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Big names come to Swindon for literature festival
This year’s Swindon Festival of Literature takes place from Monday 2 May to Saturday 14 May with a stellar line-up
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including Louise De Bernieres, Joanne Harris, Dom Joly, Ken Livingstone, Vince Cable and Brian Blessed. As well as signings,
poetry slams and talks, there will also be a family day on Sunday 8 May. The programme:
Monday 2 May Isy Suttie
Dawn Chorus 6.30pm Arts Centre, Devizes Road
5.30am Lawn Woods, High Street, Tel 01793 524481
Old Town Dom Joly
Tel 01793 771080 8pm Arts Centre, Devizes Road
Where the railway meets... Tel 01793 524481
1pm Richard Jefferies Museum, Alison Bruce
Coate 7.30pm Central Library, Regent
Tel 01793 466454 Circus
Tel 01793 466454 Dom Joly Isy Suttie Brian Blessed
Steve Mynard & Storywalk
2pm Lydiard House, Lydiard Park, Friday 6 May
West Swindon SN5 3PA Amy Liptrot Monday 9 May Thursday 12 May
Tel 01793 771080 12.30 Arts Centre, Devizes Road Angela Kiss Brian Blessed
Fiona Ford & Freedom parkrun Tel 01793 524481 12.30pm Arts Centre, Devizes Road 12.30pm Arts Centre, Devizes Road
and talk Tom Hodgkinson Tel 01793 524481 Tel 01793 524481
2pm & 3pm Lydiard House, Lydiard 6.30pm Arts Centre, Devizes Road Sol Spanish Evening Louis De Bernieres
Park, West Swindon SN5 3PA Tel 01793 524481 6.30pm Arts Centre, Devizes Road 6.30pm Arts Centre, Devizes Road
Tel 01793 466454 Tel 01793 524481 Tel 01793 524481
Stories & Adventures
Lucy Jones 6.30pm Swindon Museum & Arts Nicola Cornick Andy Binks
7pm Lower Shaw Farm, Gallery, Bath Road 7.30pm Central Library, Regent 7.30pm Central Library, Regent
West Swindon Tel 01793 466556 Circus Circus Tel 01793 466454
Tel 01793 771080 Tel 01793 466454
Kevin Dutton Paul Hyland
Tuesday 3 May 8pm Arts Centre, Devizes Road Richard Durrant 8pm Arts Centre, Devizes Road
Matt Holland Tel 01793 524481 8pm Arts Centre, Devizes Road Tel 01793 524481
12.30pm Arts Centre, Devizes Road Saturday 7 May Tel 01793 524481 Friday 13 May
Tel 01793 524481 Tuesday 10 May
Swindon Ocotal Link Celebration Liz Rothschild
Vince Cable 10am Lower Shaw Farm DJ Taylor 12.30pm Arts Centre, Devizes Road
6.30pm Arts Centre, Devizes Road Tel 01793 466454 12.30pm Arts Centre, Devizes Road Tel 01793 524481
Tel 01793 524481 Tel 01793 524481
Youth Slam! Hilda’s Lounge
Tim Marshall 11am Arts Centre, Devizes Road Ken Livingstone 1pm Richard Jefferies Museum,
8pm Arts Centre, Devizes Road Tel 01793 524481 6.30pm Arts Centre, Devizes Road Coate
Tel 01793 524481 Tel 01793 524481 Tel 01793 466454
A Swindon Affair
Wednesday 4 May 3pm The Platform, Faringdon Road Bali Rai Cristina Odone
A N Wilson Tel 01793 466454 7.30pm Central Library, 6.30pm Arts Centre, Devizes Road
12.30pm Arts Centre, Devizes Road Swindon Slam! Regent Circus Tel 01793 524481
Tel 01793 524481 7.30pm Arts Centre, Devizes Road Tel 01793 466454 Think Slam!
Hilary Bradt Tel 01793 524481 Stephen Moss 8pm Arts Centre, Devizes Road
6.30pm Arts Centre, Devizes Road Sunday 8 May 8pm Arts Centre, Devizes Road Tel 01793 524481
Tel 01793 524481 Children & Families Day Tel 01793 524481 Saturday 14 May
Roger Scruton 10am – 4pm Lower Shaw Farm, Wednesday 11 May Writing Workshop & Writers’
8pm Arts Centre, Devizes Road West Swindon Tel 01793 771080 Yasmin Khan Lunch 12.30pm Lower Shaw Farm,
Tel 01793 524481 Jo Marchant 12.30pm Arts Centre, Devizes Road West Swindon
Poetry Swindon 78s 6.30pm Arts Centre, Devizes Road Tel 01793 524481 Tel 01793 771080
7.30pm Central Library, Regent Tel 01793 524481 Christian Felber Festival Finale: Stories, Poems &
Circus Sharon Blackie 6.30pm Arts Centre, Devizes Road Music
Tel 01793 466454 8pm Arts Centre, Devizes Road Tel 01793 524481 Town Hall, Regents Circus
Thursday 5 May Tel 01793 524481 Joanne Harris Tel 01793 601700
Mary Hamer Poetry Swindon Open Mic 7.30pm Central Library, Regent See the full programme and
12.30pm Arts Centre, Devizes Road 8pm Sun Inn, Coate Circus ticket details: www
Tel 01793 524481 Tel 01793 466454 Tel 01793 466454 swindonfestivalofliterature.co.uk
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