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SUMMARY:Chris Atkins – Time After Time
DESCRIPTION:A funny\, touching\, challenging and campaigning book about our prisons’ crisis by the Sunday Times bestselling author of A Bit of a Stretch. \n\n\n\nBritish prisoners have to endure the most inhumane and barbaric conditions imaginable\, so why do so many of them keep going back? \n\n\n\n80% of criminals who receive cautions or convictions are reoffenders.46% of ex-prisoners are re-convicted within a year of leaving prison.Reoffending costs the taxpayer £18 billion per year. \n\n\n\nThe numbers are staggering. But the reasons behind them will shock you. Former inmate and documentary maker Chris Atkins has spent the last six years tracking the fortunes of a dozen repeat offenders to understand why the state fails to keep them out of trouble. \n\n\n\nFeaturing funny\, wild and poignant stories\, Time After Time exploits Chris’s unprecedented access to the criminal underworld to understand why the system actually makes reoffending all but inevitable for ex-prisoners. \n\n\n\n‘Eloquent\, witty\, engaging and enraged … the most important book you’ll read this year.’ Sathnam Sanghera \n\n\n\n‘Chris Atkins brings a unique perspective\, an unflinching eye and a dark sense of humour to hidden stories from the underbelly of the British justice system. Time after Time is entertaining\, unsettling\, illuminating and important.’ Rafael Behr \n\n\n\nChris Atkins is a BAFTA-nominated filmmaker. His documentaries Taking Liberties and Starsuckers were critically acclaimed and made front-page news. He has also worked extensively with Dispatches for Channel 4 and BBC Panorama. Following his release from prison\, he is now back in North London\, filming documentaries and writing. \n\n\n\nThis event is kindly sponsored by John and Jennie Paterson \n\n\n\nTickets £12.00/£6.00 (students)
URL:https://dorchesterliteraryfestival.com/event/chris-atkins-time-after-time/
LOCATION:The Dorford Centre\, 2 Bridport Road\, Dorchester\, Dorset\, DT1 1RR\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Adult
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SUMMARY:Mick Conefrey – Fallen
DESCRIPTION:On 6 June 1924\, George Mallory donned an oxygen set and set off for the summit of Everest with his young partner Andrew Irvine. Two days later they were glimpsed through clouds heading upwards\, but after that\, they were never seen again. Whether they died on the way up or on the way down no one knows.In the years following his disappearance\, Mallory was elevated into an all-British hero. Dubbed by his friends the ‘Galahad’ of Everest\, he was lionised in the press as the greatest mountaineer of his generation who had died while taking on the ultimate challenge. Handsome\, charismatic and daring\, he was a skilled public speaker\, an athletic and technically gifted climber\, a committed Socialist and a supremely attractive figure to both men and women. \n\n\n\nHis friends ranged from the gay artists and writers of the Bloomsbury group to the best mountaineers of his era. But that was only one side to him. Mallory was also a risk taker who according to his friend and biographer David Pye\, could never get behind the wheel of a car without overtaking the vehicle in front\, a climber who pushed himself and those around him to the limits\, a chaotic technophobe who was forever losing equipment or mishandling it\, the man who led his porters to their deaths in 1922 and his young partner to his uncertain end in 1924. \n\n\n\nSo who was the real Mallory and what were the forces that made him and ultimately destroyed him? Why did the man who denounced oxygen sets as ‘damnable heresy’ in 1922 perish on an oxygen-powered summit attempt two years later? And above all\, what made him go back to Everest for the third time? \n\n\n\nBased on diaries\, letters\, memoirs and thousands of contemporary documents\, Fallen is both a forensic account of Mallory’s last expedition to Everest in 1924 and an attempt to get under his skin and separate the man from the myth. \n\n\n\nMick Conefrey is an award winning writer and documentary maker. He made the landmark BBC series Mountain Men and Icemen and The Race for Everest to mark the 60th anniversary of the first ascent. His previous books include Everest 1953\, the winner of a LeggiMontagna award\, and The Ghosts of K2 which won a US National Outdoor Book award in 2017. \n\n\n\nTickets £12.00/£6.00 (students)
URL:https://dorchesterliteraryfestival.com/event/mick-conefrey-fallen/
