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Alfred Rowe |
| Alfred Rowe is a British architect, architectural historian, lecturer and broadcaster. He was elected to the Council of the Royal Institute of British Architects, is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and a Freeman of the City of London. He has lectured extensively In the UK, Europe, Australia and the States at many universities, the American Institute of Architects, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Smithsonian Institution and the British Embassy. |
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Ann Clements |
| Ann Clements read History of Art and English at Manchester University, then worked for the Whitworth Art Gallery, and later for the Paul Mellon Foundation for British Art. She was an associate lecturer for Surrey University and has taught on day and summer schools and lectured at the V & A Museum and for the National Trust. |
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Anne-Marie Harrison |
| Anne-Marie Harrison was born and brought up in Paris but has subsequently lived in many different countries. Originally a linguist, she adapted to the many changes brought by the various relocations due to her British husband's job. She spent 16 years in Southeast Asia (Singapore, Thailand, Philippines, Indonesia) during which time she became involved with the local culture and languages through work in national Museums which led to lecturing and a Master's in anthropology (EHESS, Sorbonne) on her return to France in 1995. |
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Canon Dr Anne Davison |
| Anne’s First Degree was in History and Comparative Religion and for her Doctorate she researched clergy training for ministry in a multi-faith and multi-cultural society. She has recently retired after fifteen years as Adviser to the Bishop of Chelmsford for Inter Religious Relations. She was Vice Moderator to the World Council of Churches Inter Faith Dialogue Group, Chair of the Advisory Board for the Study of Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations at Birmingham University and a member of many other advisory committees. |
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Canon Richard Truss |
| Born in Watford, read economics and then theology at university. He was ordained as a clergyman in 1966 and was married the following year. He is a father of four and a grandfather of five. He has served in a variety of parishes, mainly in London and for the last fifteen years was vicar of Waterloo and an honorary canon of Southwark Cathedral, a post which included chaplaincies to the National Theatre and the Festival Hall. He has appeared on stage in the Cottesloe Theatre. |
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Caroline Aston |
| Caroline is a regular contributor to the UK premier royalty magazine 'Majesty' and she has also written for 'The Daily Telegraph'. She was one of the specially commissioned group of essayists who wrote the acclaimed collection of pieces published to commemorate the 10th anniversary of Diana, Princess of Wales' death and HM The Queen's 80th birthday. She has filmed a BBC mini-series on British stately homes and acts as an historical advisor to several BBC stations. |
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Chris Bailey |
| Chris Bailey read history at Cambridge specialising in modern European history and then joined the coal industry where he was involved in restructuring and privatisation. After gaining an MBA at Manchester Business School, he became a management consultant in Eastern Europe and Africa working particularly in Romania, Bulgaria, Serbia, Bosnia, Ukraine and Russia on projects funded by the European Union or the British government. He lectured widely for Hull University on its post graduate business courses. |
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Chris Newlands |
| Chris was born in West Yorkshire and his love of drama and the stage led to him going to Bristol University to study Drama and French, before his love for travel took him to Algeria, where he remained for two years, teaching English and encouraging an interest in theatre, music and the arts on behalf of the British Council. |
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Dame Margaret Anstee DCMG |
| Margaret Anstee served the United Nations for over four decades (1952-93), rising to the rank of Under-Secretary General in 1987. During her career she lived in fifteen different countries, visited over 130 on official mission and worked on many different aspects of the organisation’s work. |
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Dr Alan Borg CBE, FSA |
| Born in 1942 and educated at Westminster School, Brasenose College, Oxford, and the Courtauld Institute. He started his career teaching at Indiana and Princeton Universities in the United States. Returning to Britain in 1970, he became an Assistant Keeper in the Royal Armouries in the Tower of London and in 1978 he was appointed the first Keeper of the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts at the University of East Anglia. |
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Dr David Cordingly |
| Dr David Cordingly was on the staff of the National Maritime Museum at Greenwich for twelve years where he was Keeper of Pictures and then Head of Exhibitions. While at the museum he organised a series of major exhibitions including The Mutiny on the Bounty, Henry VIII at Greenwich and Pirates: Fact and Fiction. He is a graduate of Oxford University where he read Modern History, and has a doctorate from the University of Sussex. He was Keeper of the Art Gallery and Museum at Brighton and then Assistant Director of the Museum of London. |
