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Sunday 3rd – Saturday 9th November
The Fifteenth
BRIDPORT
Literary
Festival
2019
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The Bull Hotel The 15th Bridport Literary Festival
welcomes all those who read books
and love literature.
The Festival was spawned in 2005 from the internationally
renowned Bridport Prize, founded in 1973, to raise funds for
the fledgling Bridport Arts Centre, a role which it still fulfils
to this day. With a reputation for excellence, the Prize attracts
The Electric Palace entries from across the globe to its four competitive strands
in poetry, short stories, flash fiction and for first novel. The
Bridport Literary Festival, now an independent charity, has
equally grown in reputation and stature and we welcome
writers and audiences from all over the country to enjoy an
eclectic programme of events which attracts those of all tastes
and interests. The dark days of November encourage everyone
to listen, read and enjoy books, and the town of Bridport and
The Literary and
its closeness to the Jurassic coastline at West Bay bustles with
Scientific Institute energy throughout the year. Its twice weekly street market and
vintage area, together with its feast of eateries and places to
stay provide a perfect backcloth to any festival. Bridport is a
town with so much to explore and enjoy.
Among this year’s novelists we welcome Melvyn Bragg, Sadie
Jones, Deborah Moggach, David Nicholls and Max Porter as
well as non fiction historians, Max Hastings, Tom Holland,
Tim Bouverie and journalists, Matt Frei, Lindsey Hilsum and
Sladers Yard Steve Richards together with nature writers Stephen Moss
(birds) and Peter Marren (butterflies) and national treasure,
Henry Blofeld. Additionally, we are proud to welcome the new
Poet Laureate, Simon Armitage.
President: Lord Fellowes of West Stafford
Festival Patron: Sir Michael Holroyd CBE
Trustees:
Deirdre Coates - Chairman,
Bridport Library Antony Hichens Kate Hobbs Richard King
Venetia Ross Skinner Sarah Wild
Patron of the Friends
of the Festival: Kate Adie CBE
Secretary to the Friends:
Miranda Alexander
Festival Director: Tanya Bruce-Lockhart
The Team: Che Albrighton Rosa Bartlett
Tithe Barn Symondsbury
Celia Brayfield Diana Clarke
James Crowden Robin Dulake
Tanya Harley Margery Hookings
Tom Hughes Joanna Jacobson
Karen Mackay Adrian Munden
Mike Paine Graham Shackleton
Annette Smallwood Lisa Wilcock
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3rd Nov
Event 1 Event 2
APPEASING HITLER CHASTISE
Chamberlain, Churchill and the Road to War The Dambusters Story 1943
Tim Bouverie Max Hastings
an illustrated talk an illustrated talk
Marking 80 years since the start of WWII, Operation Chastise, the destruction of
Tim Bouverie gives a compelling reappraisal the Mohne and Eder dams in north-west
of one of the most controversial episodes Germany by the RAF’s 617 Squadron on
in British history. Appeasing Hitler is the the night of 16/17 May 1943, was an epic
exciting debut of a young historian who onslaught that has become legendary in
sweeps us through a period of history Britain’s military history. Max Hastings
beginning with the advent of Hitler in 1933, grew up embracing the story, the classic
the early days of the Third Reich to the 1955 movie and the memory of Guy Gibson,
beaches of Dunkirk. In September 1938, the 24 year old Wing-Commander who led
Neville Chamberlain announced that his visit the raid. In the 21st century, Hastings urges
to Hitler had averted a crisis and assured the that we should re-evaluate the Dambusters.
nation of ‘peace in our time’. A year after he He vividly describes the evolution of Barnes
returned from Munich, Germany invaded Wallis’s bomb and the Squadron which
Poland and determined the fate of Europe. broke the dams, and equally portrays in
Bouverie charters the timeless lesson on the harrowing detail all those swept away by
challenges of standing up to aggression and the devastating torrents. The narrative is a
authoritarianism - and the calamity that dramatic retake of familiar history.
results from failing to do so.
Time: 11.30 am
Time: 10.00 am Tickets: £15
Tickets: £12 Venue: Electric Palace
Venue: Electric Palace Sponsored by
Sponsored by Sue and Hugh Robinson
Richard and Liz Strang £2 of this ticket goes is to go to READ EASY – a national
charity founded ten years ago in Dorset to combat
illiteracy. Trained volunteers give free, private coaching
to adults who struggle to read, using a structured course
imaginatively tailored to each learner.
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Event 3 Event 4
THE MAGICAL SPIRIT OF PLACE
WORLDS OF Rosanna Ley and
POETRY AND Maria Donovan join
MUSIC Gail Aldwin on this
panel session to share
Julie Darling &
their experiences of
Chris Tutton
writing about place in fiction. Location is
Performance of the spoken word integral to all Rosanna Ley’s books - her
accompanied by the harp is an ancient art. settings include West Dorset and Cornwall as
The weaving together of words and music well as abroad. Her latest novel: The Lemon
goes back to the roots of poetry itself. In Tree is set in Italy. Maria Donovan draws
this special recital, poet Chris Tutton will on memory, observation and imagination
perform his work accompanied by Julie to create a sense of place and her debut
Darling on the Celtic Harp. Together they novel: The Chicken Soup Murder is set in a
offer a powerful and unique opportunity to fictional version of her home town Bridport.
transport the listener to other worlds. Gail Aldwin is Chair of the Dorset Writers
Time: 12.00 Noon Network and her latest work of fiction: The
String Games is a coming of age novel set in
Tickets: £12/£20*
England and France – sure to be a best seller.
