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SUMMARY:Anna Kent – Frontline Midwife
DESCRIPTION:Anna Kent has delivered babies in war zones\, caring for the most vulnerable women in the most vulnerable places in the world. At twenty-six years old\, not yet a fully-trained midwife\, she delivered a baby in a tropical storm by the light of a headtorch; the following year\, she would be responsible for the female health of 30\,000 Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh. But returning to the UK to work for the NHS\, she soon learned that even at home the right to a safe birth was impossible to take for granted. \n\n\n\nIn Frontline Midwife\, Kent shares her extraordinary experiences as a nurse\, midwife and mother\, illuminating the lives of women that are irreparably affected by compromised access to healthcare. This is at once an astonishing story of the realities of frontline humanitarian work\, and a powerful reminder of the critical\, life-giving work of nurses and doctors at home and around the world. \n\n\n\nAnna Kent will be in conversation with Dr Helen Thomas \n\n\n\nSponsored by Summer Lodge \n\n\n\nTickets £12.00/£6.00 (students)
URL:https://dorchesterliteraryfestival.com/event/anna-kent-frontline-midwife/
LOCATION:Dorset Museum\, High West Street\, Dorchester\, DT1 1XA\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Adult
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SUMMARY:Joanna Quinn – The Whalebone Theatre
DESCRIPTION:A ravishing coming-of-age story set in the shadow of an oncoming war\, The Whalebone Theatre fizzes with invention and compassion as an ‘unmarriageable’ girl elects to defy convention and find her own path through life. \n\n\n\n\n“Maudie\, why are all the best characters men?”Maudie closes the book with a clllump. “We haven’t read all the books yet\, Miss Cristabel. I can’t believe that every story is the same.” \n\n\n\n\nCristabel Seagrave has always wanted her life to be a story\, but there are no girls in the books in her dusty family library. For an unwanted orphan who grows into an unmarriageable young woman\, there is no place at all for her in a traditional English manor. \n\n\n\nBut from the day that a whale washes up on the beach at the Chilcombe estate in Dorset\, and twelve-year-old Cristabel plants her flag and claims it as her own\, she is determined to do things differently. With her step-parents blithely distracted by their endless party guests\, Cristabel and her siblings\, Flossie and Digby\, scratch together an education from the plays they read in their freezing attic\, drunken conversations eavesdropped through oak-panelled doors\, and the esoteric lessons of Maudie their maid. \n\n\n\nBut as the children grow to adulthood and war approaches\, jolting their lives on to very different tracks\, it becomes clear that the roles they are expected to play are no longer those they want. As they find themselves drawn into the conflict\, they must each find a way to write their own. \n\n\n\nJoanna Quinn grew up in Dorset where the best-selling Whalebone Theatre is set. She has worked in the charity sector and journalism. The Whalebone Theatre is her first novel and was a book club pick from the Queen Consort’s Reading Room. \n\n\n\nJoanna Quinn will be in conversation with Helen Stiles \n\n\n\nSponsored by the Thomas Hardy Society \n\n\n\nTickets £12.00/£6.00 (students)
URL:https://dorchesterliteraryfestival.com/event/joanna-quinn-the-whalebone-theatre/
LOCATION:Dorset Museum\, High West Street\, Dorchester\, DT1 1XA\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Adult
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SUMMARY:Her Honour Wendy Joseph KC – Unlawful Killings
DESCRIPTION:Detailing six high profile murder and manslaughter cases over which they have presided\, an Old Bailey judge reveals the inner workings of a crown court and how we should all be invested in the judicial process that transforms so many ordinary lives. \n\n\n\n\nEvery day in the UK lives are suddenly\, brutally\, wickedly taken away. Victims are shot or stabbed. Less often they are strangled or suffocated or beaten to death. Rarely they are poisoned\, pushed off high buildings\, drowned or set alight. Then there are the many who are killed by dangerous drivers\, or corporate gross negligence. There are a lot of ways you can kill someone. I know because I’ve seen most of them at close quarters. \n\n\n\n\nAs one of just a few judges licensed to try murder cases at the Old Bailey\, the author has presided over many of the high-profile cases that all too often grab our attention in dramatic media headlines – for every unlawful death tells a story. But\, unlike most of us\, a judge doesn’t get to turn the page and move on. Nor does the defendant\, or the family of the victim\, nor the many other people who populate the court room. \n\n\n\nPeeling apart six dramatic murder and manslaughter cases\, Unlawful Killings removes this distinction between ‘them’ and ‘us’. By detailing the inner workings of the Old Bailey and UK law\, the author makes clear that each of us has a vested interest in what happens in the court room – especially when it comes to the death of a fellow human being. Any one of us could end up in the witness-box or even in the dock. And yet most people have only the sketchiest idea of what happens inside a Crown Court. \n\n\n\nWhen Wendy Joseph move to the Old Bailey in 2012 she was the only woman amongst 16 judges and the third woman ever to hold a permanent position at the Old Bailey. \n\n\n\nWendy Joseph will be in conversation with Jason Goodwin. \n\n\n\nSponsored by Michael and Eve Bonham Cozens \n\n\n\nTickets £12.00/£6.00 (students)
URL:https://dorchesterliteraryfestival.com/event/her-honour-wendy-joseph-kc-unlawful-killings/
LOCATION:Dorset Museum\, High West Street\, Dorchester\, DT1 1XA\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Adult
