12.15 pm: RADICAL POETRY: Introducing the work of John Gregory – radical poet, cobbler and friend of Tillet and Bevin (all of us)

13.30-14.15: CAPTAIN SWING: A discussion on the rural rebellion that swept across the south of England 3 years before the events in Tolpuddle (Roger)

UNLEASH YOUR INNER LUDDITE! Join us and take a swing at some mechanised bling (a Pinata frenzy, Zoey, Kev, Roger, Rich etc.)

15.00: SWING IN DORSET: A discussion on the impact of the Swing riots in and around Tolpuddle (tbd). This may change to ‘The Flea and the Elephant: How we remember Tolpuddle and Swing’ as Rose cannot do the original talk.

16.00: A MATTER OF TIME: A play by Alan Plater (Chinese Alan and a Welsh bloke)

Full details of the Tolpuddle Festival (inc. directions) are at: http://www.tuc.org.uk/the_tuc/tuc-16170-f0.cfm?regional=8

The author and publisher Andrew Swift will lead a history walk around Bath starting at 7pm.

The walk will visit some of the sites that were associated with the distribution of  “The Rights of Man” – selling it, giving it away, where people were arrested and the thuggery that was stirred up by the gentry who wanted to suppress the publication.

Andrew’s knowledge is extensive and the walks I’ve been on before with him have been excellent – did you know that in his early life Paine joined Captain Death on his privateer the Terrible?

The meeting point is on the Orange Grove (near Bath Abbey) outside Garfunkels at 7pm.