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  • WAYNE SLEEP is undoubtedly one of our nation’s treasures – a legendary dancer and entertainer. In his memoire: JUST DIFFERENT, Wayne looks back on the extraordinary times he has lived through. In spite of dancing with ballet legends Rudolf Nureyev and Margot Fonteyn, partying with Freddie Mercury and dancing with Princess Diana, who became a close friend, Wayne Sleep has always felt like an outsider. Behind the glitz and glamour, he reveals the difficulties for a working-class, gay man in handling the prejudices of his generation and living through the Aids epidemic. In conversation with writer and broadcaster, Natalie Wheen Wayne Sleep will convey the many moving and laugh-out-loud stories and gossip on his way to success, fulfilment and love. Become a friend.
    When: Wednesday 20th Nov 2024 @ 2.30pm
    Where: Electric Palace
  • Will Hutton - This Time No Mistakes - How to Remake Britain

    In what has been a year of upheaval and challenge, with a General Election and new British Government, journalist and academic Will Hutton sets out a clear analysis of where both the left and the right have gone wrong over the course of the last century and how we can now rebuild a new, better Britain. Hutton discusses the consequences of past failures and a future based on change. Obligations to a wider society are all taken into account by making capitalism work and ensuring that environment is supported by research and education.

    in conversation with Howard Davies Priority booking - Become a Friend - Contact TIC Bridport to book tickets - 01308 424901
    When: Sunday 3rd November 2024 @ 12 noon
    Where: Electric Palace
    Sponsor: Buffy Sacher
  • Giles Milton - The Stalin Affair - The Impossible Alliance that Won the War

    In the summer of 1941, Hitler invaded the Soviet Union, shattering what Stalin had considered an ironclad partnership with the Fuhrer. The Allied reaction was twofold: delight that there was now a second front, and fear the Red Army would be defeated. In the wake of the Nazi invasion, writer and historian, Giles Milton, explores how a select team of British and Americans, by befriending Stalin, could keep the fraught Allied alliance on track and forge a path to victory.

    in conversation with Barney White-Spunner Priority booking - Become a Friend - Contact TIC Bridport to book tickets - 01308 424901
    When: Sunday 3rd November 2024 @ 2.00pm
    Where: Electric Palace
    Sponsor: Tim and Sara Clarke
  • Dame Harriet Walter - She Speaks - Shakespeare’s Women

    Dame Harriet Walter is celebrated as a stage and film actress as well as more recently for her television portrayals in Succession and Killing Eve. Having played most of Shakespeare’s female characters, in her new book She Speaks, Harriet audaciously reads between the lines and lets these female characters speak their minds. Sometimes playfully and sometimes searchingly, and with brilliant insight, she imagines what Lady Macbeth, Gertrude, Cleopatra, Juliet and Ophelia were really thinking and reveals that Shakespeare is very much a man for all times as well as his time. in conversation with Sophy Roberts Priority booking - Become a Friend - Contact TIC Bridport to book tickets - 01308 424901
    When: Sunday 3rd November 2024 @ 6.00 pm
    Where: Electric Palace
    Sponsored by: Robert and Diana Clarke | Symonds & Sampson Estate Agents
  • Ian Acheson -  Screwed - Britain’s Prison Crisis and How to Escape It

    Ian Acheson has served for twenty years as both an officer and Prison Governor. In 2015, the then Secretary of State for Justice Michael Gove, asked him to lead an independent review of prison extremism which laid bare a corporate culture of ineptitude, secrecy and arrogance that threatened national security. Nothing has changed Screwed is the inside story of the collapse of His Majesty’s Prison Service told from the front line. This hard hitting account looks at the politics and the operational decisions that have driven our prison to rock bottom, where extreme violence, indolence and victimisation are normalised. Acheson also outlines how a new corporate culture and mission can achieve a much needed revolution in the way the service is run. in conversation with Jamie Giles Priority booking - Become a Friend - Contact TIC Bridport to book tickets - 01308 424901
    When: Monday 4th November 2024 @ 10.30 am
    Where: The Bull Ballroom
  • Roland Philipps - Broken Archangel - The Tempestuous Lives of Roger Casement

    Pioneering, human rights campaigner, patriot, traitor, romantic and martyr, Roger Casement was one of the twentieth century’s most complex figures. In 1904, he became internationally celebrated for unearthing the violence of the Belgian Congo and soon after won even greater renown for his humanitarian work in the Amazon jungle. However, his internal fault lines ran deep. Casement was vulnerable to his own unexamined emotions. Roland Philipps reveals all.

    in conversation with John Dean Priority booking - Become a Friend - Contact TIC Bridport to book tickets - 01308 424901
    When: Monday 4th November 2024 @ 12 noon
    Where: The Bull Ballroom
    Sponsored by: Flora Hood
  • SOLD OUT - Andrew O’Hagan - Caledonian Road

    Andrew O’Hagan is undoubtedly one of the most exciting and serious chroniclers of our times. Born in Glasgow he has been nominated for the Booker Prize three times and his novels have won him worldwide critical acclaim. Caledonian Road is a sweeping Dickensian portrait of modern Britain in which nobody is let off the hook. Over the course of an incendiary year, a web of crimes, secrets and scandals reveals that privilege is not exempt from shattering exposure. This state of the nation novel exposes an unseemly clash of classes.

    in conversation with Nic Jeune Priority booking - Become a Friend - Contact TIC Bridport to book tickets - 01308 424901
    When: Monday 4th November 2024 @ 2.00 pm
    Where: The Bull Ballroom
    Sponsored by: Tim and Sara Clarke
  • SOLD OUT - Derek Gow - Hunt for the Shadow Wolf - The Lost History of Wolves in Britain and the Myths and Stories that Surround Them

    Wolves were endemic to Britain around the time of the last Ice Age 10-12,000 years ago. Sightings in this country have long been restricted to cages at zoos and at wildlife parks. After raising two cubs in his home, Derek Gow became fascinated with the wolf. With bitingly funny and tender stories, Hunt for the Shadow Wolf is his quest to reveal the true nature of this magnificent creature and, as a maverick re-wilder, his hope that we will see the return of the wolf in Britain.

    in conversation with Sam Rose Priority booking - Become a Friend - Contact TIC Bridport to book tickets - 01308 424901
    When: Monday 4th November 2024 @ 6.00 pm
    Where: The Bull Ballroom
    Sponsored by: West Dorset Wilding
  • Charlotte Philby - The End of Summer - A Novel

    Life seldom works out to what is planned. How much of this is due to circumstance and fate? When a telephone rings in a french farmhouse, Judy knows her past has finally caught up with her. Her daughter, Francesca, insists on knowing why there are so many journalists in pursuit of her. Charlotte Philby writes a gripping nuanced literary thriller which exposes the secrets and lies so many mother/ daughter relationships have to come to terms with.

    in conversation with Olivia Glazebrook

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    When: Tuesday 5th November 2024 @ 12 noon
    Where: The Bull Ballroom
    Sponsored by: Georgia Langton
  • SOLD OUT - Rick Stroud - I Am Not Afraid of Looking into Rifles - Women Secret Agents of the First World War 

    This is the untold story of the women in the Resistance in Belgium and occupied France during that conflict. Relating their heroism and their inevitable tragedies, Rick Stroud tells an enthralling narrative and reveals the inspirational work of eight exceptionally brave women who affected the course of war. They included Gabrielle Petit, an ordinary working class girl, Edith Cavell, a member of the bourgeoisie and the Princess de Croy from the upper echelons of society. in conversation with Rene Wyndham Priority booking - Become a Friend - Contact TIC Bridport to book tickets - 01308 424901
    When: Tuesday 5th November 2024 @ 2.00 pm
    Where: The Bull Ballroom
    Sponsored by: Prue and Howard Davies
  • Christopher Stocks - The Book of Wild Flowers - Reflections on Favourite Plants

    This essential wild flower selection – illustrated by Angie Lewin – is the history and science of the nation’s wild flowers. Author and journalist, Christopher Stocks offers both fascinating and unusual insights into a range of flowering plants alongside guidance on where to find them and how to cultivate them. This special study of our blooming British countryside will appeal to everyone who loves wild flora.

