8th January 2009

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Rail around India
Second-class travel, first-class experiences

Nicholas Clark

5th February 2009

The Thistledown Project
Aspects of the Cotswolds at the environmental centre near Nailsworth

Richard Kelly

5th March 2009

A Bee in my Bonnet

Mo Smith (the Lazy Cook) talks of her development as a cook and cookery writer

2nd April 2009

The Everyman Theatre, past, present and future

(speaker arranged by) Sally-Ann Rhodes

7th May 2009

You can choose your friends BUT...

Susan Marshfield (the speaker who so entertained us with her account of a royal garden party) talks about visits from relatives

4th June 2009

Tea

2nd July 2009

Gorillas (Apes with Altitude)

Phred Newbury talks about the the private life of the endangered mountain gorilla, with her own photos and DVD recordings, and describes the work of the Gorilla Organisation. (Highly recommended by other U3As)

6th August 2009

“Another Man’s Shoes”

Ellie Targett of BBC Radio Hereford & Worcester. 60 years after the war she retraced her father's journey for the Norwegian resistance, and met the people who had helped him.

3rd September 2009

AGM + Subscriptions

1st October 2009

"1857"

A look at the year, from the serious to the trivial, through a volume of contemporary illustrated newspapers)

Paul Hansford

5th November 2009

The Changing Face of Funerals

James Showers, Family Tree Funerals