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The Festival: 2nd - 8th November 2025 | Tickets: 01308 424901|bridport.tic@bridport-tc.gov.uk
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  • Event 9 | Sophie Pavelle | To Have or To Hold

    £12.00

    Sophie Pavelle - To Have or To Hold - Nature’s Hidden Relationships

    Award-winning author Sophie Pavelle explores nature’s symbiotic relationships. Investigating eight relationships trying to survive the climate crises, Pavelle asks: what can nature teach us about living together? Species form and sever alliances everywhere. Whether deep within temperate rainforests or the open ocean, nature thrives on relationships as glamorous as they are grotesque. Low carbon travelling around the British Isles, Sophie presents nature’s frauds, fortunetellers, and misfits.

    in conversation with Sam Rose Priority booking - Become a Friend - Contact TIC Bridport to book tickets - 01308 424901
    When: Monday 3rd November 2025 @ 3.30 pm
    Where: Bridport Arts Centre
    Sponsored by:Rob and Alex Appleby
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  • Event 10 | James Fox | Craftland

    £12.00

    James Fox - Craftland - A Journey Through Britain’s Lost Arts and Vanishing Trades

    Historian and broadcaster James Fox, guides us through the lost and endangered crafts that shaped Britain. Always a craft land, for generations, what we made defined our families and communities. Through the stories of often humble-seeming objects of both exquisite beauty and utility, Fox shows us how craft connects us to the land, becoming the material expression of our regional identities and cultures. In encounters with some of the last remaining craftspeople at work today, Craftland reveals a richer and more connected way of living

    an illustrated talk - Introduced by Malcolm Seal Priority booking - Become a Friend - Contact TIC Bridport to book tickets - 01308 424901
    When: Monday 3rd November 2025 @ 5.00 pm
    Where: The Bull Ballroom
    Sponsored by: Francesca Radcliffe
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  • Event 11 | Merlin Hanbury-Tenison | Our Oaken Bones

    £12.00
    Merlin Hanbury-Tenison - Our Oaken Bones - Reviving a Family, a Farm and Britain’s Ancient Rainforests

    Merlin and his wife Lizzie leave London and return to his childhood home, a Cornish hill farm. Reeling from personal grief, they find the farm slipping into debt, whilst discovering that the damaged woods running through the valley are one of the UK’s last fragments of Atlantic temperate rainforest. So begins a fight to save not only themselves and their farm, but also one of the world’s most endangered habitats. Our Oaken Bones is a story about renewal, the astonishing healing power of nature, and our duty to heal it in return.

    an illustrated talk - Introduced by Sam Rose Priority booking - Become a Friend - Contact TIC Bridport to book tickets - 01308 424901
    When: Monday 3rd November 2025 @ 6.30 pm
    Where: The Bull Ballroom
    Sponsored by: Georgia Langton
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  • Event 12 | Roger Morgan-Grenville | The Restless Coast

    £12.00

    Roger Morgan-Grenville - The Restless Coast - A Journey Round the Edge of Britain

    Britain has over 10,000 miles of coastline, steeped in history. The Restless Coast is a moving and beautiful account of a journey around it. Both delightful travelogue and passionate defence, Roger Morgan-Grenville shines a powerful spotlight on the thin line that defines our status as islanders; interwoven are the modern challenges that the shoreline faces, and the extraordinary natural history of the coastline. At once informative, angry and funny, what emerges is a very personal love letter to our island edge.

    an illustrated talk - Introduced by James Crowden

    Priority booking - Become a Friend - Contact TIC Bridport to book tickets - 01308 424901
    When: Tuesday 4th November 2025 @ 10.30 am
    Where: The Bull Ballroom
    Sponsored by: Sue Bradbury
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  • Event 17 | Manni Coe | Little Ruins

    £12.00

    Manni Coe - Little Ruins - Rebuilding a Life

    Beginning a new chapter, Manni Coe and his partner buy a crumbling but beautiful old farmstead tucked into a remote valley in Andalusia. It’s perfect for their unconventional family of three: Jack, Manni and his youngest brother, Reuben who has Down Syndrome. Despite the idyllic surroundings, Manni starts to realise that the scars from his childhood might not have healed at all, and a single and terrible event threatens everything the three of them have spent so long building together. Little Ruins is a heart-mending exploration of human connection, nature’s gifts and the power of love in all its forms.

    in conversation with Sophy Roberts Priority booking - Become a Friend - Contact TIC Bridport to book tickets - 01308 424901
    When: Tuesday 4th November 2025 @ 6.30 pm
    Where: The Bull Ballrooom
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  • Event 20 | Marian Boswall | The Kindest Garden

    £12.00

    Marian Boswall - The Kindest Garden - A Practical Guide to Regenerative Gardening

    Leading landscape designer Marian Boswall has worked on some of the UK’s most ambitious and innovative regenerative landscape projects, and now she shares her wisdom in this guide. Regenerative gardening is about making an active contribution to the health of the planet: nurturing and replenishing biodiversity and ourselves through our gardens. Drawing on lessons from forward-thinking farmers, foresters, rewilders and nature itself, The Kindest Garden shows you how to make a garden that is both a beautiful sanctuary and a place where nature can thrive. A beautifully-written text, with clear explanations and practical takeaways - Boswall teaches how to apply in-depth practical knowledge, and plan planting to nourish the soil, yourself and others.

    an illustrated talk - Introduced by Deirdre Coates

    Priority booking - Become a Friend - Contact TIC Bridport to book tickets - 01308 424901
    When: Wednesday 5th November 2025 @ 12 noon
    Where: The Bull Ballroom
    Sponsored by: Allan and Rachel James
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  • Event 26 | Tristan Gooley | Hidden Seasons

