Things to do in Hereford

G4 Christmas

Gather to celebrate the most wonderful time of the year as G4 bring glad tidings of great joy this festive season, with the return of their ‘G4 Christmas’ tour…

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Gary Delaney: Gary on Laughing

Gary Delaney’s last UK tour ran for two and a half years across 378 dates.People laughed a lot and kept coming back.

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Ruby Wax: Absolutely Famous

It's almost easier to say whom Ruby Wax DIDN'T meet, interview and coax fascinating insights from in her huge TV shows 'Ruby Wax Meets' and 'Full Wax'.

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Ross Noble: Cranium of Curiosities

Roll up, roll up! Or use a more conventional form of transport to get to the show. It's entirely your choice.

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Origins Festival

Food stall, Merchant area and bar, charging average pub prices, are also available from Friday evening.

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Lyndal Roper: Summer of Fire and Blood: the German Peasant War

Lyndal Roper winner of the 2025 Cundill History Prize, takes us to Summer of Fire and Blood the sixteenth-century uprising that shook Europe to its core.

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Spectra Series - Ash Winter Travels Through the Somme

Ash Winter (Director of Men Walking and Talking) participated in the Help for Heroes Big Battlefield Bike Ride to honour the memory of soldiers who fought and f…

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Iain Macgregor: Battle: the Moments That Transformed Warfare From Ancient Greece to Ukraine

Across three millennia, wars have been won not simply by numbers or weapons, but by morale, leadership, innovation and timing.

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Adam Hart: Operation Pimento

Adam Hart , in conversation with Damian Collins, takes us on a family journey with Operation Pimento.

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Roland Philipps: Broken Archangel

Roland Philipps takes us through the extraordinary, inspiring and ultimately tragic story of Sir Roger Casement, a remarkable man who led a life ahead of his ti…

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Paul O'Keeffe Trafalgar: Battle and Aftermath

Military Historian Paul O'Keeffe discusses with Kate Bliss, his compelling and critically-acclaimed new book Trafalgar, the vivid account of the most famous mar…

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The Spanish Civil War

Why did thousands of people leave their homes to fight in a foreign civil war? What drew volunteers from Britain and around the world to the battlefields of Spa…

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Helen Carr: Sceptred Isle

Helen Carr takes us on a journey from the death of Edward I to the fall of Richard II.

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Mothers-in-War: How Women Shaped the Wars of the Roses

The Wars of the Roses is often cast simply as a 15th-century struggle between the houses of Lancaster and York.

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Rory Naismith: Offa, the King of the Mercians

Join Rory Naismith in conversation with John Jefferies as he takes us through the first major modern biography of Offa, King of the Mercians: The King who stood…

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Robert Cowley: the Killing Season

Robert Cowley's THE KILLING SEASON is the story of the autumn of 1914, and of what happened after the Battle of the Marne.

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Roland Philipps

Roland Philipps takes us through the extraordinary, inspiring and ultimately tragic story of Sir Roger Casement, a remarkable man who led a life ahead of his ti…

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Stirling Series Defcon 1?: Geopolitics

Join a very timely geopolitics panel of world-class experts including David J. Betz, author of The Guarded Age, Keir Giles, author of Who Will Defend Europe?

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Arthur Denaro: Just Fighting: Morality in Conflict

One of the most thoughtful recent senior officers in the British Army, Major General Arthur Denaro will discuss Just Fighting: Morality in Conflict.

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The Mi5 Archive

Presented by co-author Mark Dunton, The MI5 Archive is the definitive visual record of the clandestine work carried out by the British Security Service, MI5, fr…

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Frank Gardner: Ballistic

BBC's Security Correspondent Frank Gardner, while filming in Saudi Arabia, was ambushed by terrorists, shot multiple times and left for dead.

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Ben Okri Waking the Warriors

Booker Prize Winner Sir Ben Okri and Monocle Radio's Georgina Godwin celebrate Ben's New novel Waking the Warriors.

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Spectra Series: Krishna Thapa - the Warrior Monk

Krishna Thapa Magar was one of only two Gurkhas from the Royal Gurkha Rifles to pass the highly selective entry to the British Special Forces, serving as head o…

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David Lascelles: Out of Colditz

Join David Lascelles as he discusses with Kate Bliss, his book Out of Colditz, the gripping story of elite British POWs-the "Prominente"-held at Colditz Castle,…

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Spectra Series: Aaron Moon - One Leg. 2,517 Miles. No Rest Days

Aaron Moon shares his incredible story about taking on his most ambitious challenge yet: cycling the entire 2,517 miles of the legendary Route 66 in just 22 day…

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Stirling Series Series: Blood Money: Military Force in the British Empire

This debate addresses one of the most contentious issues in global politics today: to what extent do formerly colonising countries such as Britain, France, Belg…

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Giles Milton: Empire at the Edge of the World

From internationally bestselling historian Giles Milton comes a gripping tale of exploration, survival, and geopolitical power in the Arctic Circle: Empire at t…

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Thomas Smith: the Fifth Crusade

Thomas Smith, author of The Fifth Crusade tells the gripping story of the crusade for Egypt.

