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SUMMARY:Polly Toynbee – An Uneasy Inheritance
DESCRIPTION:One of the most respected\, prolific and razor-sharp voices in social commentary uses the prism of her extraordinary family to examine the true state of class in Britain. \n\n\n\nWhile for generations Polly Toynbee’s ancestors have been committed left-wing rabble-rousers railing against injustice\, they could never claim to be working class\, settling instead for the prosperous life of academia or journalism enjoyed by their own forebears. So where does that leave their ideals of class equality? \n\n\n\nThrough a colourful\, entertaining examination of her own family – which in addition to her writer father Philip and her historian grandfather Arnold contains everyone from the Glenconners to Jessica Mitford to Bertrand Russell and features ancestral home Castle Howard as a backdrop – Toynbee explores the myth of mobility\, the guilt of privilege\, and asks for a truly honest conversation about class in Britain. \n\n\n\nPolly Toynbee is a journalist\, author\, and broadcaster. A Guardian columnist and broadcaster\, she was formerly the BBC’s social affairs editor. She has written for the Observer\, the Independent and Radio Times and has been an editor at the Washington Monthly. She has won numerous awards including a National Press Award and the Orwell Prize for Journalism. \n\n\n\nPolly Toynbee will be in conversation with Kate Adie. \n\n\n\nSponsored by Porter Dodson \n\n\n\nTickets £12.00/£6.00 (students)
URL:https://dorchesterliteraryfestival.com/event/polly-toynbee-an-uneasy-inheritance/
LOCATION:The Dorford Centre\, 2 Bridport Road\, Dorchester\, Dorset\, DT1 1RR\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Adult
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SUMMARY:Tim Spector – Food for Life
DESCRIPTION:Food is our greatest ally for good health\, but the question of what to eat has never seemed so complicated. Bestselling author and top 100 most-cited scientist Tim Spector has the answers in this definitive\, easy-to-follow guide to the new science of eating well. \n\n\n\nTim Spector has pioneered a new approach to nutrition\, encouraging us to forget misleading calorie counts and nutritional breakdowns. In Food for Life he draws on over a decade of cutting-edge scientific research\, along with his own personal insights\, to deliver a new and comprehensive approach to what we should all know about food today. \n\n\n\nInvestigating everything from environmental impact and food fraud to allergies and deceptive labelling\, Spector also shows us the many wondrous and surprising properties of everyday foods\, which scientists are only just beginning to understand. \n\n\n\nEmpowering and practical\, Food for Life is nothing less than a new approach to how to eat – for our health and the health of the planet. \n\n\n\nTim Spector is a Professor of Genetic Epidemiology at King’s College London\, director of the Twins UK study\, Scientific co-founder at ZOE\, and one of the world’s leading researchers.  Food for Life\, his latest book focusing on nutrition and health was a Times and Sunday Times Book of the Year. \n\n\n\nSponsored by Poundbury Clinic \n\n\n\nTickets £12.00/£6.00 (students)
URL:https://dorchesterliteraryfestival.com/event/tim-spector-food-for-life/
LOCATION:The Dorford Centre\, 2 Bridport Road\, Dorchester\, Dorset\, DT1 1RR\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Adult
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SUMMARY:Daniel Finkelstein – Hitler\, Stalin\, Mum and Dad
DESCRIPTION:A Family Memoir of Miraculous Survival\n\n\n\nFrom longstanding political columnist and commentator Daniel Finkelstein\, a powerful memoir exploring both his mother and his father’s devastating experiences of persecution\, resistance and survival during the Second World War. \n\n\n\nDanny’s mother Mirjam Weiner was the youngest of three daughters born in Germany to Alfred and Margarethe Weiner. Alfred\, a decorated hero from the Great War\, is now widely acknowledged to have been the first person to recognise the existential danger Hitler posed to the Jews and began\, in 1933\, to catalogue in detail Nazi crimes. After moving his family to Amsterdam\, he relocated his library to London and was preparing to bring