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SUMMARY:Dr Lucy Pollock – The Golden Rule – Lessons in Living
DESCRIPTION:Today\, we are living longer lives\, and have choices now as never before about how we will age. What will make us happy? What are we frightened of? What might allay those fears? What changes\, made right now\, will help us to flourish as we age? This book contains lessons learned from thirty years of working with older people and those close to them. It looks at problems that can be fixed with tests and tablets\, and problems that require a different sort of medicine. Dr Lucy Pollock explains what she has been taught about loss\, about impossible families\, about becoming older without children\, and the things she has learned about sexuality\, race\, love\, and living with uncertainty. \n\n\n\nLucy believes the power has been in the wrong place for too long – medical teams have not always heard the voices of older people or those who love them. But if we are given power to influence the lives of our future selves\, how best shall we use it? What do we want? What difference can we make? This is the moment for us to act\, to set in place a better society for older people\, and to build the future we want for ourselves. \n\n\n\nLucy Pollock trained at Cambridge and at Bart’s Hospital and is now a Consultant Geriatrician in Somerset. She has been working with older people for 30 years\, and has learned useful things about life from a great many older people. She is the author of The Book About Getting Older. \n\n\n\nTickets £12.00 (£8.00 Students)
URL:https://dorchesterliteraryfestival.com/event/dr-lucy-pollock-the-golden-rule-lessons-in-living/
LOCATION:The Dorford Centre\, 2 Bridport Road\, Dorchester\, Dorset\, DT1 1RR\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Adult
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SUMMARY:Anne Sebba – The Women’s Orchestra of Auschwitz
DESCRIPTION:In 1943\, German SS officers in charge of Auschwitz-Birkenau ordered that an orchestra should be formed among the female prisoners. Almost fifty women and girls from eleven nations were drafted into a hurriedly assembled band that would play marching music to other inmates\, forced labourers who left each morning and returned\, exhausted and often broken\, at the end of the day. While still living amid the most brutal and dehumanising of circumstances\, they were also made to give weekly concerts for Nazi officers\, and individual members were sometimes summoned to give solo performances of an officer’s favourite piece of music. It was the only entirely female orchestra in any of the Nazi prison camps and\, for almost all of the musicians chosen to take part\, being in the orchestra was to save their lives. \n\n\n\nWhat role could music play in a death camp? What was the effect on those women who owed their survival to their participation in a Nazi propaganda project? And how did it feel to be forced to provide solace to the perpetrators of a genocide that claimed the lives of their family and friends? In The Women’s Orchestra of Auschwitz\, award-winning historian Anne Sebba traces these tangled questions of deep moral complexity with sensitivity and care. \n\n\n\nFrom Alma Rosé\, the orchestra’s main conductor\, niece of Gustav Mahler and a formidable pre-war celebrity violinist\, to Anita Lasker-Wallfisch\, its teenage cellist and last surviving member\, Sebba draws on meticulous archival research and exclusive first-hand accounts to tell the full and astonishing story of the orchestra\, its members and the response of other prisoners for the first time. \n\n\n\nAnne Sebba is a historian and an award-winning biographer who began her career as a Reuters correspondent based in London and Rome. She has written eleven works of non-fiction\, mostly about iconic 20th century women\, that have been translated into a variety of languages including French\, Polish\, Czech\, Japanese and Chinese. Anne makes regular television and radio appearances and has presented two BBC radio documentaries about musicians. She is the author of the international bestseller That Woman\, an acclaimed biography of Wallis Simpson\, Duchess of Windsor\, and the prize-winning Les Parisiennes: How the Women of Paris Lived\, Loved and Died Under Nazi Occupation. Her most recent book was Ethel Rosenberg\, the Short Life and Great Betrayal of an American Wife and Mother\, shortlisted for the Wingate award. Anne is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature\, Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Historical Research and trustee of the National Archives Trust. She lives in London.  \n\n\n\nTickets £12.00 (£8.00 Students)
URL:https://dorchesterliteraryfestival.com/event/anne-sebba-the-womens-orchestra-of-auschwitz/
LOCATION:The Dorford Centre\, 2 Bridport Road\, Dorchester\, Dorset\, DT1 1RR\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Adult
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SUMMARY:Rev Richard Coles – A Death on Location
DESCRIPTION:In the spring of 1990\, we return to Champton\, where the characters we’ve come to love are all aflutter as a glamorous Hollywood movie takes over Champton House as its set location. \n\n\n\nAs the actors and extras hired from the village don their farthingales\, gowns and crowns for a masque set in the 1600s\, a murder interrupts filming on set – and it’s an ingenious one… \n\n\n\nCan Daniel solve the mystery with help from his sidekick Detective Sergeant Neil Vanloo – even when things are so sticky between them? \n\n\n\nRichard Coles is a writer\, broadcaster and an Anglican priest. He co-presented Saturday Live on BBC Radio 4 for a number of years and appears\, from time to time\, on QI\, Have I Got News For You and Would I Lie To You? He has won Christmas MasterChef\, Celebrity Mastermind twice\, and captained Leeds to victory in Christmas University Challenge in 2019. A contestant on Strictly Come Dancing (2017) and a third place finalist on I’m a Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here! (2024). \n\n\n\nHe writes regularly for the Sunday Times\, and is the author of half a dozen books\, including a bestselling autobiography\, Fathomless Riches\, and the bereavement bestseller The Madness of Grief\, written after the death of his partner\, David Coles. The first three books in the Canon Clement series have all been No.1 Sunday Times bestsellers. \n\n\n\nTickets £29 including a copy of the book. £43 for two tickets including one book. Friends discount only applies to ticket cost.
