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BRIDPORT ARTS CENTRE 10.30AM–12.30PM TICKETS FREE
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Opening the Book
The Reading Room
We kick off the festival with a celebratory family event with something for everyone. There will be a literary character fancy dress competition, a chance to have a song written and performed just for you by our resident band, Declan Duffy and & the Bridport Super-Group, and there will be crafts, poetry readings, junior Big Read author Carol Hunt, book displays and lots more.
Upstairs at Wild & Homeless Books, on South Street, you can enjoy a cup of tea, relax and be read to! Nic Jeune will read a chapter from your favorite classic – Dickens, Austen, local boy Thomas Hardy, or whatever you choose. Or bring along your own favourite book. Space is limited to one person or a couple of close friends or family at a time.
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SAT U RDAY 19 NOVEMBER BRIDPORT ARTS CENTRE 4.30PM–6PM TICKETS £6/£5
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The Future of the Word?
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We want to be at the cutting edge SJ HIFEXI ERH WS SYV ½VWX JSVQEP event looks at how new technologies are changing the way we receive words at a bewildering speed. From the growth of Amazon to Facebook, blogging and tweeting, to Kindle and the iPad, doommongers are predicting the death of the printed book, the end of newspapers as we know them, and a world without bookshops. Chaired by writer and computer programmer Damian Furniss, our panel will include Bridport News Editor James Tourgout, writer Katherine Locke and Jonathan
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Hudston, a writer and journalist who now works for Watershed PR. We are also delighted to welcome Henry Volans, Faber and Faber’s Head of Digital, who has been responsible for producing the new iPad app of T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land, generally acknowledged as the most important poem of the 20th century. Henry will talk about how the app was developed, and present extracts from it, as a basis for a discussion on the future of the word. There will be an opportunity for audience members to join in the debate.
Whatever the future of the printed word, live poetry events are more TSTYPEV XLER IZIV ERH SYV ½VWX IZIRMRK offers a fantastic double-bill. Dorsetbased poet )PZMW 1G+SREKPI has been lead artist in ‘Off the Page’, a major Arts Council-funded project, supported by Bridport Arts Centre and Dorset County Council. Young people across the county have worked with some SJ SYV ½RIWX TSIXV] TIVJSVQIVW XS develop their writing and performance skills. Poets Andrew McMillan, Chris Redmond, 7XIZI 8EWERI and 0MZ 8SVG will join Elvis and the young poets in
a series of short readings. The up and coming stars will be followed by a reading from a legend of poetry, a man who has been publishing and performing across six decades – the inimitable Roger McGough.
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SU N DAY 20 NOVEMBER BRIDPORT ARTS CENTRE CAFE 12PM–2PM TICKETS £5
BRIDPORT ARTS CENTRE 3PM–4.30PM TICKETS £6/£5
SUNDAY 2 0 N OVE MB E R BRIDPORT ARTS CENTRE 7PM–8.30PM TICKETS £6/£5 OR £10/£8 WITH FILM
BRIDPORT ARTS CENTRE 9PM TICKETS £6/£5 OR £10/£8 WITH TALK
*SVIZIV =SYRK – Dylan at 70
The Captains Tower 70 poets for Dylan at 70
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Fire in Babylon Film Screening
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Poetry and more music, as Festival Programmer (EZMH ;SSPPI] is joined by fellow poets and joint editors Phil Bowen and Damian Furniss as they read from The Captain’s Tower: poems for Bob Dylan at 70, their anthology featuring poets such as Allen Ginsberg, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Carol Rumens and Simon Armitage, published this May by Seren Books. The editors will be joined by poet Ann Gray, and the readings will be interspersed by bursts of Bob from Matt Bryden.
We continue with our musical theme with author, historian and TV producer, Colin Grant, whose new book from Jonathan Cape looks at both the musical and wider cultural and political impact of the lead members of the legendary Wailers – the greatest reggae group of all. “...a remarkable WXSV] SJ GVIEXMZMX] WUYERHIVIH XEPIRX ERH ½IVGI EQFMXMSYW VMZEPV]².
Written and directed by 7XIZER 6MPI], XLMW I\XVESVHMREV] ½PQ GIRXVIW EVSYRH the rise to total dominance of the West Indies cricket team under captain Clive Lloyd in the 1970s and 80s. It is a ½PQ EFSYX WTSVX FYX MX MW IUYEPP] TVSSJ of the great writer C.L.R James’ claim that cricket is a metaphor for much more, especially, and alongside reggae music, for the West Indians. Bunny Wailer features here too, as do Windies and Somerset cricket legends Viv Richards and Joel Garner. Don’t miss it!
