timely read. It touches been nominated for the Wainwright Prize and on global themes that strongly resonate will also reveal his Twelve Birds of Christmas. today; political change, religious extremism, migration, minorities, nationhood, identity Time: 3.00 pm and belonging. Tickets: £12 per adult and £2 for accompanied children 16 yrs Time: 5.30pm and under Tickets: £12 Venue: Electric Palace Venue: Electric Palace Sponsored by: Sponsored by:

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VICTOIRE THE NIGHT SHE FRONTIERS OF A Wartime Story Of DISAPPEARED KNOWLEDGE Resistance, Collaboration What we know about and Betrayal Lisa Jewell Science, History and the Mind Roland Philipps THE FIRST DAY In conversation OF SPRING A. C. Grayling with John Dean An Illustrated Talk Nancy Tucker Roland Philipps relates the In recent times, humanity has In conversation learnt a vast amount about incredible story of heroism, with Sally Laverack complicity and survival the universe. But through Lisa Jewell’s latest bestseller about the charismatic double- remarkable successes in tells what happens when agent who plays a major role acquiring knowledge we have a teenage single mother in WWII – Agent Victoire. learned how much we have disappears without trace. Paris, half–occupied by yet to learn: the science we Where do you start to search? Nazi Germany in 1940, was have, for example, addresses also half governed by the Nancy Tucker’s debut novel just 5% of the universe; pre- collaborationist Vichy regime. explores nature or nurture history is still being revealed These were dark days for and the devious mind of the and the neurosciences of mind France and also for Britain, child on child murderer. and brain are just beginning. The celebrated polymath and isolated and under threat of A lively discussion on the invasion. Yet Mathilde Carre philosopher A.C. Grayling issues involved in writing seeks to answer three crucial – codenamed ‘the Cat’ – is psychological thrillers is driven by a sense of destiny areas: science, history and irresistible. How easy is it psychology. that will be her nation’s to get behind the criminal saviour. Victoire is the story of mind; why are women This is a special event where we a passionate, courageous spy. writers so successful at welcome staff and students from Time: 10.00 am this genre of fiction; why Sir John Colfox School Tickets: £12 are readers so addicted to Time: 2.00 pm the‘whodunnit? Venue: The Bull Tickets: £12 Ballroom Time: 12.00 noon Venue: The Bull Sponsored by: Tim Clarke Tickets: £12 Ballroom Venue: The Bull Sponsored by: Siobhan and 6 Ballroom Charles Blundell Event 9 Event 10

BLACK AND BLUE MARY CHURCHILL’S WAR One Woman’s Story of Policing and Prejudice The Wartime Diaries of Churchill’s Youngest Daughter edited by her daughter Parm Sandhu In conversation with Stuart Prebble Emma Soames In conversation with Susannah Simons At the point of her retirement from the Metropolitan Police Service in 2019, Parm Mary Churchill’s diaries provide a unique, Sandhu was the most senior BAME woman in front-row view of the great events of war, as the capital’s police force. She was the only non- well as exchanges and intimate moments with white female to be promoted from Constable her father. They reveal an impulsive spirited to Chief Superintendent. In this enthralling writer free of self-censorship or nostalgia. In memoir, Parm chronicles her journey from 1939 at seventeen Mary found herself in an life on the outskirts of Birmingham as a child extraordinary position and time: the outbreak of immigrants and after an arranged, abusive of WWII and her father, Winston Churchill, marriage at sixteen, her escape to London with appointed Prime Minister within months. her son to embark upon a career in the Met. Time: 6.30pm Time: 4.30 pm Tickets: £12 Tickets: £12 Venue: The Bull Ballroom Venue: The Bull Ballroom Sponsored by: Sally and Peter Lee Tuesday 9th Nov Event 11 Event 12 Event 13