LOCATION:The Dorford Centre\, 2 Bridport Road\, Dorchester\, Dorset\, DT1 1RR\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Adult
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SUMMARY:Tom Baldwin – Keir Starmer\, The Biography
DESCRIPTION:This authoritative biography by Tom Baldwin provides answers by drawing deeply on many hours of interviews with the Labour leader himself\, as well as unprecedented access to members of his family\, his oldest friends and closest colleagues. \n\n\n\nTogether\, they tell an unexpectedly intimate story filled with feelings of grief and love that has driven him on more than any rigid ideology or loyalty to a particular faction. \n\n\n\nThe book tracks Starmer’s emergence from a troubled small town background and rebellious youth\, through a storied legal career as a human rights barrister and the country’s chief prosecutor\, to becoming an MP relatively late in life. \n\n\n\nBaldwin provides a vivid and compelling account of how this untypical politician then rose to be leader of his party in succession to Jeremy Corbyn\, then transformed it with a ruthless rapidity that has enraged opponents from the left just as much as it has bewildered those on the right. \n\n\n\nAbove all\, this is a book that should be read by anyone who wants to understand how someone who has too often been underestimated or dismissed as dull\, now intends to change Britain. \n\n\n\nThis will be the most important political book of the year’ MATTHEW D’ANCONA\, EVENING STANDARD \n\n\n\n‘The first serious and consistently readable biography of Starmer…It is a wonder that he has said so much to Baldwin’ PATRICK MAGUIRE\, THE TIMES \n\n\n\n‘Required reading for anyone who has an interest in who governs Britain’ ALASTAIR CAMPBELL \n\n\n\n‘Highly readable… Baldwin has peeled back more layers than anyone else’ ROBERT SHRIMSLEY\, FINANCIAL TIMES \n\n\n\n‘Tom Baldwin’s portrait is of a tough\, conscientious\, and kindly man with the right values’ ANDREW MARR\, NEW STATESMAN \n\n\n\n‘A highly informative\, illuminating and insightful biography… the most complete portrait we have yet been offered’ OBSERVER \n\n\n\nTom Baldwin is a journalist and writer who has worked for The Times and The Sunday Telegraph. He was a senior political adviser to Ed Miliband and the Labour Party’s director of communications and strategy. \n\n\n\nTom Baldwin will be in conversation with Danny Danziger. \n\n\n\nTickets £12.00/£6.00 (students)
URL:https://dorchesterliteraryfestival.com/event/tom-baldwin-keir-starmer-the-biography/
LOCATION:The Dorford Centre\, 2 Bridport Road\, Dorchester\, Dorset\, DT1 1RR\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Adult
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SUMMARY:Michael Mansfield – The Power in the People
DESCRIPTION:The internationally renowned human rights barrister shows us how the powerto change the world is in the hands of people\, not the people in power.‘I want this book to inspire people\, give them a blueprint for fighting their own battles\, and challenge the status quo. To see that together\, we are always stronger. To understand that those who stand in the way of change cannot do so forever.’ Michael Mansfield\, KC \n\n\n\nBarrister Michael Mansfield\, KC \, has spent his career fighting injustice\, persecution and corruption. And be it the Birmingham Six\, Bloody Sunday\, Stephen Lawrence\, the Marchioness\, Hillsborough or Grenfell\, he has come to learn one thing – that people power is unstoppable. Time and again he has witnessed governments\, police forces\, legal institutions and the establishment\, try to block change and maintain the status quo in order to protect their interests. But almost every time he has seen that passion\, perseverance\, collectivity and courage create a powerful momentum which is increasingly difficult to stop. \n\n\n\nIn this short but powerful book\, the veteran barrister draws upon his 50 years of fighting for justice and revisits his most important cases and clients\, proving without doubt that when people get together they can make lasting and positive change. The power is in the people – not the people in power. \n\n\n\nMichael Mansfield KC is an English barrister and head of chambers at Nexus Chambers. He was recently described as “The king of human rights work” by The Legal 500 and as a leading Silk in civil liberties and human rights. \n\n\n\nTickets £12.00/£6.00 (students)
URL:https://dorchesterliteraryfestival.com/event/michael-mansfield-the-power-in-the-people/
LOCATION:The Dorford Centre\, 2 Bridport Road\, Dorchester\, Dorset\, DT1 1RR\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Adult
