Below is a list of the events in the 2024 festival by day showing the event venue and start time. Click on an event to purchase tickets.
Wednesday 2nd October
| 19:00 |
Poetry Slam with Angie Porter Shire Hall Museum Cafe |
Saturday 12th October
| 12:00 |
Rory Cellan-Jones – Sophie From Romania The Dorford Centre |
| 14:00 |
John Suchet – In Search of Beethoven: A Personal Journey The Dorford Centre |
| 16:00 |
Saul David – Sky Warriors The Dorford Centre |
| 17:30 |
Kate Mosse – The Map of Bones The Dorford Centre |
| 19:30 |
Ben Macintyre – The Siege The Dorford Centre |
Sunday 13th October
| 12:00 |
Wessex Writers – A Literary Walk Thomas Hardy Statue |
Monday 14th October
| 12:00 |
Martin Gayford – How Painting Happens (and why it matters) Dorset Museum |
| 14:00 |
Michael Peppiatt – Francis Bacon: a Self-Portrait in Words Dorset Museum |
| 16:00 |
Gavin Pretor-Pinney – Cloud Spotting For Beginners Dorset Museum |
| 18:00 |
Jack Cornish – The Lost Paths Dorset Museum |
Tuesday 15th October
| 10:30 |
Nigel Toon – How AI Thinks Dorset Museum |
| 12:00 |
Jim Down – Life in the Balance Dorset Museum |
| 14:00 |
Tim Spicer – A Suspicion of Spies Dorset Museum |
| 16:00 |
Sir Robin Niblett – The New Cold War Dorset Museum |
| 18:00 |
Tracy Chevalier – The Glassmaker The Dorford Centre |
Wednesday 16th October
| 10:30 |
Christina Hart Davies and Vanessa Berridge – A Herbal Year and Garden Heaven The Dorford Centre |
| 12:00 |
Anne Somerset – Queen Victoria and her Prime Ministers The Dorford Centre |
| 14:00 |
Scotty Mills – Never Give In The Dorford Centre |
| 16:00 |
Rachel de Thame – A Flower Garden for Pollinators The Dorford Centre |
| 18:00 |
Alan Hollinghurst – Our Evenings The Dorford Centre |
Thursday 17th October
| 10:30 |
Nusrit Mehtab – Off the Beat The Dorford Centre |
| 12:00 |
James Holland – Cassino ’44 The Dorford Centre |
| 14:00 |
Victoria Hislop – The Figurine The Dorford Centre |
| 16:00 |
The Oldie Event – Giles Wood and Mary Killen – Country Life – in conversation with Harry Mount The Dorford Centre |
| 18:00 |
Kate Humble – Where the Hearth Is The Dorford Centre |
Friday 18th October
| 11:00 |
Adam Nicolson – How to Be The Dorford Centre |
| 13:00 |
Polly Toynbee and David Walker – The Only Way is Up The Dorford Centre |
| 15:00 |
Tom Heap – Land Smart The Dorford Centre |
| 17:00 |
Clare Balding – Isle of Dogs The Dorford Centre |
| 19:00 |
Pam Ayres – Doggedly Onwards: The Collected Poems The Dorford Centre |
Saturday 19th October
| 10:30 |
Chris Atkins – Time After Time The Dorford Centre |
| 12:00 |
Mick Conefrey – Fallen The Dorford Centre |
| 13:30 |
Tom Baldwin – Keir Starmer, The Biography The Dorford Centre |
| 15:30 |
Michael Mansfield – The Power in the People The Dorford Centre |
| 17:30 |
Jonathan Dimbleby – Endgame 1944: How Stalin Won The War The Dorford Centre |
| 19:30 |
Mike Brearley – Turning Over the Pebbles The Dorford Centre |