Tuesday 2nd June

13:30 -14:45Festival Patron
The Rt Hon Alan Johnson in conversation..
Harold Wilson: Twentieth Century Man
15:30 -16:45Terri Apter: Grandparenting: On Love and Relationships Across Generations
17:30 – 18:45Damien Boyd
Blue Blood: a DI Nick Dixon Novel

Wednesday 3rd June

10:30 -11:45Nicola Moorby
Turner and Constable: Art, Life, Landscape
13:30 -14:45Midge Gillies
Atlantic Furies: The Women Who Risked Everything To Be The First To Fly
15:30- 16:45Gabriel Weston in conversation..
Alive: An Alternative Anatomy
17:30 – 18:45Liam Shaw
The Dangerous Miracle: A Natural History Of Antibiotics

Thursday 4th June

10:30 – 11:45Rachel Trethewey
Muv: The Story Of The Mitford Girls’ Mother
13:30 – 14:45Andrew Lownie
Entitled: The Rise and Fall of The House of York
15:30 -16:45Alexander Ballinger
Phyllis Dalton: A Career In Costume
17:30 – 18:45Tristan Gooley in conversation..
The Hidden Seasons

Friday 5th June

13:30 – 14:45Amy Jeffs
Old Songs: Stories of Love and Death from Traditional Ballads
15:30 – 16:45Peter Carpenter Bowieland: Walking In the Footsteps of David
17:30 – 18:45Andy Brown Poetry, Music and Open Mic
19.30-22:00

Dr Matthew Spring 
Held at Ilminster Art Centre
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Saturday 6th June

10:30 – 12:30Children’s Writing Competition
Prize-giving
Zohra Nabi and Adam Dance MP
Open event
13:30 – 14:45Petroc Trelawny in conversation..
Trelawny’s Cornwall: A Journey Through Western Lands
15:30 -16:45Monisha Rajesh in conversation..
Moonlight Express:
Around the World by Night Train
17:30 – 18:45Edward Wilson- Lee and Jeff Wilson in conversation..
Diverging Roads

Sunday 7th June

10:30 – 11:45Tim Willasey-Wilsey
The Spy and the Devil: The Untold story of the MI6 Agent who penetrated Hitler’s inner circle
13:30 -14:45Kathy Slack
Rough Patch
15:30 – 16:45Sarah Dunant
The Marchesa

Monday 8th June

10:30 – 11:45Minette Walters in conversation..
The Players: Rebellion, Retribution, Redemption.
13:30 – 14:45Johnny Ball
Stories That Must Be Told
15:30 – 16:45Tim Pears
The Horseman: The West Country Trilogy
17:30 – 18:45Imogen Corrigan
The Bayeux Tapestry

Tueday 9th June

13:30 – 14:45Sir Jeremy Hunt in conversation with Sir Anthony Seldon
Can We Be Great Again? Can We Be Rich Again?
15:30 – 16:45Marc Allum
Antiques Roadshow – behind the scenes