over his wife and children when Germany invaded Holland. Before long\, the family was rounded up\, robbed\, humiliated and sent to Bergen-Belsen. \n\n\n\nDanny’s father Ludwik was born in Lwow\, the only child of a prosperous Jewish family. In 1939\, after Hitler and Stalin carved up Poland\, the family was rounded up by the communists and sent to do hard labour in a Siberian gulag. Working as slave labourers on a collective farm\, his father survived the freezing winters in a tiny house they built from cow dung. \n\n\n\nHitler\, Stalin\, Mum and Dad is a deeply moving\, personal and at times horrifying memoir about his parents’ experiences at the hands of the two genocidal dictators of the 20th century. It is a story of persecution and survival; and the consequences of totalitarianism told with the almost unimaginable bravery of two ordinary families shining through. \n\n\n\nDaniel Finkelstein is a British journalist and opinion writer. A former executive editor of The Times\, he continues to write for the paper. He has been Political Columnist of the Year four times and recently joined the board of Chelsea Football Club. He was appointed to the House of Lords in 2013. \n\n\n\nDaniel Finkelstein will be in conversation with Danny Danziger \n\n\n\nTickets £12.00/£6.00 (students) \n\n\n\nSponsored by Bound by Books \n\n\n\n(Julian Bunkall\, Simon Conibear\, James Emson\, Nick Harland\, Anthony Parson\, Kim Slowe\, Jonathan Walsh)
URL:https://dorchesterliteraryfestival.com/event/daniel-finkelstein-hitler-stalin-mum-and-dad/
LOCATION:The Dorford Centre\, 2 Bridport Road\, Dorchester\, Dorset\, DT1 1RR\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Adult
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SUMMARY:Jade McGlynn – Russia’s War
DESCRIPTION:Russia’s brutal assault on Ukraine has horrified the world. But many Russians appear to be watching an entirely different war—one in which they are the courageous underdogs and kind-hearted heroes successfully battling a malign Ukraine foe. Russia’s War takes us on a journey into this parallel military and political universe. Through interviews with dozens of officials\, elites\, and ordinary citizens from Russia and Ukraine\, as well as detailed analysis of Russian social media\, Jade McGlynn reveals the sometimes monstrous\, sometimes misconstrued attitudes behind Russian majority backing for the invasion. Treating Putin as the symptom rather than cause of Russia’s many ills\, Russia’s War illuminates the myths\, memories and myopia fueling the country’s war on Ukrainians and descent into self-destruction.  \n\n\n\nDr Jade McGlynn is a specialist in Russian media\, memory and foreign policy at the Monterey Initiative in Russian Studies and Kings College London. She is the author of The Kremlin’s Memory Makers and frequently writes and comments for the media\, including CNN\, BBC\, The Times\, The Spectator\, Telegraph\, MSNBC\, The Diplomat\, and Foreign Policy. \n\n\n\nDr Jade McGlynn will be in conversation with Allan Mallinson. \n\n\n\nTickets £12.00/£6.00 (students)
URL:https://dorchesterliteraryfestival.com/event/jade-mcglynn-russias-war/
LOCATION:The Dorford Centre\, 2 Bridport Road\, Dorchester\, Dorset\, DT1 1RR\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Adult
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SUMMARY:Alan Titchmarsh – Chatsworth
DESCRIPTION:Follow Alan into Chatsworth’s irresistible world of visionaries\, pioneers\, heroes\, villains and English eccentrics\, and celebrate the men and women who have shaped the history of the estate over five centuries. With his passionate knowledge of both the house and gardens\, as well as his long-established relationship with the Cavendish family\, Alan is the perfect guide with whom to explore the Palace of the Peaks. \n\n\n\nFeaturing stunning\, specially commissioned photography of the gardens and parkland\, alongside long-forgotten images and memorabilia newly unearthed in the estate archives\, this vivid companion\, crowded with character and colour\, is a book to treasure and revisit over and over again. \n\n\n\nAlan Titchmarsh MBE is known to millions through his career as a television presenter of shows including Love Your Weekend\, Love Your Garden\, Ground Force\, Gardeners’ World\, The Alan Titchmarsh Show and Spring Into Summer. He has written more than forty gardening books\, as well as twelve novels and three volumes of memoirs. He was made MBE in the millennium New Year Honours list and holds the Victoria Medal of Honour\, the Royal Horticultural Society’s highest award. \n\n\n\nAlan Titchmarsh will be in conversation with Paul Atterbury \n\n\n\nTickets £12.00/£6.00 (students)
