These are the talks for this year.
Dom Joly's "Holiday Snaps"
7.30 pm
At Town Hall, GL6 0JF
£18
Dom Joly is best known as the creator of “Trigger-Happy TV” –but he’s also a writer, broadcaster and intrepid adventurer in extraordinary locations. In Dom Joly’s “Holiday Snaps”, he’ll be talking about his exploits as a serial globe-trotting seeker of dangerous travel spots. From North Korea through the Congo and Syria to Chernobyl, he’s visited some of the most unusual places on theplanet. Joly famously attended school with Osama Bin Laden and, armed with a trusty PowerPoint, fans can expect his holiday snaps to provide comedy and a sense of danger.
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Helen Ingham
“A Day on the Wardrobe Truck”
7.30pm
At Egypt Mill, GL6 0AE
£8
Helen has worked for nearly thirty years in the British Film Industry. She started out in wardrobe making costumes, but spent most of her career dressing and working with lead actors, including: Renee Zellweger, Jude Law, Meryl Streep and Maggie Smith. Helen says: ‘Come with me as I take you through a day in the life of a costume assistant. I’ll try and explain the circus that is a production in motion and what that involved for me working on some well-known projects with some of the stars of stage and screen’. Helen will bring professional photographs of many of the stars and also has scripts from Downton Abbey, Sherlock, Bridget Jones and Stan & Ollie for people to look at.
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'Cotswold Dinosaurs and Beyond'
Palaeontologist Dr William Blows
7.30pm
At Town Hall, GL6 0JF
£8
A dinosaur ancestor of T Rex was excavated on Minchinhampton Common in 1910. Palaeontologist William Blows, co-author of the book ‘Cotswold Dinosaurs’, will give a talk with slides about the various dinosaur fossils he has found locally and beyond. In 1979 he found a rare species of armoured dinosaur, a Polacanthus, only the second specimen ever discovered. Apart from his PhD in Palaeontology, he has a BSc in Biology, and is composer of 25 orchestral symphonies.
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Nailsworth Foraging Walk with the Cotswold Forager
10.30am
£25 for an hour-and-a-half walk
Rob Gould is known as the Cotswold Forager: an expert on edible wild plants that thrive on the area’s hills, in the woods and the hidden valleys. His walks are not just about finding wild food – as important as that is; they’re also about helping people become more connected with the natural world around them.
‘I help people to understand different habitats; why certain plants grow there in preference to elsewhere, and to start to see links and patterns in plants that are edible or usable in various other ways.’
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