Venue: Sladers Yard
Sponsored by: Time: 3.00 pm
Soixante Tickets: £7
*for 2 course lunch. Please telephone Sladers Venue: Bridport library
Yard (01308 459511) for reservations. South Street
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Event 5 Event 6
SOMETHING OF HIS ART SHIPS OF HEAVEN
Walking to Lübeck with JS Bach The Private Life of Britain’s Cathedrals
Horatio Clare Christopher Somerville
an illustrated talk
In the depths of winter in 1705, the young
Johann Sebastian Bach, then unknown When Christopher Somerville set out to
as a composer and earning a modest explore Britain’s cathedrals, he found his
living as a teacher and organist, set off fixed ideas shaken to the roots. Cathedrals –
on a long journey on foot to Lubeck to Britain possesses over 100 – great unmoving
visit the composer Dieterich Buxterhude, bastions of tradition. He tells the stories
a distance of more than 250 miles. This of monarchs and bishops who ordered the
journey was pivotal in the life of the Master building of these massive edifices and the
of the Baroque. More than three hundred masons whose genius created them. He
years later, Horatio Clare set off to recreate chronicles the pomp and prosperity that
the walk, following in Bach’s footsteps. follows these Ships of Heaven, the towns that
Something of his Art is an evocation of what grew up in their shadow, the Reformation,
the young composer would have seen and icon smashing Puritanism and the revival
experienced. brought about by the Industrial Revolution,
and the hope and disillusion of two world
Time: 4.00 pm
wars.
Tickets: £10
Venue: The Bull Ballroom Time: 5.00 pm
Sponsored by Tickets: £10
John and Felicity Fairbairn Venue: The Bull Ballroom
Sponsored by
Jean Edwards
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Event 7
THE POET LAUREATE
Simon Armitage cbe frsl
Illustrated Performance Reading of:
Sandettie Light Vessel Automatic
In May this year, it was announced that the West Yorkshire
poet, Simon Armitage, one of the most celebrated poets
of his generation, had been appointed the UK’s 21st Poet Laureate. Armitage said then that he
had no hesitation in accepting the role. “It’s a big commitment and I feel I’ve been writing the
kind of public-facing, public-occasion poetry that this role will require, for quite a long time”.
His exciting new volume of poems brings together a selection of work which stands outside of
his mainstream publications. Contents include single set pieces such as Zodiac T Shirt, several
are site specific – some set in the Pennine landscape, and others developed from collaborations
with film directors and visual artists, together with large scale literary projects such as the
poet’s troubadour journeys walking across the UK. As well as representing the nature and
scale of his output, Sandettie Light Vessel Automatic demonstrates Armitage’s commitment to
collaboration, his role of public engagement and a belief in poetry as an act of communication.
Time: 6.30 pm Sponsored by:
Tickets: £10 Martin and Lindsay Bowdery
Venue: Electric Palace
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Monday
4th Nov
Event 8 Event 9 Event 10
THE BEEKEEPERS EPIC CONTINENT THE JAMESTOWN
OF ALEPPO Adventures in the Great BRIDES
Story of Europe The Bartered Wives
Christy Lefteri of the New World
in conversation with Sally
Nicholas Jubber
Laverack
an illustrated talk Jennifer Potter
an illustrated talk
Moving, compassionate, Award-winning travel writer,
Nicholas Jubber, journeys In 1621, fifty-six English women
powerful and of international crossed the Atlantic in response
significance, Christy Lefteri’s across Europe exploring
to the Virginia Company of
novel was born out of her time the continent’s epic poems,
London’s call for maids ‘young
working as a volunteer for from The Odyssey to Beowulf, and uncorrupt’ to make wives
UNICEF. Based in Athens at a The Song of Roland to The for the planters of its new colony
refugee centre, Lefteri met and Nibelungenlied and their in Virginia, North America.
got to know so many of those impact on European identity The English had settled there
escaping from harrowing war in turbulent times. These just fourteen years previously
torn regions. Her story of Nuri a and the company hoped to root
enduring epic poems were
beekeeper and his wife Afra an its unruly menfolk to the land
artist, living a simple life, rich inspired by moments of seismic
change. Shaped by their times with ties of family and children.
in family and friends, in the While the women travelled of
beautiful Syrian city of Aleppo, they have stirred passions ever
their own accord, the company
is cataclysmic. When all since, motivating arms and
was in effect selling them at a
around them is destroyed by revolutionaries just as they profit for a bride price of 150
war, they are forced to escape, continue today. Jubber takes lbs of tobacco. Jennifer Potter
embarking upon a perilous us on a fascinating adventure tells the extraordinary story of
journey through Turkey to which illuminates so much of the British women who made
Greece – intent on survival. the story of Europe and why it the perilous journey to become
Time: 10.00 am is constantly changing. bartered brides.
