PIP Hare, only the ninth woman in history to complete the Vendée Globe round the world race, is coming to Poole’s Lighthouse arts centre to give a talk on Tuesday 6th July. Pip has announced that she has renewed her partnership with Medallia and bought a foiling IMOCA yacht for her 2024 Vendée Globe campaign….
DONALD Trump is not someone with whom you would associate any kind of literary or cultural interests, so who would have dreamed that the former reality star turned president would have played a part in introducing two new Friends to the Wells Festival of Literature? Last year, Richard Gibson and Reinhart Unger from Florida realised…
THE Bath Festival is back – one of the first major arts events since the end of lockdown, the annual celebration of music and books runs from Monday 17th to Monday 24th May, with more than 40 events in some of the city’s most beautiful venues. Musical highlights include the already sold out Gesualdo Six at…
IN these long months of lockdown with foreign travel still a dream, those of us who love to explore, whether it’s rural France, the American West or the Amazon jungle, have had to make do with films, newspaper articles and travel books. Di Murrell has lived and worked on waterways in this country for most…
THE Daily Mail Chalke Valley History Festival, the UK’s largest celebration of history, will be back this year, from 23rd to 27th June, returning after the pandemic caused the cancellation of all major festivals and events in 2020. The festival, at its spectacular setting on farmland at Church Bottom, Broad Chalke, will run from the…
SIX cottages on the Longleat estate, some dating back to the 18th century, are being converted into rural escapes, with the first three due to be available for bookings from April. The project to transform a collection of cottages on the Longleat Estate into luxury retreats has revealed their fascinating history. As part of the…
WIMBORNE-based Millstream Theatre and the Museum of East Dorset are putting on a second screening of the new short film,The Woodcutter and the Swan, created on Zoom during 2020, on 25th March 2021 at 7.30pm. The Woodcutter and the Swan, based on a magical folk tale, was originally a devised theatre piece. Due to Covid-19,…
A NEW play, commissioned by Poole’s Lighthouse arts centre, which will be performed in the open air in June, will explore the lives, hopes and dreams of young people in Poole. Writer Andrew Muir’s play will provide a snapshot of the struggles they have faced living with the extraordinary pressures of the coronavirus pandemic. Commissioned…
RENAISSANCE music in the Roman baths, Mel Giedroyc talking about her new book, the super-musical Kanneh-Mason family and a guided walk around the Bridgerton locations – this year’s Bath Festivals promises delights and treats for all tastes. The festival, including music from medieval to contemporary, world, rock and more, and literature, comedy and poetry, will…
THE Netflix hit Bridgerton had viewers round the world hooked on the roller-coaster love affair of beautiful Daphne Bridgerton and her dashing Duke. Many of the scenes were filmed in Bath, and this year’s Bath Festivals will include a walking tour of the locations. The Regency romp was a storming success with more than 82…