SCHEDULE OF TALKS FOR 2024-2025

From 2.15 Notices, The Talk

Dean Court Community Centre

Tea and biscuits to follow

 

                   Dean Court Community Centre, Pinnocks Way, OX2 9DG 

2024	SPEAKER	TITLE
September
09 Sep	Phil Holt	Donald Campbell – Across the Lake
23 Sept	Julie Ann Godson	The Water Gypsy. This is the story of  Betty Ridge, a poor girl who became a Viscountess
October
14 Oct	Dr. James Taylor	Grace Darling and the Fine Art of Saving Lives at Sea
28 Oct	Two Spoons Tea	Tea, The Journey from Bush to Cup
November
11 Nov	TBC	The Remarkable History of Great Ormond Street Hospital
25 Nov	Caroline Jackson-Houlston	Fungi in your Garden and Further Afield
2025
January
13 Jan	Melanie King	Whatever did the Romans do for us?  The Introduction of Bathing
27 Jan	Richard Sills	Russia: Aggressor or Victim?  A Thousand Years of Invasions and Expansion
February
10 Feb	Paul Bullivant	Faces of Ethiopia and Other Encounters
24 Feb	Ascott Martyrs Ed. Trust	The Event of 1873 at Ascott under Wychwood
March
10 March	Jeff Evans	The History of TV Quiz Shows
24 March	Bill King	The River at War
April
14 April	Roger Butler	Travels on the Silk Road – Across the Roof of the World
28 April	Steve Dimmer	OOH MATRON: An Illustrated History of the Carry On films
May
12 May	Bill Hamilton	‘Good News, Bad News’.  Life as a BBC TV Correspondent
19 May	TBC	The History of the Foundling Hospital
June
09 June	Dr. Vivien Sieber	Kino & Kinder: A Family’s journey in the shadow of the Holocaust
23 June	Stephen Barker	Trench Humour in World War