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Literature Festival

It's time to be fill your diary for the many events at venues across the borough tied to the 30th Richmond Literature Festival.

Beatles aficionado Richard Mills, who is Senior Lecturer in Literature and Popular Culture at St Mary's University, in Twickenham, presents 'The Beatles and Fandom' based on his book of the same name on November 10 at The Exchange.

He has been programme director for the Film and Popular Culture, Cultural Studies and Irish Studies degrees. He has published extensively on popular music, Irish literature and culture, film, fashion and British television.

Richmond Literature Festival begins on November 5 with a panel discussion entitled 'This is How We Come Back Stronger'.

Guests include the international bestselling author of The Burning Chambers Series, Kate Mosse, writer and filmmaker Juliet Jacques, and Sara Collins, author of The Confessions of Frannie Langton.

Find out more here.

Every Little Thing's Gonna Be Alright

Comedian Mark Steel, well known from Radio 4, brings his stage show to The Exchange, Twickenham, on October 23 with a satirical view of the turmoil in both UK and international politics.

And he revels in the gloom with a sell-out show that promises to make the world seem even more mental than it is.

Mark has written and presented many series of Mark Steel's In Town on BBC Radio 4 and toured it live around the UK. He is also a regular on BBC One's Have I Got News For You and Radio 4's The News Quiz.

Find out more here.

Families in the Forest[,B]

An interactive experience for families to explore the Orleans House grounds on Sunday – October 17 - through a series of encounters with inhabitants past and present.

Walking through the grounds children can encounter ancient trees, flowers, bats, moles, squirrels, even an antelope.

Each plant and creature offers an invitation to consider their experience in the space by changing our own.

For example, young bats seeing for the first time invite us to close our eyes and feel the surroundings with our hands, our fingers, our palms, to tread the ground, to summon colours into our imaginations, and when we open our eyes imagine we are emerging from a cave to encounter colour for the first time in our lives.

Find out more here.