Tickets: £10 Time: 11.30 am Time: 2.30 pm
Venue: The Bull Tickets: £10 Tickets: £10
Ballroom Venue: The Bull Venue: The Bull
Sponsored by: Ballroom Ballroom
Nick Pearson Sponsored by:
Sponsored by:
Francesca Radcliffe Anon
Jim Bartos
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Event 11 Event 12 KING OF THE WORLD THE MOUNTBATTENS The Life of Louis XIV Their Lives and Loves Philip Mansel Andrew Lownie an illustrated talk an illustrated talk Louis XIV, King of France and Navarre, Earl Mountbatten of Burma (1900-1979) is one dominated his age. In the second half of the of the major British historical figures of the seventeenth century, he extended France’s twentieth century. As one obituary noted: frontiers into the Netherlands and Germany, ‘It seemed almost unbelievable that one human and established colonies in America, Africa being could have touched history at so many and India. Louisiana, which once occupied points’ including Supreme Allied Commander a third of the territory of the present day of South East Asia during WWII and the last United States, is named after him. Louis was Viceroy of India. He was also a major figure also one of the greatest patrons of European behind his nephew Philip’s marriage to Queen history – Moliere, Racine , Lully, Le Brun, Le Elizabeth II and instrumental in the royal family Notre all worked for him – and his stupendous taking the Mountbatten name. He also became palace built at Versailles became the envy of an influential mentor to Prince Charles. No monarchs throughout Europe. Many tried biography of Mountbatten can be told without to imitate but with little success. As well as also examining that of his wife, Edwina. Once entertaining lavishly, Louis was obsessed the richest woman in Britain, her aimless pre-war by the details of government and travelled life as a playgirl who enjoyed numerous affairs, extensively throughout his kingdom, though his she emerged from WWII as a magnetic and choice of ministers and generals often proved talented charity worker. From prize-winning and disastrous. Louis’s extravagance in building best-selling historian Andrew Lownie, comes a palaces, entertaining and persistently waging nuanced portrayal of two very unusual people wars devastated French finances and set and their complex relationship. Rich in texture France on the path to revolution. Dr.Mansel’s and a cast list including Churchill, Roosevelt, new book: King of the World is much the most Chianng Kai-Shek, Charlie Chaplin and Laurens comprehensive biography of this hypnotic, van der Post. This marks the 40th anniversary of charismatic and flawed King. Lord Mountbatten’s assassination by the IRA. Time: 4.00 pm Time: 6.00 pm Tickets: £10 Tickets: £10 Venue: The Bull Ballroom Venue: The Bull Ballroom Sponsored by: Sponsored by: Tim Clarke Anthony and Val Pitt-Rivers Denotes an Illustrated Talk Denotes an Illustrated Talk 9
Tuesday
5th Nov
Event 13 Event 14 Event 15
EMPERORS, THE LIFE AND LOVES A HISTORY OF
ADMIRALS & OF E NESBITT BRITAIN THROUGH
CHIMNEY-SWEEPS Eleanor Fitzsimons BOOKS 1900-1964
The Naming of Butterflies
and Moths
in conversation with Celia Christopher Tugendhat
Brayfield in conversation
Peter Marren with Prue Keely
Best known for The Railway
an illustrated talk
Children and Five Children There are many ways of
Many have remarked on and It, Edith Nesbitt is studying the tumultuous
the poetic names of our considered the first modern twentieth century – but one
butterflies and moths. Their children’s author and the of the most revealing must be
beauty fires our imagination. inventor of the children’s through the key books of the
Some are named after human adventure story. Her life time. Christopher Tugendhat
occupations – emperors, was much more complicated shows how literature both
footmen, rustics – and still than her books would shaped and reflected public
more named after animals – imply. A staunch socialist concerns over the decades
tigers, hawks, goats. There and founding member of – from Lord of the Flies to A
are species named after the Fabian Society, Edith Room of One’s Own to Heart
jewels, musical instruments, incorporated her avant-garde of Darkness. After a long
fabrics, heraldry. Some ideas into her writing. She and distinguished career
names are baffling. Scientific was a feminist, and a close in government, business
names too contain many friend of HG Wells and her and public service, Lord
allusions. Peter Marren has love life was somewhat Tugendhat has included in his
writen widely on the natural complicated – George Bernard fascinating book many of the
world and this beautifully Shaw being one of her many writers who have influenced
illustrated book is put lovers. him including, CP Snow, Noel
together with insight and wit. Time: 11.30 am Coward, Ernest Gombrich.
Time: 10.00 am Tickets: £10 Time: 2.30 pm
Tickets: £10 Venue: The Bull Tickets: £10
Venue: The Bull Ballroom
Ballroom Venue: The Bull
Sponsored by: Ballroom
Rosa Bartlett
Sponsored by:
Denotes an Illustrated Talk
Buffy Sacher
10Event 16 Event 17 Event 18
LANNY MY A-Z OF CRICKET A LIFE IN COLOUR
Max Porter Henry Blofeld Jocasta Innes remembered
in conversation in conversation by her son Jason Goodwin
with Jon Woolcott with Boris Starling
Jason inherited his love of
Max Porter’s first novel, Legendary cricket broadcaster adventure and an exploratory
Grief is the Thing with and national treasure, Henry addiction to food and how
Feathers won the Sunday Blofeld takes the audience on to grow, harvest and enjoy
Times Young Writer of the a journey from A-Z through it from his late mother, the
Year, the International Dylan the world of cricket. There writer Jocasta Innes. She
Thomas Prize and was are many reasons to love was a polymath of ideas for
shortlisted for many others. ‘Blowers’, not least that he homemaking and how to
It has been translated into is the voice synonymous live life to the full. Her book:
27 languages. His new best with BBC Radio 4 and 5’s Paint Magic is a classic for
selling novel: Lanny focuses Test Match Specials. In his anyone wishing to decorate
on a village outside London trademark charming style he their home and a copy of The
and no different from many explains some of the puzzling Pauper’s Cookbook is a Bible
others. Yet it belongs to cricket terminology and tells for everyone who enjoys food
England’s mysterious past his favourite anecdotes from without the extravagance.
