Coventry Conversations
Posted on May 16, 2007 - Filed Under Media | Comments Off
 
The Coventry Conversations were established in January 2006 to provide a forum for media movers and shakers to come to Coventry University; since then well over seventy have accepted the invite and spoken to audiences ranging from 20 to 200. Some big names have graced the stage – Mark Thompson, BBC Director General, Sir Jeremy Isaacs, founder of Channel Four, Donal Macintyre, Paul Abbott, Andrew Davies, John Humphrys, Andy Harries, Trevor Phillips and many more.
Each Thursday lunchtime at 1pm you can find a name in Conversation. The series this year looks like this; The Conversations have attracted many outsiders to the University and much publicity local and national in print and on radio.
COVENTRY CONVERSATIONS 2009
Each Conversation takes place in the Ellen Terry Building Ground Floor Lecture Theatre at 1pm on Thursday (unless stated otherwise).
Thursday Jan 8th 1.00 ETG34
Jon Blair. Film-maker ‘On Documentary’
Oscar/Emmy/BAFTA winner
Thursday Jan 15th 1.00
Nick Davies. Author. ‘Flat Earth News’
‘Is Journalism in Crisis?
Wednesday Jan 21st, 1.00, Room Tbc
Professor John Oucho ‘From Barack Obama Senior to Barack Obama Junior;My hopes for the US and Africa’
Warwick University/Formerly Nairobi University
Thursday Jan 22nd
David Moorcroft. Athlete. ‘From Cov to Commentating on TV’
Thursday Jan 29th
Graham Holliday. Author. ‘To Infinity and Beyond on the internet’
Thursday Feb 5th
Peter Ogden. ‘From Cov to Cowell and new frontiers…’
Big Brother/X Factor Producer. Cov Alumni
Friday February 6th, 10.00
Jon Snow. Channel Four News. ‘Snow over Coventry’
Thursday Feb 12th, Humber Theatre
Peter Barron. Head of PR Google UK. ‘I have seen the future?’
Former Editor Newsnight, Via videophone
Thursday Feb 19th
TBC
Wednesday Feb 25th
Professor Richard Keeble University of Lincoln ‘George Orwell; England’s finest journalist?’
Thursday Feb 26th
Bob Satchwell Exec Director Society of Editors. ‘Are Newspapers dying or just morphing?’
Thursday March 5th
Roger Cook. Investigator, ‘Nailing the villains on screen’
The Cook Report
Thursday March 12th
Martin ‘Money Saving Expert’ Lewis ‘Creating the most successful consumer website in Britain’
Via Videophone
Thursday March 19th
Air Vice Marshall Andrew Vallance.
Secretary D Notice Committee. ‘S…S…Secrets’
If you missed a conversation, don’t worry you can listen to it as a podcast (click here).
