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Public Talks, Debates and Lectures in London
Sunday, April 17, 2011 @ 07:04 AM
BE INSPIRED, LEARN and ENJOY
London is jam-packed with public talks, debates and lectures on just about everything, so the combination of living in London and finding this page means that you should easily be able to find something to interest you!
Hover for a little info, click for a lot…
Food and Diet in the UK
@ Conference Centre, British Library
Wednesday 21st September
We’ve never had it so good? Food and Diet in the UK
Cost: £7.50
@ Conference Centre, British Library
Every day brings a new food scare, recommended limit on consumption, dispute about fair trade and food miles, or seemingly contradictory articles about problems of obesity and anorexia. How do we make sense of this confusing landscape?
Sheila Dillon, presenter of Radio 4’s The Food Programme, will chair the debate; speakers include Dr Wendy Wills of the University of Hertfordshire and Professor Peter Jackson, of the University of Sheffield.
Address: Conference Centre (British Library), Main Auditorium, 96 Euston Road, NW1 2DB
Nearest Tubes: King's Cross
Book tickets here.
[image credit: roboppy]
Afghanistan
Andy McNab
@National Army Museum
Wednesday 21st September (7pm)
Cost: £10
@ National Army Museum
Ex-SAS man Andy McNab will be giving a talk at the National Army Museum which will draw on his own experiences and those of serving soldiers to show the courage and hardship which British servicemen face every day in the Afghanistan war. He will also give his own views on the conflict, and how he thinks we should move forward.
Address: National Army Museum, Royal Hospital Road, Chelsea, London, SW3 4HT
Nearest Tube Station: Sloane Square
Tickets can be purchased in the following ways: Telephone: 020 7881 6600, Online:http://www.nam.ac.uk/whats-on/celebrity-speakers/afghanistan-way-forward or at the Museum
Invisibility
@The Royal Institution of Great Britain
Thursday 22nd September (7pm)
Cost: £10
Each month, New Scientist invites a leading figure in an important field to provide an eight page guide that explains everything a well informed person needs to know, called Instant Expert. At this event two of those experts are going to provide a guided tour of their fields and answer your questions.
Pioneering astrophysicist Michael Rowan-Robinson explores what invisible rays from radio to gamma have revealed about the cosmos, and Sir John Pendry explains how metamaterials manipulate light in ways that seem almost impossible – including the creation of the first invisibility cloak.
Address: The Royal Institution of Great Britain, 21 Albemarle Street, London, W1S 4BS
Nearest Tube Station: Piccadilly Circus or Green Park
Apply for your tickets here: http://www.rigb.org/contentControl?action=displayEvent&id;=1165 or call the events team on this number 020 7409 2992.
[image credit: Roberto Arias of Ariaski]
Got A Question For Boris?
Secombe Theatre
Thursday 22nd September (7pm)
Cost: Free
@ TBC, London
Join the London Mayor Boris Johnson and a panel of local representatives for an opportunity to question them on community safety in Sutton and what they are doing for London.
Panel: Boris Johnson - Mayor of London
Kit Malthouse - Deputy Mayor for Policing
Steve O’Connell - Assembly Member Sutton and Croydon (Chair)
Others TBC
Address: Secombe Theatre, 42 Cheam Road, Sutton, SM1 2SS
Nearest Rail Station: Sutton (London) Rail
Apply here for your free tickets
[image credit: garryknight]
Learn how to become a better blogger
Expert Panel
@Core Gallery
Tuesday 27th September (6:30pm)
Cost: £5 for DIY members and £9.50 for non-members
@ Core Gallery
Find out how to become an award winning blogger and accelerate your practice, attract visitors to your blog and build an online presence.
How can you find your voice as a blogger, making it a must read, and how to build your online presence in a frank and open discussion which shall also cover the possible pitfalls that can crop up with online profiles as well as tips on what makes blogs stand out.
Your artistic profile and blogging platforms can be very important in the development of your career and can be utilised to create networks and opportunities. Bloggers at this discussion shall explain how their blogs have not only created engagement in their practice, but also led to job opportunities and even commissions or sales of their work.
Speaker(s): Chaired by Andrew Bryant, online editor of artists talking a-n. Joined by Rob Turner and Rosalind Davis (a-n award winning bloggers 2009) Sarah Rowles (Q-Art) and Jane Boyer
Address: Core Gallery, 8 - 12 Creekside, Deptford, London, SE8 3DX (020 8692 2783, http://coregallery.co.uk/)
Nearest Tube Station: Deptford Bridge
Buy your tickets at the Core Gallery before the talk begins
In conversation with...Patricia Routledge
@Greenwich Theatre
Sunday 2nd October (7:30pm)
Facing the Music
Cost: £15
Renowned English actor Patricia Routledge, best known for her role as Hyacinth Bucket in "Keeping Up Appearances", will be discussing her enthralling career on stage.
