Event Lineup For The Dorchester Literary Arts Festival 2024
Sunday, October 13th, 2024
This week, Dorchester proudly celebrates its 10th anniversary of the Dorchester Literary Arts Festival, which is a vibrant and much-looked-forward-to event taking place across the town. The festival is a must-attend for book enthusiasts in Dorset, offering many engaging and educational events that include thought-provoking talks, engaging discussions and interactive sessions with some of the most highly regarded authors in the literary world.
This year’s lineup is nothing short of extraordinary, featuring an incredibly diverse and talented collective of writers. To mention but a few of the highlights, Clare Balding, Kate Mosse, Jack Cornish and Nigel Toon are coming together in a mass of brilliant minds that will share their insight and stories.
If you are a bookworm intending to get involved in this great event, which promises to be a grand celebration of literature, then join in the activities happening around Dorchester from Saturday 12th October to Saturday 19th October. To discover more about what’s going on at the 10th anniversary of the Festival, we have listed the events taking place this week. Keep reading to see what’s going on this week in Dorchester.
What’s on at The Dorchester Literary Festival?
This year’s Dorchester Literary Festival features 34 events spread across eight exciting days. Explore the full schedule of events below to see what’s happening each day.
Saturday 12th October
Rory Cellan-Jones – Sophie From Romania
12:00 – 13:00: The Dorford Centre 2 Bridport Road, Dorchester, Dorset, United Kingdom
Get Tickets £6.00 – £12.00
John Suchet – In Search of Beethoven: A Personal Journey
14:00 – 15:00: The Dorford Centre 2 Bridport Road, Dorchester, Dorset, United Kingdom
Get Tickets £6.00 – £12.00
Saul David – Sky Warriors
16:00–17:00: The Dorford Centre 2 Bridport Road, Dorchester, Dorset, United Kingdom
Get Tickets £6.00 – £12.00
Kate Mosse – The Map of Bones
17:30–18:30: The Dorford Centre 2 Bridport Road, Dorchester, Dorset, United Kingdom
Get Tickets £6.00 – £12.00
Ben Macintyre – The Siege
19:30–20:30: The Dorford Centre 2 Bridport Road, Dorchester, Dorset, United Kingdom
Get Tickets £6.00 – £12.00
Sunday 13th October
Wessex Writers – A Literary Walk
12:00–14:00: Thomas Hardy Statue The Grove, Dorchester, Dorset
SOLD OUT
Monday 14th October
Martin Gayford – How Painting Happens (and why it matters)
12:00–13:00: Dorset Museum High West Street, Dorchester, United Kingdom
Get Tickets £6.00 – £12.00
Gavin Pretor-Pinney – Cloud Spotting For Beginners
16:00–17:00: Dorset Museum High West Street, Dorchester, United Kingdom
Get Tickets £6.00 – £12.00
Jack Cornish – The Lost Paths
18:00–19:00: Dorset Museum High West Street, Dorchester, United Kingdom
Get Tickets £6.00 – £12.00
Tuesday 15th October
Nigel Toon – How AI Thinks
10:30–11:30: Dorset Museum High West Street, Dorchester, United Kingdom
Get Tickets £6.00 – £12.00
Jim Down – Life in the Balance
12:00–13:00: Dorset Museum High West Street, Dorchester, United Kingdom
Get Tickets £6.00 – £12.00
Tim Spicer – A Suspicion of Spies
14:00–15:00: Dorset Museum High West Street, Dorchester, United Kingdom
Get Tickets £6.00 – £12.00
Sir Robin Niblett – The New Cold War
16:00–17:00: Dorset Museum High West Street, Dorchester, United Kingdom
Get Tickets £6.00 – £12.00
Tracy Chevalier – The Glassmaker
18:00–19:00: The Dorford Centre 2 Bridport Road, Dorchester, Dorset, United Kingdom
