It’s a mere 3 days until we travel to Flintshire for our first ever weekend at The Good Life Experience. In addition to the Caught by the River stage, we will be running a shop stocked full of books, magazines and music, including a big book sale. Make sure you drop by to nab yourself some bargains. The daily schedule is as follows:
SATURDAY
10:00 Archive Radio Hour
10:45 An introduction to the weekend by our poet in residence, and Faber New Poet 2014, Will Burns
11:00 Dan Richards, author of ‘The Beechwood Airship Interviews‘, talks with Cally Callomon
12:30 Mathew Clayton reads from Lundy, Rockall, Dogger, Fair Isle: A Celebration of the Islands Around Britain, a former Caught by the River Book of the Month
1:30 – 2:00 Melissa Harrison reads from her latest book, At Hawthorn Time
2:15 – 3:30 IN THE MUSIC TENT Nick Drake: Remembered For A While
4:00 Roy Wilkinson’s Pop & Nature Quiz
5:30 Will Burns talks to Jeb Loy Nichols
6:30 Richard King talks with Emma Warren about his new book, Original Rockers
7:30 Jeb Loy Nichols live
8:30 – midnight Heavenly Jukebox DJs
SUNDAY
9:30 Archive Radio Hour
10:30 Will Burns
11:00 Emma Warren
12:00 Nina Lyon reads from her first book, Uprooted: On the Trail of The Green Man, due to be published in March 2016
1:00 Richard Havers discusses his book, Blue Note: Uncompromising Expression, a lavishly illustrated history of the great jazz label
2:15 Rob Chapman discusses Psychedelia and Other Colours
3:30 Rob Cowen reads from Common Ground
4:45 Trevor Cox talks sonic phenomena, with visual and audio accompaniment
5:45 Close
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