The conversation will be lead by Writer and broadcaster, Edward Seckerson, Chief Classical Music and Opera Critic for The Independent and a founder member of The Arts Desk.Com. He wrote and presented the long-running BBC Radio 3 series Stage & Screen in which he interviewed many of the most prominent writers and stars of musical theatre.
Address: Greenwich Theatre, Crooms Hill, SE10 8ES
Nearest Station: Greenwich
Book your tickets here: Greenwich Theatre.
[image credit: Riot Wife]
Entrepreneurs, Innovation and Growth
Luke Johnson
@LSE
Monday 3rd October (6:30pm)
Cost: Free
@ LSE
Speaker: Luke Johnson
Luke Johnson will talk about how new firms and their founders create jobs and wealth, and what we can do to stimulate an enterprise economy. This event marks the publication of Luke's new book Start It Up.
Luke Johnson is the Chairman of Risk Capital Partners, a private equity firm he founded in 2001. For six years until 2010 he served as Chairman of Channel 4 Television, a major British broadcaster. He is Chairman/part owner of the restaurant business Giraffe with 40 branches, and Chairman/owner of Patisserie Valerie, Druckers and Baker & Spice, three chains of over 70 retail patisseries. He recently took control of Bread Ltd, Britain's largest artisan baker, including the retail bakery Gail's.
As Chairman and majority shareholder of Signature Restaurants he built up the Strada 75 branch restaurant chain and owned various classic London restaurants including The Ivy, Le Caprice and J Sheekey. Previously he was Chairman of PizzaExpress PLC. During his involvement the share price rose from 40p to over 800p. In the 1980s he worked as a stockbroking analyst for Kleinworts. He co-founded the largest UK chain of dental surgeries, Integrated Dental Holdings, which was sold for over £100m after ten years of ownership.
He wrote a business column in The Sunday Telegraph between 1998 and 2006, and now writes a weekly essay in The Financial Times. In 2009 he became the Chairman of The Royal Society of Arts.
Address: Old Theatre, Old Building, London School of Economics and Political Science, Houghton Street, London, WC2A 2AE
Nearest Tubes: Holborn, Covent Garden and Temple
This event is free and open to all with no ticket required. Entry is on a first come, first served basis. For any queries email [email protected] or call 020 7955 6043 and for more details check out LSE's website.
[image credit: opensourceway]
Ian Fleming's Commandos
Nicholas Rankin
@National Army Musuem
Wednesday 5th October
(7:00pm)
Cost: £7.50
@National Army Museum
In 1942, Lieutenant-Commander Ian Fleming, assistant to the Director of Naval Intelligence, had a brilliant idea: to set up a unit of authorised looters, who would go in with the front-line troops and steal enemy intelligence.
Known as '30 Assault Unit', they took part in all of the major campaigns of the War. Their final coup was to seize the archives of the German Navy, which later provided invaluable evidence for the Nuremburg trials.
Best-selling author Nicholas Rankin, argues that Fleming's Second World War service was one of the most significant periods of his life - without which, the world's most popular spy fiction would not have been written.
Address: Royal Hospital Road, London SW3 4HT
Nearest Tube Station: Sloane Sqaure
Apply for your tickets here: http://www.nam.ac.uk/whats-on/celebrity-speakers/ian-flemings-commandos
President Jimmy Carter interviewed by Jon Snow
@Royal Festival Hall
Wednesday 5th October (7pm)
Cost: Range from £16.75 - £41.75
@ Royal Festival Hall, Southbank Centre
US President Jimmy Carter, who held office between 1976 and 1980, is a Nobel Prize-winner, author, humanitarian, professor, farmer, naval officer and carpenter. In this special interview with Jon Snow from Channel 4 News, President Carter talks about his career as president and as a senior statesman and ambassador for the Carter Center over the past three decades, and shares his views of global politics today.
Address: Belvedere Road, South Bank, London SE1 8XX
Nearest Tube Stations: Waterloo, Embankment and Temple
Apply for your tickets here: http://ticketing.southbankcentre.co.uk/find/literature-spoken-word/tickets/president-jimmy-carter-with-jon-snow-60284
[image credit: Adam79 of Postcard Exchange]
The Experience of War (1939-45)
Max Hastings
@National Army Museum
Tuesday 11th October (7pm)
Cost: £10.00
@National Army Museum
Over 27,000 people died every day during the Second World War. Many people who lived through this catastrophe struggled to find the words to describe what they witnessed. Many turned to a clichéd phrase to sum things up: "All Hell's Let Loose!"
Max Hastings brings together human stories from across the world. He charts these experiences, along with the numerous battles on land, at sea and in the air which formed the greatest conflict in history.
