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SUMMARY:Tim Spector – Ferment – The life changing power of microbes
DESCRIPTION:Tim Spector is on a mission to bring fermenting into our lives and kitchens. Drawing on the latest science and his own experiments\, Ferment is an accessible introduction to the life-changing benefits of fermentation – for beginners and enthusiasts alike. \n\n\n\nFermenting is one of the most ancient\, nutritious and cheap techniques for preparing and preserving food and drink. With little more than time\, patience and basic equipment\, the humblest of ingredients can be transformed into nutritious foods with an astonishing range of benefits for our gut health\, immunity and daily mood. Including practical tips and some of his favourite recipes\, Ferment cuts through myths and misunderstanding to help us navigate the fascinating world of ferments and shows how they can help improve our health\, our meal times and our planet.Tim Spector is Professor of Epidemiology at King’s College London. He is the bestselling author of The Diet Myth\, Spoon-Fed\, Food for Life and The Food for Life Cookbook\, and scientific co-founder of ZOE\, the nutrition science company. With a focus on cutting-edge science and honoured with an OBE for his work in fighting Covid-19\, Tim stands at the forefront of his field. The original pioneer of microbiome research\, he is among the top 100 most cited scientists in the world. \n\n\n\nTim Spector will be in conversation with Jenny Devitt. \n\n\n\nPlease note there is an overlap between this event and the preceding one\, so you will not be able to attend both. \n\n\n\nTickets £14.00 (£10.00 Students)
URL:https://dorchesterliteraryfestival.com/event/tim-spector-ferment-the-life-changing-power-of-microbes/
LOCATION:The Dorford Centre\, 2 Bridport Road\, Dorchester\, Dorset\, DT1 1RR\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Adult
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SUMMARY:Quentin Letts – Nunc
DESCRIPTION:Sunday Times bestselling author Quentin Letts pens a new novel: a modern twist on one of the greatest (yet underlooked) narratives in Christianity: The ‘Nunc Dimittis’\, based on ten verses in St Luke’s Gospel. This is the story of Simeon\, a man who was told he would not die before he saw the Messiah. He waited at the Temple in Jerusalem until he saw the infant Jesus. \n\n\n\nBut who was Simeon? Why did he wait? And how did the month-old Jesus escape King Herod’s infamous massacre of the infants? \n\n\n\nNunc! transports you to the Jerusalem of Herod the Great\, where Simeon’s old army friend Reuben runs a tea stall selling heavenly honey cakes and fig bread in Deuteronomy Square. When Bildad the beekeeper’s hive goes missing\, grocer’s boy Benjamin\, owner of a mule and cart that might be a getaway vehicle\, is a suspect. The drawlingly subversive Zillah\, whose political salon lends her influence\, and Simeon’s long-suffering landlady Noor intervene\, enduring a power-mad Roman centurion\, Lucilius\, and the snivelling authoritarian Kedar\, the city’s clerk of works. Quentin Letts brings first-century Jerusalem to life and helps an ailing 21st-century Englishman come to terms with his future. \n\n\n\nQUENTIN LETTS is political sketch writer for the Daily Mail. A regular broadcaster on radio and television\, he was formerly New York correspondent for The Times\, gossip columnist for the Daily Telegraph\, theatre critic for the Sunday Times and parliamentary sketch writer for The Times. He is the author of the Sunday Times bestseller 50 People Who Buggered Up Britain. His hobbies are gossip\, hymn-singing and cricket. He lives in rural Herefordshire. \n\n\n\nQuentin Letts will be in conversation with Lulu Taylor. \n\n\n\nTickets £12.00 (£8.00 Students) \n\n\n\nPlease note that there is an overlap between this event and the following one and you will not be able to attend both.
URL:https://dorchesterliteraryfestival.com/event/quentin-letts-nunc/
LOCATION:The Brownsword Hall\, Pummery Square\, Poundbury\, Dorchester\, Dorset\, DT1 3GW\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Adult
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SUMMARY:Dr Julie Smith – Open When
DESCRIPTION:Million-copy bestselling psychologist Dr Julie Smith is back with the book for when being human starts to get complicated. When you feel overwhelmed\, pressure to perform\, are grieving\, are making big decisions\, when you get it wrong as a parent\, when you want to win the argument\, when you’re overthinking everything\, when you want to fit in\, and more. \n\n\n\nEach chapter begins with a letter from Dr Julie to the reader offering comfort and perspective and follows with her trademark simple and straightforward advice to help you see clearly how best to respond and act. \n\n\n\nDr Julie Smith is the nation’s favourite psychologist. An author\, online educator and Clinical Psychologist\, Julie has a combined following of almost nine million. She shot to fame with viral videos on social media\, and her drive to create accessible\, good quality mental health resources\, that were rooted in her decade of experience as a Clinical Psychologist led to her writing Why Has Nobody Told Me This Before? A publishing phenomenon\, the book spent over 100 weeks in the UK Sunday Times bestseller charts with 23 of those at #1. \n\n\n\nTickets £14.00 (£10.00 Students)
URL:https://dorchesterliteraryfestival.com/event/dr-julie-smith-open-when/
LOCATION:The Dorford Centre\, 2 Bridport Road\, Dorchester\, Dorset\, DT1 1RR\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Adult
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SUMMARY:Max Hastings – Sword
