Category: Talk

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Saturday 03 May 2025 Venue:  St Paul's Church     map   Music festival  •  Talk Address:   St Paul's Hill, Winchester, Hampshire, SO22 5AB Event:  Winchester Chamber Music Festival 2025 - Pre-Concert Talk - 10.30am-11am - Simon Crawford-Phillips and Richard Lester Schoenberg's early Chamber Symphony explored within the context of Vienna’s musical history. Tickets: Free

Sunday 04 May 2025 Venue:  The Nutshell     map   Live music  •  Music festival  •  Talk Address:   15 Kings Walk, Winchester, Hampshire, SO23 8AF Telephone:  01962 808533 Event:  Winchester Chamber Music Festival 2025 - Masterclass - 1.45pm-2.45pm - Violinist Lucy Gould shares her expertise with the Zenith Quartet from the Royal Academy of Music. Tickets: £5 (Unreserved seating) Venue's website:  thenutshellwinchester.com Venue's Facebook:   facebook.com/thenutshellwinchester

Wednesday 07 May 2025 Venue:  Theatre Royal     map   Special interest  •  Talk  •  Film Address:   Jewry Street, Winchester, Hampshire, SO23 8SB Telephone:  Box office: 01962 840440 Event:  Kendal Mountain Tour 2025 - 7pm - Kendal Mountain Tour 2025: A Night Of Adventure Films + Guest Speaker, Will Duffin Prepare for an unforgettable night of adventure as the Kendal Mountain Tour 2025 comes to life! Join us on a journey through the world's most breathtaking landscapes with a selection of award-winning films showcasing the year’s most daring feats of courage and tales of human resilience. Whether you're a seasoned explorer or simply someone who appreciates the majesty of nature, this tour promises to ignite your sense of adventure and leave you with a renewed appreciation for the planet we call home. Alongside the collection of films, we’re excited to share that we will be joined on stage for a live Q&A session with the expedition doctor, Will Duffin, specialising in the delivery of healthcare in wild and remote places. Get ready to be thrilled, inspired and moved at the Kendal Mountain Tour 2025 – where adventure begins at your doorstep… Venue's website:  theatreroyalwinchester.co.uk Venue's Facebook:   facebook.com/TRWinchester

Sunday 11 May 2025 Venue:  Theatre Royal     map   Comedy  •  Talk Address:   Jewry Street, Winchester, Hampshire, SO23 8SB Telephone:  Box office: 01962 840440 Event:  Gyles Brandreth: Can't Stop Talking - 3pm - He's back – and he's unstoppable. Gyles Brandreth just can't stop talking. The jumper-loving This Morning star, who keeps popping up on Pointless, QI, Would I Lie To You?, Sunday Brunch, and The One Show, has been burbling and babbling since he was a baby, and in his hilarious new one-man show the award-winning raconteur (and holder of the world record for the longest-ever after-dinner speech - 12 and a half hours!) is trying to work out why. Venue's website:  theatreroyalwinchester.co.uk Venue's Facebook:   facebook.com/TRWinchester

Saturday 24 May 2025 Venue:  Theatre Royal     map   Live music  •  Opera  •  Talk Address:   Jewry Street, Winchester, Hampshire, SO23 8SB Telephone:  Box office: 01962 840440 Event:  An Evening with Sir Willard White and the Kymaera Duo - 7.30pm - One of the best-loved and most versatile opera stars of the last 40 years, Sir Willard White's illustrious career has taken him to the most prestigious opera houses and concert halls throughout the world. Now audiences have the opportunity to share an evening with Sir Willard as he reminisces about his life on stage & screen and sings some of the songs that have been important to him from the Nat King Cole of his youth in Jamaica, through the first truly complete recording of Gershwin's Porgy and Bess in 1976 to the songs that made the Bass-Baritone singer Paul Robeson famous in the 1920s and '30s. Sir Willard will be accompanied by the Kymaera guitar duo comprising Shane Hill and Simon James who have been performing together for over twenty years. Highlights of the partnership which features guitarists Shane Hill and Simon James have included appearing with the classical vocal legend Maria Ewing as well as the late UK jazz vocal legend Frank Holder. Venue's website:  theatreroyalwinchester.co.uk Venue's Facebook:   facebook.com/TRWinchester

Tuesday 03 June 2025 Venue:  Theatre Royal     map   Talk Address:   Jewry Street, Winchester, Hampshire, SO23 8SB Telephone:  Box office: 01962 840440 Event:  David Olusoga - 7.30pm - In a brand-new talk for 2025 David examines some of history’s missing chapters to uncover how and why some events and some people are remembered and others forgotten. Taking examples from the world wars, the Industrial revolution and other pivotal moments in global history David uncovers history’s missing persons. Venue's website:  theatreroyalwinchester.co.uk Venue's Facebook:   facebook.com/TRWinchester

Friday 06 June 2025 Venue:  The Lights     map   Special interest  •  Talk Address:   West Street, Andover, Hampshire, SP10 1AH Telephone:  Box office: 01264 368368 Event:  It's Never Too Late - Brenton West and Raj Bisram - 7.30pm - Join much loved TV experts Brenton West (The Repair Shop) and Raj Bisram (Antiques Roadshow, Bargain Hunt, Antiques Road Trip) for a fabulously entertaining evening of stories from the worlds of antiques, repairs and television. Their multi-layered journeys take you through their schooldays, the army, jewellery making, skiing, motor sport and much more. And finally they spill the beans on what it’s like to be part of some of our best loved television shows. Venue's website:  thelights.org.uk Venue's Facebook:   facebook.com/thelightsandover

Friday 27 June 2025 Venue:  Theatre Royal     map   Talk Address:   Jewry Street, Winchester, Hampshire, SO23 8SB Telephone:  Box office: 01962 840440 Event:  An Audience with Vince Cable - 7.30pm - Who is Vince Cable (aka the Rt Hon Sir Vince Cable)? He is best known as a politician who was a key figure, for five years, in the Coalition Cabinet as Secretary of State for Business Innovation and Skills, and then as Leader of the Liberal Democrats. He is now retired from Parliament after 20 years as MP for Twickenham and is a writer of books on political and economic matters (and a novel); a Visiting Professor at the LSE; a Distinguished Fellow of the Overseas Development; and Director of a company creating a hydrogen refueling network as part of the net zero economy. Venue's website:  theatreroyalwinchester.co.uk Venue's Facebook:   facebook.com/TRWinchester

 

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