URL:https://dorchesterliteraryfestival.com/event/alan-titchmarsh-chatsworth/
LOCATION:The Dorford Centre\, 2 Bridport Road\, Dorchester\, Dorset\, DT1 1RR\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Adult
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SUMMARY:D J Taylor – George Orwell
DESCRIPTION:The definitive biography of one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century from the award-winning writer and critic\, D.J. Taylor. \n\n\n\nOver seventy years since his premature death\, George Orwell (1903-50) has become one of the most significant figures in western literature. His two dystopian masterpieces\, Animal Farm (1945) and Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949) have together sold over 100 million copies. Even now\, he continues to exert a decisive influence on our understanding of international power-politics. \n\n\n\nD.J. Taylor’s new biography\, the first full- length study for 20 years\, draws on a wide range of previously unseen material – newly-discovered letters to old girlfriends and professional colleagues; the recollections of the dwindling band of people who knew him\, new information about his life in the early 1930s – to produce a definitive portrait of this complex\, driven and self-mythologising man. \n\n\n\nD.J. Taylor’s previous biography Orwell: The Life won the 2003 Whitbread Prize for Biography. His other works of non-fiction include Thackeray (1999)\, Bright Young People: The Rise and Fall of a Generation 1918-1940 (2007)\, The Prose Factory: Literary Life in England Since 1918 (2016) and Lost Girls: Love\, War and Literature 1939–1951 (2019). He has written a dozen novels\, including English Settlement (1996)\, which won a Grinzane Cavour Prize\, Trespass (1998) and Derby Day (2011)\, both of which were longlisted for the Man Booker Prize. His most recent books are the short story collection Stewkey Blues (2022) and Critic at Large: Essays and Reviews 2010-2022 (2023). His journalism appears in a variety of publications on both sides of the Atlantic\, including the Times Literary Supplement\, the Guardian\, the New Criterion\, the Critic and Private Eye. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and lives in Norwich with his wife\, the novelist Rachel Hore. \n\n\n\nD J Taylor will be in conversation with Jason Goodwin. \n\n\n\nTickets £12.00/£6.00 (students)
URL:https://dorchesterliteraryfestival.com/event/d-j-taylor-george-orwell/
LOCATION:The Dorford Centre\, 2 Bridport Road\, Dorchester\, Dorset\, DT1 1RR\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Adult
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SUMMARY:Ferdinand Mount – Big Caesars and Little Caesars
DESCRIPTION:How They Rise and How They Fall: From Julius Caesar to Boris Johnson\n\n\n\nWho said that dictatorship was dead? The world today is full of Strong Men and their imitators. Caesarism is alive and well. Yet in modern times it’s become a strangely neglected subject. Ferdinand Mount opens up a fascinating exploration of how and why Caesars seize power and why they fall. \n\n\n\nThere is a comforting illusion shared by historians and political commentators from Fukuyama back to Macaulay\, Mill and Marx\, that history progresses in a nice straight line towards liberal democracy or socialism\, despite the odd hiccup. \n\n\n\nIn reality\, every democracy\, however sophisticated or stable it may look\, has been attacked or actually destroyed by a would-be Caesar\, from Ancient Greece to the present day. Marx was wrong. This Caesarism is not an absurd throwback\, it is an ever-present danger. \n\n\n\nThere are Big Caesars who set out to achieve total social control and Little Caesars who merely want to run an agreeable kleptocracy without opposition: from Julius Caesar and Oliver Cromwell through Napoleon and Bolivar\, to Mussolini\, Salazar\, De Gaulle and Trump. The saga of Boris Johnson and Brexit frequently crops up in this