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Saturday 21 January
Eamonn Gearon: The Sahara: a cultural history and the Arab Spring
Eamonn Gearon is an author, Arabist and analyst. An English-born Irishman, Gearon's career has been the development of understanding and insight between the Greater Middle East and the West.Gearon is best known for his book The Sahara: A Cultural History (2011). Gearon is also an accomplished desert explorer. In 1997, he began his life-long education in desert survival, navigation and camel husbandry. Initially studying under the Bedu in western Egypt, Eamonn went on to pursue solo, camel-powered explorations in the Egyptian Sahara.
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Saturday 4 February 11am
Full School Lecture - BSR: John Hoskison
John Hoskison has a clear and informative style of speaking and certainly has a strong message to get across. His presentation will describe his career in the world of professional golf developing a connection between the skills you need to develop at a high competitive sporting level and those required of a successful A level student: drive and determination, the ability to take yourself out of your comfort zone, and an appetite for hard work. However a tragic accident completely turned his world upside down and led to a prison sentence - an experience that will drive home just how fragile our lives really are, and illustrating the need to think and act carefully when driving.
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Thursday 9 February 5.30pm
Scholars' Lecture: Professor Richard Aldrich
Richard Aldrich, Emeritus Professor of the History of Education at the Institute of Education, University of London, is the leading exponent of the application of historical perspectives to current educational issues. He has contributed some 15 books and 80 articles to the field, has been presented with two festschriften, Whitehead and O'Donoghue, eds, 2004 and Crook and McCulloch, eds, 2007 and was profiled in Historia de la Educación in 2008. Richard's publications in 2009 included a Japanese edition of Lessons from History of Education and an article in Paedagogica Historica, and in 2010 articles on 'Education for survival' in History of Education and Forum. Publications in 2011 include those arising from Richard's current research into the relationship between human evolution and education.
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Saturday 25 February 11am
Full School Lecture: Dennis Silk (Former Warden of Radley)
Dennis Silk, CBE is a former schoolmaster and international cricketer. He was also a close friend of the poet Siegfried Sassoon about whom he has spoken and written extensively. He was educated at Christ's Hospital and Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge representing Cambridge University at cricket. He went on to play first-class cricket for Somerset but gave priority to his teaching career. Having taught at Marlborough College he moved on to Radley College where he was Warden (headmaster) from 1968 to 1991. In this role he appeared prominently in the 1980 BBC documentary series, Public School. He was Chairman of the Test and County Cricket Board from 1994 to 1996, and has also served as President of the MCC. During the early 1950s, Dennis was introduced to the cricket-loving poet Siegfried Sassoon by a mutual acquaintance, Edmund Blunden. Until Sassoon's death in 1967, Dennis was one of his closest friends, and made several unique recordings of the poet reading his own work at home.
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Tuesday 28 February 5.30pm
Scholars' Lecture: Antony Beevor
Anthony Beevor is a British historian educated at Winchester College and Sandhurst. He studied under the famous military historian John Keegan. Beevor is a former officer with the 11th Hussars who served in England and Germany for five years before resigning his commission. He has published several popular histories on World War II and the 20th century in general.
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Friday 2 March 5.30pm
Scholars' Lecture: Dr Roger Foo
Roger Foo, a British Heart Foundation Fellow at Cambridge University, is an expert in cardiology. His lecture will focus on challenging current ideas regarding how we interpret the genome and how developments in our knowledge of the ways in which genes affect us could lead to improved therapies.
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Saturday 3 March 11am
Full School Lecture - BSR: Alistair Hignell
Alistair Hignell - Hignell won Blue at Cambridge in both cricket and rugby union and by the time he graduated from Fitzwilliam, Cambridge, in 1977 he had already made several England appearances at full back. He made his England debut in 1975. After leaving university, he continued playing rugby for Bristol and England in the winter, while also working as a teacher (including Sherborne) and cricket for Gloucestershire in the summer. As a right-handed batsman, he scored solidly rather than spectacularly, passing 1,000 runs in a season three times, including his final season in 1983, before his retirement. He won the last of his 14 England rugby caps in 1978-79. Alistair continued to teach until he moved into journalism full time and he became a respected reporter, as well as working extensively on BBC Radio. In 1999, he was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis and has since been an active fundraiser. Alistair won the BBC Sports Personality of the Year Helen Rollason Award in 2008 for his work in spreading awareness of multiple sclerosis and was appointed CBE in 2009.
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Thursday 15 March 5.30pm
Scholars' Lecture: David Aaronovitch
David Aaronovitch is a British author, broadcaster and journalist. He is a regular columnist for The Times and author of Paddling to Jerusalem: An Aquatic Tour of Our Small Country (2000) and Voodoo Histories: the role of Conspiracy Theory in Modern History (2009). He won the Orwell Prize for political journalism in 2001, and the What the Papers Say "Columnist of the Year" award for 2003.
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Thursday 22 March 5.30pm
Scholars' Lecture: Powell Theatre: Pauline Neville-Jones
Baroness Neville-Jones is a former BBC Governor and Chairman of the British Joint Intelligence Committee (JIC). In May 2010, the new Prime Minister David Cameron appointed Lady Neville-Jones as his Minister of State for Security and Counter Terrorism at the Home Office with a with a permanent position on the newly created National Security Council.
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