Entertainment & Reviews

Tim Marshall, No.1 Sunday Times bestselling author of Prisoners of Geography,will be speaking about his new book Divided: Why We’re Living in an Age of Walls early in the New Year.

The talk, taking place at the Exeter Phoenix, will encourage audiences to consider how money, race, religion and politics have all become divisive tools in the current social and political climate.

Covering China, the USA, Israel and Palestine, the Middle East, the Indian subcontinent, Africa, Europe and the UK, this gripping talk delves into our past and our present to reveal the fault lines...

Insightful, moving, funny and inspirational take on the interconnected worlds of women, science and space travel Six months ago renowned space scientist Maggie Hill launched a career-defining mission to find habitable planets beyond our solar system. It did not go well. Then her girlfriend stopped speaking to her. Maggie's going to have to address both of these catastrophes. Lights! Planets! People! written by TV and radio scriptwriter Molly Naylor and performed by Karen Hill, is an intimate and exhilarating story about how we try to control the things that define us and our desire to...

The UK’s favourite singing show, The X Factor, is back and on the lookout for the next big breakout music stars with the audition team back on the road, scouring the country for budding hopefuls to take part in series 16 of the hit music show.

The audition tour will be a nationwide search and is coming to the Guildhall Shopping Centre in Exeter on Saturday 2 February. Auditions take place between 9am and 6pm and it couldn’t be simpler to apply.

Groups or solo singers aged 16+ can apply online, registering for an upcoming event or turn up in person on the day. Everyone who...

Your guide to What’s On in and around Exeter this weekend (18-20 January):

THEATRE

Lord of the Flies

Friday & Saturday, Exeter Northcott Theatre

Set against the backdrop of a mysterious conflict engulfing the world, a plane carrying a group of evacuated schoolchildren crash-lands on a deserted island. The eleven girls and boys that survive are faced with the challenge of co-existing in a hostile new environment severed from the society they have left behind. Can the children create something better than the war that drove them from their homes, or will...