Nigel Rowe was leader of the British Mackenzie River Expedition, a 2000km canoeing descent of the world's tenth-longest river across Arctic Canada, commencing from the Great Slave Lake and finishing at the remote settlement of Tuktoyaktuk in the Beaufort Sea. Six Metropolitan Police Officers on an old-fashioned adventure with paper maps and fishing rods, they […]
Ben Heslop, founder of Blank Wall Assassins, talks about his passion for engaging people with culture through public art and the power of placemaking through people engaging with their surroundings. He traces his journey in Carlisle from one wall that accidentally became a movement to over 20 pieces across the city. The journey is far […]
This is a rare chance to catch Richard Hinchcliffe’s richly illustrated and unexpurgated talk about his father’s management of Flying Scotsman and the historic and controversial tour of the USA and Canada. Richard recently appeared extensively in the Channel 4 documentary by Brite spark films: The Secrets of Flying Scotsman. This is a talk for […]
Angela,aka The Running Granny, is a retired orthopaedic surgeon who started running aged 53. At the age of 60 she ran 875 miles from John O’Groats to Land’s End (JOGLE) – not because running the length of Britain had ever been an ambition, but because years on orthopaedic wards watching preventable decline had made her […]