Address: Royal Hospital Road, London SW3 4HT
Nearest Rail Station: Sloane Sqaure
Apply for your tickets here: http://www.nam.ac.uk/whats-on/celebrity-speakers/all-hell-let-loose-experience-war-1939-45
Inspiring Entrepreneurs: Media Maestros
@ Conference Centre, British Library
Wednesday 12th October (6pm)
Cost: £10
@ Conference Centre, British Library
Discover how you can maximise your media coverage for your business. Special guests from PR, print and online press will offer advice on how it can be done. A host of experts will share their experiences on the best way to get media interest for your business.
British Sign Language Interpreters will also be present at the event to help anyone with a hearing impairment.
Address: Conference Centre (British Library), Main Auditorium, 96 Euston Road, NW1 2DB
Nearest Tubes: King's Cross
Book tickets here.
[image credit: FontShop]
40 days to save the planet
@Royal Geographical Society
Thursday 13th October
(7pm)
Earthwatch: 40 years of Earthwatching, 40 days to save the planet
Cost: Free
@ Royal Geographical Society
Earthwatch has been protecting the planet for 40 years, but imagine we had just 40 days left to save it – what would you do?
Five speakers, one debate; you decide!
Address: Royal Geographical Society, 1 Kensington Gore, London, SW7 2AR (020 7501 3000)
Nearest Tube Station: Knightsbridge, South Kensington
Apply for your free ticket here: http://www.earthwatch.org/europe/tickets/
Watch Question Time Live
@TBC
Thursday 13th October
Cost: Free
@ TBC, London
Popular, televised debate Question Time, chaired by David Dimbleby, returns to London on Thursday 13th October 2011. Watch the programme being filmed live and join in on the debate by quizzing public figures on the recent events.
Panel: TBC
Address: TBC
Nearest Tube Station: TBC
Apply for free tickets here: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/question_time/1858613.stms
[image credit BBC]
Sir Michael Parkinson
@London Arts Theatre
Thursday 27th October (6pm)
Cost: £15
@ London Arts Theatre
Face to Face at the Arts is an intimate series of live interviews celebrating people, ideas and entertainment staged to raise funds for this independent, unsubsidised theatre.
Prepare for an hour of candour as arts broadcaster and literary festival favourite Fiona Lindsay talks to leading showbusiness names, revealing why they do what they do - and how they do it.
Address: 6-7 Great Newport St, WC2H 7JB
Nearest Tube Stations: Leicester Square and Covent Garden
Apply for your tickets here: https://tickets.lovetheatre.com/selectshow.asp?Site=143
[image credit: Nottingham Trent University]
Small is Beautiful
Caroline Lucas & Victoria Chick
@ Southbank Centre
Wednesday 2nd November (7:45pm)
Is This the End of Economics?
Cost: £11.75
Caroline Lucas MP and Professor Victoria Chick revisit EF Schumacher’s influential book Small is Beautiful to question the end of economics. Mainstream economics has sought to explain everything in terms of individualism and self-interest. As the impact of the biggest financial crisis in living memory reverberates around the globe, are we living through the death of this paradigm? And if so, what might replace it? Chaired by Andrew Simms, fellow of nef (the new economics foundation).
Address: Purcell Room, Southbank Centre, Belvedere Road, City of London, SE1 8XX
Nearest Tube Station: Waterloo
Apply for your tickets here.
[image credit: http://underclassrising.net/]
Brian Cox and Jeff Forshaw talk Science
@Royal Festival Hall
Sunday 11th December
Cost: Range from £12.00 - £19.75
@ Royal Festival Hall, Southbank Centre
Brian Cox and Jeff Forshaw set out to explain the deepest questions in science with their new book, The Quantum Universe, which they present at this live event. Cox and Forshaw are long-time collaborators, and their new work is a brilliantly ambitious mission to explain the workings of nature through the complexities of quantum physics.
Join two outstanding scientists on a thrilling journey into the subatomic world, sorting the fact from the fiction, and engaging with experimental science in a life-enhancing way.
Address: Belvedere Road, South Bank, London SE1 8XX
Nearest Tube Stations: Waterloo, Embankment and Temple
Apply for your tickets here
[image credit: Dave Pearson]
@ Conference Centre, British Library
Wednesday 21st September
We’ve never had it so good? Food and Diet in the UK
Cost: £7.50
@ Conference Centre, British Library
Every day brings a new food scare, recommended limit on consumption, dispute about fair trade and food miles, or seemingly contradictory articles about problems of obesity and anorexia. How do we make sense of this confusing landscape?
Sheila Dillon, presenter of Radio 4’s The Food Programme, will chair the debate; speakers include Dr Wendy Wills of the University of Hertfordshire and Professor Peter Jackson, of the University of Sheffield.