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Dr Katherine Lack |
| Dr Katherine Lack originally trained as an agricultural scientist at Oxford, where she took her doctorate in 1985. More recently she has studied medieval history and historical research techniques, and this diverse background has led her to explore the links between superficially different subjects. She has written on science, history and theology, and is the author of three recent books tracing historical journeys and their cultural background, which give an insight into life in the dark ages and medieval times. |
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Dr Mark Brazil |
| Mark Brazil has degrees in Biology and English Literature and a PhD in Psychology. Combining interests in the natural world and animal behaviour, with culture and writing, he is a much sought after lecturer and leader, travelling worldwide. His association with Japan began in the early 1980s, since when he has written a number of books about Japan’s natural history, and has also contributed to travel guides about Japan. He has been involved in the making of many TV documentaries with various companies, but mainly NHK (Japan) and Natural History NZ. |
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Dr Michael Scott |
| Michael Scott is the Moses and Mary Finley Research Fellow in Ancient History at Darwin College,Cambridge. He has worked extensively in Greece, Turkey and around the Mediterranean, and specialises in ancient Greek politics and religion. He is the author of a recent popular history of the ancient world From Democrats to Kings and also a monograph for Cambridge University Press on the ancient sanctuaries of Delphi and Olympia. He has presented several TV documentaries for the History Channel, filming in Greece, Turkey and Egypt. He ran the route of the ancient Marathon in Athens in 2007 and has acted as guest lecturer and site guide for adult, university and school tours. His website address is www.michaelcscott.com |
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Dr Nicholas Cranfield |
| Dr Nicholas Cranfield FSA was educated in Italy, England and the USA and worked as an international banker before becoming an academic, who has worked largely on 16th and 17th century European history and culture. His current project is a joint edition of the correspondence of Archbishop William Laud who died in 1645. He is an avid opera goer and writes regularly on art criticism. He lives in Oxford and in London. |
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Dr Richard Butterwick |
| Dr Richard Butterwick graduated in History from Cambridge, before obtaining his doctorate at Oxford. He taught European history at Oxford and Queen’s University Belfast before moving to the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, where he is now Senior Lecturer. His academic interests range across the history and culture of Europe, but especially in the eighteenth century, and especially in Poland and Lithuania. A great lover of the baroque and classical styles in the arts, he particularly delights in Mozart’s operas. |
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Dr Richard Parkinson |
| Richard Parkinson was trained at Oxford, and after holding a teaching positions and a junior research fellowship, he joined the Department of Ancient Egypt and Sudan at the British Museum, where he has worked ever since. His personal research interests centre around the interpretation of Ancient Egyptian literature and the history of sexuality, and he is regarded as the leading international authority on Middle Kingdom poetry. He teaches regularly in England and Germany, and lectures internationally. |
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Edgar Martin |
| Edgar Martin has worked in Danube navigation for over 15 years and is currently the General Director of the only Danube port in the Republic of Moldova. Previously, Edgar worked along the length of the river in all ten riparian states on a wide variety of port, shipping and shipyard projects. Edgar is originally from the UK with a degree in Maritime Business and History and has family links with Central and Eastern Europe. Edgar believes passionately in the promotion of Danube transport and speaks regularly on the subject at specialist conferences and in the international media. Website: www.danube-research.com |
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Elizabeth Gordon |
| Elizabeth is both Musician and Art Historian. She taught music at Sherborne Girls School before going to live in Italy, where she became deeply involved in Italian Art tnd Architecture. After 17 glorious years she finally tore herself away and came back to England, where she is widely known as a NADFAS Lecturer. She has also lectured at all the major art museums in the USA, most frequently at the Metropolitan Museum in New York. |
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Ewen Southby-Tailyour |
