Marketing Derby Bondholder Event: Ben Aitken: London 0 Derby 4

Thursday 28 May 8:30am for breakfast, event from 9 - 10am, Museum of Making DE1 3AF

This event will be filmed and made available as a digital recording after the Festival. Available for purchase here.

Ben Aitken is a travel writer, but with a difference. 

He takes a wry and witty approach to travelling and his six books have included living for a year in Poland, following Bill Bryson round the country, joining OAPs on coach tours, moving in with an 85 year-old during lockdown and, his latest, featuring some of the UK’s uncelebrated and least visited cities.

And he loves Derby and wants to sing its praises for all to hear. Share Ben’s love of the city and discover even more reasons to shout about Derby.

Sh*tty Breaks is a powerful and delightful antidote to smug travelogues of popular places. Driven both by a real love for people and an abiding sense of the ridiculous, Ben Aitken walks and talks his charming way around the unsung cities of the British Isles. For all that it is funny, and it really is, it is also an important love letter to ordinariness in all its forms which, in these needy times, is a precious thing. Funny and immensely thought provoking. ― Roger Morgan-Grenville, author of The Restless Coast

A jaunty journey of quick wit that takes you to parts of the UK that don't often feature in tourist board campaigns. ― Tom Chesshyre, author of Slow Trains Around Britain