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Contact the Arts Centre if you wish to play a song.
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M ON DAY 21 N OVEMBER BRIDPORT ARTS CENTRE CAFE 1PM–2PM TICKETS FREE (LUNCH NOT INCLUDED)
BRIDPORT ARTS CENTRE 7.30PM–9.30PM TICKETS £6/£5
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Lyrical Lunchtime 2 Features readings from Story Traders who were formed in 2010 and meet regularly to share their work.
BRIDPORT ARTS CENTRE 4PM TICKETS £1 (UNDER 16S – PARENTS GO FREE!)
Lyrical Lunchtime 1 Fisher Writing Group
Art of the Impossible Paul Hyland
Meet Barbara Spencer
;SVOWLST -RXVSHYGXMSR to Poetry Writing Greta Stoddart
Come along for a lunch or just a coffee and enjoy prose and poetry from Bridport’s own writing talent as local groups provide free entertainment each lunch-hour through the week, alternating between Bridport Arts Centre and Beach & Barnicott.
A night of award-winning poetry and traveller’s tales laced with incredible magic. This new show combines words and performance in a startling display of alchemy. Known in Dorset for writing about Purbeck, four of Paul’s exotic travel books have been ‘Books of the Year’ in UK and US broadsheets. He is a member of the Magic Circle and has made magic in the hands of Henry Kissinger, Ronnie Corbett and Seamus Heaney.
In association with Waterstones we are delighted to welcome Barbara Spencer, Somerset-based author of Scruffy, A Dangerous Game of Football and The Bird Children (Jack Burnside adventures) for younger readers, and teen thrillers Running and the newlypublished Time Breaking. Barbara will be reading from and talking about her work, and signing copies of her books.
Acclaimed poet Greta has run the Poetry Society’s Poetry School at Bridport Arts Centre for the last two years. This workshop is for those who have recently begun writing, want to get into writing poems or wish to take their poetry to a new level.
Today members of Fisher Writing Group, based in Bradpole, present ‘A Word in Your Ear’, nine prose cameos from their new publication of the same name.
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T U E S DAY 22 NOVEMBER BRIDPORT ARTS CENTRE CAFE 7.30PM TICKETS £6/£5 OR £10/£8 WITH FILM
BRIDPORT ARTS CENTRE 9.15PM TICKETS £6/£5 OR £10/£8 WITH TALK
BRIDPORT LIBRARY 10.30AM–11AM TICKETS FREE
BRIDPORT ARTS CENTRE CAFE 4PM–6PM TICKETS £20/£15
Toddler Time Bridport Library An interactive free session combining story telling and rhymes to introduce toddlers to the fun and enjoyment of stories and songs at Bridport Library. Enjoy some fantastic rhymes and songs, discover the best authors and illustrators, and meet up with other parents and carers.
Joe Dunthorne and Greta Stoddart Joe Dunthorne’s debut novel Submarine KEVRIVIH VEZI VIZMI[W ERH [EW UYMGOP] STXMSRIH ERH XYVRIH MRXS E ½PQ ,MW second novel Wild Abandon has recently been published and again has met with approval from the critics. He will read from the new novel and his poetry, and Greta will read from her poetry. She has published two collections, LIV ½VWX [SR XLI *EFIV 1IQSVMEP Award, the second was shortlisted for the Costa Award in 2008 Joe will then introduce a showing of Submarine, XLI ½PQ
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Submarine Film Screening
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Lyrical Lunchtime 3 Featuring the Poetry Society Poetry School group reading their own poems.
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Memoir Workshop with 6SKIV +EV½XX Following the success of Bridport Arts Centre’s recent workshop with Paul Dodgson, we now feature a festival day dedicated to memoir/ autobiography writing. Award-winning poet 6SKIV +EV½XX has recently published his memoir The Horseman’s Word to rave reviews. A vastly experienced workshop leader, he looks at what it takes to produce a successful memoir.
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W E D N ES DAY 23 NOVEMBER BRIDPORT ARTS CENTRE 7PM–8.30PM TICKETS £6/£5
BRIDPORT ARTS CENTRE 9PM TICKETS £6/£5
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Lyrical Lunchtime 4 The Bridport Scribblers will entertain with ‘Tall Stories’ – nine interpretations of one title.