URL:https://dorchesterliteraryfestival.com/event/rev-richard-coles-a-death-on-set/
LOCATION:The Dorford Centre\, 2 Bridport Road\, Dorchester\, Dorset\, DT1 1RR\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Adult
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SUMMARY:Sarah Vine – How Not To Be a Political Wife
DESCRIPTION:An unflinching account of life at the heart of politics\, and what it’s like to have politics rip the heart out of your life. This is a story of high hopes and dirty tricks\, broken friendships and divided loyalties\, laughter and glamour.  \n\n\n\nRecollections\, as a great woman once said\, may of course vary\, but\, Sarah says: ‘this is my story\, the way I remember it\, written with no fear\, no favour – and no f…s left to give. Buckle up!’ \n\n\n\nI thought long and hard about writing this memoir. I’ve done so not to settle old scores or plead my case\, but more because I hope it’s a tale worth telling\, not just for those who are interested in the political events of the past few years\, but also because it’s about the people and characters behind those events\, and why things ended up the way they did. For nearly 20 years I was inside the rooms of government\, a sanctioned eavesdropper on the rise – and fall – of the Cameron style of Conservatism. At the same time I was building a career in journalism\, raising two children and doing my best to support my own husband\, Michael Gove\, on his political journey. I was both an insider and an outsider; an observer – via my journalism – as well as a participant in the cut and thrust (mainly cut\, if I’m honest) of frontline politics. \n\n\n\nAfter my divorce from Michael and the demise of the Conservatives’ Old Guard\, that all came to an end. I’m no longer officially a Westminster WAG\, but you won’t find me mourning. Politics trampled my health\, my happiness\, my marriage\, my sanity; it placed intolerable pressure on my loved ones\, especially my children; it twisted my sense of self\, and others’ sense of me; it tainted everything I did or said. I can’t say I miss it. I do\, however\, miss the life and the relationships I had before it all. These are the recollections of a survivor\, but they are also a love letter to all that was lost in the wreck.’Born in Wales in 1967\, Sarah grew up in Italy\, returning to the UK as a teenager. She read modern languages at UCL before moving into journalism\, starting at the Daily Mirror before joining The Times. Sarah is now an award-winning columnist for the Daily Mail and the Mail on Sunday. She lives in London with the kids and (too many) animals. \n\n\n\nSarah Vine will be in conversation with Jo Durrant \n\n\n\nTickets £14.00 (£10.00 Students)
URL:https://dorchesterliteraryfestival.com/event/sarah-vine-how-not-to-be-a-political-wife/
LOCATION:The Dorford Centre\, 2 Bridport Road\, Dorchester\, Dorset\, DT1 1RR\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Adult
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SUMMARY:John Agard and Philip Nanton – Caribbean Sensations
DESCRIPTION:Join us in a special event of poetry\, musicality and conversation to showcase the Caribbean culture that has helped to transform Britain. Featuring the acclaimed poet John Agard who has been a recipient of the Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry and whose poetry has been enjoyed by many generations of the public through the national curriculum\, alongside poet and broadcaster Philip Nanton who created the spoken word CD and book Island Voices\, it celebrates wordplay\, crossing cultures and the art of liming (going with the flow).  \n\n\n\nJohn Agard is an internationally acclaimed poet\, playwright and short story writer who grew up in Guyana\, where his love of language stemmed from listening to cricket commentaries on the radio as well as books.  As an admired cross-cultural voice\, he is well known for his inspiring work with young people and adults\, particularly his visits to schools. His poems have been studied at GCSE for decades which means that thousands of intergenerational families have grown up with his words and writing.  Agard was the first Poet in Residence for the BBC and he has been featured in numerous poetry and Windrush seasons on TV and radio.  A recipient of many prizes\, including the Smarties Book Prize and the Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry\, he was in 2021 awarded the prestigious BookTrust Lifetime Achievement Award for his outstanding contribution to children’s literature. His poems have been studied at GCSE for decades which means that thousands of intergenerational families have grown up with his words and writing.  \n\n\n\nPhilip Nanton is a poet\, a spoken word artist who often incorporates humour within his practice and a broadcaster who has presented programmes for BBC Radio 3 and 4. He was born in St.Vincent and the Grenadines and after spending substantial time in the UK\, has been based in Barbados since 2000. His career began in British local government policymaking and he has been an overseas consultant in many regions including Britain\, the Caribbean and Africa. Nanton has taught poetry to teachers across the Caribbean countries. He is the author of various books and cds including Island Voices from St. Christopher and the Barracudas has been widely acclaimed and has been performed at many literary festivals and shows including Miami International Book Fair\, Bocas Literary Festival. In 2021\, his biography of the  jazz virtuoso and award winning poet Shake Keane Riff: The Shake Keane Story was published by Papillote Press. \n\n\n\nThis event is presented and sponsored by Renaissance One\, co-produced by Wey Valley Academy\, supported by funding by Arts Council England and sponsorship from Authentic Education. \n\n\n\nTickets £12.00 (£8.00 Students)
URL:https://dorchesterliteraryfestival.com/event/john-agard-and-philip-nanton-caribbean-sensations/
LOCATION:The Dorford Centre\, 2 Bridport Road\, Dorchester\, Dorset\, DT1 1RR\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Adult
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