BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.4.2//EN TZID:Europe/London X-WR-TIMEZONE:Europe/London BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1445@discoverburnley.co.uk DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260929T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260929T220000 DTSTAMP:20260819T065326Z URL:https://discoverburnley.co.uk/whatson/scarred-for-life-unplanned/ SUMMARY:Scarred For LIfe: Unplanned DESCRIPTION:Want to talk openly about the residual trauma of the terrifying telly you saw as a child in the 1970s and ‘80s? Perhaps Doctor Who? Or Worzel Gummidge? Or even the dubious poltergeist story on your local ITV n ews programme that kept you awake for a fortnight?\n\nHave you spent the l ast forty years trying to identify the series you saw sometime between 197 1 and 1979 and you can’t remember exactly what it was but it had the blo ke from that other show and he was fighting an alien with an egg whisk on its head\, or it might have been a ghost with a sieve on its head\, and yo u’re at least 67% sure it was absolutely\, definitely him? Come and join our support group!\n\nArranged in partnership with Northern Folklore Arch ive\, come and join writers Stephen Brotherstone and Bob Fischer for Scarr ed For Life - Unplanned. Held in the intimate setting of Burnley Library\, it’s literally two hours of dangerously impromptu Q&\;A discussion a bout all your favourite childhood terrors!\n\n“Their enthusiastic expert ise for the subject is enlightening and infectious” - Fortean Times\n\n “A charming look back at a time when pop culture was used to scare the l iving daylights out of every child and adult across the land” - Louder T han War\n\n“It might just stop the nightmares” - We Are Cult ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://discoverburnley.co.uk/wp-content/uploads /2026/08/images.jpg CATEGORIES:Community,Free To Attend,Live Music,Museums and Heritage,Showcase Events,Theatre and Culture LOCATION:Burnley Library\, Central Library Grimshaw Street\, Burnley\, Brit ain\, BB11 2BD\, United Kingdom GEO:53.787778;-2.241557 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Central Library Grimshaw St reet\, Burnley\, Britain\, BB11 2BD\, United Kingdom;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X- TITLE=Burnley Library:geo:53.787778,-2.241557 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/London X-LIC-LOCATION:Europe/London BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20260329T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR