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David Attenborough’s birthday is a great cue for an announcement about this year’s programme…
We are delighted to announce that producer, author and director Alastair Fothergill will be speaking and showing footage of his work at our Literature & Landscape festival in October 2026. David Attenborough on location filming Life in the Freezer (1993) – one of many natural history documentary series produced by Alastair Fothergill. Life on Earth…
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A Richard Mabey interview to remember
We were all rather blown away by this interview last October, when Patrick Barkham quizzed Richard Mabey about his long, ground-breaking and profoundly influential career. Our sell-out audience were still talking about it long afterwards, and as it turned out even the nature-writing master himself was struck by what had happened in that small but…
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Encouraging rural voices of the future
October 2025 saw the launch of Wells Young Writers’ group – a workshop run by author Patrick Barkham that meets about once a month somewhere in the landscape around Wells to notice and imagine. The young people – who are aged 12 and on upwards – then return to Wells Maltings to write and discuss…
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Watch again: John Mullan interviews Alan Hollinghurst
Please take the opportunity to catch up via our Youtube channel with talks you may have missed in 2025. Here is Booker-prize-winning author Alan Hollinghurst discussing Our Evenings last October with John Mullan – UCL professor of literature and regular pundit of all things bookish for the BBC and The Guardian. We asked Alan to…
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What did you think?
It’s been over a month now since our festival in Wells. We hope you had as much fun and as interesting a time as we did: we loved the exhibition and artists, the writers, their books and fascinating careers, and the many, many discussions – formal and informal – that sprang out of such a…
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