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Piers Blofeld and Charles Cumming: Espionage: United Through Fact and Fiction

Charles Cumming and Piers Blofeld explore espionage in fiction and historical fact-from Cumming's bestselling Box 88 series, an enthralling and sprawling espion…

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Colin Bell: Bloody Dangerous: the 105 Year Life of a Wwii Pilot

Colin Bell was a member of the elite Pathfinder 608 squadron, part of the force that, arguably, did more than any other bombing unit to bring about the Nazis' f…

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The Mad and the Brave: the Untold Story of Ukraine's Foreign Legion

Colin Freeman is a former chief foreign correspondent of The Sunday Telegraph. In his new book The Mad and the Brave, he tells the story of the Ukraine war thro…

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"Churchill's Killing House the Origins of World War II's Legendary Commando Fighting Force"

Monty Halls is a former Royal Marines Officer who served for over a decade. Now an expedition leader, broadcaster, and author of Churchill's Killing House: The…

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Charlie the Wonderdog

Timid nine year old Sasha teams up with his beloved family dog Charlie (voiced by Owen Wilson), who gets abducted by aliens and returns with superpowers, to thw…

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Spectra Series: Mindful Soldier: Building Resilience to Overcome Life's Challenges

Ash Alexander-Cooper discusses his book: Mindful Soldier: Building Resilience to Overcome Life's Challenges.

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Stirling Memorial Series: The SAS: Past, Present and Future

Jamie Lowther-Pinkerton, Richard Williams, George Simm andBob Parrbring decades of first-hand SAS experience to a discussion with the Daily TelegraphsAllison Pe…

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The Burma Campaign: Then and Now

Join us for an enlightening conversation with Burma Star Memorial Fund Chairman Viscount Slim, descendant of Campaign leader General Sir William Slim along with…

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Stirling Series: Tim Spicer: An Axe and Four Balloons - Brian Franks, the Man Who Saved the Sas

Tim Spicer, in conversation with Jamie Lowther-Pinkerton reveals his new book, An Axe and Four Balloons, the biography of Lt. Col.

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Stirling Series: the Past, Present and Future of UK Special Forces

Jamie Lowther-Pinkerton, Ed Butler, George Simm and Bob Parr bring decades of first-hand SAS experience to a discussion with the Daily Telegraph's Allison Pears…

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Adrian Goldsworthy and Andrew Bayliss Athens and Sparta

Adrian Goldsworthy and Andrew Bayliss discuss power, culture, and warfare, drawing on their books Athens and Sparta and Sparta, comparing Spartan society with i…

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Kevin J Weddle, Tom Cutterham and Robert Cowley: the American War of Independence

Authors Kevin J. Weddle, Tom Cutterham and Robert Cowley explore pivotal moments of The American War of Independence.

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Chris Hunter: Bomb Disposal and Life on the Line

A bomb disposal and counter terrorism specialist, Major Chris Hunter, in conversation with Major General Arthur Denaro takes us behind the scenes of war torn co…

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Stirling Series: Finding Justice in the Fog of War

Steve Crawshaw, who has devoted his career to the pursuit of international justice, and Daily Mail defence and diplomacy editor Mark Nicol confront one of the t…

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"Wolfpack Inside Hitler's U-Boat War"

Using archival sources, unpublished diaries and existing memoir literature, Roger Moorhouse and his new book Wolfpack: Inside Hitler's U-boat war gives the U-Bo…

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Rivals in the Storm, How Lloyd George Seized Power, Won the War and Lost His Government

Rivals in the Storm tells the gripping story of how David Lloyd George - controversial, brilliant and ruthless - outmanoeuvred his rivals to seize the British p…

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Spectra Series: Mark Griffiths, Andrea Sartori: Philistine - a Professional Soldier in Africa

PHILISTINE by Mark Griffiths is an uncompromising memoir of African warfare. Set in the late 1970s, it reflects the harsh realities and attitudes of its era, po…

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Blood Money: Military Force in the British Empire

This debate addresses one of the most contentious issues in global politics today: to what extent do formerly colonising countries such as Britain, France, Belg…

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Stirling Series: From the Stirrup to the Drone: Warfare As An Agent of Technological Progress

The drive by armed forces to innovate and exploit new technologies has since Pericles delivered both significant civilian and military benefits.

Bishop's Palace & Gardens, Hereford

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Voices of Service

Voices of Service is a powerful live music showcase featuring original songs written and performed by UK military veterans.

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