author’s narrative as a vivid\, if Lilliputian instance of the same phenomenon. \n\n\n\nThe final part of this book describes how and why would-be Caesars come to grief\, from the Gunpowder Plot to Trump’s march on the Capitol and the ejection of Boris Johnson by his own MPs\, and ends with a defence of the grubby glories of parliamentary politics and a thought-provoking roadmap of the way back to constitutional government. \n\n\n\nFerdinand Mount was born in 1939\, the son of a steeplechase jockey\, and brought up on Salisbury Plain. After being educated at Eton and Oxford\, he made various false starts as a children’s nanny\, a gossip columnist\, bagman to Selwyn Lloyd\, and leader-writer on the doomed Daily Sketch. He later surfaced\, slightly to his surprise and everyone else’s\, as head of Margaret Thatcher’s Policy Unit and later editor of The Times Literary Supplement. He is married with three children and three grandchildren and has lived in Islington for half his life. Apart from political columns and essays\, he has written a six-volume series of novels\, A Chronicle of Modern Twilight\, which began with The Man Who Rode Ampersand\, based on his father’s racing life\, and included Of Love And Asthma (he is a temporarily retired asthmatic)\, which won the Hawthornden Prize for 1992. He also writes what he calls Tales of History and Imagination\, including Umbrella\, which the historian Niall Ferguson called ‘quite simply the best historical novel in years’. \n\n\n\nSponsored by John and Jenny Patterson \n\n\n\nTickets £12.00/£6.00
URL:https://dorchesterliteraryfestival.com/event/ferdinand-mount-big-caesars-and-little-caesars/
LOCATION:The Dorford Centre\, 2 Bridport Road\, Dorchester\, Dorset\, DT1 1RR\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Adult
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SUMMARY:Justine Picardie – Chanel The Legend and the Life
DESCRIPTION:Justine Picardie spent years puzzling over the truth about Coco Chanel\, peeling away the accretions of romance and lies. Since its publication in 2010\, hers has become the definitive Chanel biography. To coincide with a major exhibition at the Victoria & Albert Museum her new edition delves even deeper into the life and legacy of this eternally alluring woman. \n\n\n\nCoco Chanel was an extraordinary inventor – she conjured up the little black dress\, bobbed hair\, trousers for women\, contemporary chic\, best-selling perfumes\, and the most successful fashion brand of all time – but she also invented herself\, fashioning the myth of her own life with the same dexterity as her couture. \n\n\n\nWhile Chanel was supreme innovator and vendor of all things elegant and beautiful\, what lies beneath her own glossy myth is far darker. Throwing new light on her passionate and turbulent relationships\, this beautifully constructed portrait gives a fresh and penetrating look at how Coco Chanel made herself into her own most powerful creation. \n\n\n\nJustine Picardie brings the mysterious Gabrielle Chanel out of hiding\, to celebrate her great achievements. She examines Chanel’s enduring afterlife\, as well as her remarkable life\, uncovering the consequences of what she covered up\, unpicking the seams between truth and legend\, yet keeping intact the real fabric of her past. \n\n\n\nJustine Picardie is the author of six acclaimed books. She is a contributing editor to Harper’s Bazaar\, having previously been its editor-in-chief. She was formerly an investigative journalist for the Sunday Times\, a columnist for the Telegraph\, editor of the Observer Magazine and features director of Vogue. \n\n\n\nTickets £12.00/£6.00 (students)
URL:https://dorchesterliteraryfestival.com/event/justine-picardie-chanel-the-legend-and-the-life/
LOCATION:The Dorford Centre\, 2 Bridport Road\, Dorchester\, Dorset\, DT1 1RR\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Adult
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SUMMARY:Stephen Anderton – The Lives of the Great Gardeners
