A Day in the Wild with Ray Mears
A Day in the Wild with Ray Mears! We are pleased to share details of a rare opportunity to spend a day with world‑renowned woodsman, author, and broadcaster Ray Mears at Offenham Touring Park Best known for his pioneering work in bushcraft and outdoor education, Ray Mears has inspired audiences for decades through […]
Behind the Scenes at the Movies
Join us for a humorous and insightful behind-the-scenes look into an extraordinary life, including a distinctive global career in the movie industry, from a stuntman, winner of multiple awards as a film director, and now a chart-topping crime writer. And it all started at BBC Wood Norton in 1973! Stuart St Paul began his movie […]
Dr Albert Schweitzerand Reverence for Life
Albert Schweitzer 1875-1965 was a polymath from Alsace. Before the age of 30, he had achieved international academic fame in a wide range of subjects. Schweitzer was driven by an awareness of suffering and a need to pay something back for his gifts and happy childhood. In his twenties he decided that, at the age […]
Libraries of the World
Speaker, Sue Ablett, who has been Chair of Evesham Festival of Words since it first launched in 2016, is a global traveller, having visited all seven continents, has a hugely enquiring mind, loves quirky facts, and absolutely loves giving talks. Having stumbled across one interesting library on her travels, it got her thinking and prompted […]
Macready! Dickens’ Theatrical Friend
This compelling show – written and performed by Mark Stratford – tells the story of the great Victorian actor-manager, William Charles Macready – the man to whom Charles Dickens dedicated Nicholas Nickleby. A must for drama fans, this remarkable true tale captures the sheer joy, graft and tribulations of a life lived in theatre. With […]
Pages from my Passport
Continuing with the theme of travel, we’re delighted to welcome Amelia Dalton back to Evesham. Amelia is an enthusiast, an acclaimed author and a great story-teller. She was last with us in 2018, talking about her first book, Mistress and Commander: High Jinks, High Seas and Highlanders, an account of her life establishing her own […]
The Orwell Tours: Travels Through the Life and Work of George Orwell
Following in the footsteps of one of the world’s literary heroes, speaker Oliver Lewis set out to visit all the places that inspired and shaped George Orwell, beginning in Northern India where Orwell was born in 1903 and ending at his final resting place in Sutton Courtenay in Oxfordshire. Over three years, he travelled from […]
My Life and Times as a Film Extra
John Kinory is a former college lecturer. Now he takes part in films, TV shows and commercials as a supporting artist (‘extra’), with the occasional featured speaking part. What happens when you arrive in the morning? Wardrobe, hair and makeup? What is life in front of the cameras like? How do you become a film […]
From Perfect to Ordinary
Join us for the first event of our Autumnfest! Dr Rachel Sargeant is the author of suspense novels—The Perfect Neighbours, The Good Teacher, The Roommates— with HarperCollins; the Gloucestershire Crime Series—Her Deadly Friend, Her Charming Man and Her Rising Star— with Hobeck Books; and, under the pen name Rae Starling, the dark thriller An Ordinary […]
Prince George and Master Frederick
Prince George & Master Frederick, published January 2025, is the debut historical novel of Rosalind Freeborn. In 1765 a four-year-old orphan boy is bundled into a carriage with a woman he doesn’t know. He is taken to the royal palace at Richmond to be a playmate for three-year-old Prince George, son of King George III. […]