| In 1977 Ewen Southby-Tailyour was ordered to form a new detachment of Royal Marines for a year’s service in the Falkland Islands. The Royal Marines' duties in the Islands then, were to be a ‘trip-wire’ which, if activated, would give the excuse for a reinvasion; in spite of the government having no such contingency plans for this was merely a palliative to a sceptical population. ‘If’ - not ‘when’ in the Islanders’ collective view - Argentina invaded the commandos’ orders, then, they were to take immediately to the hills and ‘play guerrilla warfare’. However, Ewen, at the invitation of the MOD and with luke-warm support from the FCO - who secretly wanted rid of them - was invited to re-write the defence of Stanley. In doing so he and his marines were, wholly unrealistically, required ‘to buy three weeks of bargaining time in the UN’. |
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George Hart |
| Following degrees in Classics and in Egyptian Art and Archaeology from University College London, he joined the staff of the British Museum in 1973. He was the Principal Lecturer on the British Museum’s antiquities collections from Egypt, Greece, the Levant and civilisations of the Mediterranean World and ran courses on Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphs. |
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Godfrey Barker |
| Godfrey Barker was Arts Columnist for The Daily Telegraph from 1986 to 1997 and has written since then for The Evening Standard. His art market commentaries have also appeared over 25 years in The Times, The Guardian, The Sunday Times, The Sunday Telegraph, The Daily Mail, The Economist and The Fiekl in the UK, in Die Welt in Germany and in ARTNews, Art and Auction, Forbes and The Wall Street Journal in the United States. He broadcasts for BBC Radio 4, the BBC World Service and for BBC TV and lectures on art and the art market for Sotheby’s. |
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Helen Poole |
| Helen Poole studied history and archaeology at Bristol University before further studies in archaeology at Durham and Leicester Universities. She excavated on several sites from Fishbourne to Corbridge. A vacation studentship at the British Museum led to a lifelong enthusiasm for the museum profession, and she has worked in museums in Hertfordshire and Sussex ever since. Her work at Watford Museum was recognised in the Museum of the Year Award for 1983, with the prize for the best exhibition, which featured on BBC2. She has also appeared on television in a number of other formats, including Mastermind. |
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Henry Davis |
| Henry Davis lectured in International & European Studies at the Birkbeck College (University of London) and is Convener of International & European Studies at the School of Oriental & African Studies (University of London). His main academic area of interest is European history and politics. Apart from his writings on British foreign policy, he has had published several articles and from time to time has broadcast on the countries of Central Europe, Eastern Europe and Russia, re travel and academically-related topics. He was the Editor of 'Albanian Life' for four years. |
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Humphrey Burton |
| Humphrey Burton read music and history at Cambridge, where he conducted the University Music Club choir. He joined the BBC in 1955 as a studio manager specialising in music programmes, transferring to television three years later. After five years on the arts magazine Monitor he spearheaded the expansion of cultural programmes, which followed the opening of BBC-2 in 1964 and was appointed the first Head of the Music and Arts department. Among the titles he and his producers pioneered were In Rehearsal, Master Class, Conversations with Glenn Gould and Workshop. In 1965 he received the British Academy’s top award for innovative programming. |
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Irene Lawford |
| Irene was born and brought up in the business of classical music publishing, which she eventually abandoned; though classical music has always been a major part of her life. She became co-founder of an international society - The Philatelic Music Circle, of which she became President and also the Editor of the magazine The Baton. Concurrently she gained her BA with Honours at the Open University. |
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Jill Billington |
| Jill Billington qualified at Reading University with a BA Hons in Fine Art (Sculpture). Subsequently she changed direction and became a garden designer thirty years ago and is now a Fellow of the Society of Garden Designers. Her practice has included small and large domestic gardens in UK and abroad and she has won awards at the Chelsea Flower Show, for the Sunday Times and Scottish National Trust, for Floreales D'Angers in France and for a Garden Festival at Les Jardins de Metis in Quebec. |
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John Carter |
| Having started his journalistic career in the time-honoured fashion of a job in the local newspaper, John Carter eventually came to London to syndicate news stories and feature articles to the regional newspapers of what was then the Kemsley Group. Two years later he was appointed the Group’s Travel Editor, leaving to become Travel Correspondent of the Times (that newspaper’s first such appointment), in 1967. He also spend time as Travel Editor of “Good Housekeeping” magazine. |
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John Lello |
