Festival Chronicler

What the flock? We'll be at the baaa. By @agentlouisa, @secretagentpete

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What's it like to get back to gigging after 18 months? Louisa Davison shares her experience of last night's 'intimate' @royalblooduk concert at the @o2academybris: first-night nerves, masks, Covid vaccines and all.

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Sometimes chroniclers are inspired to write in verse, like Tony Hillier after Tishani Doshi's poetry readings at the @SwindonLitFest .
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Science, women and how chatting can save lives (and change the world): chronicler Louisa was on the panel for Anthony Costello's @SwindonLitFest talk about sympathy groups. @globalhlthtwit
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[Lee “Teach” Simpson @lsnsafc1973]

Thank you for the kind words - we appreciate them!

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Chronicler Milo (age 14) is mightily impressed by boxing and how it could help in times of stress, thanks to @SwindonLitFest , @lsnsafc1973 and Paddy Fitzpatrick.

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Chronicler Milo is sure glad author John Gimlette uses artifacts instead of power points in @SwindonLitFest talk The Gardens of Mars: Madagascar an Island Story.
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There's no time to rest when chronicling for the @SwindonLitFest – even on the topic of The Art of Rest by @claudiahammond, as Tony Hillier discovered.

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Does a pandemic heighten fear of death or increase a sense of a life worth living, to the full? Tony Hillier sought the answers from @KevinToolis, author of Nine Ways to Conquer Death, at @SwindonLitFest

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Tony Hillier wants to meet up with Swindon vicar and poet Catherine Okoronkwo for tea, so fascinated was he by her @SwindonLitFest talk. He also finds watching by YouTube has its upside, especially in poetry and chronicling - pause and rewind.
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Every town (and city) needs a Tony. Who's up for a job as the community poet? (NB Swindon's taken) Here's our tribute to Tony Hillier's, Swindon community poet, @SwindonLitFest event.
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Radio helped us through the pandemic, as Miranda Sawyer, audio critic for the Observer newspaper, tells @SwindonLitFest

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How would you react, uprooted to another land? Would you hold onto your own culture, assimilate? What would you do to survive? Chronicler Anne looks at Simon May's sometimes uncomfortable Jewish family history, in How to be a Refugee @SwindonLitFest
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In her latest book, Pandora's Jar, comedian, broadcaster, author and classicist Natalie Haynes puts the women of the Greek myths on equal footing with the men.

Read our review of her talk at @SwindonLitFest by guest blogger and @Anjelica1956

https://t.co/sZPweJcRKS

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There are 1.2 million human-sized rabbits that can walk, talk, and drive cars. @jasperfforde discusses his new novel, The Constant Rabbit, at @SwindonLitFest .

Read our review by guest blogger @Anjelica1956 here.

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Why (really) do we shake hands? Is it wise (ugh, germs!) And will the handshake survive the pandemic? Get to grips with The Handshake by Ella Al-Shamahi in our @SwindonLitFest write-up.

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Women's books are only reviewed by other women and the word 'writer' usually refers to a man. So said Lennie Goodings – publisher of books by Margaret Atwood and Maya Angelou – at Swindon Festival of Literature.
Check out our report.

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We did this 😀

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Film of the Dawn Chorus - our 5.30am intro event - is now on YouTube!
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First @SwindonLitFest chronicle 2021! Tony Hillier wrote about @anitasethi who turned racial abuse into a journey back to healing detailed in I Belong Here. As a self-described elderly white man, Tony was grateful for that experience in empathy.
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😭

[Farah Hussain @FarahKHussain]

37460 people have now died from Covid19. I want to tell you a little bit about one of them, my dad, Nassar, who died yesterday.

On paper he was your typical Asian dad- grumpy, ambitious for his children and a lover of sweet food. But he was more than that, he was a pioneer.

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Great for people and animals.

[Philip Lymbery @philip_ciwf]

BREAKING NEWS: Wuhan officially bans eating wild animals
Great news #GameChanger
More news to follow @ciwf
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