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This Weekend at Wigtown Book Festival
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2018
Mentoring awards announced
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Book Week Scotland in Wigtown
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Twelve Steps to bring a book alive
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If These Walls Could Talk
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2017
Richard Demarco - 70 Years of Book Festival
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Big DoG - A Children's Book Festival for Dumfries
2016
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Big Lit
2015
Open House at the Living Room
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What's Your Story?
Australia Meets Scotland!
Ryan Youth Theatre perform Freedom Square at Scottish Parliament
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2014
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Love Letters to Libraries
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Wigtown Radio
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5 Questions with Paul Tarling, RSPB
5 Questions with Paul Tarling, RSPB
5 Questions with Paul Tarling, RSPB
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Sound, visual and lighting tender
Sound, visual and lighting tender
Sound, visual and lighting tender
Sound, visual and lighting tender
Sound, visual and lighting tender
5 Questions with Ian and Joyce Cochrane
5 Questions with Renita Boyle
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2013
After the party’s over
Curious Tales Commission: meet writer Hugh McMillan
The lore (of Galloway) and you
Come to the Time Machine
Authored Futures
What to say to your dentist
Hit and myth approach to folklore
A word about the audience
Welcome to the 2013 festival
Words on the water
An illustrator speaks
Festival Book Club
On Choosing a Poetry Competition Winner
2012
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Astronomy and Literature
Timbuctoo and the future of publishing
The Cabinet of Curiosities
Launched!
Take part in the Wisdom of Wigtown project
Caught between the sky and the earth.
Laura Ashley Skirts and Acoustic Guitars
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Killer robots and printing houses
Scottish PEN at Wigtown by Victoria McEwan
Welcome to the 2012 Wigtown Book Festival

5 Questions with Robert Twigger

29th August 2014

Tell us about your connection to Wigtown and the Book Festival

Been coming for 7 years. I used to come on holiday here in the 1970s...has changed less than some places I can think of...

 

Sum up your festival experience in 5 words

A friendly and quirky experience

 

What's your favourite festival memory?

I have so many. It's the close calls and near disasters I treasure most. Standing on the roof of the town hall tower and looking all around is a rather fond memory I have

 

Who would be your dream author to appear at the Festival?

I would like to see Jonathan Raban 

 

Give us one recommendation or top tip for Wigtown, the Festival or D&G

Investigate the bookstores. Ask at Shaun's bookshop for his top tip!

 

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