| John Lello read history at Sheffield and Oxford and lectured in history at Oxford and Cambridge where he was a Fellow of Hughes Hall. Throughout his professional life he has enjoyed alternating between school and university. He helped to found Atlantic College, was Headmaster of Tiverton Grammar School and also of Sexey’s School, Bruton. He is currently President of the Lyme Regis U3A and recently Chairman of the Friends of the Lyme Regis Museum. He has lectured on thirty cruises for a variety of companies and enjoys the contrast between commitments in Dorset and foreign travel. He values also the discipline of writing books and lives by the sea in Lyme Regis. |
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Kate Garnons Williams |
| Kate Garnons Williams studied Ancient Greek and Roman History at Bristol University, and her Master's thesis was on early attempts to translate into English metre the comic plays of the Greek dramatist, Aristophanes. She lived and worked in Cyprus for 4 years in the 1970s, guiding parties to sites of archaeological interest across the island. On returning to the UK, Kate began teaching for the Open University, and more recently has taught for the University of Birmingham, and she has published several articles on a variety of classical subjects. For the last 25 years she has also lectured on ancient history on a number of cruise itineraries. |
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M Tracey |
| Known as ‘Tracey’ - Originally an actress. Later became a Tour Manager - taking tours all over the world for forty years. Many years leading land tours in Egypt and as Cruise Director on The Long Nile Cruises. Took over from the English speaking guide at Abu Simbel for a month. Widely travelled in Africa taking safaris and running a lodge in Botswana while the manager went on leave. Now a London Blue Badge Guide and still travelling. For some years was a Foyle’s lecturer on Travel. |
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Major General Peter Williams |
| After studying History at Cambridge University Peter Williams spent more than 30 years in the British Army (Coldstream Guards) and enjoyed an unusually varied career. As an Infantryman he carried out ceremonial duties in London, spent two years in the mountains of Oman, served twice in Northern Ireland and commanded an armoured infantry battalion based in Münster, Germany. In the early 1990s he wrote speeches for the Supreme Allied Commander Europe, an American general. |
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Major JGH Corrigan MBE |
| Commissioned from The Royal Military Academy Sandhurst in 1962, Gordon Corrigan was an officer of the Royal Gurkha Rifles before retiring from the Army in 1998. He served mainly in the Far East, but also in Berlin, Cyprus, Belize and Northern Ireland. His last appointment was Commanding Officer of the Gurkha Centre in Hampshire. He is now a Military Historian. |
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Mark Corby |
| Mark Corby is a lecturer, tour leader & broadcaster of many years experience. His particular area of interest is the Classical World of Greece & Rome, with a special passion for military matters. He has lectured at the Institute of Archaeology, is a NADFAS lecturer & has been a Guest Speaker on numerous cruises in the Mediterranean, Baltic & Black Seas. He has led & still leads numerous overland tours to the Middle East & Spain. He has presented TV documentaries for the BBC, CHANNEL 4 & various other channels, on subjects such as “The Real Spartacus”, Vespasian- the man who saved Rome, & The defeat of the Spanish Armada. |
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Martyn Rady |
| Martyn Rady is Professor of Central European History at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, a part of University College London. He has written books on German, Hungarian and Romanian history, and has edited and translated some of the leading texts for the history of Hungary – most recently the earliest Hungarian chronicle, written in Latin about the year 1200, and an eye-witness account of the Mongol invasion of Hungary in 1241. He has broadcast extensively on television and radio, discussing subjects ranging from contemporary politics in Central Europe to vampirism and the history of the Habsburg Monarchy. |
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Michael Michieli |
| Michael Michieli is a Gardens Consultant for the Royal Horticultural Society garden holidays. His particular area of expertise is Mediterranean plants and, as the previous head of the Mediterranean Garden Society’s Uk branch, he brings a wealth of experience to the holidays he leads. He has served on The Plant Conservation committee for the National Council for the Conservation of Plants and Gardens and as the national collection holder of verbena has exhibited at horticultural shows such as Hampton Court, Malvern RHS Show and Chateaux du Courson near Paris. |
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Nicholas Courtney |
| Nicholas Courtney is an author, broadcaster and lecturer. After graduating from the Royal Agricultural College, Cirencester he managed two estates in Northamptonshire, then took a sabbatical to travel in Europe and sail the length and breadth of the Mediterranean. It was then (1970) that his love affair with the Croatian littoral began. On his return to England he was appointed the general manager of the Island of Mustique in the West Indies where he stayed for four years. It was then that he began writing, at first fiction then moving onto historical non-fiction. |
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Nicholas Merchant |