and its confounding present. half a century’s association Jason talks about his Mother’s
Porter’s story is exhilarating, with the sport. His stories influence on his life and has
disquieting and deeply are not only entertaining but recently republished one of her
affecting. The plot bowls reflect changes in cricket, cookery books: The Country
along in a compulsive way – while identifies his cricketing Kitchen. His talk will be
in search of the boy, Lanny heroes. There is a glossary for followed by a delicious feast
and Porter’s genius with those who want to make sure based on his Mother’s recipes.
words leaves you breathless. of the difference between Time: 7.00 pm
Time: 4.00 pm googlys and bouncers!
Tickets: £12/£28*
Tickets: £10 Time: 5.30 pm Venue: Slader Yard
Venue: The Bull Tickets: £12 Sponsored by:
Ballroom Venue: Electric Palace Harold Carter
Sponsored by: Sponsored by: Tess Silkstone
Carol Hammick *for 3 course Feast. Please
Trish Reed
Ian and Mary Scott telephone Sladers Yard (01308
459511) for reservations.
11Wednesday
6th Nov
Event 19 Event 20
OUR MAN IN NEW YORK SCENT MAGIC
The British Plot to Bring America into WWII Notes from a Gardener
Henry Hemming Isabel Bannerman
an illustrated talk an illustrated talk
Henry Hemming examines one of the most Isabel Bannerman and her husband Julian
extraordinary stories of a propaganda campaign: have, over the years, taken the world of
the covert British operation to manipulate garden design by storm. It all started when
American public opinion and bring America into they bought a derelict baroque mansion in
WWII. Those campaigning against America’s Wiltshire and restored the house and created
entry into the war had many theories about who a garden on the hoof. Since then they have
or what was behind this shift in public opinion. won gold medals at Chelsea and established
Hemming, one of our favourite historians, a practice, working with discerning clients
returns to Bridlit to reveal the truth, and a such as HRH The Prince of Wales, Andrew
truth that involves his own grandparents who Lloyd-Webber, George and Amal Clooney,
worked for William Stephenson - Our Man in Sting and Trudie Styler. Isabel’s new book:
New York. From establishing a forgery hothouse Scent Magic is a romantic and extremely
and seeding false information about Nazi plans practical book in which Isabel immerses
and plots, Stephenson’s office masterminded an the reader in the luscious fragrance of a
operation of daring brilliance. This contributed gardening year. Hers is a compelling personal
to the founding and early operations of what is journey, which evokes personal memories
now the CIA. and practical knowledge.
Time: 10.00 am Time: 11.30 am
Tickets: £10 Tickets: £10
Venue: The Bull Ballroom Venue: The Bull Ballroom
Sponsored by: Sponsored by:
John and Sue Bradbury Allan and Rachel James
David and Sue Orr
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REBEL WRITERS THE FRANK VIOLENCIA
The Accidental Feminists BUSINESS A New History of Spain
Celia Brayfield Olivia Glazebrook Jason Webster
an illustrated talk in conversation with an illustrated talk
Sally Laverack
Award-winning writer, Old fault lines are reappearing
Celia Brayfield, has written Olivia Glazebrook is a in Spain: extremist groups are
the first book about a journalist, screenwriter, on the rise, a region pushes
generation of women writers film and book critic. Her for independence, society is
who changed the world. first novel The Trouble fragile and polarised. This is
In London in 1958 A Taste with Alice met with great nothing new: a long view of
of Honey written by the 19 critical acclaim. Olivia is Spanish history shows the
year old Shelagh Delaney, one of Dorset’s rich seam country is returning to its old
redefined women’s writing of talented writers and we ways. Can democracy ever
in Britain. She was the first are delighted to have her work in a Spain which has
of young women – aged with us to talk about her spent hundreds of years in
17-28 who dazzled the latest book: The Frank civil war. In his controversial
world with their honesty – Business. Frank drops down new history of Spain:
rebelling against sexism, dead at Heathrow Arrivals Violencia, Spanish expert
inequality and prejudice. on Christmas Eve. His Jason Webster, charts its
They rejected masculine estranged daughter is called history from its origins to the
definitions of what writing to identify the body and is present day, uncovering its
and a writer should be. After left wondering why he was darkest events and its genius
Delaney came Edna O’Brien, travelling to London from for enlightened thought. He
Lynne Reid Banks, Nell France in the first place. So shows how events are in
Dunn, Virginia Ironside, begins a story of the chaotic danger of being repeated and
Charlotte Bingham and nature of relationships when argues that Spain has long
Margaret Forster. pasts are unmasked. predicted crises in the West.