    £14.00

    Tristan Gooley - Hidden Seasons - A Calendar of Nature’s Clues and Signs

    Bestselling author Tristan Gooley is known for his breathtaking observational skills of the natural world, coupled with the talent and infectious delight he has for translating them into words to share with his readers. In The Hidden Seasons, Tristan shows us how to read the clues that the sun, moon, stars, plants, fungi, animals, water and weather give us - but that we continually miss because we don’t know how and where to look. Spring brings wildflower signs, Summer, coastal clues and grass patterns, Autumn, a time to investigate fungi and in Winter we look to snow and the stars. Seasons will never be the same again.

    an illustrated talk - Introduced by Tom Brereton Priority booking - Become a Friend - Contact TIC Bridport to book tickets - 01308 424901
    When: Thursday 6th November 2025 @ 10.00 am
    Where:  The Bridport Arts Centre
    Sponsored by: John and Maggie Mills
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  • Event 28 | Philip Hoare | William Blake and The Sea Monsters of Love

    £12.00

    Philip Hoare - William Blake and The Sea Monsters of Love

    William Blake has inspired 200 years of art, poetry and protest. Weaving between the historical, cultural and personal, award-winning author Philip Hoare reveals a web of creative minds and artistic iconoclasts fired with the wild and revolutionary genius of Blake. Reaching out of his past and into our future, Blake draws together the natural world and metaphysical realms, merging the human and the animal and the spiritual, firing up 20th century artists, filmmakers, poets, writers and musicians with his radical promise of absolute freedom - Derek Jarman and Paul Nash to name but two. This stirring, deeply-felt book brings us back to Blake and shows that art still has the power to create positive change.

    an illustrated talk - Introduced by Adam Teasdale

    Priority booking - Become a Friend - Contact TIC Bridport to book tickets - 01308 424901
    When: Thursday 6th November 2025 @ 12 noon
    Where: Sir John Colfox School
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  • Event 31 | Robert Macfarlane | Is A River Alive?

    £16.00

    Robert Macfarlane - Is A River Alive?

    Around the world, rivers are dying from pollution, drought and damming, but a powerful movement is underway to recognise the lives and rights of rivers. At the heart of this book is a single, transformative idea: that rivers are not mere matter for human use, but living beings who should be recognised as such in both imagination and law. On a global journey which crosses boundaries of time and space, from Ecuador, India and Quebec, to the chalk stream a mile from his house, Is A River Alive? is Macfarlane’s most personal and most political book to date. It teems with fascinating ideas, unforgettable characters and stories. in conversation with Sophy Roberts Priority booking - Become a Friend - Contact TIC Bridport to book tickets - 01308 424901
    When: Thursday 6th November 2025 @ 5.30 pm
    Where: Electric Palace
    Sponsored by: Angela and David Neuberger | Sybella and Paul Zisman
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  • Event 32 | Emma Simpson & Vassos Alexander | Breaking Waves & Swimmingly

    £14.00

    Emma Simpson - Breaking Waves - Discovery, Healing and Inspiration in the Open Water

    Vassos Alexander - Swimmingly - Adventures in Water

    In discovering the joy of wild swimming, both Emma Simpson and Vassos Alexander also discover the tremendous sense of community and inspirational stories at its heart. Breaking Waves is an uplifting memoir about healing wounds, reclaiming a voice and discovering sisterhood. In Swimmingly Vassos finds magic in every stroke, whilst at the same time discussing issues of water quality and the need to experience our bodies of water safely.

    in conversation with Lucy Brazier Priority booking - Become a Friend - Contact TIC Bridport to book tickets - 01308 424901
    When: Thursday 6th November 2024 @ 7.00 pm
    Where: The Bridport Art Centre
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  • Event 33 | Victoria Taylor | Eagle Days | THE GEORGE MILLAR LITERARY DINNER

    £90.00

    Victoria Taylor - Eagle Days - Life and Death for the Luftwaffe in the Battle of Britain

    We are delighted to welcome Victoria Taylor, historian and broadcaster, to talk about her fascinating new book Eagle Days: Life and Death for the Luftwaffe in the Battle of Britain, a revelatory study that reexamines the German air force’s role during the RAF’s ‘Finest Hour’. Drawing on extensive new research, including never-before-translated letters, diaries and combat reports, Taylor offers a powerful and deeply human portrait of the men who fought for Hitler’s Luftwaffe in the summer of 1940. Through their words and experiences, she transforms our understanding of the Battle of Britain, revealing the military, political and cultural forces that shaped both their courage and their collapse. Eagle Days is a striking and original account of the air war that changed the course of modern history. Priority booking - Become a Friend - Contact TIC Bridport to book tickets - 01308 424901
    When: Thursday 6th November 2025 @ 7.00 pm
    Where: Tithe Barn, Symondsbury
    Sponsored by: Venetia Ross Skinner
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  • Event 40 | Fee Greening | Briggs’s Dictionary of Fairies

    £45.00

    Fee Greening - Briggs's Dictionary of Fairies - Illustration Workshop

    Fee Greening is a dip pen and ink illustrator inspired by medieval illuminated manuscripts and gothic fairytales. Her latest work illustrates the beautiful new edition of Briggs’s Dictionary of Fairies - a re publication of folklorist Katharine Briggs’s book of banshees, boggarts and other creatures. Fee’s work is rich in detail with beautiful black and white line drawings, from Shetland selkies to Cornish spriggans. In this two-hour workshop she will use her knowledge to guide you through your own illustrations, taking inspiration from the book. A truly unique and beautiful opportunity.

    Priority booking for our members - Contact TIC Bridport to book tickets - 01308 424901
    When: Saturday 8th November 2025 @ 2.00 pm - 4.00pm
    Where: Human Nature
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