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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: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: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: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:Julia Bradbury – Walk Yourself Happy
DESCRIPTION:Part self-help and part-memoir\, this is the ultimate guide to walking yourself happy physically and mentally\, by one of the UK’s favourite TV personalities. \n\n\n\nThere’s a lot of talk about how we all must connect more with nature. But what does that mean? How do you do it? And what does it do for you in return? Can something as simple as going for a walk really improve your life? The simple answer is: YES.Walk Yourself Happy will explain the elemental link between our own health – both physical and mental – and the natural world.Julia knows first-hand the profound impact of nature: it has helped her survive breast cancer\, overcome infertility and continue through failed IVF treatments; it balances the soul and acts as a confidante and therapist. Through science-backed information\, practical tips and Julia’s own story\, Walk Yourself Happy will explore how nature can soothe anxiety and stress\, how a mountain or a tree can keep you company in times of grief\, and the importance of building nature into your everyday life\, so you eat well\, sleep better and move more.Walking\, one of the most accessible activities for most of us\, is the fastest and easiest way to embed yourself in nature. You don’t need expertise or equipment; you just need to put one foot in front of another. You don’t need an epic landscape either\, you can walk down the street or in your local green space. Though\, as you will learn from this book\, a walk in the park is rarely just that.We all have shocks and surprises that stop us in our tracks\, make us question who we are and why we are here. In walking\, we have the power to change our pace. And when we do that\, we can find union with nature\, camaraderie with friends and a form of intimacy with self.We can walk ourselves happy and we can walk ourselves healthy\, and we can rekindle the innate bonds\, all-but extinguished by modern living\, that we have always had to our natural environment. We can start today. \n\n\n\nJulia Bradbury is credited with revamping Sunday night primetime television on BBC One’s Countryfile\, where she was a co-presenter for five years. She has an impressive career which has seen her launch three television channels and present numerous significant long term series including Watchdog\, Top Gear and Countryfile. Outside her television life Julia is an ambassador for Keep Britain Tidy\, The National Trust and a champion for Ordnance Survey. She co-founded The Outdoor Guide\, which is an online resource and space for outdoor inspiration. \n\n\n\nHer passion is the outdoors and more recently following her cancer diagnosis and surgery\, she is dedicating her time supporting the benefits of healthy living and the virtues of nature therapy. \n\n\n\nJulia Bradbury will be in conversation with Steve Harris
URL:https://dorchesterliteraryfestival.com/event/julia-bradbury-walk-yourself-happy/
LOCATION:The Dorford Centre\, 2 Bridport Road\, Dorchester\, Dorset\, DT1 1RR\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Adult
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SUMMARY:Louise Minchin – Fearless
DESCRIPTION:Louise Minchin went from presenting BBC Breakfast to competing for the GB Team in Triathlon in World and European Championship. In Fearless she sets out to push herself even further. Over 17 chapters\, Louise embarks on terrifying\, exhilarating adventures across the UK and the world to tell extraordinary women’s stories and to test herself. She free dives under the ice in the dark in Finland with the first female to swim a mile in the Antarctic Circle; she cycles across Argentina with one of the world’s most famous female endurance runners; she swims the shark infested water of Alcatraz with two teenage sisters; she explores the dark and wild caves deep under the earth in Somerset\, and more in the name of exploring what drives these incredible women\, their motivation\, resilience and determination.The book is not only a celebration of the bravery of these women\, Louise is determined to bust the myth that only certain people can do incredible things and have their own adventures. In Fearless you will find women spanning all backgrounds\, religions\, ages\, body shapes and sizes; older women\, younger women\, women with disabilities and more – all doing remarkable things that Louise wants to tell the world about. Fearless is a roller coaster of highs and lows\, with fascinating and thrilling momentsincluding ones when Louise fears for her life. It will leave you feeling empowered and inspired to get out there yourself – fearless\, in fact! \n\n\n\nLouise Minchin is a much-loved TV presenter\, journalist\, author and athlete. She presented the UK’s most successful morning television programme BBC Breakfast for two decades. She is the host of the toprated podcasts\, Push Your Peak and Her Spirit. Louise is Chair of the 2023 judging panel for the prestigious The Women’s Prize for Fiction. Throughout her career\, she has used her profile and voice to champion women’s stories and to push for change raising awareness of the menopause\, mental health\, women’s safety and more. A lover of adventure herself\, at the age of 45\, Louise was inspired to take up triathlon after a BBC Breakfast challenge. Three years later she represented her age-group in the World and European Championships. \n\n\n\nTickets £12.00/£6.00 (students)
URL:https://dorchesterliteraryfestival.com/event/louise-minchen-fearless/
LOCATION:The Dorford Centre\, 2 Bridport Road\, Dorchester\, Dorset\, DT1 1RR\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Adult
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