LIFE SUPPORT THE AMUR MALICE IN Diary of an ICU Doctor on RIVER WONDERLAND the Frontline of the Covid Between Russia My Adventures with Cecil Crisis and China Beaton Dr. Jim Down Hugo Vickers In conversation In conversation In conversation with with Deirdre Coates with Christian Tyler Boris Starling Jim Down had spent his In his 80th year, Colin Hugo Vickers’ life took a life as a doctor running the Thubron made a dramatic dramatic turn in 1997 when intensive care unit at one and ambitious journey the legendary Sir Cecil of London’s top hospitals, along the 3000 mile river Beaton invited him to be his but nothing prepared him that divides China and authorised biographer. The for Spring 2020, when Russia. The Amur River excitement of working with the pandemic hit. In is almost unknown and the famous photographer Life Support, he tells the Thubron’s journey from was dashed days later when extraordinary story of how he the river’s secret source Beaton died. Vickers was and colleagues donned PPE, to its giant mouth charts entrusted with Beaton’s received an influx of patients, a tremendous journey of papers, diaries and access to and faced down the biggest adventure. The book is a friends and contemporaries. challenge in NHS history. shining masterpiece by the He has edited the witty and With warmth, honesty and acknowledged laureate of perceptive diaries which humour, his is a gripping travel writing, a lesson in reveal the photographer’s personal account of the history and offering a unique many fascinating encounters everyday heroism of the NHS perspective of two of the and his observations of staffing a global crisis. world’s superpowers. cultural figures of the time as well as members of the Royal Time: 10.00 am Time: 12 noon Family. Tickets: £12 Tickets: £12 Venue: The Bull Venue: The Bull Time: 2.30 pm Ballroom Ballroom Tickets: £12 Venue: The Bull Sponsored by: Carol Hammick Ballroom and Adam Tindall Sponsored by: 8 Rosi and Clive de Ruig Event 14 Event 15 Event 16

THE DEATH OF ASSEMBLY WHEN THE CHIPS FRANCIS BACON Natasha Brown ARE DOWN... Max Porter In conversation Mark Hix In conversation with with Max Porter In conversation Jon Woolcott In Bridlit’s new writers with Prue Keely A bold and brilliant short slot, Natasha Brown’s The Journey from Restaurant work of fiction by the author novel Assembly, follows Empire to Fish Truck – and of Grief is the Thing with a black British woman as back again… Feathers and Lanny. In a burst she prepares to attend a During lockdown, of literary brilliance, Max lavish garden party at her born chef, foodwriter and Porter translates into seven boyfriend’s family estate, restaurateur Mark Hix extraordinary written pictures set deep in the English embarked upon exciting new the explosive final workings countryside. At the same ventures. Since the Spring of of the artist’s mind. The time, she is considering the 2020, with his characteristic Death of Francis Bacon is set carefully assembled pieces positivity, energy and during the last days of Francis of herself. Assembly is about creativity he opened The Bacon’s life as he lies dying the stories we live within Oyster and Fish Truck in Madrid and is written - those of race and class, pitched on the A35; reopened in visceral poetic language safety and freedom, winners his famous Oyster and Fish which corresponds to Bacon’s and losers. It is about one House in Lyme Regis; and style of painting. One of our woman daring to take re-launched The Fox Inn, most lyrical novelists brings control of her own story even a hidden gem nestled in his rich facility for language at the cost of her life. glorious countryside close and psychological insight in This can be purchased as an to Beaminster. Mark’s talent this majestic tour de force. exciting double event with Max to bring an abundance of Time: 4.30 pm Porter, event 14. foods from local farmers, gamekeepers and fishermen Tickets: £12/£20 for Time: 6.00 pm events 14 and as well as local beers and 15 combined Tickets: £12 /£20 for spirits is unrivalled, as is his events 14 and reputation. Venue: The Bull 15 combined Ballroom Venue: The Bull Time: 6.30pm Sponsored by: Ballroom Tickets: £12/25 Max Mckay-James Venue: Sladers Yard 9

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Event 2 12.30pm Jonathan Sumption Electric Palace £12

Event 3 12 noon Harbottle and Jonas* Sladers Yard £12

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Event 4 3.00pm Stephen Moss Electric Palace £12

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Event 5 5.30pm Marina Wheeler Electric Palace £12

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Event 6 10.00am Roland Philipps The Bull Ballroom £12 Lisa Jewell and Event 7 12noon The Bull Ballroom £12 Nancy Tucker

Event 8 2.00pm Prof. AC Grayling The Bull Ballroom £12

Event 9 4.30pm Parm Sandhu The Bull Ballroom £12

Event 10 6.30pm Emma Soames The Bull Ballroom £12

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Event 11 10.00am Dr. Jim Down The Bull Ballroom £12

Event 12 12 noon Colin Thubron The Bull Ballroom £12

Event 13 2.30pm Hugo Vickers The Bull Ballroom £12

Event 14 4.30pm Max Porter The Bull Ballroom £12

Event 15 6.00pm Natasha Brown The Bull Ballroom £12

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Event 17 10.00am Boris Starling The Bull Ballroom £12

Event 18 11.30am James Crowden Electric Palace £12

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Event 20 4.30pm Patrick Barkham The Bull Ballroom £12

Event 21 6.30pm Alan Johnson Electric Palace £12 1616 THURSDAY 11TH NOVEMBER No.of tkts subtotal

