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11 October 2025:
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Backpacking French, Dutch and British influenced Latin America
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27 September 2025:
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Women as readers, writers and judges
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14 June 2025:
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Contemporary topics
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10 May 2025:
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Great British women – from Tudor queen to queen of crime
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12 April 2025:
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It's never been easier to buy counterfeit goods
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22 March 2025:
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The BT Global Challenge – the world's toughest yacht race
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22 February 2025:
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Cycling Alaska and Yukon for my 60th birthday
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25 January 2025:
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“The dead are holy, even they that were base …
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09 November 2024:
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The clan Donald
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12 October 2024:
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Prohibition in America
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28 September 2024:
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South Africa under Nelson Mandela
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14 September 2024:
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Anthony Trollope and P. G. Wodehouse
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15 June 2024:
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Discussion evening – or Scrabble
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11 May 2024:
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Britain through the poetry of Roger McGough
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13 April 2024:
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The fabulous palace and forest of Fontainebleau
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09 March 2024:
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On being a Kiwi
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17 February 2024:
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An opera manager tells her story
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20 January 2024:
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Armenia – the oldest Christian nation
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11 November 2023:
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Polari – a secret language of the past?
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28 October 2023:
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The Hanoverians
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23 September 2023:
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Choose your voice, change your life
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09 September 2023:
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101 reasons to visit Liverpool
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17 June 2023:
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The Orange Hatchback and the Secret Recollections of George Eliot
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13 May 2023:
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Contemporary topics of the world
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22 April 2023:
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Terry Pratchett and Charles Dickens
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25 March 2023:
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Seeing Europe during the Covid years by bicycle
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11 March 2023:
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Almeria & Melilla: Conversations with the migrants
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25 February 2023:
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Charterhouses in England
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12 November 2022:
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Kenya 1982
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22 October 2022:
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How Peter Rabbit changed the world – Beatrix Potter and the Lake District
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24 September 2022:
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The golden age of British television drama
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10 September 2022:
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German adventurers and swindlers
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11 June 2022:
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Long live the short story
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14 May 2022:
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Discussion evening about the pandemic
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30 April 2022:
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The Cambridge spies and cold war espionage
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26 March 2022:
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Full steam ahead
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12 March 2022:
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Dickens' romantic heroines
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13 November 2021:
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The golden age of British television drama – CANCELLED!
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28 November 2020:
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Prohibition in America – CANCELLED!
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31 October 2020:
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To Nisi / The Island – Crete's leper colony of Spinalonga
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26 September 2020:
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Is bookbinding still relevant in modern society?
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12 September 2020:
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1-hour guided tour at Hetjens Museum
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13 June 2020:
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Games evening – English Scrabble – CANCELLED!
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09 May 2020:
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Long live the short story! – CANCELLED!
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25 April 2020:
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A short trip through the life of a textile designer – CANCELLED!
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14 March 2020:
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Dickens' romantic heroines – CANCELLED!
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29 February 2020:
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Burma revisited
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15 February 2020:
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Qi Gong and the Chinese way of Healing
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09 November 2019:
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Look Mum, I'm on the telly!
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12 October 2019:
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Financial enlightenment from a total amateur
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28 September 2019:
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Typically German – so what?
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14 September 2019:
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Spiritual places to visit in London
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15 June 2019:
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Discussion evening about music
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18 May 2019:
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Queen Victoria, more an era than a monarchy
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13 April 2019:
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Scenes from George Eliot's ‘Scenes’
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23 March 2019:
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Armenia and Georgia – early Christian countries
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09 March 2019:
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The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood – did they just like to paint readheads?
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16 February 2019:
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No coin for Shirin
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10 November 2018:
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An evening of scary and not-so-scary stories
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13 October 2018:
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Corsica – France's secret island
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29 September 2018:
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No Coin for Shirin
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15 September 2018:
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The Military Industrial Complex
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09 June 2018:
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Discussion evening about parks, gardens and historical buildings
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12 May 2018:
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“A lady in the Rocky Mountains”
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21 April 2018:
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Algonquin Provincial Park: Lakes and Wildlife in the Heart of Ontario
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17 March 2018:
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Little Germany, the German immigrants in London in the mid-19th century
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17 February 2018:
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Liverpool: Gateway to heaven and hell
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18 November 2017:
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India: A country of contrasts
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14 October 2017:
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100 years of Trans-Siberian Railway
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23 September 2017:
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Me and my Englishes
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09 September 2017:
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A storyteller with a nomadic soul
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10 June 2017:
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Summer Quiz
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20 May 2017:
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Conspiracy theories
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29 April 2017:
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Ireland & experiences of summers over 40 years
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08 April 2017:
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A life in the pit and on the fiddle
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18 March 2017:
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Coconut and Ubuntu (a novel and a play)
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18 February 2017:
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Sacred sites and a fragile peace
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19 November 2016:
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Inspiration from children's classics
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08 October 2016:
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New Zealand by bicycle
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24 September 2016:
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“All the world's a stage” – Celebrating William Shakespeare
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10 September 2016:
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Votes and rights for women
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11 June 2016:
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An introduction to line dancing
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28 May 2016:
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Madagascar
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30 April 2016:
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The professor of Political Economy who made people laugh
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09 April 2016:
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The advent of digital art in public culture
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12 March 2016:
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Understand yourself better through your dreams
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27 February 2016:
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Opera, Puccini and Madama Butterfly
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21 November 2015:
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Career as a diplomat: A woman's experience
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24 October 2015:
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The trials and tribulations of being a parliamentary candidate
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26 September 2015:
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The wives of Los Alamos
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12 September 2015:
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Two German composers who loved Britain
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13 June 2015:
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Armchair exercises and relaxation techniques
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30 May 2015:
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The Städel collection: Not just Goethe's two left feet
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09 May 2015:
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Lest we forget – the fate of ordinary soldiers in the First World War
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18 April 2015:
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William Morris, designer, poet and political campaigner
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14 March 2015:
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London in literature
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21 February 2015:
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“As rare as stars in the morning”
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15 November 2014:
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Virginia Woolf's unconventional relationship
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25 October 2014:
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Cycling in the midnight sun around West Iceland
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27 September 2014:
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Ireland – from bronze age to early Christianity
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13 September 2014:
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George Eliot and George Henry Lewes in Weimar
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14 June 2014:
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Contemporary world and local topics
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17 May 2014:
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Southern California – curiosities in and out of town
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12 April 2014:
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Choose me, you English words?