Time: 2.30 pm Time: 4.00 pm Time: 6.00 pm
Tickets: £10 Tickets: £7 Tickets: £10
Venue: The Bull Venue: The Bull Venue: The Bull
Ballroom Ballroom Ballroom
Sponsored by: Sponsored by:
Dorset Magazine David and Annabelle Nabarro
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7th Nov
Event 24 Event 25 jacket RS memoir for Bridport Festival:Layout 1 7/6/19 10:11 Page 1
Event 26
Reynolds Stone
A Memoir
The Kenneth Humphrey Stone
Allsop Memorial Talk
MRS. MOREAU’S REYNOLDS STONE: WE NEED TO TALK
WARBLE A Memoir ABOUT PUTIN
How Birds Got Their Names How The West Gets Him Wrong
Humphrey Stone
Stephen Moss in conversation with David Mark Galeotti
an illustrated talk Burnett an illustrated talk in conversation with Rene
Wyndham
Through fascinating Reynolds Stone CBE (1909-
encounters with the bird 1979) was one of the most Despite the millions of words
kingdom and the rich cast distinguished wood engravers written on Putin’s Russia, the
of characters responsible for of the 20th century. He spent West still fails to understand
coming up with their names his childhood in Bridport one of the world’s most
Stephen Moss, the naturalist and lived in Litton Cheney powerful politicians, whose
and broadcaster, gives an from 1953 until his death. influence spans the globe and
entertaining illustrated talk His son, Humphrey Stone, whose networks of power
about his new book: Mrs. has put together this richly reach into the very heart of our
Moreau’s Warbler. A treasure illustrated memoir providing daily lives. Professor Mark
trove of folk history, tracing a long overdue account of Galeotti is one of the foremost
the tracks of bird life. A must his father’s life and work. authorities on Russia and
for any bookshelf He was a champion of the monitors the unfolding story
Renaissance in good printing of the Putin era and the man
Time: 10.00 am and type design and an behind the myth. Galeotti is
Tickets: £10 accomplished watercolour also author of the brilliantly
Venue: The Bull painter and letter cutter in gripping account of The Vory
Ballroom stone. His legacy endures in – Russia’s super Mafia, the
Sponsored by: much that remains familiar, underground crime class,
Anon including postage stamps, £5 from their beginnings in the
and £10 notes and the coat of gulags to their free-wheeling
Kenneth Allsop,
was a broadcaster,
arms on a British passport. oligarchy of today.
writer and
champion of Time: 11.30 am Time: 2.30 pm
conservation
who lived near Tickets: £10 Tickets: £10
Bridport until his
Venue: The Bull Venue: The Bull
death in 1973.
Ballroom Ballroom
Sponsored by:
Robert and Diana Clarke
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LIFE-WRITING
MASTERCLASS
with Dr. Celia
Brayfield
THE SNAKES Story-telling vs
Reality. Storytelling
Sadie Jones isn’t just for fiction
in conversation with Spencer Butler writers. Its what
Sadie Jones, won the Costa First Novel Award makes non-fiction
for her best selling The Outcast, made into a irresistible too. The art of narrative in
devastatingly unsettling film. The Snakes is biography, history or memoir is the art of
equally menacing – an all consuming story of a arranging real life events into the beguiling
family whose worst sins come back to bite them. stories that make the ordinary extraordinary.
Sadie writes of her new novel: “If The Snakes In this workshop you will learn to tell
feels dangerous its because we – people, normal stories using non-fiction events and make
people – are at risk when we are surrounded by your writing compelling as well as truthful.
corruption.” Unflinching in its gaze, this is also A challenge for all those apprentice and
a novel destined to be a best seller. experienced writers. Limited numbers.
Time: 4.00 pm Time: 6.00 - 8.00 pm
Tickets: £10 Tickets: £20
Venue: The Literary and Scientific Venue: The Literary and Scientific
Institute East Street Institute East Street
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SUNDAY 3RD NOVEMBER No.of tkts subtotal
Event A 10.00 am Childrens Story Time Bridport Library £3/£5
Event B 11.00 am Childrens Story Time Bridport Library £3
SATURDAY 9TH NOVEMBER
Event 35 9.30am Martin Maudsley Electric Palace £2/£5
SUNDAY 3RD NOVEMBER
Event 1 10.00pm Tim Bouverie Electric Palace £12
Event 2 11.30pm Max Hastings Electric Palace £15
Event 3 12 noon Poetry and Music* Sladers Yard £12
Reservations to be made with Sladers Yard (01308 459511) *LUNCH £20
Event 4 3.00pm Spirit of Place Bridport Library £7
Event 5 4.00pm Horatio Clare The Bull Ballroom £10
Event 6 5.00pm Christoper Somerville The Bull Ballroom £10
Event 7 6.30am Simon Armitage Electric Palace £10
MONDAY 4TH NOVEMBER
Event 8 10.00pm Christy Lefteri The Bull Ballroom £10
Event 9 11.30pm Nicholas Jubber The Bull Ballroom £10
Event 10 2.30pm Jennifer Potter The Bull Ballroom £10
Event 11 4.00pm Philip Mansel The Bull Ballroom £10
Event 12 6.00pm Andrew Lownie The Bull Ballroom £10
TUESDAY 5TH NOVEMBER
Event 13 10.00am Peter Marren The Bull Ballroom £10
Event 14 11.30am Eleanor Fitzsimons The Bull Ballroom £10
