THE Autumn in Malvern Festival continues throughout October with its characteristic blend of music, talks and exhibitions

Tomorrow (Saturday, October 15) sees a day of talks about the Dymock Poets at Colwall Village Hall, starting at 11.30am. Experts will discuss various aspects of the poets' work, their lives and their connections with each other.

In 1941, the Archbishop of York, William Temple, and eminent intellectuals met in Malvern to discuss their vision of a post-war society based on social justice and the unification of Europe.

Next Friday, October 21, Professor Christopher Baker will talk about the ideas of the Malvern Conference 75 years on, especially in the light of the recent Brexit vote.

And the following day, Colwall Village Hall is the venue for an illustrated talk by Alison Bevan, director of the Royal West of England Academy, on women artists who have worked in the region.

To conclude the festival, concerts will be given by the distinguished Tippett String Quartet at Malvern College on Saturday, October 22, and Aldwyn Voices at Great Malvern Priory on Sunday, October 30.

The Tippett String Quartet will be joined by Neapolitan pianist Emma Abbate for a programme that includes Dvorak's American Quartet, Britten's Three Divertimenti and Dvorak's Quintet for String Quartet and Piano.

And the festival's final major event features the Aldwyn Voices are presenting a sequence of choral music and readings entitled Music's Voice includes the brilliant solo violinist, Fenella Humphreys, who plays the great Chaconne from Bach's Partita in D minor.

Fenella will also be performing the world premiere of Elagie by the Scottish composer, Rory Boyle, a work which was especially commissioned by the festival.

The concert will also feature organist Robert Green and reader Julian Robbins reading poems by R S Thomas, W H Auden and John Masefield, as well as a passage from the Confessions of St Augustine.

Full details of all the events and booking information is available on malvernfestival.co.uk.