Address: Conference Centre (British Library), Main Auditorium, 96 Euston Road, NW1 2DB
Nearest Tubes: King's Cross
Book tickets here.
[image credit: roboppy]
Cost: £7.50
@ Conference Centre, British Library
Every day brings a new food scare, recommended limit on consumption, dispute about fair trade and food miles, or seemingly contradictory articles about problems of obesity and anorexia. How do we make sense of this confusing landscape?
Sheila Dillon, presenter of Radio 4’s The Food Programme, will chair the debate; speakers include Dr Wendy Wills of the University of Hertfordshire and Professor Peter Jackson, of the University of Sheffield.
Address: Conference Centre (British Library), Main Auditorium, 96 Euston Road, NW1 2DB
Nearest Tubes: King's Cross
Book tickets here.
[image credit: roboppy]
Andy McNab
@National Army Museum
Wednesday 21st September (7pm)
Cost: £10
@ National Army Museum
Ex-SAS man Andy McNab will be giving a talk at the National Army Museum which will draw on his own experiences and those of serving soldiers to show the courage and hardship which British servicemen face every day in the Afghanistan war. He will also give his own views on the conflict, and how he thinks we should move forward.
Address: National Army Museum, Royal Hospital Road, Chelsea, London, SW3 4HT
Nearest Tube Station: Sloane Square
Tickets can be purchased in the following ways: Telephone: 020 7881 6600, Online:http://www.nam.ac.uk/whats-on/celebrity-speakers/afghanistan-way-forward or at the Museum
@ National Army Museum
Ex-SAS man Andy McNab will be giving a talk at the National Army Museum which will draw on his own experiences and those of serving soldiers to show the courage and hardship which British servicemen face every day in the Afghanistan war. He will also give his own views on the conflict, and how he thinks we should move forward.
Address: National Army Museum, Royal Hospital Road, Chelsea, London, SW3 4HT
Nearest Tube Station: Sloane Square
Tickets can be purchased in the following ways: Telephone: 020 7881 6600, Online:http://www.nam.ac.uk/whats-on/celebrity-speakers/afghanistan-way-forward or at the Museum
@The Royal Institution of Great Britain
Thursday 22nd September (7pm)
Cost: £10
Each month, New Scientist invites a leading figure in an important field to provide an eight page guide that explains everything a well informed person needs to know, called Instant Expert. At this event two of those experts are going to provide a guided tour of their fields and answer your questions.
Pioneering astrophysicist Michael Rowan-Robinson explores what invisible rays from radio to gamma have revealed about the cosmos, and Sir John Pendry explains how metamaterials manipulate light in ways that seem almost impossible – including the creation of the first invisibility cloak.
Address: The Royal Institution of Great Britain, 21 Albemarle Street, London, W1S 4BS
Nearest Tube Station: Piccadilly Circus or Green Park
Apply for your tickets here: http://www.rigb.org/contentControl?action=displayEvent&id;=1165 or call the events team on this number 020 7409 2992.
[image credit: Roberto Arias of Ariaski]
Each month, New Scientist invites a leading figure in an important field to provide an eight page guide that explains everything a well informed person needs to know, called Instant Expert. At this event two of those experts are going to provide a guided tour of their fields and answer your questions.
Pioneering astrophysicist Michael Rowan-Robinson explores what invisible rays from radio to gamma have revealed about the cosmos, and Sir John Pendry explains how metamaterials manipulate light in ways that seem almost impossible – including the creation of the first invisibility cloak.
Address: The Royal Institution of Great Britain, 21 Albemarle Street, London, W1S 4BS
Nearest Tube Station: Piccadilly Circus or Green Park
Apply for your tickets here: http://www.rigb.org/contentControl?action=displayEvent&id;=1165 or call the events team on this number 020 7409 2992.
[image credit: Roberto Arias of Ariaski]
Secombe Theatre
Thursday 22nd September (7pm)
Cost: Free
@ TBC, London
Join the London Mayor Boris Johnson and a panel of local representatives for an opportunity to question them on community safety in Sutton and what they are doing for London.
Panel: Boris Johnson - Mayor of London
Kit Malthouse - Deputy Mayor for Policing
Steve O’Connell - Assembly Member Sutton and Croydon (Chair)
Others TBC
Address: Secombe Theatre, 42 Cheam Road, Sutton, SM1 2SS
Nearest Rail Station: Sutton (London) Rail
Apply here for your free tickets
[image credit: garryknight]
@ TBC, London
Join the London Mayor Boris Johnson and a panel of local representatives for an opportunity to question them on community safety in Sutton and what they are doing for London.
