Britain’s treasured poet Pam Ayres has been making the nation laugh for 50 years. She rose to fame after winning Opportunity Knocks in 1975 and is still one of the country’s favourite performance poets. Pam will be in Faversham performing from her new collection, Doggedly Onward: A Life in Poems. Not to be missed!

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Longlisted for the Women's Prize for Non-Fiction 2025. Rachel Clarke is a bestselling writer (Dear Life; Breathtaking) and NHS Doctor whose books explore subjects that are often taboo, bringing her unique understanding of end-of-life care and compassion for the dying. She will be talking to Marg Mayne about her latest book, an unforgettable story of the medical innovations behind transplant surgery, and how one family’s grief transformed into a life-saving gift for another. When Keira was nine, she suffered catastrophic injuries in a car accident but her heart continued to beat. Nine-year-old Max, meanwhile, had been hospitalised with a virus that was causing his young heart to fail.