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Dan Whaley

Dan Whaley – Musical Journey

[vc_row][vc_column width="2/3"][vc_single_image image="7069" img_size="large"][vc_empty_space][vc_single_image image="7042" img_size="large"][vc_empty_space][/vc_column][vc_column width="1/3"][vc_column_text] Speaker: Dan Whaley [/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height="16px"][vc_column_text]Dan Whaley is a broadcaster, journalist, quizmaster and musician who has been fortunate enough to play gigs everywhere from Fishguard to Frankfurt and Leicester to Las Vegas. Every Sunday evening he shares his wide and varied musical tastes with listeners around the globe with his...

Jonathan Rider and Edmund Le Brun in Afghanistan

Jonathan Rider and Edmund Le Brun – Afghanistan

[vc_row][vc_column width="2/3"][vc_single_image image="7097" img_size="large"][vc_empty_space][/vc_column][vc_column width="1/3"][vc_column_text] Speakers: Jonathan Rider and Edmund Le Brun [/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height="16px"][vc_column_text]In 2015 Jonathan Rider and Edmund Le Brun were the first people to raft the length of the Oxus River in Afghanistan, from its source high in the Pamir Mountains to the border with Tajikistan. As China seeks to build a road...

Frances Castle talking about her graphic novel Stagdale

Frances Castle – Stagdale, The Story Behind A Graphic Novel

[vc_row][vc_column width="2/3"][vc_single_image image="7125" img_size="large"][vc_empty_space][vc_single_image image="7034" img_size="large"][vc_empty_space][/vc_column][vc_column width="1/3"][vc_column_text] Speaker: Frances Castle [/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height="16px"][vc_column_text]Frances Castle is a London based illustrator who runs the independent record label ‘Clay Pipe Music’. She has recently self-published the first part of her graphic novel series ‘Stagdale’. The book is set in the summer of 1975, and tells the story of twelve-year-old Londoner Kathy who moves to the remote, unwelcoming village of Stagdale following her parents’ painful separation. The cottage she now...

Sacha Dench adventurer

Sacha Dench – The Human Swan

[vc_row][vc_column width="2/3"][vc_single_image image="7046" img_size="large"][vc_empty_space][/vc_column][vc_column width="1/3"][vc_column_text] Speaker: Sacha Dench [/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height="16px"][vc_column_text]Sacha is a conservationist, adventurer and motivational speaker. She has spoken to audiences from school groups to a president, and recent awards include the 2018 Britannia Trophy for the most meritorious performance in aviation (previously awarded to Sir Richard Branson and the Red Arrows and not won...

Eibhlin Fletcher

[vc_row][vc_column width="2/3"][vc_single_image image="7010" img_size="large"][vc_empty_space][vc_single_image image="7002" img_size="large"][vc_empty_space][vc_single_image image="7011" img_size="large"][vc_empty_space][/vc_column][vc_column width="1/3"][vc_column_text] Speaker: Eibhlin Fletcher [/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height="16px"][vc_column_text]If your idea of the perfect holiday is taking a family of four to live in one room house in Northern Mongolia in winter then you need to go and listen to Eibhlin. She is a one women marketing campaign for Mongolia. -35...

My Midsummer Morning

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Seasoned adventurer Alastair Humphreys pushes himself to his very limits – busking his way across Spain with a violin he can barely play. In 1935 a young Englishman named Laurie Lee arrived in Spain. He had never been overseas; had hardly even left the quiet village he grew up in. His idea was to...

Sarah Brindley

[vc_row][vc_column width="2/3"][vc_single_image image="6977" img_size="large"][vc_empty_space][vc_single_image image="6978" img_size="large"][vc_empty_space][vc_single_image image="6979" img_size="large"][/vc_column][vc_column width="1/3"][vc_column_text] Speaker: Sarah Brindley [/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height="16px"][vc_column_text]Cycling Above the Clouds: Riding the Andes by Bicycle Sarah does not consider herself to be an adventurer and is definitely not an athlete. Yet three years ago she set out on her dream to cycle the length of South America. Sarah believes that...

Ocean to Sky

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]For the people of India, it was a pilgrimage led by a hero of almost god-like status and millions lined the river to watch him pass in his ‘miraculous’ jet boats. For Ed and his 22-year-old son, Peter, it was a healing journey too, as they came to terms with the recent loss of...

Michael Dillon – Film maker

[vc_row][vc_column width="2/3"][vc_single_image image="6942" img_size="large"][vc_empty_space][vc_single_image image="6945" img_size="large"][vc_empty_space][vc_single_image image="6944" img_size="large"][/vc_column][vc_column width="1/3"][vc_column_text] Speaker: Michael Dillon [/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height="16px"][vc_column_text]For almost fifty years so far, whenever Australians or New Zealanders have undertaken an epic or crazy adventure, Michael has usually accompanied them. He filmed the First Australian Everest expedition, Tim Macartney-Snape’s Everest Sea to Summit Expedition, and with Lincoln Hall filmed a...

Jeannette McGill

[vc_row][vc_column width="2/3"][vc_single_image image="6938" img_size="large"][vc_empty_space][vc_single_image image="6939" img_size="large"][vc_empty_space][vc_single_image image="6940" img_size="large"][/vc_column][vc_column width="1/3"][vc_column_text] Speaker: Jeannette McGill [/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height="16px"][vc_column_text]Jeannette has climbed mountains and lead groups all over the world, including USA, New Zealand, South Africa, Peru, Bolivia, China-Tibet and Kyrgyzstan. She has been to Kilimanjaro/Meru five times, in 2018 was the first South African female to summit Manaslu and and...