Friday 7th November Archives - Bridport Literary Festival

Special Event | Charlie Fuge | Story Reading and Drawing Workshop

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Charlie Fuge - Story Reading and Drawing Workshop
Festival favourite Charlie Fuge will bring his fabulous illustrations to life with an hour in Bridport Library for year 2s and any homeschoolers who wish to join. Charlie will be reading from books he has written and illustrated, and showing how he sketches the pictures in his head onto paper. Children will be able to see their own story characters come to life, and draw creatures of their own. FREE Ticketed (please let us know if you wish to join) Priority booking - Become a Friend - Contact TIC Bridport to book tickets - 01308 424901

When: Friday 7th November 2025 @ 10.00 am

Where: Bridport Library

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Event 34 | Andrew Lownie | Entitled

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Andrew Lownie - Entitled - The Rise and Fall of the House of York
Packed full of extraordinary revelations, Entitled is the first joint biography of the Duke and Duchess of York. Drawing on four years of research and interviews, biographer Andrew Lownie chronicles their lives in parallel through childhood, courtship, careers and divorce. The picture that emerges is of a spoilt prince unable to connect and a duchess pushed by her insecurities into a desperate need to maintain the attention her ‘royal’ status brought. Rigorously researched and packed full of revelations, this is eyewatering biography at its best in conversation with Stuart Rock Priority booking - Become a Friend - Contact TIC Bridport to book tickets - 01308 424901

When: Friday 7th November 2025 @ 12 noon

Where: Electric Palace

Sponsored by: Robert and Diana Clarke

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Event 35 | Lyse Doucet | The Finest Hotel In Kabul

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Lyse Doucet - The Finest Hotel In Kabul - A People’s History of Afghanistan
When the Intercontinental opened in Kabul in 1969, Afghanistan’s first luxury hotel symbolised a dream of a modernising country connecting to the world. Fifty years later, the hotel is still standing having endured Soviet occupation, multiple coups, a grievous civil war, a US invasion and the rise, fall and rise of the Taliban. Lyse Doucet, the BBC’s Chief International Correspondent, has been checking into the Intercontinental since 1968. She uses its story to craft a richly immersive history of modern Afghanistan. in conversation with Lindsey Hilsum Priority booking - Become a Friend - Contact TIC Bridport to book tickets - 01308 424901

When: Friday 7th November 2025 @ 2.00 pm

Where: Electric Palace

Sponsored by: Johnnie and Sophie Boden

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Event 36 | Sophy Roberts | A Training School for Elephants

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Sophy Roberts - A Training School for Elephants

This instant Sunday Times bestseller — recently shortlisted for the Wainwright Prize for Conservation — is for readers interested in history, travel and how we treat animals. In an illustrated talk featuring film and images by the multi-award winning photographer Michael Turek, author and journalist Sophy Roberts will take the audience behind the scenes to reveal how her latest book evolved — including where it all began in Ireland, when she stumbled across the long-forgotten story of an 1879 expedition to Africa. A Training School for Elephants unlikely cast of characters include four loveable Asian elephants shipped from India to the East African coast and marched inland towards Congo. It was part of an ill-conceived idea of King Leopold II of Belgium to plunder Africa’s rich resources. By following in the expedition's footsteps, she reveals an extraordinary and moving story, her pursuit of the ghosts of history also taking her to Belgium, India, Iraq and the Democratic Republic of Congo.

an illustrated talk Priority booking - Become a Friend - Contact TIC Bridport to book tickets - 01308 424901

When: Friday 7th November 2025 @ 4.00 pm

Where: Electric Palace

Sponsored by: Prue and Howard Davies

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Event 37 | Mick Herron | Clown Town

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Mick Herron - Clown Town
Clown Town is the latest spy thriller in the best-selling series Slough House that inspired the TV series SLOW HORSES. At Slough House, the repository for failed spies, River Cartwright is waiting to be passed fit for work. With time to kill and with his grandfather — a former legendary spy — long dead, he investigates the secrets of his grandfather’s library and a mysteriously missing book. Mick will be in conversation with Bridport-based crime writer Chris Chibnall, the creator of TV series Broadchurch and whose debut book Death At The White Hart was published this year. in conversation with Chris Chibnall Priority booking - Become a Friend - Contact TIC Bridport to book tickets - 01308 424901

When: Friday 7th November 2025 @ 6.00 pm

Where: Electric Palace

Sponsored by: Andrew and Helen Carless

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Event 38 | Robert McCrum | An Evening of PG Wodehouse

£12.00

Robert McCrum - An Evening of PG Wodehouse
2025 sees the celebration of fifty years since the death of PG Wodehouse in American exile, on St Valentine’s Day, 1975. Today, the creator of Bertie Wooster, Jeeves, and Lord Emsworth holds an unrivalled position as Britain’s greatest comic writer. To mark this milestone, BridLit has invited Robert McCrum, to join Jason Webster in conversation. McCrum, the author of Wodehouse: A Life (2004), an acclaimed biography, will place PG Wodehouse in his lateVictorian context, celebrate his brilliant style and examine the ‘truth about his wartime Broadcasts’. in conversation with Jason Webster £12 ticket only £18 additional for 1 course supper

When: Friday 7th November 2025 @ 7.00 pm

Where: Sladers Yard, West Bay

Sponsored by: Flora Hood

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