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  • Regency romp revisited

    Comedian Rachel Parris, best known for her TV appearances on The Mash Report and Late Night Mash, brings some racy…

    Rachel Parris
  • Pick of popular scientists

    Science writers Masud Husain and Tim Minshall, both speakers at this year’s Festival, have been picked for the shortlist of…

  • Football season kicks off

    As the football season kicks off this month, the Festival is delighted to host two of the sports greatest fans….

  • Royal Revelations

    Searing revelations about Prince Andrew and his ex-wife Sarah Ferguson have stirred up a storm of interest in biographer Andrew…

    Entitled by Andrew Lownie
  • A strange journey into history

    Sophy Roberts, a speaker at this year’s Festival, is on the shortlist of the 2025 Wainwright prize for conservation writing…

  • Festival supports Wells Ecoweek

    Health, climate change and conservation are all hot topics, and not only is the Festival hosting three speakers on relevant…

  • Congratulations to Booker Prize nominee

    Award-winning novelist Andrew Miller’s latest book The Land in Winter has been longlisted for the Booker Prize 2025 and has…

    Andrew Miller
  • Friends Event Success!

    Remnants of woolly rhinos, hyenas, bears, wolves, aurochs and other species long extinct in the UK are among the fossilised…

    Prof Danielle Schreve
  • Regency Romance

    Regency romance is in the air and Jane Austen fans are in for a treat at this year’s Wells Festival…

  • Recipes for success

    Women whose lives have been successful in wildly differing ways are just some of the highlights of this year’s Festival….