Reliable Memoirs? 6SKIV +EV½XX and Robin Bayley
Storytelling with Martin Shaw
;EXGL SYX JSV XLI ;SQFEXW An afternoon with Charlie Fuge
Roger will read from The Horseman’s Word (Cape), his memoir of life in the 1950s and 60s, as a child in Norfolk, at Oxford, and as a young poet in London, hanging out with David Bowie and Redmond O’Hanlon. Roger is joined by Robin Bayley, whose The Mango Orchard is published by Arrow Books, and tells the extraordinary tale of his search for a family secret that takes him across the Americas where he encounters witches, drug dealers, ex-Nazis and Colombian guerrillas! The two writers will read from their work, discuss the art of the memoir, ERH XEOI UYIWXMSRW JVSQ XLI EYHMIRGI
Martin Shaw is an inspiring and imaginative storyteller and mythologist. Director of the West Country School of Myth, he is also a wilderness rites-ofpassage guide and author of A Branch JVSQ XLI 0MKLXRMRK 8VII IGWXEXMG Q]XL and the grace in wildness (White Cloud Press). He teaches widely in the US, UK and Europe. Robert Bly describes him as “a true master. 3RI SJ XLI ZIV] KVIEXIWX WXSV]XIPPIVW [I LEZI ²
In association with Waterstones, we’re HIPMKLXIH XS [IPGSQI TVSPM½G ERH E[EVH winning locally-based children’s writer and MPPYWXVEXSV 'LEVPMI ,MW ½VWX FSSO Bush Vark’s First Day Out won the Macmillan Prize and The Mother Goose Award, and he has since published many more titles, as illustrator, and as both writer and illustrator, including the hugely popular Wombat books. A passionate defender of the natural world, Charlie will instruct and delight as he opens the book on his fabulously talented world of words and pictures.
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T H U R SDAY 24 NOVEMBER BRIDPORT ARTS CENTRE 7.30PM TICKETS ÂŁ6/ÂŁ5
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Benjamin’s Book The Art of Biography/ Colin Thompson The Biography of Art Rachel Campbell-Johnston The Life and Work of Samuel Palmer An event for those interested in biography, and for those interested in visual art, as Rachel reads from and discusses her fabulous new book on one of Britain’s great visionary artists, the splendidly eccentric Samuel Palmer, devotee of William Blake, and described by Kenneth Clark as ‘an English Van Gogh’. 7TSRWSVIH F] 1V ERH 1VW 8VIZSV ;EVI
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Two years ago Tim Laycock and Colin Thompson were inspired by a manuscript music book of country dance tunes compiled in 1820 by Benjamin Rose, a JEVQIV EPILSYWI OIITIV ERH ½HHPI TPE]IV who lived in Belchalwell, North Dorset. Set in Rose’s alehouse in 1895 with George, Ben’s grandson, as ‘mine host’, entertaining his customers with stories of local life and the exploits of his famous grandfather. Colin plays the part of the ghost of Benjamin Rose, performing many of the dance tunes in the book. This YRMUYI TIVJSVQERGI MW E JIEWX SJ (SVWIX music, words, stories and local history.
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Flash Fiction Workshop Part 1 Vanessa Gebbie and Tania Hershman In the world of texts, tweets and blogs, there is a growing place for short, sharp literature, as Bridport Prize’s MRGPYWMSR SJ E RI[ GEXIKSV] JSV ³žEWL ½GXMSR´ WLS[W -R XLIWI X[S [SVOWLSTW which can be attended separately or XSKIXLIV X[S WLSVX ½GXMSR [VMXIVW and past Bridport Prize winners will share their tips on keeping it short and sweet. Tania Hershman is the author of The White Road and other Stories (Salt, 2008), a collection of short WXSVMIW ERH žEWL ½GXMSR
,IV E[EVH [MRRMRK žEWL WXSVMIW LEZI been widely published and broadcast. Tania is currently writer-in-residence in the Science Faculty at Bristol University, working on a collection of biologyMRWTMVIH ½GXMSRW [MXL XLI EMH SJ ER %VXW Council England grant. Vanessa Gebbie is author of two GSPPIGXMSRW SJ WLSVX ½GXMSR ERH IHMXSV of a textbook on the art of the short story. Her debut novel, The Coward’s Tale is published this November by Bloomsbury.
