Oxted Probus Speakers 2026/27

21 October           Fran Sandham – Solo walk across Africa – a walk every from one coast of Africa to the other, completely alone without backup

18 November    Tim Beckett – Forty years of recovery and restoration of sunken ships

2027

20 January    Dr Blay Whitby – Life in the Age of Artificial Intelligence - the Fourth Industrial Revolution and its social and economic changes.

17 February      Laurence Scales – The Art of Invention - art and invention inspired by the archives of the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce.

17 March              Tom Platts – McRitchie Challenge – how a daily walk round a reservoir in Singapore grew to an international charitable effort in support of dementia research.

21 April                     Nick Dobson - Never Had it So Good! - go back to 1950s London and discover a decade when wartime austerity gave way to growing optimism.

19 May                      Dr Ian Goodall – The Man who Caught a Million Criminals – the Invention of DNA Fingerprinting – how DNA was first used to solve a double murder and rape case in Leicestershire and where it has led.

16 June                       Dr Stephen Goss – “America is Lost” – the impact on Britain of US independence on the 250^th anniversary in June 2027 of the adoption of the Stars and Stripes as the national flag.

21 July               Gary Jones, CBE – The Development of Paramedics in the UK – paramedics from the battlefields of Solferino, through the history of the early ambulance service and on to the establishment of the College of Paramedics in the UK.