Event 15 2.30pm Christopher Tugendhat The Bull Ballroom £10
Event 16 4.00pm Max Porter The Bull Ballroom £10
Event 17 5.30pm Henry Blofeld Electric Palace £12
Event 18 7.00pm Jocasta Innes* Sladers Yard £12
Reservations to be made with Sladers Yard (01308 459511) *FEAST £28
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Event 19 10.00am Henry Hemming The Bull Ballroom £10
Event 20 11.30am Isabel Bannerman The Bull Ballroom £10
Event 21 2.30pm Celia Brayfield The Bull Ballroom £10
Event 22 4.00pm Olivia Glazebrook The Bull Ballroom £7
Event 23 6.00pm Jason Webster The Bull Ballroom £10
THURSDAY 7TH NOVEMBER
Event 24 10.00am Stephen Moss The Bull Ballroom £10
Event 25 11.30am Humphrey Stone The Bull Ballroom £10
Event 26 2.30pm Mark Galeotti The Bull Ballroom £10
Event 27 4.00pm Sadie Jones LSI £10
Event 28 6.00pm Celia Brayfield LSI £20
Event 29 7.00pm Matt Frei The Tithe Barn £50
FRIDAY 8TH NOVEMBER
Event 30 10.00am Philip Marsden Electric Palace £10
Event 31 11.30am Tom Holland Electric Palace £12
Event 32 2.30pm Deborah Moggach Electric Palace £12
Event 33 4.00pm Dr. David Nott Electric Palace £12
Event 34 6.00pm Melvyn Bragg Electric Palace £12
SATURDAY 9TH NOVEMBER
Event 35 9.30am Martin Maudsley Electric Palace £2/£5
Event 36 11.30am Isabella Tree Electric Palace £12
Event 37 2.00 pm Lindsey Hilsum Electric Palace £12
Event 38 3.30pm Lewis Dartnell Electric Palace £8
Event 39 5.00pm David Nicholls Electric Palace £12
Event 40 6.30pm Steve Richards Electric Palace £12
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20Discovering the best
stories in Dorset
A Visitors book from the Royal Bath Hotel, Bournemouth, c. 1890,
signed by Oscar Wilde and other important figures of the late 19th century
Sold for £10,625
www.dukes-auctions.com • 01305 265080 • enquiries@dukes-auctions.com 21Thursday The George Millar
7th Nov Literary Dinner
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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
LITERARY DINNER
Guest Speaker: Matt Frei
Theme: The Rise of Nationalism:
What does the future hold?
Award winning journalist and writer, Matt Frei,
is Europe Editor and Presenter at Channel 4 News.
He is also part of the wider presenting team across
Channel 4’s news and current affairs portfolio,
including the Dispatches programme series. He has
led coverage of major news items from all over the
world including the tension in the Ukraine resulting
from the crash of Malaysia flight MH17 and reporting
‘live’ from the Crimea on Kiev’s bloodiest day. More
recently, Matt has covered the friction in Hong Kong
with China and continues to find himself reporting
from many turbulent parts of the world.
Prior to his current role, Matt was Washington
Correspondent for two years and this led to the
coverage of the Americas on everything from
business and culture to US foreign policy and its view of the world. He headed up Channel
4’s coverage of the 2012 US Presidential election including a documentary: The American
Road Trip: Obama’s Story and followed this in 2016 with a documentary investigating Donald
Trump and those that surround him: The Mad World of Donald Trump. Undoubtedly, he will
be covering the next Presidential election and the implications on the ‘special relationship’
with the UK.
Matt speaks several European languages fluently, which surprises many of the European
heads of state. He is the author of Italy: the Unfinished Revolution and contributed with authors
like Will Self and Ian McEwan to Goodbye Europe. He was voted RTS TV Journalist of the Year
2015 and 2017 and has won an Emmy, a BAFTA, a Dupont and a Peabody. He is London based
but has a very special affection for West Dorset through his wife, Penny, and her links with
Bridport. We are all delighted to welcome Matt Frei to the Bridport Literary Festival.
Time: 7.00 pm Sponsored by:
Tickets: £50 Furleigh Estate
Venue: The Tithe Barn, Symondsbury The Symondsbury Estate
23Friday
8th Nov
Event 30 Event 31 Event 32
THE SUMMER ISLES DOMINION THE CARER
A Voyage of the Imagination How the Christian Revolution
Changes the World
Deborah Moggach
Philip Marsden in conversation with
an illustrated talk Tom Holland Susannah Simons
in conversation with Prue Keely
The Summer Isles, the small From the best-selling
group of Scottish islands off In Dominion, award winning author of The Best Exotic
Scotland’s north-west coast, historian and broadcaster Marigold Hotel and Tulip
captivated writer Philip Tom Holland explains why Fever, Deborah Moggach’s
Marsden when he and his Christianity is the most new novel The Carer is a
aunt looked upon them enduring and influential deliciously waspish, witty
from the tops of mountains legacy of the ancient world. and poignant novel about
they loved to climb in the He explores the story of aging, sibling rivalry and
Highlands. Decades after his how we came to be what having to grow up fast!
aunt’s death, he sets sail in a we are and how we think. James is getting on a bit
beautiful wooden boat from Ranging from the Persian and needs full-time help.