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SUMMARY:Peter Hart – Footsloggers
DESCRIPTION:The Ben Shephard Memorial Lecture \n\n\n\n\n\nAn Infantry Battalion at War\, 1939\n\n\n\nThe only way to truly understand what it was like to fight in the Second World War is to listen to the experiences of those men who were there. And often\, there was nowhere more dangerous than on the ground. \n\n\n\nIn Footsloggers\, Peter Hart reconstructs one infantry battalion’s war in staggering detail. Based on his interviews with members of the 16th Durham Light Infantry\, Hart bears witness not only to their comradeship\, suffering\, dreadful losses and individual tragedies\, but also their courage and self-sacrifice as they fought their way across North Africa\, Italy and Greece. It might be said that they were an ‘ordinary’ battalion\, but there was nothing ordinary about the experiences they collectively faced in the war against fascism. Most of the men were civilians until the onset of war threw them into the maelstrom; few of them ever considered themselves as natural soldiers. They had to learn from scratch the fundamentals of military discipline and acquire the manifold skills required of the infantryman. Some learnt quickly and prospered; far more struggled in this harsh environment\, enduring untold privations and humiliations. But most did in the end become effective soldiers\, capable of facing their opponentsserving the Third Reich. \n\n\n\nThis is a human look at the inhuman nature of war from the acclaimed author of At Close Range and Burning Steel. \n\n\n\nPeter Hart was the oral historian at the Imperial War Museum for nearly 40 years. A prolific military history author\, he has appeared in various television programmes\, acted as a guide for the army\, runs his own battlefield tour company and has a successful weekly podcast series Pete & Gary’s Military History. \n\n\n\nBen Shephard (1948-2017) was a writer\, historian\, lecturer and TV producer – The World at War and The Nuclear Age. Ben had a lifelong interest in the history of psychiatry and he studied the psychological effects of war in a series of highly regarded books\, A War of Nerves – about PTSD\, After Daybreak – the liberation of Belsen and The Long Road Home – the resettlement of displaced persons after WW2. This lecture remembers Ben’s life and work. \n\n\n\nSponsored by Sue Shephard \n\n\n\nTickets £12.00/£6.00 (students)
URL:https://dorchesterliteraryfestival.com/event/peter-hart-footsloggers/
LOCATION:Dorset Museum\, High West Street\, Dorchester\, DT1 1XA\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Adult
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SUMMARY:Damien Lewis – SAS Great Escapes II
DESCRIPTION:Million-copy bestselling author Damien Lewis has established himself as one of the most popular WWII historians\, and this book builds on the success of SAS Great Escapes which has sold more than 40\,000 copies in just over a year.  SAS Great Escapes II reveals how SAS men crossed deserts\, evaded hunter forces and escaped through enemy lands\, overcoming insurmountable odds in WWII.  \n\n\n\nHe tells the stories of: \n\n\n\nLegendary SAS figure Bill Fraser and his six-man patrol\, listed as Missing in Action after failing to return from a desert raid. Nine weeks later they emerged from a death-defying trial\, being greeted as if they were ‘back from the dead’. \n\n\n\nThe eccentric yet gifted SAS commander Lord George Jellicoe and his small band of piratical raiders who attacked the heavily guarded German aerodrome at Heraklion\, Crete\, blowing up dozens of warplanes. \n\n\n\nMalcolm Pleydell\, the SAS medic who undertook a 1000-mile Saharan escape\, being hunted all the way\, facing horrific decisions as to who to save and who to abandon. \n\n\n\nSAS founder David Stirling who attempted  one of the most audacious missions of the war – to drive across the war-torn expanse of North Africa\, to link up with advancing American forces. \n\n\n\nJohn Tonkin commander of Operation Bulbasket\, a 40-strong party tasked to halt in its tracks the notorious SS Panzer Division Das Reich. \n\n\n\nHerbert Castelow who parachuted into France\, charged to sabotage a key airbase escaping on the local village butcher’s bike \n\n\n\nDamien Lewis’s extensive research captures these never-before-told stories\, relying upon the generous time\, help\, personal archives\, memorabilia and collections of the family members of those portrayed\, as well as individual interviews\, and access to newly-released wartime files held in the National Archives and elsewhere.  \n\n\n\nDamien Lewis worked as a war and conflict reporter for the world’s major broadcasters\, reporting from across Africa\, South America\, the Middle and Far East and winning numerous awards. His books include the World War Two classics The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare\, Hunting the Nazi Bomb\, SAS Nazi Hunters\, SAS Ghost Patrol\, SAS Italian Job\, SAS Band of Brothers\, SAS Brothers in Arms and SAS Great Escapes. Many of his books have been made\, or are being made\, into movies or TV drama series or adapted as plays for the stage. The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare is presently being filmed as a major movie directed by Guy Ritchie\, and starring Henry Cavill\, Alan Richson\, Henry Golding\, Eiza González\, amongst others. He has raised tens of thousands of pounds for charitable concerns connected with his writing. \n\n\n\nSponsored by Grassby & Sons \n\n\n\nTickets £12.00/£6.00 (students)
URL:https://dorchesterliteraryfestival.com/event/damien-lewis-sas-great-escapes-ii/
LOCATION:Dorset Museum\, High West Street\, Dorchester\, DT1 1XA\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Adult
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