Thursday 7th November Archives - Bridport Literary Festival

Event 23 | Andrew Ziminski | Church Going

£13.00

Andrew Ziminski - Church Going - A Stonemason’s Guide to the Churches of the British Isles

Churches are many things to us: they are places of worship, vibrant community hubs and oases of calm reflection. To know a church is to hold a key to the past that unlocks an understanding of our shared history. Andrew Ziminski has spent decades as a stonemason and church conservator, often acting as an informal guide to curious visitors. Church Going is his handbook to the medieval churches of the British Isles in which he reveals their fascinating stories – a celebration of British architectural history.
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When: Thursday 7th November 2024 @ 10.00 am

Where: The Bridport Arts Centre

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Event 24 | Catherine Coldstream | Cloistered

£13.00

Catherine Coldstream - Cloistered - My Years as a Nun

After the shock of her father’s death, and with her family scattered, 24 year old Catherine Coldstream was left grieving and alone. A search for meaning led her to Roman Catholicism and the nuns of Akenside Priory. Cloistered takes us beyond the grille of an enclosed monastic world with its tight-knit community of dedicated women. Catherine describes her journey as a nun through the 1990s and the dramatic events which led to her flight from the monastery to a wider world of freedom.

in conversation with Deirdre Coates
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When: Thursday 7th November 2024 @ 12 noon

Where: The Bridport Arts Centre

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Special Event | Joseph Coelho | Schools Event

£0.00

Joseph Coelho - Schools Event
In this interactive and fun session Joseph Coelho, children’s laureate 2022 - 24, and recent winner of the Carnegie Medal for Children’s Literature for his novel in verse, The Boy Lost in the Maze, will be talking about the processes of writing. He will invite local school children to join him in creating a range of different poems from silly similes to super sonnets. Joseph’s event uses poems from his Carnegie nominated poetry anthology Overheard In A Tower Block. This is a special event for local school children but we warmly invite extra audience members, and especially home schoolers. Priority booking - Become a Friend - Contact TIC Bridport to book tickets - 01308 424901

When: Thursday 7th November 2024 @ 10.00 am

Where: Sir John Colfox School

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Event 25 | Daisy Dunn | The Missing Thread

£12.00

Daisy Dunn - The Missing Thread - A New History of the Ancient World Through the Women Who Shaped It

For centuries, men have been writing histories of antiquity filled with warlords, emperors and kings. But when it comes to incorporating women, aside from Cleopatra and Boudica, writers have been more comfortable describing mythical heroines than real ones. Spanning 3,000 years, from the birth of Minoan Crete to the death of the Julio-Claudian dynasty in Rome, award winning classicist, Daisy Dunn, explores the stories of dozens of women in The Missing Thread that puts them at the centre of the narrative.
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When: Thursday 7th November 2024 @ 2.00 pm

Where: Sir John Colfox School

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Event 26 | Harriet Baker | Rural Hours

£13.00

Harriet Baker - Rural Hours - The Country Lives of Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Townsend Warner and Rosamund Lehmann

Harriet Baker shares the story of three very different women, each of whom moved to the countryside and were forever changed by it. Following long periods of creative uncertainty and private disappointment, each of the subjects is invigorated by new landscapes, and the daily trials and small pleasures of making a home. Rural Hours is both a paean to the bravery and vision of three pioneering writers and a passionate invitation to us all: to recognise the radical potential of domestic life in rural places.
in conversation with Olivia Glazebrook Priority booking - Become a Friend - Contact TIC Bridport to book tickets - 01308 424901

When: Thursday 7th November 2024 @ 2.30 pm

Where: The Bridport Arts Centre

Sponsored by: Sue Orr and Bella Spurrier

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Event 27 | Barnaby Rogerson | The House Divided

£13.00

SOLD OUT - Barnaby Rogerson - The House Divided - Sunni, Shia and the Making of the Middle East

At the heart of the Middle East, with its regional conflicts and proxy wars, is a 1400 year old schism between Sunni and Shia. To understand this divide and its modern resonances, Barnaby Rogerson revisits its origins. The House Divided follows the narratives through the first caliphates and empires forged by Arabs, Persians and Turks to the contemporary Middle East and explains how in 1979 this already complex world was jolted by the seismic shift of three revolutions – in Iran, Mecca and Afghanistan and why it is again at the centre of global crises.

in conversation with Jeremy Seal
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When: Thursday 7th November 2024 @ 4.30 pm

Where: The Bridport Arts Centre

Sponsored by: Felicity Fairbairn

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Event 28 | Lavinia Greenlaw | The Vast Extent

£12.00

Lavinia Greenlaw - The Vast Extent - On Seeing and Not Seeing Further
Lavinia Greenlaw is one of the country’s most celebrated poets, novelists and memoirists and The Vast Extent is a beautiful and ingenious consolidation of a thirty-year body of work. In a series of essays, she presents a record of how thought builds and ideas emerge – aligning art and scientific scrutiny and exploring subjects as broad as early photography, boredom, seasickness, wonder, mountains and mice. Lavinia will also read from her Selected Poems which have established her as one of the most perceptive and original poets of her generation.
in conversation with Caroline Montagu
1 Course Dinner £18 Priority booking - Become a Friend - Contact TIC Bridport to book tickets - 01308 424901

When: Thursday 7th November 2024 @ 6.30 pm

Where: Sladers Yard

Sponsored by: Sybella and Paul Zisman

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Event 29 | Sonia Purnell | Kingmaker | The George Millar Literary Dinner

£80.00

Sonia Purnell - Kingmaker - The George Millar Literary Dinner

We are delighted to welcome biographer and journalist, Sonia Purnell, to this year’s dinner. Her biography of Virginia Hall: A Woman of No Importance – WWII’s Most Dangerous Spy and her biography of First Lady: The Life and Wars of Clementine Churchill and her first book: Just Boris: A Tale of Blond Ambition have all been bestsellers. Her latest sensational biography of Pamela Churchill Harriman – one of the most important and influential woman of 20th century politics, is undoubtedly her most engaging and Thursday 7th Nov revealing. Born Pamela Digby, a British socialite, Sonia reclaims in Kingmaker her legacy which has mostly been dismissed as secondary to the men that she was involved with. A life of intrigue, scandal, glamour and involvement with some of the biggest names in the second half of the twentieth century has now exposed her as one of the most powerful confidantes in international politics.
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When: Thursday 7th November 2024 @ 7.00 pm

Where: Tithe Barn, Symondsbury

Sponsored by: Richard and Emily Cave | Furleigh Estate | Symondsbury Estate

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