PROGRAMME
We return to normal for the September meeting and
will meet live Barn Hill Methodist Church
Lectures will be live at Barn Hill Church, and
also by Zoom at 10:45
September 13th 2022 10:45 Live & on Zoom
She Loves You: The Music of the 60’s (1960 to
’64)
Steve King
By 1960 interest in rock ‘n’ roll had started to fade,
its biggest star was moving on and a new
generation of teenagers were seeking something
different. It came in the form of the Beatles, who
broke all the rules and all the records.
This is the story of the first five years of the 1960s,
one of the most creative and innovative periods in
the history of music, featuring all the major artists,
important songs and principle musical genres.
October 11th
The Making of Landscape Photographs
Charlie Waite.
A fully illustrated talk with in excess of 60 images
exploring the relationship between the making of an
image and the way in which it is perceived by the
viewer. Further discussion around the eye and the
brain being an extraordinary double act made up of
visual references and intellectual interpretation.
November 8th 2022 (AGM at 10.30am)10:30 Live &
on Zoom
Packing up the Nation: Saving London’s
Museums and Galleries in the Second World
War
Caroline Shenton
This is the gripping and sometimes hilarious story of
how a band of heroic curators and eccentric
custodians saved Britain’s national heritage during
our Darkest Hour.
As Hitler’s forces gathered on the other side of the
Channel to threaten these islands, men and women
from London’s national museums, galleries and
archives forged extraordinary plans to evacuate
their collections to safety.
Utilising country houses from Buckinghamshire to
Cumbria, tube tunnels, Welsh mines and Wiltshire
quarries, a dedicated team of unlikely heroes
packed up their greatest treasures in a race against
time during the sweltering summer of 1939,
dispatching them throughout the country on a series
of secret wartime adventures, retold in this talk.
December 13th 2022 10:45 Live & on Zoom
Oscar Wilde: Up Close
Giles Ramsay
"I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent
into my works." I examine the public and private life
of one of the world's most original and controversial
artists.
Born into a moderately respectable Dublin family
Oscar Wilde recreated himself as an international
celebrity and wrote a series of short stories and
plays that charmed the world. In 1890 he also
published the last of the great myths - The Picture
of Dorian Gray.
Ten years later Wilde, devoured by his fame, his
demons and his decadence, would be dead.
January 2023 10:45 Live & on Zoom
The Healing Power of Plants
Timothy Walker
Mankind has exploited the medicinal properties of
plants for thousands of years, yet the role of plants
in modern medicine is still considered to be
peripheral by many people.
This talk attempts to put the record straight and to
show that plant products are used every day by all
of us to relieve pain and suffering, to heal wounds
and cure diseases. This is a talk with a very wide
appeal and relevance.
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