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Event 23 11.30am Tristan Gooley The Bull Ballroom £12

Event 24 2.00pm Anne Sebba Electric Palace £12

Event 25 3.30pm Andew Lownie Electric Palace £12

Event 26 5.00pm Tim Marshall Electric Palace £12

Event 27 6.30pm Christopher Reid Sladers Yard £12

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Event 28 7.0 0 pm Sir Peter Westmacott Tithe Barn £50

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Event 29 10.00am Samantha Knights The Bull Ballroom £12

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Event 31 2.30pm Saul David Electric Palace £12

Event 32 4.30pm Dave Goulson The Bull Ballroom £12

Event 33 6.00pm Jonathan Coe Electric Palace £12

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FRONTLINE THE SECRET WORLD ETHEL ROSENBERG OF THE WEATHER A Cold War Tragedy Dr. Hilary Jones How to Read Signs in Every In conversation with Cloud, Breeze, Hill, Street, Anne Sebba Sally Laverack Plant, Animal and Dewdrop An illustrated talk Anne Sebba is one of In the midst of the pandemic, Tristan Gooley Britain’s most distinguished ITV’s Doctor Hilary Jones In conversation with biographers and has been launches his epic historical James Crowden critically acclaimed for series – a sweeping The weather changes as we books about iconic women. sumptuous WWI medical walk around a tree or turn Her latest is the tragic and drama which features the down a street. There is a gripping story of Ethel Spanish Flu pandemic when secret world of weather – Rosenberg, loving mother only the strongest survived. one that we all live in but of two small children and Grace, a nurse, and Will, a very few of us see. Best an idealist, whose life was young soldier, meet in a field selling author, navigator barbarically cut short for a hospital in France. Rumours and adventurer, Gooley crime she almost certainly of Armistice abound but hopes gives a fascinating account did not commit. Sebba of peace are threatened by of how to discover the shines a spotlight on a the deadly virus. Dr. Hilary simple rules that explain woman who was victim discusses the challenges the weather signs in order of a catastrophic failure of posed by writing romantic to learn skills that enhance humanity and justice in the fiction and plotting the course every minute you spend US and which continues of a family saga across the outdoors. By understanding to haunt the national twentieth century. Are there the microclimate, you can conscience. parallels with Covid 19, which predict weather easily. has affected global well being? Time: 2.00 pm Time: 10.00 am Time: 11.30 am Tickets: £12 Tickets: £12 Tickets: £12 Venue: Electric Palace Venue: The Bull Venue: The Bull Sponsored by: Ballroom Ballroom Angela and David Neuberger Sponsored by: Maggie and John Mills

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TRAITOR KING THE POWER OF THE LATE SUN The Duke and Duchess of GEOGRAPHY Windsor in Exile Ten Maps that Reveal the Christopher Reid Andew Lownie Future of Our World In conversation with An illustrated talk Tim Marshall James Crowden Andrew Lownie examines the An Illustrated Talk Christopher Reid’s new years following the abdication book of poetry The Late Sun If you don’t know what’s of Edward VIII when the sustains a delicate balance happening in the world, look former king was kept in exile, between memorialisation at a map. Tim Marshall’s feuding with his family over of the recently dead and a global bestseller: Prisoners of status for his wife, Wallis celebration of the vitality Geography shows how every Simpson, and denied any real of the living. Early in this nation’s choices are limited job. Traitor King reveals the evocative collection is a set by mountains, rivers, seas true story behind the German of poems about the poet’s and concrete. Geography attempts to recruit the Duke mother, who died in great age hasn’t changed but the world as a British Pétain; the Duke after a life of exotic travel, has. Marshall explores ten and Duchess were not the and his own travels and regions that are set to shape naïve dupes of the Germans his sense of both place and global politics in a new age but actively intrigued against displacement. He explores of power rivalry. The refugee Britain in both war and peace. London, where he lives and crisis is critical; trouble brews Lownie also shines a light on the Mediterranean, which in the Sahel; the Middle the assumed love story of the he loves. We are delighted East must look beyond oil Windsors with extraordinary to have a poet of his stature to secure a future and the revelations. with us who will talk about eastern Mediterranean is a his work and read from his Time: 3.30 pm flashpoint of the 21st century. collection. A delicious dinner Tickets: £12 The Earth’s atmosphere is to afterwards is optional. Venue: Electric Palace become the next battleground. Time: 6.30 pm Time: 5.00pm Sponsored by: Tickets: £12/25 Diana and Robert Clarke Tickets: £12 Venue: Sladers Yard Barry Mawhinney Venue: Electric Palace

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George Millar DSO MC, Croix de Guerre and Legion d’Honneur The Literary Dinner is held every year in memory of George Millar who for 50 years lived in West Dorset until his death in 2005. His war memoirs and his books on sailing are still in print and continue to be enjoyed by generations of readers of all ages.