Get Tickets £6.00 – £12.00
Wednesday 16th October
Christina Hart Davies and Vanessa Berridge – A Herbal Year and Garden Heaven
10:30–11:30: The Dorford Centre 2 Bridport Road, Dorchester, Dorset, United Kingdom
Get Tickets £6.00 – £12.00
Anne Somerset – Queen Victoria and her Prime Ministers
12:00–13:00: The Dorford Centre 2 Bridport Road, Dorchester, Dorset, United Kingdom
Get Tickets £6.00 – £12.00
Scotty Mills – Never Give In
14:00–15:00: The Dorford Centre 2 Bridport Road, Dorchester, Dorset, United Kingdom
Get Tickets £6.00 – £12.00
Rachel de Thame – A Flower Garden for Pollinators
16:00–17:00: The Dorford Centre 2 Bridport Road, Dorchester, Dorset, United Kingdom
Get Tickets £6.00 – £12.00
Alan Hollinghurst – Our Evenings
18:00–19:00: The Dorford Centre 2 Bridport Road, Dorchester, Dorset, United Kingdom
Get Tickets £6.00 – £12.00
Thursday 17th October
James Holland – Cassino ’44
12:00–13:00: The Dorford Centre 2 Bridport Road, Dorchester, Dorset, United Kingdom
Get Tickets £6.00 – £12.00
Victoria Hislop – The Figurine
14:00–15:00: The Dorford Centre 2 Bridport Road, Dorchester, Dorset, United Kingdom
Get Tickets £6.00 – £12.00
The Oldie Event – Giles Wood and Mary Killen – Country Life – in conversation with Harry Mount
16:00–17:00: The Dorford Centre 2 Bridport Road, Dorchester, Dorset, United Kingdom
Get Tickets £6.00 – £12.00
Kate Humble – Where the Hearth Is
18:00–19:00: The Dorford Centre 2 Bridport Road, Dorchester, Dorset, United Kingdom
Get Tickets £6.00 – £12.00
Friday 18th October
Adam Nicolson – How to Be
11:00–12:00: The Dorford Centre 2 Bridport Road, Dorchester, Dorset, United Kingdom
Get Tickets £6.00 – £12.00
Polly Toynbee and David Walker – The Only Way is Up
13:00–14:00: The Dorford Centre 2 Bridport Road, Dorchester, Dorset, United Kingdom
Get Tickets £6.00 – £12.00
Tom Heap – Land Smart
15:00–16:00: The Dorford Centre 2 Bridport Road, Dorchester, Dorset, United Kingdom
Get Tickets £6.00 – £12.00
Clare Balding – Isle of Dogs
17:00–18:00: The Dorford Centre 2 Bridport Road, Dorchester, Dorset, United Kingdom
Get Tickets £20.00
Pam Ayres – Doggedly Onwards: The Collected Poems
19:00–20:00: The Dorford Centre 2 Bridport Road, Dorchester, Dorset, United Kingdom
SOLD OUT
Saturday 19th October
Chris Atkins – Time After Time
10:30–11:30: The Dorford Centre 2 Bridport Road, Dorchester, Dorset, United Kingdom
Get Tickets £6.00 – £12.00
Mick Conefrey – Fallen
12:00–13:00: The Dorford Centre 2 Bridport Road, Dorchester, Dorset, United Kingdom
Get Tickets £6.00 – £12.00
Tom Baldwin – Keir Starmer, The Biography
13:30–14:30: The Dorford Centre 2 Bridport Road, Dorchester, Dorset, United Kingdom
Get Tickets £12.00
Michael Mansfield – The Power in the People
15:30–16:30: The Dorford Centre 2 Bridport Road, Dorchester, Dorset, United Kingdom
Get Tickets £6.00 – £12.00
Jonathan Dimbleby – Endgame 1944: How Stalin Won The War
17:30–18:30: The Dorford Centre 2 Bridport Road, Dorchester, Dorset, United Kingdom
Get Tickets £12.00
Mike Brearley – Turning Over the Pebbles
19:30–20:30: The Dorford Centre 2 Bridport Road, Dorchester, Dorset, United Kingdom
Get Tickets £6.00 – £12.00
Visit the Dorchester Literary Festival Website
For a full list of details on each of the events listed, please visit the Dorchester Literary Arts Festival website. Here you can download the 2024 Dorchester Literary Festival 2024 brochure to discover more about what’s going on.
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