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The Festival: 6 - 14 November 2026 | Tickets: 01308 424901|bridport.tic@bridport-tc.gov.uk
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    Event 3 | Oliver Bullough | Everybody Loves Our Dollars

    £16.50

    Oliver Bullough - Everybody Loves Our Dollars - How Money Laundering Won

    Why is the world flooded with illicit cash and how did Britain become ground zero for laundering it? In Everybody Loves Our Dollars, acclaimed investigative reporter Oliver Bullough reveals why multi-billion-dollar efforts to prevent financial crime have failed. In conversation with festival chair Stuart Rock, Bullough demonstrates how organised crime groups and kleptocrats routinely exploit legal loopholes and regulatory blindspots. Following his bestselling exposés Moneyland and Butler to the World, Bullough delivers an eye-opening exploration of the shady areas of global finance, showing why, for the worst bad actors, cash remains king.

    Priority booking opens Friday 28 August, while general booking opens on Friday 11 September. Become a Friend today and enjoy two weeks of priority booking, giving you first access to the programme. Contact TIC Bridport to book tickets - 01308 424901.
    When: Saturday 7th November 2026 @ 10.30 am
    Where: Electric Palace
    Sponsor: James and Emma Farquharson
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  • Event 5 | Natasha Walter | Feminism for a World on Fire

    £14.00

    Natasha Walter - Feminism for a World on Fire

    Join us for an inspiring conversation with acclaimed author and campaigner Natasha Walter about building a more connected and hopeful future. Introducing her powerful new book Feminism for a World on Fire, she talks to Samantha Knights KC about how the challenges facing women today – from inequality and online misogyny to climate change – are interconnected and why our responses should be, too. She offers a vision of feminism rooted in community, imagining how women’s liberation can sit alongside movements for equality, justice and environmental protection. Natasha Walter’s books include The New Feminism and Living Dolls. She is the founder of the charity Women for Refugee Women. Priority booking opens Friday 28 August, while general booking opens on Friday 11 September. Become a Friend today and enjoy two weeks of priority booking, giving you first access to the programme. Contact TIC Bridport to book tickets - 01308 424901.
    When: Saturday 7th November 2026 @ 1.30 pm
    Where: Bridport Arts Centre
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  • Event 6 | Robin Niblett | After America

    £16.50

    Robin Niblett - After America - The End of the Old Order and the Future of Geopolitics

    After eighty years of Western dominance, what next? In After America, Sir Robin Niblett, former Director of Chatham House, examines the collapse of American global leadership and the rise of transactional imperial power politics driven by the US, China and Russia. Rather than assuming the old West can simply regroup, Niblett explores how smaller nations and middle powers can navigate this fractured landscape to build a stable future. He is joined by former BBC North America editor Gavin Esler to dissect what this dramatic geopolitical shift means for global stability and diplomacy. Priority booking opens Friday 28 August, while general booking opens on Friday 11 September. Become a Friend today and enjoy two weeks of priority booking, giving you first access to the programme. Contact TIC Bridport to book tickets - 01308 424901.
    When: Saturday 7th November 2026 @ 3.00 pm
    Where: Electric Palace
    Sponsored by: Martin & Lindsay Bowdery
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  • Event 10 | Sarah O’Connor | We Are Not Machines

    £12.00

    Sarah O'Connor - We Are Not Machines - The Fight for the Future of Work

    We’re told that a tsunami of change is sweeping the economy as AI replaces humans in the workplace. But when Sarah O’Connor ventured into the front line of this new industrial revolution, she found that employees weren’t generally losing their jobs to machines, they were losing their humanity. Work was becoming lonelier, less creative and highly controlled. We were at risk of turning ourselves into robots. Drawing on stories from 19thcentury English cotton mills to 21st-century Swedish mines, the prize-winning Financial Times journalist tackles one of our age’s most important questions: how can we shape technology before it shapes us? She talks to Boris Starling.

    Priority booking opens Friday 28 August, while general booking opens on Friday 11 September. Become a Friend today and enjoy two weeks of priority booking, giving you first access to the programme. Contact TIC Bridport to book tickets - 01308 424901.
    When: Sunday 8th November 2026 @ 10.00 am
    Where: Bull Ballroom
    Sponsored by: Samantha Knights
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  • Event 11 | Charlotte Higgins | Ukrainian Lessons

    £12.00
    Charlotte Higgins - Ukrainian Lessons - Art in a Time of War

    Guardian chief culture writer Charlotte Higgins never imagined reporting on a war. In autumn 2022, she travelled to a book festival in Ukraine to discover how artists were reflecting the conflict in their work. It would change her life. During a war that threatens the very existence of Ukrainian culture, art has become literally a matter of life and death. Based on three years of reporting, Ukrainian Lessons is an urgent and unforgettable book about what artists are prepared to risk – and why culture is worth fighting for. In conversation with the writer Philip Ardagh. “The most beautifully written, moving book I can ever remember readingˮ, Philippa Perry.