his home in Cornwall, up the invasion of Greece in 480 BC His middle aged offspring,
west coast of Ireland, through to the on-going migration Robert and Phoebe, employ
the Hebrides, to reach those crisis in Europe today. From Mandy who is happy to take
islands of his imagination. Nebuchadnezzar to the him off their hands. BUT
Sailing single-handed, he Beatles, Holland explores just Mandy has vices as well as
tackles the full force of the what made Christianity so virtues and life, as it unfolds,
Atlantic, hopping from island revolutionary and disruptive; suddenly becomes one that
to island exploring early Irish how it saturated the mind- none of them can handle and
and Scottish history and set of Latin Christendom does not curtail at old age.
learning the stories and songs, and why, inspite of religion’s
myths and legends and their claims, it is becoming less Time: 2.30 pm
place in the Celtic tradition. accepted in the West. Tickets: £12
Venue: Electric Palace
Time: 10.00 am Time: 11.30 am Sponsored by:
Tickets: £10 Tickets: £12 John and Maggie Mills
Venue: Electric Palace Venue: Electric Palace
Sponsored by: Sponsored by:
Sally Inchbald and Peter Lee Carol Hammick
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WAR DOCTOR LOVE WITHOUT END
Surgery on the Front Line A Story of Heloise and Abelard
Dr. David Nott Melvyn Bragg
in conversation with Sally Laverack
Writer, broadcaster, polymath, Melvyn
For more than twenty-five years, Dr David Bragg’s award winning series: The South
Nott has taken unpaid leave from his job Bank Show is the longest running arts
as a general and vascular surgeon with the programme (1978-2019)on British television
NHS to volunteer in some of the world’s most and has also been acclaimed as the best.
dangerous war zones. From Sarajevo under His BBC Radio 4 series: In Our Time is a
siege in 1993, to clandestine hospitals in masterclass in the history of ideas and one
rebel-held eastern Aleppo, he has carried out of the most popular podcasts available. His
life-saving operations and field surgery in the latest novel: Love Without End re-imagines
most challenging conditions, and with none of the legendary love story of Heloise and
the resources of a major hospital. Driven by Abelard, and breathes fresh life into one of
compassion and the desire to help others, and the most remarkable and enduring passions,
putting himself in extreme personal danger, uniting the middle ages with today. Heloise,
David is now acknowledged by the world to a brilliant scholar, arrives in Paris in the
be the most experienced trauma surgeon. year 1117 and falls passionately in love with
Flying into a catastrophe was not enough as the young radical philosopher, Abelard -
other doctors needed to learn how to treat their dangerous love affair incurs terrible
the appalling injuries that war inflicts. Since retribution. Nine centuries later Arthur, an
2015, David and his wife, Elly, have set up a English academic, arrives in Paris to revisit
foundation training doctors in the art of saving the story, and finds that his connection with
lives – those threatened by bombs and bullets. the subject is more emotional than he cares
to admit.
Time: 4.00 pm
Tickets: £12 Time: 6.00 pm
Venue: Electric Palace Tickets: £12
Sponsored by:
Venue: Electric Palace
Adam and Nicky Fenwick Sponsored by:
Jim and Sarah Wild
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The Lost Stories
Martin Maudsley
an illustrated talk
Inspired by the poetry and paintings of
Robert Macfarlane and Jackie Morris from
their award winning book: The Lost Words,
local writer and story-teller Martin Maudsley
has gathered together and brought to life
a series of Lost Stories. Featuring plants
and animals from the Macfarlane/Morris
book, as well as other nature words that
were removed from the Oxford Children’s
Illustration by Matt Jeanes
Dictionary, Martin has woven together
traditional tales and local legends from
around the world. Children will be thrilled
and delighted by live story-telling and
wonderful imagery – and so will adults!
Bridport Childrens Events
Time: 9.30 - 10.30am
Age: Suitable for all ages
Tickets: £2 per child and £5 per adult
Venue: Electric Palace
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Illustration by Jackie MorrisSaturday
9th Nov
Event 36 Event 37 Event 38
WILDING IN EXTREMIS ORIGINS
The Return of Nature The Life of War Correspondent How the Earth Made Us
to a British Farm Marie Colvin
Dr. Lewis Dartnell
Isabella Tree Lindsey Hilsum an illustrated talk
an illustrated talk in conversation with Prue Keely
When we talk about human
Isabella Tree tells the story Marie Colvin was glamorous, history, we focus on great
of the ‘Knepp Experiment’, a hard-drinking, braver than leaders, mass migration and
pioneering re-wilding project the boys, with a troubled decisive wars. But how has
in West Sussex, using free- and rackety personal life. the Earth itself determined
roaming grazing animals With fierce compassion and our destiny? How has
to create new habitats for honesty, she reported from our planet made us? As a
wildlife. Part enthralling the most dangerous places species, we are shaped by
memoir, part fascinating in the world, fractured by our environment. Geological
account of the ecology of conflict and genocide. In Sri forces drove our evolution
our countryside, Wilding Lanka in 2001, she was hit by in East Africa; mountainous
is considered to be one the a grenade and lost the sight in terrain led to the development
landmark ecological books her left eye – resulting in her of democracy in Greece.
of the decade. Forced to trademark eye patch – and in Scientist, writer and
accept that intensive farming 2012 she was killed in Syria. broadcaster Dr Lewis
at Knepp was economically Fellow foreign correspondent Dartnell tells the human
unsustainable, Isabella Lindsey Hilsum has written story of these forces, from
and her husband made a the story of the most daring plate tectonics and climate
spectacular leap of faith, war reporter of her generation. change, to atmospheric
deciding to let nature take circulation and ocean
Time: 2.00 pm
over. Free-roaming animals currents. Origins reveals
Tickets: £12
over 3,500 acres has seen the Earth’s awesome impact
Venue: Electric Palace on the shape of human
huge increases in wildlife
numbers over a decade. Sponsored by: civilization.