DESCRIPTION:The lives of 40 men and women behind some of the world’s most exciting gardens. Throughout history great gardeners have risen from all walks of life. Some have been aristocratic amateur gardeners\, others professional designers with an international practice. Some have come to garden-making from sister arts such as sculpture or painting; others have been hands-on nurserymen or botanists. What they all have in common is the ability to take an idea and develop it in a new manner relevant to their times. \n\n\n\nThe book contains four sections. ‘Gardens of Ideas’ moves from the politically allusive gardens of 18th-century England made by men such as William Kent\, to Charles Jencks’s Scottish garden inspired by 21st-century cosmography. ‘Gardens of Straight Lines’ explores the lives of the great formalist gardeners\, from Le Nôtre at Versailles to the rational English minimalism of contemporary designer Christopher BradleyHole. ‘Gardens of Curves’ begins with that great exponent of the English landscapegarden\, ‘Capability’ Brown\, and leads to the extraordinary Brazilian designer Roberto Burle Marx. Finally\, ‘Gardens of Plantsmanship’ moves from the father of naturalistic planting\, William Robinson\, to the sweeping prairies of New York’s favourite Dutch designer\, Piet Oudolf. \n\n\n\nAuthor Stephen Anderton is a journalist\, author\, lecturer and broadcaster. Best known as The Times’s long-standing writer on gardens and gardening (for which he has three times won first prize in the Garden Writers’ Guild awards)\, he worked for many years on the care and restoration of historic gardens\, latterly as National Gardens Manager for English Heritage. His books include Discovering Welsh Gardens and Christopher Lloyd: Great Dixter. \n\n\n\nStephen Anderton will be in conversation with Vanessa Berridge. \n\n\n\nSponsored by Monart Spa \n\n\n\nTickets £12.00/£6.00 (students)
URL:https://dorchesterliteraryfestival.com/event/stephen-anderton-the-lives-of-the-great-gardeners/
LOCATION:The Dorford Centre\, 2 Bridport Road\, Dorchester\, Dorset\, DT1 1RR\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Adult
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SUMMARY:James Naughtie – Desert Island Books
DESCRIPTION:**Event Cancelled** We regret to say that this event has been cancelled. If you have purchased tickets\, please contact us for a refund. \n\n\n\nOne of our most treasured BBC broadcasters\, a lover of literature\, host of BBC Radio 4’s Book Club\, and chair for the Man Booker Prize jury\, James Naughtie chooses six books that have influenced him and inspired him through his life\, in conversation with Paul Atterbury.  \n\n\n\nJames Naughtie will also discuss his latest novel: The Spy Across The Water following Will Flemyng on a dangerous journey into his clandestine past\, from conflict in Ireland to the long shadows of the Cold War\, in an electric story of courage and betrayal. \n\n\n\nJames Naughtie was a popular presenter of Radio 4’s flagship Today programme. He is also a noted authority on classical music and opera. He fronted coverage of The Proms for more than a decade\, and published The Making of Music – putting 1\,000 years of composers and their works into proper historical context. His own publications include The Rivals\, which exposed the truth about the relationship between Tony Blair and Gordon Brown\, and his first novel\, The Madness of July. \n\n\n\nJames Naughtie will be in conversation with Paul Atterbury. \n\n\n\nTickets £12.00/£6.00 (students)
URL:https://dorchesterliteraryfestival.com/event/james-naughtie-the-spy-across-the-water/
LOCATION:The Dorford Centre\, 2 Bridport Road\, Dorchester\, Dorset\, DT1 1RR\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Adult
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SUMMARY:Nigel Biggar – Colonialism: A Moral Reckoning
DESCRIPTION:A RIGOROUS EXAMINATION OF THE WEST’S COLONIAL RECORD WHICH SEEKS TO BRING BALANCE TO OUR PERSPECTIVE OF COLONIALISM’S IMPACT\n\n\n\nIn the wake of the dissolution of the Soviet empire in 1989\, many believed that we had arrived at the ‘End of History’ – that the global dominance of liberal democracy had been secured forever. Now however\, with Russia rattling its sabre on the borders of Europe and China rising to challenge the post-1945 world order\, the liberal West faces major threats. These threats are not only external. Especially in the Anglosphere\, the ‘decolonisation’ movement corrodes the West’s self-confidence by retelling the history of European and American colonial dominance as a litany of racism\, exploitation\, and massively