Bridport Literary Festival: Day 6
Event Details
Day Six: Friday 07 November
Special Event | Charlie Fuge | Story Reading and Drawing Workshop
10am at Bridport Library, South Street, Bridport DT6 3NY
Tickets: FREE from Bridport Tourist Information Centre 01308 424901 or online Charlie Fuge
Festival favourite Charlie Fuge will bring his fabulous illustrations to life with an hour in Bridport Library for year 2s and any homeschoolers who wish to join. Charlie will be reading from books he has written and illustrated, and showing how he sketches the pictures in his head onto paper. Children will be able to see their own story characters come to life, and draw creatures of their own.
Event 34 | Andrew Lownie | Entitled
12noon at The Electric Palace, 35 South Street, Bridport DT6 3NY
Tickets: £16.00 from Bridport Tourist Information Centre 01308 424901 or online via the Electric Palace website Andrew Lownie
Packed full of extraordinary revelations, Entitled is the first joint biography of the Duke and Duchess of York. Drawing on four years of research and interviews, biographer Andrew Lownie chronicles their lives in parallel through childhood, courtship, careers and divorce. The picture that emerges is of a spoilt prince unable to connect and a duchess pushed by her insecurities into a desperate need to maintain the attention her ‘royal’ status brought. Rigorously researched and packed full of revelations, this is eyewatering biography at its best
Event 35 | Lyse Doucet | The Finest Hotel In Kabul
2pm at The Electric Palace, 35 South Street, Bridport DT6 3NY
Tickets: £16.00 THIS EVENT HAS SOLD OUT
When the Intercontinental opened in Kabul in 1969, Afghanistan’s first luxury hotel symbolised a dream of a modernising country connecting to the world. Fifty years later, the hotel is still standing having endured Soviet occupation, multiple coups, a grievous civil war, a US invasion and the rise, fall and rise of the Taliban. Lyse Doucet, the BBC’s Chief International Correspondent, has been checking into the Intercontinental since 1968. She uses its story to craft a richly immersive history of modern Afghanistan.
Event 36 | Sophy Roberts | A Training School for Elephants
4pm at The Electric Palace, 35 South Street, Bridport DT6 3NY
Tickets: £16.00 from Bridport Tourist Information Centre 01308 424901 or online via the Electric Palace website Sophy Roberts
Whilst on a family holiday in Ireland, travel writer Sophy Roberts stumbled across the long-forgotten story of an 1879 expedition when four Asian elephants were shipped from India to the East African coast and marched inland towards Congo. This ill-conceived idea of King Leopold II of Belgium was a cruel, misguided venture and part of his bid to plunder and exploit Africa’s rich resources. Following in the footsteps of the elephants, and uncovering memories and stories in the margins, she reveals an extraordinary — and enduring — story of colonial greed, ineptitude, hypocrisy and folly.
Event 37 | Mick Herron | Clown Town
6pm at The Electric Palace, 35 South Street, Bridport DT6 3NY
Tickets: £16.00 THIS EVENT HAS SOLD OUT
Clown Town is the latest spy thriller in the best-selling series Slough House that inspired the TV series SLOW HORSES. At Slough House, the repository for failed spies, River Cartwright is waiting to be passed fit for work. With time to kill and with his grandfather — a former legendary spy — long dead, he investigates the secrets of his grandfather’s library and a mysteriously missing book. Mick will be in conversation with Bridport-based crime writer Chris Chibnall, the creator of TV series Broadchurch and whose debut book Death At The White Hart was published this year.
Event 38 | Robert McCrum
7pm at Sladers Yard, West Bay Road, West Bay DT6 6EL
Tickets: £12.00 THIS EVENT HAS SOLD OUT
2025 sees the celebration of fifty years since the death of PG Wodehouse in American exile, on St Valentine’s Day, 1975. Today, the creator of Bertie Wooster, Jeeves, and Lord Emsworth holds an unrivalled position as Britain’s greatest comic writer. To mark this milestone, BridLit has invited Robert McCrum, to join Jason Webster in conversation. McCrum, the author of Wodehouse: A Life (2004), an acclaimed biography, will place PG Wodehouse in his late Victorian context, celebrate his brilliant style and examine the ‘truth about his wartime Broadcasts’.
More information about the festival can be found at http://www.bridlit.com
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