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F R I DAY 25 NOVEMBER BRIDPORT LIBRARY 10.30AM–11AM TICKETS FREE
F R I DAY 2 5 NOVE MB E R BRIDPORT ARTS CENTRE 2PM–3PM
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Story Time at Bridport Library
Schools Reading Carol Ann Duffy
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Come and enjoy some fantastic stories at our free story time for children. Borrow storybooks to take home and make that bedtime story special.
Our Poet Laureate features widely on examination syllabuses, and her readings for younger audiences are legendary. Pupils from a number of Dorset schools are the lucky ones this time!
Bridport Open Book Festival and The Bridport Prize present a reading by past Prize winners.
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Lyrical Lunchtime 5 Today will once again feature poems from Bridport Arts Centre’s Poetry Society Poetry School group.
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Judith Allnatt is an acclaimed short story writer and novelist. Her latest novel, The Poet’s Wife, was shortlisted for the East Midlands Book Award. Judith’s ½VWX RSZIP % 1MPI SJ 6MZIV, was selected as Simon Mayo’s Book of the Month on Radio 5 Live and was shortlisted for the Portico Prize for Literature. Judith lectures on creative writing for various universities and freelance, and is currently working on her third novel.
Vanessa Gebbie is author of two GSPPIGXMSRW SJ WLSVX ½GXMSR ERH IHMXSV SJ a textbook on the art of the short story. Her debut novel, The Coward’s Tale is published this November by Bloomsbury. Adam Marek won the 2011 Arts Foundation Short Story Fellowship. He was shortlisted for the inaugural Sunday Times EFG Private Bank Short Story Award. His story collection, Instruction manual for swallowing, published by Comma Press in 2007, was nominated for the Frank O’Connor Prize. He has twice been a Bridport Prizewinner.
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F R I DAY 25 NOVEMBER
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Poetry and Music Carol Ann Duffy with John Sampson Celebrating the publication of her new collection The Bees, we are delighted to welcome the Poet Laureate, and Bridport Prize judge for 2011, Carol Ann Duffy, who, together with musician and actor John Sampson, will give us a memorable evening of poetry and music. Carol Ann Duffy was born in Glasgow. She grew up in Stafford and then attended the University of Liverpool, where she studied Philosophy. She has written for both children and adults, and her poetry has received many
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awards, including the Signal Prize for Children’s Verse, the Whitbread and Forward Prizes, as well as the Lannan Award and the E. M. Forster Prize in America. In 2009, Carol Ann Duffy became Poet Laureate.
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8LI &VMHTSVX 4VM^I Stand Up Comedy Awards Ceremony AL Kennedy Join this year’s winners and Prize judges, Carol Ann Duffy and AL Kennedy, at the awards ceremony for the best in new writing. Hear extracts of the winnings stories, TSIQW ERH žEWL ½GXMSR
%W E KVERH ½REPI JSV XLI ½VWX 3TIR &SSO Festival, AL Kennedy, will perform her highly rated comedy stand up show. AL is the award winning author of four GSPPIGXMSRW SJ WLSVX ½GXMSR ERH ½ZI RSZIPW EPSRK [MXL X[S FSSOW SJ RSR ½GXMSR She made her Edinburgh Fringe debut with her solo show, *IIP 8LI 0SZI in 2006. “Her stand-up is startlingly good. She works the audience and makes the most SJ LIV GPIZIVRIWW [MXL [SVHW LIV OREGO JSV WIIMRK XLMRKW JVIWLP]Š² The Guardian Sponsored by Nantes Solicitors
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The Junior Big Read
Countertext11 is a collection of installations, works and events that attempt to re-stage the way language slides away from meaning. An exciting, inspiring, professional, creative, challenging and emotional collection of artworks curated by David Rogers and Nigel Slight to complement the Bridport Open Book Festival. Set in businesses and shops throughout Bridport and in the Arts Centre foyer and cafe.
A former Bridport Prizewinner, Vanessa’s collection of short stories has been selected as Bridport’s Big Read this year. “Storm Warning (Salt) explores the echoes and aftershocks of LYQER GSR¾MGX©+IFFMI I\TPSVIW XLI after-effects of atrocity and sometimes the seeds of atrocity itself.” Have your say on the book on the Open Book Festival blog: www.bridport-openbook.com and come along and meet the author and fellow Bridport Prize winners on 25 November.
