Coventry Conversations
Posted on May 16, 2007 - Filed Under Media |
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.
Wednesday 24 September 1300 ETG34
Editor bows out with a good conversation Alan Kirby
Editor, Coventry Telegraph
Thursday September 25 1300 ETG34
Dodging bullets on the frontline Stuart Ramsay
Chief Foreign Correspondent, Sky News
Thursday October 2 1300 ETG34
My love affair with Manchester United Jim White
Sports writer, Daily Telegraph
Thursday October 9 1300 ETG34
How we made a monster into drama Alex Holmes
Writer/Director, The House Of Saddam BBC
Thursday October 16 1300 ETG34
The Car is still the Star Steve Cropley
Editor in Chief, Autocar
Thursday October 23 1300 ETG34
How to do it? Tessa Mayes
Investigative Journalist, BBC, Spectator, Spiked
Thursday October 30 1300 ETG34
Game On!!! Philip Oliver
Blitz Games
Thursday November 6 1300 ETG34
How to write for the screens-big and small David Pearson
Director Cheltenham, Screenwriting Festival
Wednesday November 12 (This is at Coventry Cathedral at 6pm – admission free)
WW2: Behind Closed Doors: Why what really went on between Stalin, the Nazis and the West still matters Laurence Rees
Thursday November 13 1300 ETG34
How I got from Cov to Confetti Debbie Isitt
Feature Film Director, Coventry Alum
Thursday November 20 1300 ETG34
The Bard and More Vikki Heywood
Executive Director, RSC
Thursday November 27 1300 ETG34
How I got from Cov to Camelot Richard Peel
Director of Corporate Affairs, Camelot PLC Coventry Alum
If you missed a conversation, don’t worry you can listen to it as a podcast (click here).