Panel: Boris Johnson - Mayor of London
Kit Malthouse - Deputy Mayor for Policing
Steve O’Connell - Assembly Member Sutton and Croydon (Chair)
Others TBC
Address: Secombe Theatre, 42 Cheam Road, Sutton, SM1 2SS
Nearest Rail Station: Sutton (London) Rail
Apply here for your free tickets
[image credit: garryknight]
Expert Panel
@Core Gallery
Tuesday 27th September (6:30pm)
Cost: £5 for DIY members and £9.50 for non-members
@ Core Gallery
Find out how to become an award winning blogger and accelerate your practice, attract visitors to your blog and build an online presence.
How can you find your voice as a blogger, making it a must read, and how to build your online presence in a frank and open discussion which shall also cover the possible pitfalls that can crop up with online profiles as well as tips on what makes blogs stand out.
Your artistic profile and blogging platforms can be very important in the development of your career and can be utilised to create networks and opportunities. Bloggers at this discussion shall explain how their blogs have not only created engagement in their practice, but also led to job opportunities and even commissions or sales of their work.
Speaker(s): Chaired by Andrew Bryant, online editor of artists talking a-n. Joined by Rob Turner and Rosalind Davis (a-n award winning bloggers 2009) Sarah Rowles (Q-Art) and Jane Boyer
Address: Core Gallery, 8 - 12 Creekside, Deptford, London, SE8 3DX (020 8692 2783, http://coregallery.co.uk/)
Nearest Tube Station: Deptford Bridge
Buy your tickets at the Core Gallery before the talk begins
@ Core Gallery
Find out how to become an award winning blogger and accelerate your practice, attract visitors to your blog and build an online presence.
How can you find your voice as a blogger, making it a must read, and how to build your online presence in a frank and open discussion which shall also cover the possible pitfalls that can crop up with online profiles as well as tips on what makes blogs stand out.
Your artistic profile and blogging platforms can be very important in the development of your career and can be utilised to create networks and opportunities. Bloggers at this discussion shall explain how their blogs have not only created engagement in their practice, but also led to job opportunities and even commissions or sales of their work.
Speaker(s): Chaired by Andrew Bryant, online editor of artists talking a-n. Joined by Rob Turner and Rosalind Davis (a-n award winning bloggers 2009) Sarah Rowles (Q-Art) and Jane Boyer
Address: Core Gallery, 8 - 12 Creekside, Deptford, London, SE8 3DX (020 8692 2783, http://coregallery.co.uk/)
Nearest Tube Station: Deptford Bridge
Buy your tickets at the Core Gallery before the talk begins
@Greenwich Theatre
Sunday 2nd October (7:30pm)
Facing the Music
Cost: £15
Renowned English actor Patricia Routledge, best known for her role as Hyacinth Bucket in "Keeping Up Appearances", will be discussing her enthralling career on stage.
The conversation will be lead by Writer and broadcaster, Edward Seckerson, Chief Classical Music and Opera Critic for The Independent and a founder member of The Arts Desk.Com. He wrote and presented the long-running BBC Radio 3 series Stage & Screen in which he interviewed many of the most prominent writers and stars of musical theatre.
Address: Greenwich Theatre, Crooms Hill, SE10 8ES
Nearest Station: Greenwich
Book your tickets here: Greenwich Theatre.
[image credit: Riot Wife]
Cost: £15
Renowned English actor Patricia Routledge, best known for her role as Hyacinth Bucket in "Keeping Up Appearances", will be discussing her enthralling career on stage.
The conversation will be lead by Writer and broadcaster, Edward Seckerson, Chief Classical Music and Opera Critic for The Independent and a founder member of The Arts Desk.Com. He wrote and presented the long-running BBC Radio 3 series Stage & Screen in which he interviewed many of the most prominent writers and stars of musical theatre.
Address: Greenwich Theatre, Crooms Hill, SE10 8ES
Nearest Station: Greenwich
Book your tickets here: Greenwich Theatre.
[image credit: Riot Wife]
Luke Johnson
@LSE
Monday 3rd October (6:30pm)
Cost: Free
@ LSE
Speaker: Luke Johnson
Luke Johnson will talk about how new firms and their founders create jobs and wealth, and what we can do to stimulate an enterprise economy. This event marks the publication of Luke's new book Start It Up.
Luke Johnson is the Chairman of Risk Capital Partners, a private equity firm he founded in 2001. For six years until 2010 he served as Chairman of Channel 4 Television, a major British broadcaster. He is Chairman/part owner of the restaurant business Giraffe with 40 branches, and Chairman/owner of Patisserie Valerie, Druckers and Baker & Spice, three chains of over 70 retail patisseries. He recently took control of Bread Ltd, Britain's largest artisan baker, including the retail bakery Gail's.
As Chairman and majority shareholder of Signature Restaurants he built up the Strada 75 branch restaurant chain and owned various classic London restaurants including The Ivy, Le Caprice and J Sheekey. Previously he was Chairman of PizzaExpress PLC. During his involvement the share price rose from 40p to over 800p. In the 1980s he worked as a stockbroking analyst for Kleinworts. He co-founded the largest UK chain of dental surgeries, Integrated Dental Holdings, which was sold for over £100m after ten years of ownership.
