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10th March 2005 - Douglas Adams Memorial Lecture
Jim Lynn Started conversation Mar 4, 2005
The Third Douglas Adams Memorial Lecture, in celebration of the life and universe of Douglas Adams.
Title: Last Chance to See...Just a bit more
Date: Thursday 10 March 2005
Venue: The Royal Institution, Albemarle Street W1
Time: Lecture begins at 7.30pm
Speaker: Mark Carwardine
Price: £20 for main auditorium with a drink beforehand
£12 for gallery seating without a drink
For information including how to buy tickets please see
http://www.savetherhino.org.
The lecture will be followed by a fundraising auction, lots will include signed film memorabilia, VIP tickets to the film premier and signed copies of the Quintessential Phase: Mostly Harmless radio script.
Lecture synopsis:
Zoologist Mark Carwardine (co-author of Last Chance to See with Douglas Adams) spends more than half the year travelling the world in search of wildlife and exploring wild places.
From working with Inuit hunters to find walruses and photographing blue whales from the open door of a small plane to snorkelling with feeding killer whales and cage-diving with great white sharks, he encounters more wildlife in a year than most people dream of encountering in a lifetime. Along the way, he's been shot at by drunken policeman in Zambia, mugged by a gang of drug addicts in New York and ambushed by bandits in Tanzania; he has stayed in a hotel-cum-brothel in Mali and been thrown into jail in Moscow; and he's been bitten by everything from a venomous spider in Australia to an elephant trunk snake in Basingstoke.
In this highly entertaining lecture he describes some of his experiences and encounters with wild animals and even wilder people around the world - including some hilarious behind-the-scenes stories from Last Chance to See. And, inevitably, he has a thing or two to say about the state of the world.
10th March 2005 - Douglas Adams Memorial Lecture
Traveller in Time Reporting Bugs -o-o- Broken the chain of Pliny -o-o- Hired Posted Mar 4, 2005
Traveller in Time 
having a deja view
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Skankyrich [?] Posted Mar 4, 2005
*sigh*
The downside of living in Devon.... 
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bedmechanic keeper of the tongue in cheek and guardian of the empty wallet Posted Mar 4, 2005
Also the downside of working for a firm who expect you
to work all the hours god sends
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dusk Posted Mar 4, 2005
cant really get there form north wales either; but i see what post 2 is getting at the opening of that thred is almost identica to the start of this; can i ask why
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SEF Posted Mar 4, 2005
It's related to this thread and others of that ilk:
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Traveller in Time Reporting Bugs -o-o- Broken the chain of Pliny -o-o- Hired Posted Mar 4, 2005
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- 1: Jim Lynn (Mar 4, 2005)
- 2: Traveller in Time Reporting Bugs -o-o- Broken the chain of Pliny -o-o- Hired (Mar 4, 2005)
- 3: Skankyrich [?] (Mar 4, 2005)
- 4: bedmechanic keeper of the tongue in cheek and guardian of the empty wallet (Mar 4, 2005)
- 5: dusk (Mar 4, 2005)
- 6: SEF (Mar 4, 2005)
- 7: Traveller in Time Reporting Bugs -o-o- Broken the chain of Pliny -o-o- Hired (Mar 4, 2005)
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