DESCRIPTION:On 6 June 1944\, when the Allied armies landed on D-Day\, the Second World War had already lasted almost five years. Yet many of the British and American troops who invaded Normandy were virgin soldiers\, never before committed to battle. They quit summer England to face\, within hours\, a storm of machine-gun and mortar fire. They witnessed scenes\, above all of sudden death\, such as no exercise had prepared them for.    \n\n\n\nIn Sword\, veteran chronicler of war Max Hastings explores with extraordinary vividness the actions of the Commando brigade\, Montgomery’s 3rd Infantry and 6th Airborne divisions on and around a single British beach.  He describes their frustrations\, hopes\, loves and fears through the apparently interminable years training and preparing in England\, then their triumphs and tragedies on the beach and beyond. Here are the airborne assaults on the Caen Canal bridge and Merville Battery\, the battles on the shoreline and against the German strongpoints inland\, narrated and explained with all the insights that Hastings’ decades of study\, veterans’ interviews and new archive research enable him to deploy.   \n\n\n\nThe book offers a searching analysis of why British troops did not reach Caen on 6 June\, as Montgomery had promised Churchill that they would – and the story of the brigadier who was sacked for that failure. There is also a host of personal portraits of key figures from commando leader Lord Lovat\, famously brave but supremely arrogant\, to tank colonel Jim Eadie\, whose tanks of the Staffordshire Yeomanry repulsed a panzer division in the last hours of 6 June\, and some of the humbler participants to whom extraordinary things happened. This is D-Day as you have never read the story told before. \n\n\n\nMax Hastings is the author of more than thirty books\, many of them about 20th Century wars\, including All Hell Let Loose\, Catastrophe\, Vietnam and Abyss. In his early years as a correspondent\, he reported on eleven conflicts including Vietnam\, the 1973 Yom Kippur and 1982 Falklands wars for the BBC and various newspapers. A former editor-in-chief of The Daily Telegraph\, he has won many awards both for his journalism and books\, including Journalist of the Year\, Reporter of the Year\, Editor of the Year\, together with a Somerset Maugham Prize and two RUSI Westminster Medals. He contributes to The Times\, reviews books for the Sunday Times and writes a column for Bloomberg Inc. \n\n\n\nTickets £14.00 (£10.00 Students)
URL:https://dorchesterliteraryfestival.com/event/max-hastings-sword/
LOCATION:The Dorford Centre\, 2 Bridport Road\, Dorchester\, Dorset\, DT1 1RR\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Adult
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SUMMARY:Gordon Corera – The Spy in the Archive
DESCRIPTION:How do you steal a library? Not just any library but the most secret archive in the world. The answer is to be a librarian. To be so quiet\, that no-one knows what you are up to as you toil undercover over decades and so low key\, that even after your escape\, aided by MI6\, no-one even notices you are gone. \n\n\n\nThe Spy in the Archive is the remarkable story of how Vasili Mitrokhin – an introverted archivist who loved nothing more than dusty files – ended up changing the world. \n\n\n\nAs the in-house archivist for the KGB\, the secrets he was exposed to inside its walls turned him first into a dissident and then a spy\, a man determined to expose the truth about the dark forces that had subverted Russia\, forces still at work in the country today. \n\n\n\nThis is the story of one man’s journey from the heart of the Soviet state to disillusion and then betrayal and his determination to take on the most powerful institution in the world. \n\n\n\nGordon Corera is a journalist and writer on intelligence and security issues. Since 2004 he has been a Security Correspondent for BBC News where he covers terrorism\, cyber security\, the work of intelligence agencies and other national security issues for the BBC. He co-hosts The Rest is Classified podcast with former CIA analyst and spy novelist\, David McCloskey. \n\n\n\nGordon Corera will be in conversation with Kate Adie OBE. \n\n\n\nTickets £14.00 (£10.00 Students)
URL:https://dorchesterliteraryfestival.com/event/gordon-corera-the-spy-in-the-archive/
LOCATION:The Dorford Centre\, 2 Bridport Road\, Dorchester\, Dorset\, DT1 1RR\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Adult
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SUMMARY:Daisy Goodwin – Diva
DESCRIPTION:In this remarkable novel\, best-selling author Daisy Goodwin brings to life a woman whose extraordinary talent\, unremitting drive and natural chic made her a legend. But it was only in confronting the heartbreak of losing the man she loved that Maria Callas found her true voice. \n\n\n\nIn the glittering and ruthlessly competitive world of opera\, Maria Callas is known simply as La Divina: the divine one. With her glorious voice\, instinctive flair for the dramatic and striking beauty\, she’s the toast of the grandest opera houses in the world. Yet her fame has been hard won: raised in Nazi-occupied Greece by a mother who mercilessly exploited her\, Maria learned early in life how to protect herself. When she meets the fabulously rich shipping magnate\, Aristotle Onassis\, her isolation melts away. For the first time in her life\, she believes she’s found a man who sees Maria the woman rather than the legendary soprano. Desperately in love\, Callas follows Onassis into the world of International Café Society\, mixing with celebrities like Elizabeth Taylor\, Richard Burton\, Princess Grace and the Duke and Duchess of Windsor. And then\, suddenly\, it’s over. The international press announced that Onassis will marry the most famous woman in the world\, former First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy\, leaving Maria to pick up the pieces. \n\n\n\nDaisy Goodwin will discuss Maria Callas’s colourful life\, accompanied by live performances by Josephine Goddard\, a celebrated soprano\, and in conversation with Lulu Taylor. \n\n\n\nTickets £14.00 (£10.00 Students)
URL:https://dorchesterliteraryfestival.com/event/daisy-goodwin-diva/
LOCATION:The Dorford Centre\, 2 Bridport Road\, Dorchester\, Dorset\, DT1 1RR\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Adult
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