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29 March 2014:
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English humour in language, life and theatre
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08 March 2014:
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Antarctica
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15 February 2014:
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Brasil, a vida boa
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09 November 2013:
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Burma – past and present
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19 October 2013:
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Malta – 7000 years in 70 minutes
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28 September 2013:
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From patriotic heroism to helpless delusion
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14 September 2013:
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How German is the Mona Lisa?
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15 June 2013:
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An evening of English word games
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25 May 2013:
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Greenland glacier meltdown
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27 April 2013:
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The iconic London Routemaster
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13 April 2013:
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Denglish in pool position
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09 March 2013:
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The Brontë Sisters (1816–1855)
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16 February 2013:
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Land of punt, not pirates
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17 November 2012:
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The green route – Twin-town cycling
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27 October 2012:
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Music hall and Victorian society
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29 September 2012:
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Jane Austen's England
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08 September 2012:
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The Peak District – Britain's oldest national park
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16 June 2012:
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Bridge for beginners
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12 May 2012:
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Salt, mustard, vinegar, pepper
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28 April 2012:
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Cycling the Altiplano – Bolivia, Peru, Chile, and Argentina
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24 March 2012:
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Heathen and outlaw
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10 March 2012:
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The Duchess in the nightdress
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25 February 2012:
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Rewards or threats of new technologies
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11 February 2012:
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Acting Shakespeare
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19 November 2011:
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Glimpses of the New South Africa in life and literature
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22 October 2011:
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From Dortmund to Düsseldorf – and the world beyond!
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08 October 2011:
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Utah – the Mormon State
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17 September 2011:
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Using our intelligence
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11 June 2011:
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Buzzword Bingo
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21 May 2011:
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Two people – an encounter with Donald Windham
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16 April 2011:
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Confessions of an Ausländer
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19 March 2011:
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House of Windsor
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12 February 2011:
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The life and death of Mary Ball
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20 November 2010:
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Four hands from two lands
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30 October 2010:
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Bats
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09 October 2010:
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Introducing … Alan Bennett
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25 September 2010:
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Assisi on the Pacific coast
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12 June 2010:
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A murder mystery evening
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22 May 2010:
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Remains of the Italian occupation of Rhodes through the eyes of Lawrence Durrell
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24 April 2010:
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The Hobbit or There and back again
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20 March 2010:
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Mountain walking experiences
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20 February 2010:
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Growing up bi-culturally
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30 January 2010:
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James Cook and the discovery of the Pacific Ocean
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21 November 2009:
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Taiwan and Hong Kong by bicycle
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31 October 2009:
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Norman Borlaug, the man who saved more lives than any other person who has ever lived
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10 October 2009:
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Magic from Ireland
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26 September 2009:
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Learning to learn
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12 September 2009:
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Surveillance Britain
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13 June 2009:
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An evening of English Scrabble
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16 May 2009:
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The New Zealand set of Lord of the Rings
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25 April 2009:
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From Albert Dock to Paddy's Wigwam
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21 March 2009:
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Cornwall – The country within a country
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28 February 2009:
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Wilfred Owen and Benjamin Britten – soulmates
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31 January 2009:
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From Harrods to Rhinebuzz
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15 November 2008:
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English words from Latin elements
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18 October 2008:
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All ship-shape and Bristol fashion
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27 September 2008:
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Nanna Ditzel (1923-2005), world-famous Danish designer
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06 September 2008:
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T. E. Lawrence – man or myth?
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14 June 2008:
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A 'Pub Quiz'
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17 May 2008:
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Lord Byron – Britain's First Pop Idol and Enfant Terrible
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26 April 2008:
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Don't Shoot the Messenger
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12 April 2008:
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A Dance Called America – Songs of Scottish Emigration
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23 February 2008:
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Man Of the World: George Forster's journey round the world with Captain Cook
|
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09 February 2008:
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Malta: The Bulwark Of Europe
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10 November 2007:
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Thanksgiving in America
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27 October 2007:
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East Anglia ‘Olde Worlde England’
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13 October 2007:
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The Private Eye and ‘Film Noir’
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22 September 2007:
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Moving Heaven and Earth
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08 September 2007:
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A Maori Slide Show
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