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Save the date!

Please join us to celebrate the rich and varied landscapes of North Norfolk, the British Isles and our imaginations in a weekend festival of walks and talks, readings and discussions, an exhibition and field trips

from

2 – 4 October 2026

at Wells Maltings, Wells-next-the-sea

A taste of what’s to come…

This year we celebrate two centenaries – David Attenborough’s 100th birthday and a century of the world’s oldest wildlife trust – the Norfolk Wildlife Trust. Taking part in all this and talking about their work will be geographer, explorer and TV presenter Nicholas Crane and Alastair Fothergill – natural-history producer and documentary maker who has worked more than any other with David Attenborough. Both authors have journeyed to inhospitable corners of the world to tell us the story of landscape and nature.

While we complete the programme for next year’s festival, please keep an eye out for new releases as we publish videos of last year’s talks on our YouTube channel.

In 2025:

• we welcomed Alan Hollinghurst and John Mullan, Richard Mabey and Patrick Barkham, Charles Clover and Mark Cocker, Julia Blackburn, Katrina Porteous and Patrick Galbraith, Matthew Hollis and Bernard O’Donoghue, Natasha Hastings and Iona Rangeley as well as artists Tor Falcon, Beatrice Forshall and Rosie Reeve. Jake Fiennes, Nick Trend, Charles Rangeley-Wilson, John Ebbage and Fraser Bradbury led guided walks across wild, rewilded and reimagined landscapes of Norfolk. And Nick Groom skippered a boat trip down the channel from Wells Harbour.

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Many thanks to our generous sponsors and partners who put their faith in the festival. Without them the weekend would not have been possible: