Burgh House Chair & former Ham & High Editor, Matthew Lewin, chats with the BBC Science Editor David Shukman about his life and career.
David, a long-standing BBC correspondent, joined the corporation in 1983 and has previously held roles such as world affairs correspondent, defence correspondent and Northern Ireland reporter.
Tickets are £12 (£10 FoBH). All proceeds in aid of Burgh House.
For more information and tickets, please call us on 020 7431 0144 or book online
here
Camden History Society:
What Happened to the Heath after 1871?
Thursday 19th February, 7:30pmA talk given by Helen Marcus, who has been closed associated with the Heath & Hampstead Society for many years, as chairman, president and now vice-president.
Helen is well acquainted with the many struggles with the uses of Hampstead Heath over the years and will share her thoughts and experiences with us.
£1 on the door. Non-members welcome.
No booking necessary.
www.camdenhistorysociety.org
Sister Edith Appleton:
Front Line Nurse and Diarist in the Great War
Sunday 22nd February, 6:30pm FREE ENTRYEdith Appleton served in Queen Alexandra’s Imperial Military Nursing Service Reserve throughout the First World War. Often near the Front in northern France, she kept a remarkable daily journal, and her experiences have now been compiled into a book,
A Nurse at the Front: The First World War Diaries of Sister Edith Appleton (published by the Imperial War Museum with Simon & Schuster, 2012). Dick Robinson, Edie's great-nephew, returns to Burgh House to present the story of his great-aunt, with her tales of trial and tribulation brought to life with extracts read by his wife, Lisa.
Free admission. No booking necessary.
Copies of the book will be available on the night.
Forgotten Voices of the Great War
Thursday 5th March, 7:00pm Historian Max Arthur, author of the best-selling Forgotten Voices of the Great War, will talk about meeting veterans of the Frist World War and the impact the conflicthad upon their lives.
It will be a poignant evening, but with much humour, and Max is happy to take questions after the talk.
Free admission. No booking necessary.
Beautiful Damned
14th, 15th, 16th February. 8:00pmIn
Beautiful Damned,
a husband and wife meet in a smoky bar and relive the last ten years of their lives. Told through a series of flashbacks, re-enactments and reminiscences, the play is a profile of a relationship from its beginnings to a point of no return.
The play is based on F. Scott Fitzgerald's second novel,
The Beautiful and Damned, which focuses on the relationship between two people, Gloria and Anthony Patch, who are loosely based on Fitzgerald and his wife, Zelda. The writer, Ben Weaver, says that he was attracted to the experimental style of the novel and felt inspired to further explore the novel’s attitude to performance and awareness of itself as fiction in this exciting and innovative adaptation.
Tickets are £17 (£15 concessions). For more information and to book your tickets, please visit the Beautiful Damned
website.