| Nicholas Merchant’s career has mirrored his abiding interest in Antiques. He has worked for some of the major Auction Houses in London and in the provinces, where his wide knowledge of his subject was sought after as a Valuer and in advising clients on the sale of their goods. His particular interest is English 18th century furniture and Country Houses. However, his interest is broad and he likes to discuss objects, not just for themselves but in their historical context. |
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Nicholas Reed |
| Nicholas Reed is both an archaeologist and an art historian. He took his first degree in Greats at Oxford, and then acquired research degrees on ancient history from Manchester and St Andrews Universities. He has taken part in some thirty excavations, and has fifteen articles published in learned journals on subjects in ancient history, especially Roman history. |
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Olga Eggert |
| Olga Eggert was born in Crimea, Ukraine. She is a concert pianist and accompanist and performed in Moscow, Minsk, Kiev and other cities of the former Soviet Union. She has made many appearances on Ukrainian, Russian and Belorussian TV. She moved to the Isle of Man in 1998 and, in 2001, was elected a Fellow of Trinity College of Music in London. |
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Paul Harris |
| Paul Harris graduated from Aberdeen University with an MA in Politics and International Relations and currently works as a writer, lecturer and as a consultant on political risk issues. During the 1980s he was an export consultant in former Yugoslavia and in 1991 became a journalist there after his plane was destroyed on the runway at Slovenia’s Ljubljana airport. |
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Peter Warwick |
| Peter is chairman of The 1805 Club, a charity whose object is the restoration and maintenance of monuments and memorials of the Georgian sailing navy. He is also chairman of Thames Alive which is a new campaign to promote London’s river, and chairman of the International Committee of Waterloo 200, the official body co-ordinating the commemorations for the two hundredth anniversary of the battle in 2015. |
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Philip Blake-Jones |
| Philip Blake-Jones studied at the Royal Academy of Music and made his professional debut as a baritone with Glyndebourne Festival Opera. He has also appeared with Glyndebourne Touring Opera and the Carl Rosa Opera Company. He appeared on tour with The D’Oyly Carte singing Giuseppe in The Gondoliers and Strephon in Iolanthe, a role he also recorded with the company with critical acclaim. He appears on ‘The Best of Gilbert and Sullivan’ on Sony Classical. Concert appearances include the baritone solo in Benjamin Britten’s War Requiem with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Handel’s Messiah in Florence and at the Pisa Opera House and a soloist in operatic concerts with the City of London Sinfonia in the UK and Germany. |
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Professor Jeremy Black |
| Jeremy Black is a prolific historian with specialties in world military history, the history of tourism, and both the eighteenth and twentieth Century. Educated at Cambridge and Oxford, he is Professor at Exeter having previously been Professor at Durham. He received his MBE for services to stamp design. |
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Professor Ludmilla Selezneva |
| Professor Ludmilla is a graduate with honours from Rostov State University and received her first doctorate there in history in 1982. She attained her second doctorate in 1996 from the Russian State University of Humanities in Moscow. Since 2001, Ludmilla Selezneva has worked as a professor of history and politics at the University of the Humanitarian Education in Moscow. Professor Selezneva has published more than 50 articles and authored or co-authored 10 books. |
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Robert Shearman |
| Robert Shearman is a dramatist for theatre, radio and TV. He has received many international awards for his theatre work, and his work for BBC Radio won him a Sony last year. But he's probably best known as a regular writer for the BAFTA winning revival of the television series Doctor Who. He is also a director for the stage, his most recent production being the centre piece at the Old World Theatre Festival in Delhi. |
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Rodney Greenberg |
| Rodney Greenberg graduated with honours at the Music Faculty of Manchester University, specialising in Piano and Composition. His music has been performed at the Wigmore Hall and the Purcell Room. He began his broadcasting career in BBC radio, working as a Music Producer and writing radio portraits of Broadway composers. In 1970 he joined the Music and Arts Department of BBC Television. Since 1980, he has been a freelance Producer/Director combining work for the BBC, Channel Four and Sky Arts with projects for other major companies in Europe and America. |
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Roger Mills |
| Roger Mills is best known as the Director and Series Producer of the Michael Palin Travel Documentaries. Of the Seven series, from "Around the World in Eighty Days" (1989) to "Michael Palin's New Europe"(2006) he has directed six. Roger Mills has been making documentaries for forty five years and to date has won four BAFTAs, one for "Sailor", about life on HMS Ark Royal, two in the Best Series Category for "Forty Minutes" and BAFTA's special award for "Services to Television. |
