{"id":7633,"date":"2025-02-23T17:36:42","date_gmt":"2025-02-23T17:36:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/montylitfest.com\/?page_id=7633"},"modified":"2025-03-20T18:54:30","modified_gmt":"2025-03-20T18:54:30","slug":"2025-sunday-1-30pm-jon-gower","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/montylitfest.com\/?page_id=7633","title":{"rendered":"2025 Sunday – 1.30pm Jon Gower"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Birdland: A Journey Around Britain on the Wing <\/span><\/p>

with Jon Gower<\/span><\/p>

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Date:\u00a0 Sunday 8th June 2025<\/strong><\/p>

Venue:\u00a0 Montgomery Town Hall<\/strong><\/p>

Time:\u00a0 1.30-2.15pm<\/strong><\/p>

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Monty Lit Fest favourite Jon Gower is a lifelong birder and, in his new book, he offers us a joyous celebration of Britain\u2019s rich bird life.<\/p>

From the symphonic song of the wren to the clack of a puffin\u2019s beak and from epic migrations to sunset murmurations, Jon explores our intimate connection with the bird life around us, visiting some of the best places in Britain to watch birds and searching for some species he has always wanted to see.<\/p>

But all is not well in Birdland, and the book also reminds us of the impact of the climate emergency, the decline in biodiversity and warming oceans on our birds and what we can \u2013 and must \u2013 do to defend them.<\/p>

Hear from Jon as he shares his bird\u2019s-eye view of the crucial contribution our feathered friends make both to our lives and to the natural world.<\/p>

Jon Gower<\/strong>\u00a0has over forty books to his name, in Welsh and English, including Birdland: A Journey Around Britain on the Wing; Raider: The Raymond Chester Story; The Turning Tide: A Biography of the Irish Sea<\/em>, and Y Diwedd<\/em>, the final volume of his Welsh language crime trilogy. He is also the author of The Story of Wales<\/em>\u00a0which accompanied the landmark BBC series,\u00a0An Island Called Smith<\/em>\u00a0which gained the John Morgan Travel Writing Award, and\u00a0Y Stor\u00efwr<\/em>\u00a0which won the Wales Book of the Year award.\u00a0\u00a0He is a former BBC Wales arts and media correspondent and was for many years the presenter of Radio Wales\u2019 arts\u2019 programme\u00a0First Hand<\/em>.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>

Adam Bedford <\/strong>has studied and worked in and around agriculture for the past 20 years. In his day job he develops projects in the gap between farmers and scientists to boost sustainable agriculture. He is the Founder of the Fieldwork Book Club, an online book club for books on food, farming and the natural world. Adam lives rurally near York with his wife and three sons.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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\u00a0 Birdland: A Journey Around Britain on the Wing with Jon Gower in conversation with Adam Bedford Date:\u00a0 Sunday 8th June 2025 Venue:\u00a0 Montgomery Town Hall Time:\u00a0 1.30-2.15pm Tickets:\u00a0 \u00a39.00 Monty Lit Fest favourite Jon Gower is a lifelong birder and, in his new book, he offers us a joyous celebration of Britain\u2019s rich bird …<\/p>\n

2025 Sunday – 1.30pm Jon Gower<\/span> Read More »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"no-sidebar","site-content-layout":"page-builder","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"disabled","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"disabled","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-7633","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"yoast_head":"\nMonty Lit Fest 2025: Birdland with Jon Gower<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"A bird\u2019s eye view of our connection with the bird life around us, celebrating their importance to nature and biodiversity \u2013 and issuing a call to arms to defend them.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/montylitfest.com\/?page_id=7633\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"2025 Sunday - 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