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SUMMARY:Jonathan Dimbleby – Endgame 1944: How Stalin Won The War
DESCRIPTION:June 1944. Operation Bagration: the greatest defeat ever suffered by the German Armed Forces. More than two million Red Army soldiers\, facing 500\,000 German adversaries\, finally avenged their defeat in Operation Barbarossa three years earlier. In the ensuing three weeks\, Hitler’s Army Group Centre lost 28 of its 32 divisions.While the same month saw the Allies triumph on the beaches of Normandy\, it was in fact the events on the Eastern Front in 1944 that were the knockout blow in the Second World War. Despite the myths that remain today\, it was this brutal struggle from the Baltic to the Black Sea that saw the Wehrmacht crucially defeated.Drawing on previously untranslated German and Russian sources – many from ‘ordinary’ soldiers – bestselling historian Jonathan Dimbleby describes and analyses with authority and panache this momentous year in the East. He illuminates the bloody battles that raged along the 2000 kilometres-long front\, while also explaining the unusual roles played by deception\, the partisans\, and the war within a war in Ukraine.Dimbleby’s gripping\, masterly narrative sets the drama of the relationships between the “big three” of Churchill\, Roosevelt and Stalin against the history being created on the battlefield\, and shows how his victories in 1944 enabled the Soviet leader to dictate the terms of the post-war settlement and lay the foundations for the Cold War. \n\n\n\nJonathan Dimbleby is the author of The Battle of the Atlantic and Destiny in the Desert: The Road to El Alamein\, which was shortlisted for the Hessell-Tiltman Prize and was followed by his BBC2 programme Churchill’s Desert War. His other books include\, Russia: A Journey to the Heart of a Land and Its People\, Richard Dimbleby: A Biography\, The Palestinians\, The Prince of Wales: A Biography and The Last Governor: Chris Patten and the Handover of Hong Kong. \n\n\n\nJonathan Dimbleby will be in conversation with Allan Mallinson. \n\n\n\nTickets £12.00/£6.00 (students)
URL:https://dorchesterliteraryfestival.com/event/jonathan-dimbleby-endgame-1944/
LOCATION:The Dorford Centre\, 2 Bridport Road\, Dorchester\, Dorset\, DT1 1RR\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Adult
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SUMMARY:Mike Brearley – Turning Over the Pebbles
DESCRIPTION:Mike Brearley reviews his life with all its attendant emotions\, tensions and moves\, in what he calls ‘memoir of the mind’. This is book of his second thoughts and reassessments\, allowing him to understand more fully things that were obscure to him earlier. After all\, he says\, ‘captaining ourselves\, like captaining a team\, requires a willingness to allow thoughts and feelings their space’.Deeply thoughtful\, erudite and elegantly framed\, this book seamlessly blends all aspects of Brearley’s life into a single integrated narrative. With wide-ranging meditations on sport\, philosophy\, literature\, religion\, leadership\, psychoanalysis\, music and more\, Brearley delves into his private passions and candidly examines the various shifts\, conflicts and triumphs of his extraordinary life and career\, both on and off the field. \n\n\n\nMike Brearley was educated at Cambridge\, where he read classics and moral sciences\, and captained the university. He played for Middlesex County Cricket Club intermittently from 1961 to 1970\, and regularly from 1971\, captaining the side until his retirement in 1982. He first played for England in 1976 and captained the side from 1977 to 1980\, winning seventeen test matches and losing only four. He was recalled to the captaincy in 1981 for the Ashes home series\, leading England to one of their most famous victories. From 1981\, he trained and continues to work as a psychoanalyst\, and is a lecturer both on leadership and on psychoanalysis. He is the author of the bestselling The Art of Captaincy\, On Form\, On Cricket\, Spirit of Cricket and has written on cricket and the psychology of sport for the Sunday Times\, Observer\, The Times and Prospect. \n\n\n\nMike Brearley will be in conversation with Paul Atterbury. \n\n\n\nTickets £12/£6 (Students)
URL:https://dorchesterliteraryfestival.com/event/mike-brearley-turning-over-the-pebbles/
LOCATION:The Dorford Centre\, 2 Bridport Road\, Dorchester\, Dorset\, DT1 1RR\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Adult
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