Below is a list of the events in this year’s festival by day showing the event venue and start time. Click on an event to purchase tickets.
Thursday 16th October
| 14:00 |
The DLF Local Writers’ Forum – hosted by Don Nordberg Shire Hall Museum Cafe |
Saturday 18th October
| 10:30 |
Tim Spector – Ferment – The life changing power of microbes The Dorford Centre |
| 11:00 |
Quentin Letts – Nunc The Brownsword Hall |
| 12:30 |
Dr Julie Smith – Open When The Dorford Centre |
| 14:30 |
Max Hastings – Sword The Dorford Centre |
| 16:30 |
Gordon Corera – The Spy in the Archive The Dorford Centre |
| 18:30 |
Daisy Goodwin – Diva The Dorford Centre |
Sunday 19th October
| 11:00 |
Have They Come For Me? A guided walk tracing Law and Literature in Dorchester with Mark Damon Chutter Thomas Hardy Statue |
Monday 20th October
| 10:30 |
Mark Urban – Tank Dorset Museum |
| 12:00 |
Barnaby Rogerson – The House Divided: Sunni, Shia and the Making of the Middle East Dorset Museum |
| 14:00 |
Geoffrey Guy – Quantum Biology Dorset Museum |
| 16:00 |
Meg Clothier – The Shipping Forecast Dorset Museum |
| 18:00 |
Natasha Solomons – Cleopatra Dorset Museum |
Tuesday 21st October
| 10:30 |
Terri Apter – Grandparenting: On Love and Relationships Across Generations Dorset Museum |
| 12:00 |
Simon Bradley – Bradley’s Railway Guide Dorset Museum |
| 14:00 |
Minette Walters – The Players Dorset Museum |
| 16:00 |
Peter Ross – Upon a White Horse Dorset Museum |
| 18:00 |
Damien Lewis – SAS: The Great Train Raid Dorset Museum |
Wednesday 22nd October
| 10:30 |
Monica Macias – Black Girl from Pyongyang The Dorford Centre |
| 12:00 |
Sonia Purnell – Kingmaker: Pamela Churchill Harriman’s astonishing life of seduction, intrigue and power The Dorford Centre |
| 14:00 |
Adam Nicolson – Bird School The Dorford Centre |
| 16:00 |
Ray Mears – Outdoor Tracking Handbook The Dorford Centre |
| 18:00 |
David Walsh and Pippa York – The Escape: The Tour, The Cyclist and Me The Dorford Centre |
Thursday 23rd October
| 11:00 |
Christopher Somerville – Britain’s Best Walks The Dorford Centre |
| 12:30 |
Helen Carr – Sceptred Isle – A New History of the Fourteenth Century The Dorford Centre |
| 14:00 |
Chris Chibnall – Death at the White Hart The Brownsword Hall |
| 14:30 |
Sir Tony Robinson – The House of Wolf The Dorford Centre |
| 16:30 |
The Oldie Event: When Harry met Andrew – Harry Mount in conversation with A N Wilson The Dorford Centre |
| 18:30 |
Sir Graham Brady – Kingmaker – Secrets, Lies and the Truth about Five Prime Ministers The Dorford Centre |
Friday 24th October
| 11:00 |
Dr Lucy Pollock – The Golden Rule – Lessons in Living The Dorford Centre |
| 13:00 |
Anne Sebba – The Women’s Orchestra of Auschwitz The Dorford Centre |
| 15:00 |
Rev Richard Coles – A Death on Location The Dorford Centre |
| 17:00 |
Sarah Vine – How Not To Be a Political Wife The Dorford Centre |
| 19:00 |
John Agard and Philip Nanton – Caribbean Sensations The Dorford Centre |
Saturday 25th October
| 10:00 |
PBFA Dorchester Book Fair Dorset Museum |
| 11:00 |
Christopher Summerfield – These Strange New Minds The Dorford Centre |
| 13:00 |
Gyles Brandreth – Somewhere a Boy and a Bear – A Biography of A A Milne and Winnie-the- Pooh The Dorford Centre |
| 14:30 |
Jonathan Sumption – The Challenges of Democracy The Dorford Centre |
| 18:30 |
Jeremy Vine – Murder on Line One The Dorford Centre |
Wednesday 12th November
| 17:30 |
Martin Clunes – Meetings With Remarkable Animals The Dorford Centre |
Thursday 20th November
| 18:00 |
Poetry Slam with Angie Porter Shire Hall Museum Cafe |