murderous violence. \n\n\n\nNigel Biggar tests this indictment\, addressing the crucial questions in eight chapters: Was the British Empire driven primarily by greed and the lust to dominate? Should we speak of ‘colonialism and slavery’ in the same breath\, as if they were identical? Was the Empire essentially racist? How far was it based on the theft of land? Did it involve genocide? Was it driven fundamentally by the motive of economic exploitation? Was undemocratic colonial government necessarily illegitimate? and\, Was the Empire essentially violent\, and its violence pervasively racist and terroristic? \n\n\n\nAs encyclopaedic in historical breadth as it is penetrating in analytical depth\, COLONIALISM offers a moral inquest into the colonial past\, forensically contesting damaging falsehoods and thereby helping to rejuvenate faith in the West’s future. \n\n\n\nNIGEL BIGGAR is Regius Professor Emeritus of Moral and Pastoral Theology at the University of Oxford\, where he directs the McDonald Centre for Theology\, Ethics\, and Public Life. Before assuming his professorship at Oxford\, he occupied chairs at the University of Leeds and at Trinity College\, Dublin. His most recent publications include What’s Wrong with Rights?\, Between Kin and Cosmopolis: An Ethic of the Nation\, and In Defence of War. He was appointed CBE in 2021. \n\n\n\nTickets £12.00/£6.00 (students)
URL:https://dorchesterliteraryfestival.com/event/nigel-biggar-colonialism-a-moral-reckoning/
LOCATION:The Dorford Centre\, 2 Bridport Road\, Dorchester\, Dorset\, DT1 1RR\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Adult
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SUMMARY:Tim Marshall – The Future of Geography
DESCRIPTION:Space: the new frontier\, a wild and lawless place. It is already central to communication\, military strategy and international relations on Earth. Now\, it is the latest arena for human exploration\, exploitation – and\, possibly\, conquest. China\, the USA and Russia are leading the way. The next fifty years will change the face of global politics. \n\n\n\nWith all the insight and wit that have made Tim Marshall the UK’s most popular writer on geopolitics\, this gripping book shows that politics and geography are as important in the skies as on the ground\, covering great-power rivalry; technology; commerce; combat in space; and what it all means for us down on Earth. This is essential reading on power\, politics and the future of humanity. ‘Many of us still think of space as ‘out there’ and ‘in the future’. But it’s here and now – the border into the great beyond is well within our reach. Astropolitics is an integral part of international relations\, especially for the major powers. I wanted to write a book putting space into its historical\, political and military context\, and to help us to imagine space as a place with geography which we need to understand. There’s also the sheer majesty and beauty of the universe\, and in the book\, from time to time\, I stand aside\, put aside the politics\, and marvel.’ \n\n\n\nTim Marshall is a leading authority on foreign affairs with more than 30 years of reporting experience. He was diplomatic editor at Sky News\, and before that was working for the BBC and LBC/IRN radio. He has reported from 40 countries and covered conflicts in Croatia\, Bosnia\, Macedonia\, Kosovo\, Afghanistan\, Iraq\, Lebanon\, Syria and Israel. He is the author of the No. 1 Sunday Times bestsellers Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps that Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics (which has sold over 2 million copies worldwide) and The Power of Geography: Ten Maps that Reveal the Future of Our World. \n\n\n\nTim Marshall will be in conversation with Michael MacCarthy. \n\n\n\nTickets £12.00/£6.00 (students)
URL:https://dorchesterliteraryfestival.com/event/tim-marshall-the-future-of-geography/
LOCATION:The Dorford Centre\, 2 Bridport Road\, Dorchester\, Dorset\, DT1 1RR\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Adult
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SUMMARY:Richard Cork – Encounters with Artists
