Fellowship’s Weekly Talks have become a Suburb institution over the last 16 years. These are at 2.30pm every Tuesday. All Suburb residents are most welcome. Admission is £1 for members and £3 for non members and includes tea and biscuits after the talk, an opportunity for a chat with friends and fellow residents. If members have a real need for help with transportation to get to these talks, they should ring Lorna Jones on 07891-112365 to discuss this possibility.
During the past sixteen years there have been literally hundreds of talks on as many different subjects from a myriad of speakers from North London and way beyond. A randomly selected list shown below under ‘Previous Talks’ gives some indication of the range of subjects.
May 10th
‘How Did We Get To Mr Putin’
Sir Rodric Braithwaite
formerly UK Ambassador to Moscow
May 17th
‘Whistler’s Woman in White’
Lucrezia Walker
Art Historian
May 24th
‘Fine Cell Work’
A charity which makes beautiful handmade products in British prisons
Sarah Citron (a Volunteer)
May 31st
‘Academic Refugees and the British Federation of Women’
Dr Susan Cohen
The Great Fire of London – Lester Hillman
Orchids for Everyone – Professor Michael de Swiet
The Silk Road – Dr Frances Wood (former curator at the British Library)
Gender Indentity – Kirsten & Co from the Tavistock Centre
Hairdresser to the Stars – Barry Davis
A Blackbird Sang – David Matthews (Composer)
‘Les Annees Folles’: Music, Art, Style, and Glamour in Paris between the wars – Deborah Calland
Judaism and Business Ethics – Rabbi Mark Goldsmith
Emma Hamilton : A Woman of Many Talents – Tamara Rabin
Art and Photography – Professor Michael Baum
Jocelyn Bostock : Inside Bletchley Park – Martin Knight
Viennese Operetten – Derek Scott
No School Tie – Peter Phillips (Poet)
Life in South Africa – Joy Barratt
Vegetarianism – Lisa Shend’ge
Elizabeth Louise Vigee le Brun – Lucrezia Walker (Art Historian)
Bridges – Klaus Falbe Hansen (Former Director Ove Arup)
An Orchestral Tour of India – Professor Rodney Slatford
A History of John Lewis – Amanda Timothy
Chinese Attitudes to Europe
Light in Medicine – Dr Peter Herbert
A Walk to Santiago de Compostela – Christine Battaye
A Potpourri of Poetry – Rabbi Dr Jeffrey Cohen
The Road to Dunkirk and Where it has Led – John Rimington
Life as an Organist & Choirmaster – Jonathan Gregory (Free Church organist)
Medicine in Shakespeare – Professor Howard Jacobs
Russia: A Journey of Discovery – Helen Leiser
The Social Function of Humour – Martin Aaron
A Museum under a Mountain, The National Gallery’s Wartime Home – Suzanne Bosman
The Anne Frank Trust – Gillian Walmer (Co-founder)
Life on a Scottish Island – Richard Rowland
Hollywood and Interfaith Dialogue – Rabbi Professor Jonathan Magonet
A Beginner’s Guide to Brass Instruments – Bob Winter
Lost London : Philip Davies
Both Sides of the Bench : Judge Barrington Black
The Story of Russian Chamber Music – Robert Max
John Betjeman – Terence Atkins (Organist and Choirmaster)
Royal Operations – Professor Harold Ellis
Hampstead Garden Suburb in the Great War – John Atkin
The Berlin Wall – Andrew Botterill
Not Yet The Dodo : The Verses of Noel Coward – Robert Gardiner
Call the Midwife – Dr Susan Cohen
Allenby’s Other Battle, Malaria – Anton Alexander
Blood – Phyllis Teasdale (formerly NHS Blood Service)
Musical Boxes – Dr John Reid
Wagner – Barry Millington (Wagner expert and music critic)
Britain in Bloom – Jim Buttress
The Soldier in Art – David Cohen
‘Epic Engineering’ Great Canals and Barrages of Victorian India – Jeremy Berkoff
Autism – Lisa Dresner
Pilgrimage from Sienna to Rome – Ruth & Michael Jacobs
Field Marshall Montgomery – Angus Walker
Medecins Sans Frontieres – MSF staff
Chirality – Professor Laurence Barron
Birds, Music & Literature – Roger Rose
Octavia Hill – Pam Wright
Memories of Life under the Raj – Alison Newton
Life at Henrietta Barnett School – Oliver Blond (former Head Teacher)
Inflation in Tudor Times – Ken Carter
Evelyn Waugh & Basil Bouchier – The Rev Alan Walker
An Indian Portia – Kusoom Vadgama
Masorti Judaism – Rabbi J Wittenberg
A Week in North Korea – Tim Botterill and Elke Karskens
The Chinese Gooseberry Man – Geoff Hales & His Travelling Theatre