    in conversation with Rachel James Priority booking - Become a Friend - Contact TIC Bridport to book tickets - 01308 424901
    When: Wednessday 6th November 2024 @ 10.30 am
    Where: The Bull Ballrooom
    Sponsored by: Jim Bartos
  • SOLD OUT - Michael Sheridan -  The Red Emperor - Xi Jinping and the New China

    Xi Jinping rules over 1.4 billion people and the second biggest economy on earth. He commands huge armed forces and runs a technology programme which claims to dominate the globe. His ambition is to take the place of the United States and to change the world order. Xi’s life is full of drama: plots, purges, power struggles and a pandemic. Michael Sheridan charts the rise of the isolated China of the 1950s to the modern economic and military juggernaut of today.

    in conversation with Paul Lashmar

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    When: Wednesday 6th November 2024 @ 12 noon
    Where: The Bull Ballroom
  • SOLD OUT - Rose Boyt - Naked Portrait - A Memoir of Lucian Freud

    At the back of a cupboard not long after the death of her father, Rose Boyt came across a box containing hundreds of typed pages, immediately recognisable as her half-forgotten diary of 1989/1990. Naked Portrait is a searing memoir of her relationship with her renowned father, Lucian, and explores her experience sitting for him from childhood until after her marriage. It is a viscerally honest account of a complicated father/ daughter relationship, of its power imbalance and her adulation of him.

    in conversation with Annie Freud and Caroline Montagu

    When: Wednesday 6th November 2024 @ 4.00 pm
    Where: The Bull Ballroom
  • SOLD OUT - John Bowers KC - Downward Spiral - Collapsing Public Standards and How to Restore Them

    The Johnson era will be remembered for a series of scandals that severely eroded trust in the British Government. But this is not the overall reason for the decline in public standards. John Bowers fearlessly examines the institutions responsible for holding the government accountable, exposing how they have been bypassed by prime ministers and how the next goverment can and should restore integrity. Confronting failings presents concrete proposals for creating a more transparent and accountable system for those in power.

    in conversation with Paul Lashmar

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    When: Wednesday 6th November 2024 @ 6.00 pm
    Where: The Bull Ballroom
    Sponsored by: Lindsay and Martin Bowdery
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Carol Klein - Hortobiography 

    Carol Klein is one of Britain’s best loved horticulturists, and for decades gardening has been at the heart of her extraordinary life. From her childhood adventures in Manchester to her first experiments in plantswomanship at Glebe Cottage, and from training as an artist and a teacher, and then finding an entirely unexpected career as one of Britain’s best known broadcasters, in this long awaited memoir Carol tells the story of the people, places and plants that have shaped her life. in conversation with Sally Laverack
    When: Friday 8th November 2024 @ 12 noon
    Where: Electric Palace
    Sponsored by: John and Maggie Mills
  • Geoffrey Wheatcroft - Bloody Panico! - Or, Whatever Happened to The Tory Party?

    Leading political commentator, Geoffrey Wheatcroft, argues that the Tory Party has not only faced the loss of government but also an existential crisis. Having been the most electorally successful party in the history of modern Europe – it has been in power for 85 of the past 135 years – it has now sunk almost into oblivion! So what went wrong? In Bloody Panico!, Wheatcroft charts not just the collapse of the party but its shattering to its foundations. Beyond the pantomime of Boris, Truss and the managerial dullness of Sunak, the fabric of the party is frayed. This could see them cast into the political wilderness for decades.

    in conversation with Oliver Letwin Priority booking - Become a Friend - Contact TIC Bridport to book tickets - 01308 424901
    When: Friday 8th November 2024 @ 2.00 pm
    Where: Electric Palace
    Sponsored by: Sue Bradbury | Barry Mawhinney
  • Lindsey Hilsum - I Brought the War With Me - Stories and Poetry from the Front Line

    Lindsey Hilsum, Award Winning Channel 4 News International Editor, has put together a unique and remarkable collection of memories of 40 years of reporting from war zones, together with poems she has set aside from all over the world. In nearly four decades as a journalist covering conflict from Palestine to Kosovo to Rwanda, Lindsey has always carried a book of poetry with her. It helps her make sense of the senseless as the world around her rages and remember those she has met in the darkest of times. in conversation with Prue Keely Priority booking - Become a Friend - Contact TIC Bridport to book tickets - 01308 424901
    When: Friday 8th November 2024 @ 4.00 pm
    Where: Electric Palace
    Sponsored by: Carol Hammick and Adam Tindall
  • Liam Fox -  The Coming Storm - Why Water Will Write the 21st Century

    With Russia’s aggressive war in Ukraine, the world is gripped by concerns over energy security. Yet, there is an even greater threat ahead – one that is much more likely to shape the events of the 21st century than competition for oil or gas. A combination of an ever-increasing global population, climate change, industrialisation, urbanisation and limited natural resources means that one difficulty will shape the years ahead – water. Liam Fox tells the story of water and the problems it presents in a more complete way than ever before. The Coming Storm unites a range of concerns. in conversation with John Dean Priority booking - Become a Friend - Contact TIC Bridport to book tickets - 01308 424901
    When: Friday 8th November 2024 @ 6.00 pm
    Where: Electric Palace
    Sponsored by: Johnnie and Sophie Boden
  • Andrew Pierce - Finding Margaret - Solving the Mystery of my Birth Mother

    Approaching fifty, journalist and broadcaster, Andrew Pierce, tells the moving story about his search for his birth mother. He had lived in an orphanage in Cheltenham for more than two years until his adoption by a loving family who nurtured him. As his career flourished and despite feeling a sense of betrayal to his adoptive parents, Pierce tentatively began to search for his biological mother, only to find that she had done everything she could to ensure he would never find her. Finding Margaret is a heartwarming and candid tale of both heartbreak and reconciliation. in conversation with Gill Pyrah Priority booking - Become a Friend - Contact TIC Bridport to book tickets - 01308 424901
    When: Saturday 9th November 2024 @ 10.00 am
    Where: Electric Palace
  • Daisy Goodwin - Diva

    In the glittering and ruthlessly competitive world of opera, Maria Callas is known simply as La Divina: the divine one. With her glorious voice and instinctive flair for the dramatic, she was the toast of the grandest international opera houses. Raised in Nazi-occupied Greece by an exploitative mother, her rise to fame came at a price. Daisy Goodwin brings to life a woman with extraordinary talent, unremitting drive and natural chic that made her a legend. By confronting the heartbreak of losing her lover Onassis to Jacqueline Kennedy, Callas found her true voice. in conversation with Georgina Moore Priority booking - Become a Friend - Contact TIC Bridport to book tickets - 01308 424901
    When: Saturday 9th November 2024 @ 12 noon
    Where: Electric Palace
    Sponsored by: Emma Farquharson
  • SOLD OUT - Patrick Grant - Less - Stop Buying So Much Rubbish. How Having Fewer, Better Things Can Make Us Happier

    Clothes are important. They define who we are, impact our mood and influence how people think of us. Last year 100 billion garments were made worldwide, most workers paid virtually nothing and 70% from plastic textiles made from oils that do not not recycle. Less is Patrick Grant’s passionate and revealing book about loving clothes but hating how they are made. Judge of the BBC’s Great British Sewing Bee, he considers the crisis in the global fashion industry and how to set it right. in conversation with Helen Stiles Priority booking - Become a Friend - Contact TIC Bridport to book tickets - 01308 424901
    When: Saturday 9th November 2024 @ 2.00 pm
    Where: Electric Palace
    Sponsored by: Angela and David Neuberger
  • Simon Russell Beale - A Piece of Work - Playing Shakespeare and Other Stories

    One of the nation’s finest and most beloved actors, Simon Russell Beale relates his life through a career playing Shakespeare. Ever since his appearance at school as a glamorous Desdemona, complete with false eyelashes, he has been captivated by the Bard. In A Piece of Work, Beale tries to get under the skin of the playwright and find out what interested him. Was Shakespeare an instinctive ‘conservative’ or, rather, gently subversive? Funny and touching about his own family and early life, Beale writes about the parallels with some Shakespeare characters as well as sharing his thoughts about the creative people he counts as friends. in conversation with Jo Willett Priority booking - Become a Friend - Contact TIC Bridport to book tickets - 01308 424901
    When: Saturday 9th November 2024 @ 6.00 pm
    Where: Electric Palace
    Sponsored by: Liz and Richard Strang
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