DESCRIPTION:In Encounters with Artists\, Richard Cork turns his impeccable skills as a critic and writer to tell the story of his encounters with some of the world’s most influential artists. From a serendipitous meeting with Pablo Picasso in Cannes in 1965 through his early days as a writer on the Evening Standard and his later role as chief art critic for The Times\, Cork records the personal encounters that reveal the characters behind the art. \n\n\n\nFrom individuals who can look back over a lifetime’s career\, such as Louise Bourgeois\, Roy Lichtenstein\, and Jasper Johns\, to younger artists encountered at the beginning of their careers\, such as Tracey Emin and Damien Hirst\, Cork reveals artists’ inner thoughts\, anxieties\, and creative ambitions. From a studio meeting with Lucian Freud to being driven through the Yorkshire countryside by David Hockney and given a tour of Soho drinking locations with Francis Bacon\, Cork has found that “talking to artists can\, in my experience\, be surprising\, revealing\, salutary\, testing\, provocative\, stimulating\, and at times capable of overturning all my preconceptions about the individuals I encounter.” \n\n\n\nCork has played a significant role in popularizing late modern and contemporary art. In the words of art critic Louisa Buck\, his “lucid\, evenhanded and at times trenchantly critical judgement has been invaluable in helping to create the multiplicity of approach and vigorous debates of today’s artistic climate.” \n\n\n\nRichard Cork is an award-winning art critic\, historian\, broadcaster\, and curator. He has acted as a judge for the Turner Prize and curated major exhibitions at Tate\, the Hayward Gallery\, the Barbican Art Gallery\, the Royal Academy of Arts\, and other European venues. Previously art critic for the Evening Standard\, then chief art critic of The Times\, he broadcasts regularly on BBC radio and TV and has written several books. \n\n\n\nRichard Cork will be in conversation with Paul Atterbury \n\n\n\nSponsored by Duke’s \n\n\n\nTickets £12.00/£6.00 (students)
URL:https://dorchesterliteraryfestival.com/event/richard-cork-encounters-with-artists/
LOCATION:The Dorford Centre\, 2 Bridport Road\, Dorchester\, Dorset\, DT1 1RR\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Adult
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SUMMARY:John Wright – The Observant Walker
DESCRIPTION:When we go for a walk\, whether in the countryside or city\, we pass through landscapes full of natural beauty and curiosities both visible and invisible – but though we might admire the view\, or wonder idly about the name of a flower\, we rarely have the knowledge to fully engage with what we see. When we do\, our sense of place is expanded\, our understanding deepened and we can discover richness in even the most everyday stroll. \n\n\n\nJohn Wright has been leading forays around Britain for decades. As an expert forager\, he shows people how to identify the edible species that abound – but he also reveals the natural history\, stories and science behind our surroundings. Here\, he takes us with him on eight walks: from verdant forests to wild coastlines\, via city pavements\, fields and rolling hills\, he illuminates what can be found on a walk across any British terrain\, and how you might observe and truly understand them\, for yourself. \n\n\n\nWarm\, wise and endlessly informative\, with helpful illustrations and suggested routes\, this book will help you to see the world around you with new eyes: no walk will be the same again. \n\n\n\nSponsored by the Duchy of Cornwall \n\n\n\nTickets £12.00/£6.00 (students)
URL:https://dorchesterliteraryfestival.com/event/john-wright-the-observant-walker/
LOCATION:The Dorford Centre\, 2 Bridport Road\, Dorchester\, Dorset\, DT1 1RR\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Adult
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SUMMARY:Robert Peston – Crash
