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April 2019
Thursday Conversation with Geoff Thompson – Founder of Youth Charter UK
Geoff Thompson was World Heavyweight and team Karate Champion between 1982 and 1986. Following his retirement from competitive sport, he established himself as an influential sports politician and administrator, taking on numerous public and private sector appointments promoting equality, diversity and inclusion at all levels of society. He is Founder and Executive Chair of the Youth Charter, a UK-based international charity and UN NGO that uses the ethics of sport, culture, art and digital excellence to tackle the problems of…
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Thursday Conversation with Revd Rose Hudson-Wilkin
A short series of discussions lead by Revd Rose Hudson-Wilkin. Starting on 2nd May for three weeks Revd Rose will be inviting the audience to take part in an on-going dialogue.
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Thursday Conversation with Major Becky Frater – Army Air Corps
Becky Frater will be discussing: ‘Being the first not necessarily the best – tales from a female helicopter pilot in the Royal Navy!’ Major Frater originally joined the Army in 1998 after three years as a secondary school teacher in Bristol. After initial training at Royal Military Academy Sandhurst she was commissioned directly into the Army Air Corps and was subsequently awarded her Army Wings Flying Badge in 2001. She was posted to 659 Sqn of 4 Regt AAC as…
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Thursday Conversation with Rt Hon Anna Soubry MP
Anna Soubry is the Conservative Party Member for Broxtowe Soubry was a journalist from 1981 until 1995 and also reported on and presented several regional and networked TV programmes, including Central Television's Central Weekend, Grampian Television's North Tonight in the North of Scotland and the East Midlands regional news programme, Central News East. Soubry also presented and reported Granada Television's This Morning in the late 1980s. She was called to the bar in 1995 and is a member of the…
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Thursday Conversation with Speakers from Ovacome UK
As well as speakers taking about surviving ovarian cancer the Ovacome UK choir will sing. Ovacome is the national UK ovarian cancer charity focused on providing support to anyone affected by ovarian cancer. This includes women who have either been diagnosed with the disease or think that they might be at risk, as well as their friends and family and healthcare professionals. We are a strong community of many thousands of people, all working together with the aim of reducing…
Find out more »November 2019
Thursday Conversation with Polly Toynbee of The Guardian
Polly Toynbee worked for many years at The Guardian before joining the BBC where she was social affairs editor (1988–1995). At The Independent, which she joined after leaving the BBC, she was a columnist and associate editor. She later rejoined The Guardian. She has also written for The Observer and the Radio Times. Following in the footsteps of Barbara Ehrenreich's Nickel and Dimed (2001), she published in 2003 Hard Work: Life in Low-pay Britain about an experimental period voluntarily living…
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