Memoir Archives - Bridport Literary Festival

Event 4 | Helen Rebanks | The Farmer’s Wife

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Helen Rebanks - The Farmer's Wife - My Life in Days
With rare honesty, Helen Rebanks, shares her daily life - the joy, the wonder and the grind. Weaving past and present, she takes us from her Grandma’s farmhouse table, on a journey of self-discovery and into the Lake District home she now shares with her husband, James, their four children and a plethora of animals including a flock of Herdwick sheep and a herd of Belted Galloway cattle. The Farmer’s Wife is a story about labour and delight in keeping house and raising a family and described by Raynor Winn as “quite an achievement to portray the quiet power behind the choices we make for our children”. An exquisite love-letter to goodness and wisdom. In conversation with James Rebanks

When: Sunday 5th November 2023 @ 4.00 pm

Where: Electric Palace

Sponsored by: Emma Farqhuarson Interior Design

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Event 5 | Jeremy Bowen | The Making of the Modern Middle East

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Jeremy Bowen - The Making of the Modern Middle East - A Personal History

Recently appointed as the International Editor for BBC News, award winning journalist Jeremy Bowen joined the BBC in 1984 and has been a war correspondent for much of his career. He has reported from more than 70 countries, predominantly in the Middle East – Afghanistan, Lebanon, Chechnya, Assad’s Syria and Netanyahu’s Israel – the Balkans and latterly from Ukraine. Based on his acclaimed podcast: Frontlines of Journalism, his new book takes us on a journey through the Middle East and explores the power games that have wreaked devastation on civilians as their leaders jostle for political, religious and economic control.
In conversation with Barney White-Spunner

When: Sunday 5th November 2023 @ 6.00 pm

Where: Electric Palace

Sponsored by: Felicity Fairbairn

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Event 6 | Jim Down | Life in the Balance

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Jim Down - Life in the Balance - A Doctor’s Stories of Intensive Care

Life in the Balance offers a glimpse into the immense challenges and rewards of intensive care medicine, the effects on doctors’ mental health and the fragility of life. In these stories, Dr Jim Down brings us to the very heart of the intensive care unit. Down describes with equal honesty, humility and humour, the quietly heroic work of doctors and nurses on the ICU, a place which sits at the cutting edge of medical technology and where split-second decisions can make the difference between life and death.
An illustrated talk Introduced by Ros Huxley

When: Monday 6th November 2022 @ 10.30 am

Where: The Bull Ballroom

Sponsored by: Francesca Radcliffe

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Event 24 | Ysenda Maxtone Graham | Jobs for the Girls

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Ysenda Maxtone Graham - Jobs for the Girls - How We Set Out to Work in the Typewriter Age

Drawn from real life memories in interviews with women from all sections of society, this is a lively chronicle of British women’s working lives from the 1950s through cardigans and pearls, via mini-skirts and bottom pinching, to shoulder pads and the ping of the first emails in the early 1990s. Graham conveys with humour the full range of experience and flavour of work places; the jollities as well as the drudgeries, the good men as well as the vile ones, the nasty women as well as the heroines, the office crushes as well as the romances. A wonderfully witty social history of the typewriter age.

In conversation with Prue Keely

When: Thursday 9th November 2023 @ 10.30 am

Where: The Bull Ballroom

Sponsored by: Georgia Langton

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Event 39 | Mike Brearley | Turning Over the Pebbles

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Mike Brearley - Turning Over the Pebbles
One of England’s finest cricket captains, Mike Brearley looks back on a lifetime of the sport from joyful childhood games to his captaincy in the 1981 Ashes, leading England to one of their most famous victories. A trained psychoanalyst, Brearley blends reflection on his sporting life with introspections on literature, religion and leadership, using his experiences both on and off the field. Intelligent and insightful, Turning Over the Pebbles is a memoir full of Brearley’s private passions as he reflects on an extraordinary life and career In conversation with Boris Starling

When: Saturday 11th November 2023 @ 2.30 pm

Where: Electric Palace

Sponsored by: Lindsay and Martin Bowdery

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Event 41 | Clive Myrie | Everything is Everything

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Clive Myrie - Everything is Everything - A memoir of Love, Hate & Hope

As a Bolton teenager with a paper round, Clive Myrie read all the newspapers he delivered and dreamed of becoming a journalist. Thirty years on, he has reported from more than ninety countries for the BBC. In this deeply personal memoir, he reflects on how being black has affected his perspective on the many issues he’s encountered in reporting some of the biggest stories of our time. Everything is Everything is about the intersection of the personal and the professional and what he has learned.
In conversation with Susannah Simons

When: Saturday 11th November 2023 @ 5.30pm

Where: Electric Palace

Sponsored by: Sophie and Johnnie Boden

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