    Priority booking opens Friday 28 August, while general booking opens on Friday 11 September. Become a Friend today and enjoy two weeks of priority booking, giving you first access to the programme. Contact TIC Bridport to book tickets - 01308 424901.
    When: Sunday 8th November 2026 @ 11.30 am
    Where: Bull Ballroom
    Sponsored by: Carol Hammick & Adam Tindall
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  • Event 30 | Frank Tallis | Wise

    £12.00

    Frank Tallis - Wise - A History of Wisdom

    Renowned clinical psychologist and author of the Vienna Blood novels Frank Tallis addresses the art of growing old. Chaired by philosopher Julian Baggini, this event explores how to maintain psychological health and purpose despite the daunting realities of later life, loss, physical decline and accumulated regrets. Making use of decades of psychotherapeutic practice as well as insights from Stoicism, Jungian psychology and neuroscience, Tallis argues that living well requires reconciling all aspects of our past and present self. He’ll be talking about how we can embrace our mortality, make peace with time’s inevitable passage and cultivate true happiness in our later years. “Transformative and deeply insightful”, Guardian.

    Priority booking opens Friday 28 August, while general booking opens on Friday 11 September. Become a Friend today and enjoy two weeks of priority booking, giving you first access to the programme. Contact TIC Bridport to book tickets - 01308 424901.
    When: Tuesday 10th November 2026 @ 12 noon
    Where: Bull Ballroom
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  • Event 31 | Juliet Nicolson | The Book of Revelations

    £12.00

    Juliet Nicolson - The Book of Revelations

    Research shows that the average person is keeping thirteen secrets at any one time, five of which they’ve never shared with a soul. The Book of Revelations, by the bestselling social historian Juliet Nicolson, is specifically about the secrets women hold. Told through a blend of first-person stories, family history and memoir, Nicolson’s compelling account moves from the “silent generation” of the 1950s to the influencers of the 2020s. What does the changing nature of the secrets women keep tell us about our world and what makes any of us hide or reveal ourselves? In conversation with the novelist and television producer Daisy Goodwin. “Utterly engrossing and timely”, India Knight. Priority booking opens Friday 28 August, while general booking opens on Friday 11 September. Become a Friend today and enjoy two weeks of priority booking, giving you first access to the programme. Contact TIC Bridport to book tickets - 01308 424901.
    When: Tuesday 10th November 2026 @ 1.30 pm
    Where: Bull Ballroom
    Sponsored by: Ros & John Senior
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  • Event 60 | Cathy Rentzenbrink | The Agatha Christie Cure

    £12.00

    Cathy Rentzenbrink - The Agatha Christie Cure - What Reading the Queen of Crime Taught Me about Living

    Cathy Rentzenbrink fell in love with Agatha Christieʼs novels aged nine, after her grandmother paid her 10p for every mystery she finished. It turned her into an avid reader, but soon she left the Queen of Crime behind. Only when she was facing the end of her marriage, did she turn once more to Christie’s books, discovering in them the comfort and emotional support she craved. She talks to Lucy Brazier about the healing power of our greatest crime writer. Cathy Rentzenbrink worked as a bookseller and as an editor at the Bookseller, before becoming the bestselling author of The Last Act of Love and many other titles.

    Priority booking opens Friday 28 August, while general booking opens on Friday 11 September. Become a Friend today and enjoy two weeks of priority booking, giving you first access to the programme. Contact TIC Bridport to book tickets - 01308 424901.
    When: Saturday 14th November 2026 @ 10.30 am
    Where: Bull Ballroom
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  • Event 63 | Zakia Sewell | Finding Albion

    £12.00

    Zakia Sewell - Finding Albion - Myth, Folklore and the Quest for a Hidden Britain

    Zakia Sewell is on a quest for another Britain. Criss-crossing our island, the acclaimed broadcaster is seeking out a story that transcends divisive national myths and symbols. It’s to be found in otherworldly folk songs, ancient legends, Celtic rites and the stone circles punctuating our landscape. Her journey begins at the spring equinox in Glastonbury, where she meets neopagans reclaiming pre-Christian traditions. At Notting Hill Carnival, she hears cultural echoes passed along the slave routes from the Caribbean, and in a Cornish winter she asks if today’s new folk revival could unite a divided country. How might a mythical past inspire a brighter national future? Women’s Prize longlisted.

    Priority booking opens Friday 28 August, while general booking opens on Friday 11 September. Become a Friend today and enjoy two weeks of priority booking, giving you first access to the programme. Contact TIC Bridport to book tickets - 01308 424901.
    When: Saturday 14th November 2026 @ 1.30 pm
    Where: Bridport Arts Centre
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  • Event 70 | Shaun Bythell | Diaries of a Bookseller

    £10.00

    Shaun Bythell - Diaries of a Bookseller

    The Bookshop in Wigtown is a bookworm’s paradise: Scotland’s largest second-hand bookshop, a beautiful rural setting, miles of shelving and a log fire. You’d think that, after 25 years at the helm, its owner, Shaun Bythell, would be used to the customers. Don’t get him wrong, there are some good ones among the porn-hunters, mystics, hagglers and drifters on day-release. But, it’s fair to say, all human life is here. After a four year absence, the Sunday Times bestselling diarist returns with the latest journal, described by Alan Bennett as “gentle, funny and soothing”. He’ll be talking about the joy of shooting Kindles and eavesdropping on customers, and why the sitcom Black Books is actually a documentary.

    Priority booking opens Friday 28 August, while general booking opens on Friday 11 September. Become a Friend today and enjoy two weeks of priority booking, giving you first access to the programme. Contact TIC Bridport to book tickets - 01308 424901.
    When: Thursday 21st January 2027 @ 6.30 pm
    Where: Bull Ballroom
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