He wrote a business column in The Sunday Telegraph between 1998 and 2006, and now writes a weekly essay in The Financial Times. In 2009 he became the Chairman of The Royal Society of Arts.
Address: Old Theatre, Old Building, London School of Economics and Political Science, Houghton Street, London, WC2A 2AE
Nearest Tubes: Holborn, Covent Garden and Temple
This event is free and open to all with no ticket required. Entry is on a first come, first served basis. For any queries email [email protected] or call 020 7955 6043 and for more details check out LSE's website.
[image credit: opensourceway]
@ LSE
Speaker: Luke Johnson
Luke Johnson will talk about how new firms and their founders create jobs and wealth, and what we can do to stimulate an enterprise economy. This event marks the publication of Luke's new book Start It Up.
Luke Johnson is the Chairman of Risk Capital Partners, a private equity firm he founded in 2001. For six years until 2010 he served as Chairman of Channel 4 Television, a major British broadcaster. He is Chairman/part owner of the restaurant business Giraffe with 40 branches, and Chairman/owner of Patisserie Valerie, Druckers and Baker & Spice, three chains of over 70 retail patisseries. He recently took control of Bread Ltd, Britain's largest artisan baker, including the retail bakery Gail's.
As Chairman and majority shareholder of Signature Restaurants he built up the Strada 75 branch restaurant chain and owned various classic London restaurants including The Ivy, Le Caprice and J Sheekey. Previously he was Chairman of PizzaExpress PLC. During his involvement the share price rose from 40p to over 800p. In the 1980s he worked as a stockbroking analyst for Kleinworts. He co-founded the largest UK chain of dental surgeries, Integrated Dental Holdings, which was sold for over £100m after ten years of ownership.
He wrote a business column in The Sunday Telegraph between 1998 and 2006, and now writes a weekly essay in The Financial Times. In 2009 he became the Chairman of The Royal Society of Arts.
Address: Old Theatre, Old Building, London School of Economics and Political Science, Houghton Street, London, WC2A 2AE
Nearest Tubes: Holborn, Covent Garden and Temple
This event is free and open to all with no ticket required. Entry is on a first come, first served basis. For any queries email [email protected] or call 020 7955 6043 and for more details check out LSE's website.
[image credit: opensourceway]
Nicholas Rankin
@National Army Musuem
Wednesday 5th October
(7:00pm)
Cost: £7.50
@National Army Museum
In 1942, Lieutenant-Commander Ian Fleming, assistant to the Director of Naval Intelligence, had a brilliant idea: to set up a unit of authorised looters, who would go in with the front-line troops and steal enemy intelligence.
Known as '30 Assault Unit', they took part in all of the major campaigns of the War. Their final coup was to seize the archives of the German Navy, which later provided invaluable evidence for the Nuremburg trials.
Best-selling author Nicholas Rankin, argues that Fleming's Second World War service was one of the most significant periods of his life - without which, the world's most popular spy fiction would not have been written.
Address: Royal Hospital Road, London SW3 4HT
Nearest Tube Station: Sloane Sqaure
Apply for your tickets here: http://www.nam.ac.uk/whats-on/celebrity-speakers/ian-flemings-commandos
@National Army Museum
In 1942, Lieutenant-Commander Ian Fleming, assistant to the Director of Naval Intelligence, had a brilliant idea: to set up a unit of authorised looters, who would go in with the front-line troops and steal enemy intelligence.
Known as '30 Assault Unit', they took part in all of the major campaigns of the War. Their final coup was to seize the archives of the German Navy, which later provided invaluable evidence for the Nuremburg trials.
Best-selling author Nicholas Rankin, argues that Fleming's Second World War service was one of the most significant periods of his life - without which, the world's most popular spy fiction would not have been written.
Address: Royal Hospital Road, London SW3 4HT
Nearest Tube Station: Sloane Sqaure
Apply for your tickets here: http://www.nam.ac.uk/whats-on/celebrity-speakers/ian-flemings-commandos
@Royal Festival Hall
Wednesday 5th October (7pm)
Cost: Range from £16.75 - £41.75
@ Royal Festival Hall, Southbank Centre
US President Jimmy Carter, who held office between 1976 and 1980, is a Nobel Prize-winner, author, humanitarian, professor, farmer, naval officer and carpenter. In this special interview with Jon Snow from Channel 4 News, President Carter talks about his career as president and as a senior statesman and ambassador for the Carter Center over the past three decades, and shares his views of global politics today.