DESCRIPTION:London\, 2007. It’s summer in the City: the economy is booming\, profits are up and the stock market hits near record highs. \n\n\n\nBut journalist Gil Peck is a lone voice worrying it can’t last. Deep in the plumbing of the financial system\, he has noticed strange things happening which could threaten the whole economy. But nobody wants to hear it: not the politicians taking credit for an end to boom and bust\, not the bankers pocketing vast bonuses\, not even Gil’s bosses at the BBC\, who think it’s irrelevant. \n\n\n\nWhen Gil gets a tip-off that a small northern bank has run out of money\, everything changes. His report sparks the first run on a UK bank in 140 years. The next day\, Marilyn Krol\, a director of the Bank of England dies in an apparent suicide. \n\n\n\nFor Gil\, it’s personal. Marilyn was his lover: was his scoop connected to her suicide? Or is there something more sinister in her death? Gil is determined to find out. \n\n\n\nThe more he investigates\, the more he is drawn into the rotten heart of the financial system\, where old school ties and secret Oxbridge societies lubricate vast and illegal conflicts of interest. The whole economy has been built on a house of cards\, and Gil is threatening to bring it down. \n\n\n\nWhen simply reporting the facts can make or break fortunes\, Gil has to ask himself: is he crossing the line between journalist and participant? Are his own conflicts of interest making him reckless? And in a world ruled by greed where nothing and no-one is too big to fail\, what price will he pay for uncovering the truth? \n\n\n\nRobert Peston is ITV’s political editor\, presenter of the politics show ‘Peston’\, founder of the education charity\, Speakers for Schools (www.speakers4schools.org)\, and vice president ofHospice UK. He has written four critically acclaimed non-fiction books\, How Do We Fix This Mess?\, Who Runs Britain?\, Brown’s Britain and his latest\, WTF?\, which was described by the Financial Times as ‘mandatory reading’ for anyone seeking to understand Brexit\, Trump and the collapse of confidence in western liberalism. For a decade until the end of 2015\, he was at the BBC\, as economics editor and business editor\, and in the 1990s he was at the Financial Times\, as political editor\, financial editor and head of investigations. At the BBC he played a prominent role in exposing the causes and consequences of the credit crunch\, banking crisis and Great Recession. Peston has won more than 30 awards for his journalism\, including Journalist of the Year and Scoop of the Year from the British TV Awards. \n\n\n\nRobert Peston will be in conversation with Kate Adie. \n\n\n\nSponsored by Humphries Kirk \n\n\n\nTickets £12.00/£6.00 (students)
URL:https://dorchesterliteraryfestival.com/event/robert-peston-crash/
LOCATION:The Dorford Centre\, 2 Bridport Road\, Dorchester\, Dorset\, DT1 1RR\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Adult
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SUMMARY:Ray Mears – British Woodland
DESCRIPTION:Nobody sees and understands woodland better than Ray Mears. \n\n\n\nWith deep natural history knowledge and practical woodcraft skills\, gained over a lifetime of learning from the world’s last remaining indigenous peoples\, Ray offers a different way to experience our wooded landscapes. He challenges the old concepts. He looks to our ancestors and shows how man’s hand in shaping woodland is critical. We are not separate from nature\, we just need to ensure that our interactions have a positive impact. \n\n\n\nWith the emphasis on interaction\, British Woodland is structured by usage. We learn that sycamore and clematis are among the best woods for burning\, pine and oak help us navigate\, and hawthorn and beech have edible leaves. Rope can be made from willow\, utensils and tools from hazel\, and historically\, weapons were made from yew and wych elm. \n\n\n\nWith Ray as our guide\, encouraging this aboriginal sense of connection to individual trees\, our appreciation of wooded landscapes will change. We can learn how to live inclusively in nature\, for our own wellbeing and enjoyment\, and also for the future of our planet. \n\n\n\nRay Mears has become recognised throughout the world as an authority on the subject of bushcraft and survival. TV series including Ray Mears’ Bushcraft\, Ray Mears’ World of Survival\, Extreme Survival and Ray Mears goes Walkabout have made him a household name over the past two decades\, but he has spent his whole life learning. \n\n\n\nSponsored by Dorchester BID \n\n\n\nTickets £12.00/£6.00 (students)
URL:https://dorchesterliteraryfestival.com/event/ray-mears-british-woodland/
LOCATION:The Dorford Centre\, 2 Bridport Road\, Dorchester\, Dorset\, DT1 1RR\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Adult
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