Anthony and Valerie Barker
Time: 11.30 am Barry and Islay Mawhinney Time: 3.30 pm
Tickets: £12 This event is in memory of David Tickets: £8
Venue: Electric Palace Hugh Prysor-Jones – a valued Venue: Electric Palace
Sponsored by: member of the BridLit Festival team
Sponsored by:
from the beginning. For many years
Georgia Langton Adam Tindale
he was a renowned international
John and Ros Senior
journalist and broadcaster for the
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SWEET SORROW THE PRIME MINISTERS
Reflections on Leadership
David Nicholls
in conversation with Susannah Simons Steve Richards
David Nicholls is one of the UK’s most Award winning political commentator,
successful writers with an incomparable columnist, journalist and broadcaster Steve
talent for making us laugh, cry and wince all Richards is considered to be one of the
at the same time. Its ten years since his award most respected, influential and talented
winning novel: One Day, the iconic love story interpreters of the Westminster scene. His
for a generation, became an international popular podcast: Rock ‘N Roll Politics has
publishing phenomenon. There followed US, now become an acclaimed One Man Show
an equally beguiling story, and now Sweet and he is a regular political pundit on various
Sorrow – a poignant, funny and life-changing television and radio programmes. Steve likes
story of one summer. Charlie is the kind of to involve the audience with interactive
boy you don’t remember from school. His dialogue and exchanges. His new book: The
exams were disappointing and at home Prime Ministers: Reflections on Leadership
he is the carer for his father. He views his is a landmark history of the men and women
future with dread. Then along comes Fran - from Heath to May -who have defined the
Fisher and she changes everything. David is UK’s role in the modern world. At a time
also a screenwriter and winner of this year’s of unprecedented political upheaval, Steve
BAFTA award for his adaptation of Edward analyses who leads and who doesn’t and why,
St. Aubyn’s Philip Melrose quintet of novels and brilliantly brings to life the inhabitants
for tv. Other highlights have included his of 10 Downing Street over the past fifty years.
adaptation of Far From the Madding Crowd Has our new Prime Minister got the the
and Great Expectations as well as adapting his essential leadership skills to face the future?
earlier novels as feature films: Starter for Ten
and One Day. Lots to talk about. Time: 6.30 pm
Tickets: £12
Time: 5.00 pm Venue: Electric Palace
Tickets: £12 Sponsored by:
Venue: Electric Palace Johnnie Boden
Sponsored by:
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Box Office: Bridport Tourist Centre, The Town Hall, South Street, Bridport, DT6 3LF
Tel: 01308 424901Sunday 3rd – Saturday 9th
November 2019
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The Lost Stories
Martin Maudsley
an illustrated talk
Inspired by the poetry and paintings of Robert
Macfarlane and Jackie Morris from their
award winning book: The Lost Words, local
writer and story-teller Martin Maudsley has
gathered together and brought to life a series
of Lost Stories. Featuring plants and animals
from the Macfarlane/Morris book, as well as
other nature words that were removed from
the Oxford Children’s Dictionary, Martin has
Illustration by Matt Jeanes
woven together traditional tales and local
legends from around the world. Children will
be thrilled and delighted by live story-telling
and wonderful imagery – and so will adults!
Bridport Childrens Events
Time: 9.30 - 10.30am
Age: uitable for all ages
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Tickets: £2 per child and £5 per adult
Venue: Electric Palace
Illustration by Jackie MorrisSunday 3rd – Saturday 9th
November 2019
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Lightning Mary – local author, Anthea Oscar, the Ferry Cat is the story of Molly
Simmons comes to this year’s Bridlit to talk Arbuthnott’s beloved cat who went missing
about her latest book which tells the story on a Scottish ferry. Molly was inspired to tell
of the young Mary Anning who searches about the adventure in a beautiful picture
for fossils on the windswept beaches of book followed by Oscar’s adventure: Oscar
Dorset, intent to bring back treasures to the Hebridean Cat. With her boundless
help feed her family. Mary must depend on energy and enthusiasm for story telling Molly
her unique courage and knowledge to fulfil will entertain children of 4 years plus with a
her dream to become a scientist. At a time dynamic interactive presentation .
now, when it is possible with determination Time: Talk 11.00 - 11.45am
to follow one’s destiny, Anthea charts the
Tickets: £3 per child
inspiration behind her book.
Adults Free
Time: alk 10.00 - 10.45am
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Workshop 11.00 - 11.45am
children of 4+
Tickets: £3 per child | Adults Free
Venue: Bridport Library
£5 Includes workshop
(book in advance) South Street
Suitable for children of 8+
Venue: Bridport Library South Street
Q/A Followed by a workshop for young writers - places limited to 12
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