Programme 2025

 

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External Speaker
Internal Speaker
Probus Event
Other events

Date Speaker or Event Speaker -Host, & Reporter
 Subject
Thurs 16 Jan 2025 John Macartney British Leyland
Thurs 16 Jan 2025

 

Skittles

 

Match with Yew Trees WI

1900 for 1930

 

 

 

Thurs 6 Feb 2025

 

 

Lt Gen Sir John Kiszely KCB MC DL

 

Lord Ismay

Thurs 20 Feb 2025 Mike Warburton Scandals & Government
Thurs 6 2025 Mar Mauro Cantoni The Nuclear Power Industry
 Friday 14  Mar  2025 Cheltenham Gold Cup TBC N/A
Thurs 20 Mar  2025  Patrick Furley
History of Films 1870-1930
 

Thurs 3 Apr 2025

 

Duncan Cadbury

 

George Cadbury & The Bournville Trust

Thurs 17 Apr 2025 Susan Black Opera/Singing
Apr 18 -21 Easter weekend N/A
Thurs 1 May 2025 Kirstie Bingham Life Stories & Behaviour of the Tudors
Thurs 15 May 2025 Peter Gill Musical Satire in the 20th Century
Thurs 5 Jun 2025 Harvey Sagar “You can see the Doctor now” – a Career in Medicine
Thurs 19 Jun 2025 David Head The Panama Canal
Tues 24 Jun 2025 Summer Garden Party Croft Orchard
Thurs 17 Jul 2025 Fiona Baskett Medical Detection Dogs
Summer break
Thurs 4 Sep 2025 Martyn Habgood    China – A rapidly changing country. Business and personal stories
Thurs 18 Sep 2025 James Tabor The Battle of Waterloo – who was the Victor?
Thurs 2 Oct 2025 Arthur Ball

 

The Caribbean Wildlife & Birds
Thurs 16 Oct 2025 Colonel Tony Singer OBE The Royal Yacht Squadron
Thurs 6 Nov 2025 Paul Butler The mystery of the Last Caravaggio
Thurs 20 Nov 2025 Paul Murphy Charles Dickens – improper & Indelicate Times
Thurs 4 Dec 2025 Christmas Dinner
Thursday

15 Jan 2026

Skittles

TBC

Probus v Yew Trees WI

1900 for 1930