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SUMMARY:PBFA Dorchester Book Fair
DESCRIPTION:Independent sellers will be offering antiquarian & second hand books\, modern firsts\, signed editions\, prints\, maps and ephemera at the Dorchester book fair\, in the stunning Victorian Hall of the Dorset Museum & Art Gallery. Coinciding with the final day of the Dorchester Literary Festival – this is a new addition to a week packed with author talks and events\, which has become a calendar staple for book lovers on the South Coast. \n\n\n\nWhy not make a day of it and couple your visit with a tour of the Dorset Museum and Art Gallery\, including Thomas Hardy’s study and special collections library. \n\n\n\nOrganised by Endpaper Books. Members of the Provincial Booksellers Fairs Association | Instagram & Facebook @ endpaper_books \n\n\n\nEntry £1 – or download a complimentary ticket via the PBFA website – www.pbfa.org
URL:https://dorchesterliteraryfestival.com/event/pbfa-dorchester-book-fair/
LOCATION:Dorset Museum\, High West Street\, Dorchester\, DT1 1XA\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:Christopher Summerfield – These Strange New Minds
DESCRIPTION:In the first authoritative book to explain how AI works and what it means\, the Research Director at the UK government’s AI Safety Institute explains how advances in digital technology have given us a new wave of disarmingly human-like AI systems\, set to upturn our economies\, challenge  democracies\, and refashion society in unpredictable ways. These systems will soon be making autonomous decisions on the user’s behalf\, transforming everything we do.  \n\n\n\nChristopher Summerfield shows you how AI actually works in language anyone can understand\, explaining how ChatGPT and Bard have set off a meteoric rise in interest surrounding AI but all we’re talking about are techno-utopias or predictions of doom. Can AI systems ‘think’\, ‘know’ and ‘understand’? Could they manipulate or deceive you\, and if so\, what might they make you do? Whose interests do they ultimately represent? And when will they be able to move beyond words and take actions for themselves in the real world? Ultimately\, can we look forward to a technological utopia\, or are we in the process of writing ourselves out of history? \n\n\n\nChristopher Summerfield is a Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience at Oxford\, and Research Director at the AI Safety Institute (AISI)\, the UK’s pioneering state-backed organisation dedicated to ensuring that advanced AI technology is both safe and beneficial for society. \n\n\n\nTickets £12.00 (£8.00 Students)
URL:https://dorchesterliteraryfestival.com/event/christopher-summerfield-these-strange-new-minds/
LOCATION:The Dorford Centre\, 2 Bridport Road\, Dorchester\, Dorset\, DT1 1RR\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Adult
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SUMMARY:Gyles Brandreth – Somewhere a Boy and a Bear – A Biography of A A Milne and Winnie-the- Pooh
DESCRIPTION:Next year marks the centenary of the publication of Winnie-the-Pooh\, one of the best-selling children’s books of all time. Best-selling biographer Gyles Brandreth knew the real Christopher Robin and his new book is both an intimate and revealing biography of A A Milne (to whom there was so much more than Pooh) and a fascinating exploration of fathers and sons\, children and their parents and the nature of childhood itself.   \n\n\n\nGyles Brandreth is a writer\, broadcaster\, actor\, former MP and Lord Commissioner of the Treasury\, now Chancellor of the University of Chester and one of Britain’s most sought-after award ceremony hosts and after-dinner speakers. A star of Celebrity Gogglebox\, a veteran of QI and Have I Got News For You\, a reporter on The One Show\, a presenter on Pointless\, a guest on Would I Lie to You? and Sunday Brunch\, a regular on This Morning\, and since the 1980s one of the mainstays of Just a Minute on BBC Radio 4\, his recent books include a biography of Queen Elizabeth II: Elizabeth: an intimate portrait – an immediate Sunday Times No 1 best-seller. \n\n\n\nTickets £32 including a copy of the book. £46 for two tickets including one book. Friends discount applies to ticket only.
URL:https://dorchesterliteraryfestival.com/event/gyles-brandreth-somewhere-a-boy-and-a-bear-the-extraordinary-story-of-a-a-milne-christopher-robin-and-winnie-the-pooh/
LOCATION:The Dorford Centre\, 2 Bridport Road\, Dorchester\, Dorset\, DT1 1RR\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Adult
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SUMMARY:Jonathan Sumption – The Challenges of Democracy
DESCRIPTION:Across the globe\, democracy is in crisis – in the UK it has been rocked by Brexit\, the pandemic and successive attempts by governments to bypass legal norms. But how did this happen\, and where might we go from here? In a  provocative series of essays\, former Supreme Court judge and Sunday Times-bestselling author\, Jonathan Sumption cuts through the political noise with acute analysis of the state of democracy today – from the vulnerabilities of international law\, to the deepening suppression of democracy activism in Hong Kong\, and from the complexities of human rights legislation to the defence of freedom of speech. \n\n\n\nTimely\, incisive and wholly original\, The Challenges of Democracy applies the brilliance of the ‘cleverest man in Britain’ to the most urgent and far-reaching political issue of our day. \n\n\n\nJonathan Sumption is a British judge and historian\, who served as a Supreme Court Justice from 2012 – 2018. He is the author of the Sunday Times bestseller Trials of the State\, Law in a Time of Crisis\, and Divided Houses\, which won the 2009 Wolfson History Prize. \n\n\n\nJonathan Sumption will be in conversation with Jo Durrant. \n\n\n\nTickets £14.00 (£10.00 Students)
URL:https://dorchesterliteraryfestival.com/event/jonathan-sumption-the-challenges-of-democracy/
LOCATION:The Dorford Centre\, 2 Bridport Road\, Dorchester\, Dorset\, DT1 1RR\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:Jeremy Vine – Murder on Line One
DESCRIPTION:Darkness looms over sunny Sidmouth\, when an unsolved murder comes to the attention of late-night radio talk show host Edward Temmis. \n\n\n\nRecently sacked from his beloved job after a devastating tragedy\, Edward is cast adrift – until he meets Stevie\, whose grandmother\, a devoted listener\, died in a suspicious fire last year. Well\, nobody hurts his listeners and helping Stevie might just give him the purpose he needs. \n\n\n\nJoined by his old fling\, Kim\, they discover Stevie’s grandmother wasn’t the only one of his listeners targeted – this is just the tip of the iceberg. \n\n\n\nBut who is pursuing his ageing audience and why? And can Edward\, Stevie and Kim get to the bottom of this mystery before it’s too late? \n\n\n\nJeremy Vine is a journalist and broadcaster who reaches millions of listeners and viewers per week. He hosts a daily breakfast show on Channel 5 and a peak slot on BBC Radio 2 every lunchtime\, presenting news\, views\, interviews and popular guests on Britain’s most listened-to radio news programme. He has previously hosted Eggheads\, Points of View\, Crimewatch and Panorama among others\, and presents the general election infographics. His early obsession was with Agatha Christie\, after his mum gave him Hercule Poirot’s Christmas when he was eleven. By eighteen he had read all sixty-six Agathas\, but he waited forty years to write about his first murder. He lives in London with his wife and two daughters. In his spare time\, he rides a penny farthing. \n\n\n\nTickets £14.00 (£10.00 Students)
URL:https://dorchesterliteraryfestival.com/event/jeremy-vine-murder-on-line-one/
LOCATION:The Dorford Centre\, 2 Bridport Road\, Dorchester\, Dorset\, DT1 1RR\, United Kingdom
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