Enchantment of the Black Dog (Roving Press) by Carol Hunt is a 17th century mystery of smuggling, witchcraft and piracy, set on and around Portland and Weymouth.
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Poems in Shops
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Look out for the Bridport Open Book Festival logo in shops around the town and you’ll be able to enjoy a selection of poems written or selected especially for that business. Created in partnership with Some Bridport Poets. ‘Poems in Shops’ is supported by Bridport Arts & Crafts Ltd, Bridport Old Books, Forest and Tree Care Bridport, Jaxsons Deli, Leakers Bakery, Lilliput, No.10 Café & Bar, Red Brick Café, Smith & Smith Ltd, Steptoes Ltd, The Flower Shop and Waitrose.
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OT HE R E V E NTS MONDAY 21 NOVEMBER BRIDPORT CHILDREN’S CENTRE 10AM–12PM
Making the Ordinary Extraordinary – Diary in a Day 2011 Have you ever wondered what other people get up to at work, at home and at school? How much do we really know and understand about the lives and thoughts of others? Would you like to have a glimpse? Diary of a Day will do just that and we want everyone to join in. As part of the Bridport Open Book festival, Bridport Arts Centre is running a simple yet extraordinary writing project – Diary of a Day. Based on the Mass Observation projects begun in the late 1930s, this is a way of recording everyday life, a snapshot of what is
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happening in the world, the country, the town and in individual lives. Bridport Arts Centre invited everyone in Bridport to keep an anonymous diary of the day on 4 October. The entries have all been collected and collated into books, which will be on display at the Arts Centre for anyone to read throughout the week of the Open Book Festival. 7TSRWSVIH F] 8LI 1EVWL[SSH :EPI 1EKE^MRI
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Poetry from the Boudoir Isadore Vibes and the Peephole Poets
Margie Barbour and Kate Wilson from Bridport Arts Centre tell classic tales, one traditional, one by the legendary Ahlbergs – Burglar Bill and The Three Wishes, presented for our youngest story-lovers.
Enter the literary labyrinth at Beach & Barnicott for a candlelit feast of poetry, music, performance and prose. Languish in the lounge with Matt Harvey and his Jurassic Journeys. Sneak a peep at Isadora in the boudoir. Burn with desire for He Who Is Red. Featuring Matt Harvey Radio 4 Saturday Live, Sophia Blackwell, Anwar Brett Dorset in Film, Clever Dicky and the Ratzingers, Some Bridport Poets, and He Who is Red. 8MGOIXW MR EHZERGI JVSQ &IEGL Barnicott (01308 455688)
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Schools Workshops Phil Bowen Poet and playwright Phil stays around after his Captain’s Tower performance to bring his experience in over 500 schools to the pupils of Bridport’s schools. MONDAY 21 NOVEMBER BRIDPORT ARTS CENTRE 6.15PM
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What’s the Score? Writing Football with Peter Read In partnership with Teamtheme and Bridport Youth Football Club, the festival will also include a workshop for young footballers, working with poet and playwright Peter Read (no not that one!) who has worked as Writer-in-Residence at both Cardiff and Wrexham Football Clubs. Peter will use football to inspire interest in reading and writing. Contact Bridport Arts Centre for more details. Schools’ Programme sponsored by Lions International
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F U T URE EVENTS &VMHTSVX´W *MPQ *IWXMZEP 11–15 April 2012 Save the dates for another fantastic festival celebrating the adaptation of FSSOW MRXS ½PQW Keep an eye on the website for up to date information. www.frompagetoscreen.org.uk
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B O O K I NG D E TA IL S TH A NK YO U All tickets can be bought in advance from Bridport Arts Centre and online at www.bridport-arts.com unless otherwise stated in event details. Bridport Arts Centre is funded by Arts Council England, Bridport Town Council and West Dorset District Council.
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The stories and full details of how to enter will be on the website following the Bridport Prize awards ceremony on 26 November.
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Bridport Arts Centre in collaboration with The Electric Palace
A particular thank you to all the volunteer stewards.
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To Lyme Regis
Waterstone’s East St.
Wild & Homeless Books
South St.
West St.
To Dorchester
Bridport Town Hall
Bridport Arts Centre Folly Mill Lane
Bridport Library To West Bay
Tourist Information
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