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Roger Preece |
| Roger’s interest in wine dates from when, whilst working for Stowells of Chelsea, he helped in broadening the company’s portfolio. This led to extensive travel throughout wine-growing Europe and an ever-increasing love affair with wines. This continued, despite a career path which led him into soft drinks. Finally he took the plunge and opened a wine bar in South Kensington. The venture went well and was built into a group of 17 bars, turning over £4.5m pa in wines and champagnes. |
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Sandra Lello |
| Sandra Lello read English at Oxford and has lectured in English Literature at Hughes Hall, Cambridge where she was a Fellow. She also studied drawing and painting in Cambridge and in the Bath College of Art. She has exhibited in London and the West of England. She relishes the play of light upon old buildings as well as the figures which, to her, give life to a painting. She has recently been President of N.A.D.F.A.S for West Dorset and enjoys both teaching and lecturing on painting locally and on cruises. |
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Sandra Millikin |
| Sandra Millikin is an American who has lived in England for over 40 years. She was educated at Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts, USA and at the Courtauld Institute in London where she studied under the famous English architectural historian Sir John Summerson. She was assistant Curator at the Royal Institute of British Architects Drawings collection, where she contributed to Encyclopedia Britannica for which she wrote the articles on Robert Adam and part of Neo classicism. For many years she wrote the articles on Architecture and on Art Exhibitions for the Britannica Book of the Year. |
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Serena Fass |
| Serena Fass has been designing and leading tours, worldwide, since 1970 when she started Serenissima Travel with Viscount Norwich as Chairman. Following the take-over of the company in 1987 she has worked with Noble Caledonia since it began - and for whom she provides colour slides for use in their publicity material. She has lectured on the Caledonia Star & Island Sky as well as leading tours in Europe, Asia and Africa. Her speciality is the early Christian Church in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Islamic world from Turkey to the Indian Subcontinent. |
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Stephen Phillips |
| Stephen is a writer and broadcaster who frequently lectures on historical and archaeological subjects. He studied ancient history and classical archaeology at London and Cambridge and has taught those subjects at universities and made television programmes on a wide range of cultural subjects. Stephen has written for most of Britain’s national papers as well as specialist arts magazines, the New Statesman etc. |
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Terry Barfoot |
| Terry Barfoot is a well known figure in the musical life of southern England, who has for many years lectured at universities, music clubs and festivals throughout the U.K. and in Europe. He works regularly at Oxford University, and is Publications Consultant to the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra. His books include Opera: A History (The Bodley Head), The International Dictionary of Opera (St James Press), a biography of Mozart (BBC Publications), and entries in The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians. During the past three years he has led music tours to Prague, Budapest, Berlin and Amsterdam, and he has lectured at conferences on Beethoven in Cologne and on Wagner in Périgueux. |
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Ticu Gamalie |
| Born in the Constanta, Romania, Ticu began his career in the travel industry at young age guiding short tours in the Black Sea in his summer holidays. This led to longer tours such as “The Painted Wonders of Bucovina”, “Bucharest – the Little Paris”, “Dracula – between myth and history” for various cruise ships and being invited to give lectures on board. |
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Tony Walsh |
| Tony studied management in England and managed leading retail business in Britain and The Gulf including the Bhs Franchise in Saudi Arabia and the Disney retail franchise in Oman. Making use of his business background and interest in the Arabian Peninsula Tony has worked in Oman’s growing tourism business since 1993. He has lead many tours through this region including Nobel Caledonia’s first Gulf Cruises with The Shearwater in 2000 .Tony has lived in The Gulf since 1986 and hopes that you will find your visit as stimulating as he has. |
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Zsuzsanna Ardó |
| Zsuzsanna Ardó is Hungarian by birth, English by existence, human by inclination, humorous by nature - and a writer and photographer by profession. Her books and articles have been published in various languages, in the UK, US, Hungary, Germany, Russia and Singapore. She has worked as an academic, journalist, editor, and broadcaster; she has translated and edited over 100 feature films, from James Bond to Shakespeare, Her broadcasting experience includes European-wide satellite television series on intercultural communication and management. |
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