THE GEORGE MILLAR and political worlds, They Call It Diplomacy LITERARY DINNER sets out to explain what diplomats actually do. He mounts a vigorous defence of the Guest Speaker: Sir Peter Westmacott continuing relevance of the diplomat in an We are delighted that the distinguished age of instant communication, social media diplomat, Sir Peter Westmacott, can be and special envoys and details what he sees with us this year to talk about his latest as some of the successes of recent British book: They Call It Diplomacy: Forty Years diplomacy. A committed Internationalist, Sir of Representing Britain Abroad. Sir Peter Peter offers trenchantly Europhile views on was British Ambassador to the United States the Brexit Referendum and its aftermath, and from January 2012 until January 2016 during voices his concerns about Britain’s ability to Obama’s Presidency. He was also British continue to bring its influence to bear on the Ambassador to France from 2007-2012 and to wider world now that it has left the European Turkey from 2002-2006. His 43 year diplomatic Union. career has included four years in Iran before Time: 7.00 pm the 1979 Revolution and a secondment to the Tickets: £55 European Commission in . Sir Peter was the Foreign and Commonwealth’s Director Venue: Tithe Barn of the Americas from 1997-2000 and Deputy Sponsored by: Under Secretary of State for the Wider World from 2000-2001. From 1990-1993, he was Deputy Private Secretary to HRH The Prince of Wales. As well as offering an engaging and insightful account of a forty-three year career P UBS spent in the upper echelons of the diplomatic 25 Friday 12th Nov Event 29 Event 30 Event 31

LAW, RIGHTS AND THE FALL SBS – SILENT RELIGION The Mystery of WARRIORS The Authorised Samantha Knights QC John Preston Wartime History In conversation with In conversation with Saul David FRHistS Caroline Montagu Jason Webster An illustrated talk Local barrister and co- The embodiment of Britain’s Britain’s SBS – or Special director of the Shute post-war boom, Maxwell, Boat Section – was the Festival, Samantha Knights, born an Orthodox Jew, world’s first maritime discusses her book Law, escaped the Nazi occupation special operations unit. Rights, and Religion. of Czechoslovakia, fought Founded in the dark days of Given that we live in in WWII and was decorated 1940, it started as a small an increasingly diverse for his heroism with the inexperienced outfit that country, this relevant and Military Cross. He went on leaned heavily on volunteers’ thoughtful work explores to become an MP and an raw courage and enthusiasm. the relationship between astonishingly successful It would become one of the our legal system, religion businessman, owning a most effective fighting forces and cultural diversity. At number of newspapers and of WWII and has served as a practical level, the debate publishing companies. But a model for Special Forces is fascinating - ranging in 1991 he disappeared from ever since. Award winning from the issue of whether his yacht the Lady Ghislaine historian, Saul David, has businesses can decline leaving chaos in his wake. written the first authorized services on religious John Preston gives a history of the SBS and he grounds, through to fascinating and gripping gives an enthralling narrative clashes between the school account of a man who was about some of the most curriculum and faith. to become reviled as the audacious and legendary missions of the war. Time: 10.00 am embodiment of greed and Tickets: £12 corruption. Time: 2.30 pm Venue: The Bull Time: 11.30 am Tickets: £12 Ballroom Tickets: £12 Venue: Electric Palace Sponsored by: Venue: Electric Palace Sponsored by: Felicity Fairbairn Antony Hichens Sponsored by: 26 Sue Robinson Event 32 Event 33

SILENT EARTH MR WILDER & ME Averting the Insect Apocalypse Jonathan Coe Dave Goulson In conversation with Boris Starling An illustrated talk Jonathan Coe’s dazzling new novel based on Insects are essential for life as we know it. his admiration for the films of Billy Wilder. It As their numbers decline at a shocking rate, is both a coming of age story and an intimate our world will slowly grind to a halt. Both portrait of one of cinema’s most intriguing revealing and alarming Silent Earth is a rousing figures. Coe evaluates the nature of time manifesto for a greener planet. It is a call to arms and of fame, of family and the treacherous for change – agriculture, government policy, lure of nostalgia. Followed by a screening of industry and ourselves. Goulson’s previous book Billy Wilder’s 1972 film: AVANTI – a much Gardening for Bumblebees shows how to provide underrated American comedy starring Jack a refuge for a pollinator friendly haven. Lemmon and Juliet Mills. Time: 4.30 pm Time: 6.00 pm Tickets: £12 Tickets: £12/15 Venue: The Bull Ballroom Venue: Electric Palace Sponsored by: Sue and David Orr e more inn py FINE DORSET FOOD, n p ALES & TALES book now 5% OFF ALL MEALS DURING BRIDLIT* *on presentation of valid ticket

