Literary Love Match with Rosie Wilby and Robyn Perkins

An interactive comedy chat show exploring books on love, sexuality and relationships.

The title Deptford Literature Festival in chunky black lettering outlined in bright yellow, sits on a background in blue and pale blue. It’s an illustration that includes an image of a hand with a pen, a closed fist, and the words ‘whose stories are told?’, ‘resistance’, ‘community’, and ‘history’.

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In an interactive comedy chat show, award-winning comedians Rosie Wilby and Robyn Perkins pick out their favourite books on love, sexuality and relationships. Selecting texts from popular science to romantic fiction, they share fun anecdotes about the books’ key takeaways and muse on whether our favourite fictional love stories could ever have a ‘happy ever after’ in real life… while the audience swipe right or left to vote on their favourite ‘matches’ to curate a bespoke bookshelf.

Access information:

  • All of our in-person events Friday-Sunday, including this one, will be BSL Interpreted for audiences that require it. For workshops, you will be asked when booking your free ticket if you require the services of a BSL interpreter. For all workshops where one or more attendees require BSL interpretation, we will arrange for an interpreter to be there.
  • This event is wheelchair accessible, with accessible toilets.
  • Deptford Lounge has Changing Place facilities, an induction loop and assistance dogs are welcome. For more information: deptfordlounge.org.uk/access
  • A quiet space is available during the day at Deptford Lounge, in the Music Room, on the first floor.
  • If you require additional access provision in order to attend or take part in the Festival, for example, larger print handouts at workshops, or a scribe, please get in touch before the Festival day at: [email protected]
  • If you require assistance on the Festival day itself, please come to the Festival Hub in the foyer of Deptford Lounge where we will be happy to help you.

For more information about the access provision available, please visit: spreadtheword.org.uk/access-at-deptford-literature-festival

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Featured artists

Rosie Wilby

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Rosie Wilby is an award-winning comedian, writer and podcaster who has appeared on TV programmes including Good Morning Britain and Sunday Morning Live and BBC Radio 4 programmes including Woman’s Hour, Saturday Live and Four Thought. Her books The Breakup Monologues and Is Monogamy Dead? combine humour, heartache and science to investigate how to stay in a relationship in the age of Tinder and ghosting and follow her acclaimed solo show The Science of Sex.

Robyn Perkins

Festival artist


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Robyn Perkins is an award-winning comedian and the creator of science-y comedy panel show Comedy for the Curious. Her solo shows, including Mating Selection and Million Dollar Maybe, have won international acclaim. The former combined elements of a live dating show with an exploration of the morality of contemporary dating. While the latter explored her bisexuality.