Hi Gervase. I think it's absolutely vital to the project's success that we get a genuine cross-section of people. We're going to promote the event locally and recruit Books from within the town as well as festival-goers, which will probably help with this.

Apart from anything else, numerous Sidmouth residents (or at least the ones who write to the local paper) have some pretty entrenched ideas about the "scruffy hippies" that turn up in their town once a year...it will be nice to address some of those prejudices, too!