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AROUND THE WORLD A PRETORIA BOY THE SEA IS NOT IN 80 PLANTS The Story Of South Africa’s MADE OF WATER ‘Public Enemy Number One’ Jonathan Drori Adam Nicolson An illustrated talk Peter Hain An illustrated talk In conversation with Clive Drori takes readers on Stafford Smith Few places are as familiar a trip across the globe, as the shore and few as full Veteran, anti-apartheid bringing to life the science of mystery and surprises. activist, Peter Hain, tells his of plants by revealing how Acclaimed nature writer, extraordinary journey from their worlds are intricately Adam Nicolson, explores his native South Africa to entwined with our own the natural wonders of the House of Lords. This history, culture and folklore. the intertidal and our long powerful and timely account From the seemingly familiar human relationship with of Hain’s political life starts tomato and dandelion to the it. The physics of the seas, with his vivid description eerie mandrake and Spanish the biology of anemone and of his parents’ arrest in the ‘moss’ of Louisiana, via the limpet, the long history of early 1960s followed by his early histories of beer and the earth; all interconnect own enforced London exile in the contraceptive pill, each in this zone where the 1966. Narrowly escaping jail of these stories is full of philosopher scientist and poet for disrupting all-white South surprise. Drori wears his can meet? Twice a day, every African sports tours, he was scientific knowledge lightly day, change dominates its framed for a bank robbery and writes with passion existence. Every part of life and nearly assassinated by and humour. Lucille Clerc’s here is dedicated to surviving a bomb. Later, using British illustrations are utterly and thriving in a world of parliamentary privilege, Hain spellbinding. alteration. exposed corruption in the Time: 10.00 am Zuma administration which Time: 1.30 pm Tickets: £12 influenced the President’s Tickets: £12 Venue: The Bull resignation. Venue: The Bull Ballroom Ballroom Time: 12 noon Sponsored by: Georgia Langton Tickets: £12 Venue: Electric Palace Sponsored by: Lindsay and Martin Bowdery 28 Event 37 Event 38 Event 39

THE LOST DECADE HEAVY LIGHT THE PRINCE RUPERT 2010 – 2020 and What Lies A Journey through HOTEL FOR THE Ahead for Britain Madness, Mania and HOMELESS Polly Toynbee and Healing David Walker Horatio Clare Christina Lamb An illustrated talk In conversation with In conversation with Jon Woolcott Samantha Knights From two critically acclaimed authors and journalists, we This is Horatio Clare’s very With the advent of Covid-19, have an authoritative survey personal journey through the government launched its of the last decade including mania, psychosis and ‘Everyone In’ programme, this tumultuous year of treatment in a psychiatric aiming to house the homeless change. From austerity to hospital, and onwards to through lockdown. The Brexit, food banks to Grenfell release, recovery and healing. Prince Rupert, a 4 star and ending with Covid 19 This is a story of the intensity hotel in Shrewsbury with – the worst global pandemic of manic experience as well four poster beds and suits in recent history, the decade as its peril and strangeness. of armour, were asked to has been gloomy and life It is also a story of love, play their part and host 33 changing. Progress in kindness, humour and care of rough sleepers. This is a renewable energy, legalisation those who deal with someone story of worlds colliding in same sex marriage and an who becomes so dangerously and a snapshot of modern awareness of environmental ill. At a critical time, when Britain. Many of the rough issues might be considered society is at last facing the sleepers had been homeless progress, but how can we issues of mental health that for decades but in supportive gain optimism for the future. can affect each and every one surroundings their lives are What went wrong? What of us, this is a timely memoir transformed. Heartwarming went right? And where do we which can give compassion to and heartbreaking, go from here? Both Toynbee those who suffer and support investigative journalist and Walker want to share to those who care. Christina Lamb gives an their views with the audience. insight into contempory Time: 4.30 pm Britain. Time: 3.00 pm Tickets: £12 Tickets: £12 Venue: The Bull Time: 6.30 pm Venue: Electric Palace Ballroom Tickets: £12 Venue: Electric Palace 29 Sponsors and Donors

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