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A dramatic monologue performed by Rachel Alexander - as Rosalind Fuller - recounts the sisters’ three tours of America between 1911 and 1917. The drama is interspersed with the folk songs she and her sisters sang on farms, in the high class salons of wealthy women and even the White House. This piece, written by […]
Michael Langridge, in conversation with Dr Tracy Hayes , talks about The Second Mrs Clare, his sequel to Thomas Hardy’s ‘Tess'. https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/beyond-tess-tickets-567919902717
Writer Chris Taylor talks about his extraordinary career as a test pilot both with the Royal Navy and with civilian aircraft. https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/a-test-pilots-story-tickets-578649094017
Jane V. Adams talks about her latest book, Nature's Wonders, and how nature inspires her writing. https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/natures-wonders-tickets-593662870627
A family fun day in Okeford Fitzpaine. Free with donations to the play park upgrade project. https://www.facebook.com/groups/1163220527553321
42, The Wildly Improbable Ideas of Douglas Adams (Unbound 2023) is a lavishly illustrated coffee-table book which trawls through the personal papers, drafts, scripts, notebooks and diaries of the much-missed humorous author (and later tech guru) Douglas Adams, who died aged just 49, in 2001. A famous procrastinator, Adams regularly berated himself within the body […]
Joanne Burn discusses her new book, The Bone Hunters which is set in Lyme Regis, Dorset, with Jo Durrant. This event will be shown on Zoom.
In The Long Arc, Robin Walter reads a collection of nature and environmental-themed poems accompanied by music and imagery. ‘The Long Arc’ consists of 3 pieces of writing on environmental themes, accompanied by recorded music and visual images. ‘Arbor Vitae’ is a poetic version of Robin's book 'Living With Trees', with images by Juliet Wimhurst. […]
Elizabeth will talk about how she came to write Becoming Liz Taylor, the inspiration behind the story, the research she undertook, and why she chose to set it in Weston-super-Mare. She will explore the theme of loss in the novel, and the connection between grief, memory and stories. BECOMING LIZ TAYLOR tells the story of Val, […]
Set in the Somerset Levels, The House of Broken Bricks is Fiona William's debut novel. Fiona will be discussing the inspiration for the book and her writing with Jenny Devitt. Fiona Williams holds a BSc (Hons) in Biological Sciences from the University of Westminster and an MA with Distinction in Creative Writing from Bath Spa […]
Aged 60 and having lived with Parkinson’s disease for over 10 years, Guy Deacon CBE set out for one last adventure, to drive solo from his home in the UK to South Africa. This incredible journey, crossing Europe and the full length of Africa, would take the former army officer and father of two over […]
Wincanton Camera Club present a talk by Charlie Waite. Regarded as one of this country's top landscape photographers with a worldwide reputation, his photographs are held in private and corporate collections. Charlie has lectured throughout the UK, Europe and US with solo exhibitions in places such as London, Tokyo, Sydney, Brisbane, Melbourne, New York and […]
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