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We all see news headlines and wonder about our future -- war in Europe and the Middle East and the rise of China. Many worry or don’t watch it. But what can each of us do to help keep us as safe as can be. Sir Julian Brazier is a former government minister and a scholar in Maths and Philosophy from Oxford. He served for thirteen years as an officer in the Territorial Army, including five with the Special Forces. He is chairman of a security company, and a distinguished fellow of Royal United Services Institute. He is active in defence-related charities and currently joint patron of the Ukraine Freedom Company, a not-for-profit organisation which delivers equipment, vehicles and medical supplies to the Ukrainian Army. In this Goldster Magazine Show, Humphrey Hawksley will explore with Sir Julian ways in which, as individuals, we can contribute to the safety and well-being of our communities and, hopefully, help avert any war.
Measures range from supporting and joining military reserves -- whereby those in civilian jobs can bring their skills to a military setting -- to learning first aid, keeping ourselves fit and making our homes as self-reliant as can be. Join Humphrey with Sir Julian Brazier for a fascinating inside look into Britain’s defences and our own role in safeguarding the country. Goldster Magazine Show 1pm Tuesday May 21st 2024.
goldster.co.uk/book-ahead-events/the-goldster-magazine-show-with-sir-julian-brazier-and-humphrey-hawksley/ 15 use-titleOn Chapel Sands by Laura Cumming
Goldster Magazine Book Club
28 May 2024, at 1pm
On an Autumn day in 1929, a three-year-old girl went missing from a beach in Lincolnshire. For a few moments, her mother had perhaps looked away, and in that time the child was kidnapped. A few days later the little girl was found, but the mystery of who took her and why she was abducted was never resolved. That stolen child was the mother of author Laura Cumming.
When Cumming learnt the story she was bemused by what seemed to be an extraordinary silence about her mother’s childhood abduction, so she set about trying to find out what had happened. In doing so, she uncovered several other secrets.
This beautifully written family memoir, follows Laura Cumming’s journey as the art historian turned detective – via police reports and newspaper reporting. Read it and venture back to an England between the wars, following the author’s efforts to determine what happened really during the days of the disappearance.
Join Lucinda Hawksley at 1pm on Tuesday 28 May for the Goldster Magazine Book Club, to chat about On Chapel Sands and all things book related.
goldster.co.uk/book-ahead-events/the-goldster-magazine-show-book-club-with-lucinda/ 15 use-titleJane Corry is a writer and journalist who has spent time working as the writer in residence of a high security prison for men - an experience that helped inspire her Sunday Times bestselling novels. Before taking up the post, Jane had never been inside a prison and says that the experience “really opened up my eyes. Initially I was terrified about doing the job but as soon as I started, I was hooked. Here was another world. I’d always thought that prisoners were simply “born bad,” but I soon found that some had committed crimes because of messed-up childhoods, wrong decisions combined with alcohol and drugs. My job was to encourage inmates to write about their lives to help release feelings and turn over a new leaf. Many of my men had mental health issues; some heard voices in their heads. This was scary for me to witness, but the writer side of me was fascinated.”
Jane is now a judge for the life story section of the Koestler Awards, which are given to men and women in prison and mental institutions. She will be talking to Lucinda about the importance of writing for mental health and about the vital importance of exercise to mental clarity. Many of her own writing ideas strike during morning dog-jogs along the beach followed by a dip in the sea.
Join Jane Corry with Lucinda Hawksley on The Goldster Magazine Show at 1pm on Tuesday 4 June 2024.
goldster.co.uk/book-ahead-events/the-goldster-magazine-show-with-jane-corry-and-lucinda-hawksley/ 15 use-titleAll of us, at some stage, find ourselves faced with impossible choices or in some form of conflict from which there seems no way out. The choices we make affect our families, the people we love and our lives. Rebecca Tinsley understands these challenges first-hand from her life helping others in the developing world. Her passion for fairness and her personal mission to end suffering began as a teenager when she campaigned against South Africa’s apartheid. Sinc then she has worked as a journalist and lawyer on war and human rights drawing lessons that stretch from Auschwitz to Bosnia to Sudan.
Her geographical area of expertise is Africa. She is particularly knowledgeable on genocide and understanding why people do what they do. She has twice stood to be a member of parliament and continues to work a speech writer for politicians whose values she shares. She is the founder of Network for Africa and a campaign group for Sudan, Waging Peace, which has produced stunning compilation of children’s pictures of their own experience of conflict. Her novel, When the Stars Fall to Earth, is based around the long conflict in Sudan’s Darfur region which began in 2003. Join Rebecca Tinsley with Humphrey Hawksley in a compelling conversation about human choices and moving on from catastrophe.
The Goldster Magazine Show 1pm June 11th 2024.
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