Wigtown events

Ami Rao and Declan Murphy discuss Centaur, their award-winning memoir of a jockey who came back from the dead. Chaired by Pauline McLean.

Recorded at the 2017 Wigtown Book Festival.

Wigtown Extra: Declan Murphy and Ami Rao with Pauline McLean (2017)

A moving and hilarious event with rugby legend and MND campaigner Doddie Weir and sports writers Stewart Weir discussing Doddie's autobiography My Name'5 Doddie with Polly Pullar at the 2019 Wigtown Book Festival.

Wigtown Extra: Doddie Weir and Stewart Weir with Polly Pullar

Galloway has often been thought of as a backwater, both by Gallovidians and people outside. But is it entirely true? Professor Ted Cowan of Glasgow University looks at how immigrants have through history transformed the region and how Galloway’s people have, in turn, exerted their influence on the wider world. Chaired by Anne Brown and recorded at the Wigtown Book Festival in 2018.

Wigtown Extra: Prof Ted Cowan - Galloway in the World

Former BBC diplomatic correspondent Bridget Kendall talks to chair Jackie McGlone about her book The Cold War: A New Oral History of Life Between East and West. Recorded at the 2017 Wigtown Book Festival.

Wigtown Extra: Bridget Kendall on The Cold War

Sarah Fraser discusses her book The Prince Who Would Be King with historian Jacqueline Riding at an event recorded at the Wigtown Book Festival in 2017.

Wigtown Extra: Sarah Fraser with Jacqueline Riding

From the bestselling author of The Legacy of Elizabeth Pringle, and
one of the most trusted names in British news, comes The House
by the Loch, inspired by Kirsty Wark’s childhood memories and, in particular, by her father. Set in the Galloway countryside, it tells a story of love, loss, and three generations of family secrets that refuse to stay buried. 

Recorded at the 2019 Wigtown Book Festival

Wigtown Extra: Kirsty Wark (2019)

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