Events Around Minehead

Bestselling crime writer Sophie Hannah will introduce her new self-help book, How to Hold a Grudge: The ultimate guide on how to use grudges to be your happiest, most optimistic and most forgiving self!

Sylvia Blackwell, a young woman in her twenties, moves to East Mole, a quaint market town in middle England, to start a new job as a children’s librarian. But the apparently pleasant town is not all it seems.

n his talk Nigel outlines the narratives of the two epics, the Iliad and the Odyssey, and explores some less well-known aspects beyond the famous stories of the wooden horse of Troy, and the blinding of the Cyclops.

When Garry Sobers hit Malcolm Nash for an historic 36 runs off six deliveries at Swansea in 1968, cricket’s Everest was finally conquered. In 2006, the ball supposedly used in the over fetched a record £26,400 at Christie’s - but was it the right one? When it was put up for sale again in 2012, the plot thickened...

From Galileo’s stargazing to quantum teleportation, from Newton’s experiments with optics to the splitting of the atom, Schrödinger’s Cat tells the story of natural science through fifty of its greatest experiments.

A groundbreaking new book from the author of The Running Sky and Four Fields, Landfill confronts our waste-making species through the extraordinary and fascinating life of gulls,and the people who watch them. Original, compelling and unflinching, it is the nature book for our times.

A ‘potted’ history of gardening told through 50 innovations. From secateurs to seed banks, from hybrid plants to herbaceous borders, these are the ideas that have changed the way we garden today. Abigail Willis is an arts and gardening writer. She has written about urban gardens, and London gardens, in particular.

The cricket ball is the swinging, bouncing, spinning heart of the glorious game that gives it its name.

At the end of 2018, London’s biggest engineering project will come to fruition. It has taken three-quarters of a century and cost £15 billion. For the first time, trains will run through tunnels built under central London between Paddington and Liverpool Street.

In the summer of 1940, Britain stood perilously close to invasion. One by one, the nations of Europe had fallen to the unstoppable German Blitzkrieg, and Hitler’s sights were set on the English coast. And yet, following the success of the Battle of Britain, the promised invasion never came.

Welcome to the life of a junior doctor: 97-hour weeks, life and death decisions, a constant tsunami of bodily fluids, and the hospital parking meter earns more than you.

From 11am until 4pm on Saturday 1st December 1st Burnham on Sea Scout Troop are holding a Christmas Table Top Sale at the hut to help raise money for their winter camp. There will be lots of things to look at and buy including paracord Christmas tree decorations!!

Simon & Garfunkel: Through the Years features video projection and stunning vocal harmonies and takes audiences on a journey through the career of Simon and Garfunkel. Alongside stops in London’s West End, the concert has been captivating audiences night after night in some of the finest concert halls in the U.K.

Planet Rockstock - Day Tickets: Tickets avaiable.

A variety of crafts will be on display and for sale. This event follows our very successful event last year. It’s well worth a visit for presents that are a little bit different.

Vicar of Dibley at Christmas Wed 14 – Sat 17 Nov, 7:30pm & Sat 17 Nov, 2:30pm Standard £14 Following on from last year`s successful tour, award winning @2k Theatre proudly presents a festive edition of the BBC’s much loved sitcom The Vicar of Dibley.

The funny and fearless sell-out mask production from the UK’s leading full mask company. You’ll laugh, you’ll cry, you’ll find joy! Joy is 83 today: she’s feisty, loves to dance, and is losing her memory. Her grandson Danny is rebellious, bright and always getting into trouble.

The New Jersey Boys Thu 22 Nov, 7:30pm Standard £19/Concession £18/Groups (size 10+) £17 They’re Back - The New Jersey Boys! Returning to Taunton, by public demand, the hit show featuring the songs of the Four Seasons and much more.

Beauty and the Beast Ballet Theatre UK Ballet Theatre UK return with one of the most enchanting love stories of all time, ‘Beauty and the Beast’.

Gordon Hendricks is ELVIS Sat 1 Dec, 7:30pm Standard £25.50 / Concession £24 On Saturday 19th August 2017 on the Graceland Stage at Memphis on the 40th Anniversary of Elvis’ passing Gordon Hendricks was crowned 2017 Ultimate Elvis Tribute Artiste Champion which after winning Collingwood, Canada again, the only...

Cinderella Reamba Productions £13/£15/£16 Family £56 After the success of Jack & the Beanstalk last year, we are delighted to announce that Cinderella is gracing this year’s stage.

Gravity was the first force to be recognised and described yet it is still the least understood. If we can unlock its secrets, the force that keeps our feet on the ground holds the key to understanding the biggest questions in science: what is space? What is time? What is the universe?

Psychic Medium Nikki Kitt is a Spiritualist Medium who is currently touring the UK with her successful Psychic / Mediumship Evenings.

Start your Christmas early at the Pontyclun Christmas fair. With music, entertainment, fairground rides, stalls and streetfood there is something for everyone.

The West Country Clock & Watch Fairs are run by the Bristol Branch of the British Horological Institute (BHI)....... These Fairs have over forty tables of excellent clocks, watches and other horological items for sale.......