Nick Baker
19:00 - 21:00

Nick is well known as the presenter of programs that highlight the beauty and fragility of the natural world. In this talk he will draw on his encounters with plants and animals from around the globe and consider the position of the media in a world that is rushing into an environmental crisis.

Address

Roland Levinsky Building
Lecture theatre 2

pl4 8aa

Contact: University Bookseller

Telephone: 01752 660428

Rebecca Stott - The Coral Thief and Other Tales From The History of Science.
19:00 - 21:00

Rebecca Stott has a keen interest in the development of scientific ideas. She has researched the history of Darwin’s work on barnacle  and Newton’s links with the alchemists. She has written two novels which explore the history of science, Ghost walk and the Coral Thief. 

The Coral Thief is published in the new year and is the book at bedtime on BBC radio 4 over January. Rebecca will discuss the way that scientific ideas develop and look at the early evolutionists in Paris, using her novels as a platform to do so.

Address

University of Plymouth
Upper Sherwell Lecture theatre
Plymouth
pl4 8aa

Contact: University Bookseller

Telephone: 01752 660428

sciBAr: Our Plastic Age. 2nd March
19:00 - 21:00

Professor Richard Thompson, from the University of Plymouth, will be discussing his research into the effect of plastics, its persitence within our oceans and the implications that has for our extensive use of this material.
All are welcome to join this informal event, which aims, as ever, to bring scientists and the general public together.
From 7pm onwards, at Cafe les Jardins de Bagatelle.
Contact Nigel May on: 01752 233754 for further sciBAr information.

Address

Cafe les Jardins de Bagatelle
Old Town Road

PL1 1DA

Contact: Nigel May

Telephone: 01752 233754

The Natural World as Spectacle - Hugh Pearson
19:00 - 21:00

Hugh Pearson is a program producer with the BBC’s natural History Film Unit.  He will discuss the complexities of making programs that bring the vast panoramas of the biosphere into our living rooms. He will examine the many choices program makers are faced with and talk about the financial drivers that exert powerful pressures on the nature and content of these programs.

Address

University of Plymouth
Babbage building
Lecture Room 6
pl4 8aa

Contact: University Bookseller

Telephone: 01752 660428

Peninsula Arts Reading Gourp: March 15th Meeting
19:00 - 21:00

The next meeting of the Peninsula Arts reading group will be held on the 15th March. Venue TBC
This month's title is "The Interpretation of Murder" By Jed Rubenfeld. Please visit penartsreadinggroup.wordpress.com for further details, or contact us in store.

Address

TBC


TBC

Contact: University Bookseller

Telephone: 01752660428

Tristram Hunt: "The Frock-Coated Communist"
19:00 - 21:00

BBC historian Tristram Hunt will be visiting the University of Plymouth on the 16th March to give insite to his new title: "The Frock-coated Communist" a biography of the life of Freidrich Engels, co-writer of the Communist Manifesto and forgotten father of Marxism. His detailed account sheds light upon the exceptional, and now almost forgotten,  life of one of the most influencial philosophers of modern history.
Pre-release copies of the books are available in store now, and will be on sale at the event (priced at £10.99), where Tristram will kindly be signing and dedicating copies.
For more information ask in store or see the Peninsula Arts website.

Address

Theatre 2, Roland Levinski Building, university of Plymouth


PL4 8AB

Contact: University Bookseller

Telephone: 01752 660 428

Simon King - SHETLAND DIARIES Otters, orcas, puffins and wonderful people
19:00 - 21:00

Simon King has worked on programmes such as Big Cat Diary and Blue Planet he also presents Springwatch and Autumnwatch.

Address

The Sherwell Centre
North Hill
Plymouth
PL4 8AA

Contact: Daniel Johns

Telephone: 01752 660428

In Sickness and in Power ; Lord Owen
19:00 - 21:00

Plymouth Peninsula Arts presents:

The Rt Hon Lord Owen CH FRCP on his new title: In Sickness and in Power;

The course of world history has been critically shaped by the physical and mental illnesses of heads of state, sometimes in the public eye but usually in secrecy. Long fascinated with the inter-relationship between politics and medicine, Lord Owen gives us an insight to his unique study of illness in Heads of Government during the last 100 years and the influence of their medical advisers. Before entering politics, David Owen studied medicine at Cambridge, did his clinical training at St Thomas's Hospital and qualified as a doctor in 1962.

Following his presentation Lord Owen will take questions from the audience

7:00pm. Theatre 1, Roland Levinsky Building
Tickets: £5 concessions £3
Free to Friends of Peninsula Arts, UoP staff and students and Plymouth Proprietary Library members

Address

Lecture Theatre 1
Roland Levinsky Building
University of Plymouth
PL4 8AA

Contact: University Bookseller

Telephone: 01752 660 428