Address: Belvedere Road, South Bank, London SE1 8XX
Nearest Tube Stations: Waterloo, Embankment and Temple
Apply for your tickets here: http://ticketing.southbankcentre.co.uk/find/literature-spoken-word/tickets/president-jimmy-carter-with-jon-snow-60284
[image credit: Adam79 of Postcard Exchange]
@ Royal Festival Hall, Southbank Centre
US President Jimmy Carter, who held office between 1976 and 1980, is a Nobel Prize-winner, author, humanitarian, professor, farmer, naval officer and carpenter. In this special interview with Jon Snow from Channel 4 News, President Carter talks about his career as president and as a senior statesman and ambassador for the Carter Center over the past three decades, and shares his views of global politics today.
Address: Belvedere Road, South Bank, London SE1 8XX
Nearest Tube Stations: Waterloo, Embankment and Temple
Apply for your tickets here: http://ticketing.southbankcentre.co.uk/find/literature-spoken-word/tickets/president-jimmy-carter-with-jon-snow-60284
[image credit: Adam79 of Postcard Exchange]
Max Hastings
@National Army Museum
Tuesday 11th October (7pm)
Cost: £10.00
@National Army Museum
Over 27,000 people died every day during the Second World War. Many people who lived through this catastrophe struggled to find the words to describe what they witnessed. Many turned to a clichéd phrase to sum things up: "All Hell's Let Loose!"
Max Hastings brings together human stories from across the world. He charts these experiences, along with the numerous battles on land, at sea and in the air which formed the greatest conflict in history.
Address: Royal Hospital Road, London SW3 4HT
Nearest Rail Station: Sloane Sqaure
Apply for your tickets here: http://www.nam.ac.uk/whats-on/celebrity-speakers/all-hell-let-loose-experience-war-1939-45
@National Army Museum
Over 27,000 people died every day during the Second World War. Many people who lived through this catastrophe struggled to find the words to describe what they witnessed. Many turned to a clichéd phrase to sum things up: "All Hell's Let Loose!"
Max Hastings brings together human stories from across the world. He charts these experiences, along with the numerous battles on land, at sea and in the air which formed the greatest conflict in history.
Address: Royal Hospital Road, London SW3 4HT
Nearest Rail Station: Sloane Sqaure
Apply for your tickets here: http://www.nam.ac.uk/whats-on/celebrity-speakers/all-hell-let-loose-experience-war-1939-45
@ Conference Centre, British Library
Wednesday 12th October (6pm)
Cost: £10
@ Conference Centre, British Library
Discover how you can maximise your media coverage for your business. Special guests from PR, print and online press will offer advice on how it can be done. A host of experts will share their experiences on the best way to get media interest for your business.
British Sign Language Interpreters will also be present at the event to help anyone with a hearing impairment.
Address: Conference Centre (British Library), Main Auditorium, 96 Euston Road, NW1 2DB
Nearest Tubes: King's Cross
Book tickets here.
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@ Conference Centre, British Library
Discover how you can maximise your media coverage for your business. Special guests from PR, print and online press will offer advice on how it can be done. A host of experts will share their experiences on the best way to get media interest for your business.
British Sign Language Interpreters will also be present at the event to help anyone with a hearing impairment.
Address: Conference Centre (British Library), Main Auditorium, 96 Euston Road, NW1 2DB
Nearest Tubes: King's Cross
Book tickets here.
[image credit: FontShop]
@Royal Geographical Society
Thursday 13th October
(7pm)
Earthwatch: 40 years of Earthwatching, 40 days to save the planet
Cost: Free
@ Royal Geographical Society
Earthwatch has been protecting the planet for 40 years, but imagine we had just 40 days left to save it – what would you do?
Five speakers, one debate; you decide!
Address: Royal Geographical Society, 1 Kensington Gore, London, SW7 2AR (020 7501 3000)
Nearest Tube Station: Knightsbridge, South Kensington
Apply for your free ticket here: http://www.earthwatch.org/europe/tickets/
Cost: Free
@ Royal Geographical Society
Earthwatch has been protecting the planet for 40 years, but imagine we had just 40 days left to save it – what would you do?
Five speakers, one debate; you decide!
Address: Royal Geographical Society, 1 Kensington Gore, London, SW7 2AR (020 7501 3000)
Nearest Tube Station: Knightsbridge, South Kensington
Apply for your free ticket here: http://www.earthwatch.org/europe/tickets/
@TBC
Thursday 13th October
Cost: Free
@ TBC, London
Popular, televised debate Question Time, chaired by David Dimbleby, returns to London on Thursday 13th October 2011. Watch the programme being filmed live and join in on the debate by quizzing public figures on the recent events.
Panel: TBC
Address: TBC
Nearest Tube Station: TBC
Apply for free tickets here: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/question_time/1858613.stms
[image credit BBC]
@ TBC, London
Popular, televised debate Question Time, chaired by David Dimbleby, returns to London on Thursday 13th October 2011. Watch the programme being filmed live and join in on the debate by quizzing public figures on the recent events.
