Such a broad canvas but I have put together a collection of events where the great majority is likely to be novel to the attendee: even if known about I may well introduce an unexpected slant. Chosen topics are across the spectrum of utter bravery, incredible nerve, espionage, humour, deception, endurance, stupidity, survival and the macabre.
Views: 1293 | Enquiries: 1I am a retired Chartered Surveyor who specialised in the bringing forward of land for development and I am a dedicated amateur astronomer geared to taking images of deep space objects. My speaking was triggered fifteen years ago when I learned that the premises from which, as a schoolboy, I nicked a couple of Blacker bombard anti-tank missiles and a box of L-delay fuses was "Winston Churchill's Toyshop", the UK's premier weapons experimental station in WW2. I wrote to the BBC suggesting they make a documentary: their response was: the BBC “does not accept ideas for programmes of a documentary or factual nature” so I decided to put together my own Powerpoint presentation. ( I did persuade the Discovery Channel to make a programme but this omitted so much) I do not wish to travel more than around 30 miles from Thame in Oxfordshire unless escorted.
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