Panel: TBC
Address: TBC
Nearest Tube Station: TBC
Apply for free tickets here: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/question_time/1858613.stms
[image credit BBC]
@London Arts Theatre
Thursday 27th October (6pm)
Cost: £15
@ London Arts Theatre
Face to Face at the Arts is an intimate series of live interviews celebrating people, ideas and entertainment staged to raise funds for this independent, unsubsidised theatre.
Prepare for an hour of candour as arts broadcaster and literary festival favourite Fiona Lindsay talks to leading showbusiness names, revealing why they do what they do - and how they do it.
Address: 6-7 Great Newport St, WC2H 7JB
Nearest Tube Stations: Leicester Square and Covent Garden
Apply for your tickets here: https://tickets.lovetheatre.com/selectshow.asp?Site=143
[image credit: Nottingham Trent University]
@ London Arts Theatre
Face to Face at the Arts is an intimate series of live interviews celebrating people, ideas and entertainment staged to raise funds for this independent, unsubsidised theatre.
Prepare for an hour of candour as arts broadcaster and literary festival favourite Fiona Lindsay talks to leading showbusiness names, revealing why they do what they do - and how they do it.
Address: 6-7 Great Newport St, WC2H 7JB
Nearest Tube Stations: Leicester Square and Covent Garden
Apply for your tickets here: https://tickets.lovetheatre.com/selectshow.asp?Site=143
[image credit: Nottingham Trent University]
Caroline Lucas & Victoria Chick
@ Southbank Centre
Wednesday 2nd November (7:45pm)
Is This the End of Economics?
Cost: £11.75
Caroline Lucas MP and Professor Victoria Chick revisit EF Schumacher’s influential book Small is Beautiful to question the end of economics. Mainstream economics has sought to explain everything in terms of individualism and self-interest. As the impact of the biggest financial crisis in living memory reverberates around the globe, are we living through the death of this paradigm? And if so, what might replace it? Chaired by Andrew Simms, fellow of nef (the new economics foundation).
Address: Purcell Room, Southbank Centre, Belvedere Road, City of London, SE1 8XX
Nearest Tube Station: Waterloo
Apply for your tickets here.
[image credit: http://underclassrising.net/]
Cost: £11.75
Caroline Lucas MP and Professor Victoria Chick revisit EF Schumacher’s influential book Small is Beautiful to question the end of economics. Mainstream economics has sought to explain everything in terms of individualism and self-interest. As the impact of the biggest financial crisis in living memory reverberates around the globe, are we living through the death of this paradigm? And if so, what might replace it? Chaired by Andrew Simms, fellow of nef (the new economics foundation).
Address: Purcell Room, Southbank Centre, Belvedere Road, City of London, SE1 8XX
Nearest Tube Station: Waterloo
Apply for your tickets here.
[image credit: http://underclassrising.net/]
@Royal Festival Hall
Sunday 11th December
Cost: Range from £12.00 - £19.75
@ Royal Festival Hall, Southbank Centre
Brian Cox and Jeff Forshaw set out to explain the deepest questions in science with their new book, The Quantum Universe, which they present at this live event. Cox and Forshaw are long-time collaborators, and their new work is a brilliantly ambitious mission to explain the workings of nature through the complexities of quantum physics.
Join two outstanding scientists on a thrilling journey into the subatomic world, sorting the fact from the fiction, and engaging with experimental science in a life-enhancing way.
Address: Belvedere Road, South Bank, London SE1 8XX
Nearest Tube Stations: Waterloo, Embankment and Temple
Apply for your tickets here
[image credit: Dave Pearson]
@ Royal Festival Hall, Southbank Centre
Brian Cox and Jeff Forshaw set out to explain the deepest questions in science with their new book, The Quantum Universe, which they present at this live event. Cox and Forshaw are long-time collaborators, and their new work is a brilliantly ambitious mission to explain the workings of nature through the complexities of quantum physics.
Join two outstanding scientists on a thrilling journey into the subatomic world, sorting the fact from the fiction, and engaging with experimental science in a life-enhancing way.
Address: Belvedere Road, South Bank, London SE1 8XX
Nearest Tube Stations: Waterloo, Embankment and Temple
Apply for your tickets here
[image credit: Dave Pearson]
The events above give listeners the opportunity to learn about something new, escape for an hour and think about something different or brush up on a subject that interests them. The talks, debates and lectures around London often involve influential people discussing interesting subjects from their point-of-view and experiences.
Hello!
love this page, great events! I think if you include the venue name or location on the thumbnail when hovering it would be better.hope you don’t mind the feedback. thanks!
Sarah
Thanks for the idea Sarah - venue name added!
Much better.