2007 FRINGE LECTURES
Mon 28th May
ROBIN COATES- THE ENVIRONMENTAL CRISIS OUR DESTRUCTION OF
GOD'S CREATION AND OUR LIFE SUPPORT SYSTEM
- Coach House Theatre - 7.30-9.00pm - £2.50

Tues 29th May
CHRIS POOLE- THE DIPLOMATIC PHOTOGRAPHER
Bombed in Biafra, Beirut and the Balkans. Chris Poole wanted to be an engineer but was distracted by
the offer of a job at the Foreign Office. As a result he has travelled the world for the government often
to places that most only see on the news broadcasts. Chris has combined this career with a developing
reputation as a landscape photographer. He has exhibited work in the UK and overseas, and now produc
es fine art prints for exhibition and sale from his Herefordshire home. Here Chris describes how he has
combined life as a diplomat and traveller with working as a photographer & writer. Fine Art Prints - www.chrispooleimages.com
- Coach House Theatre - 7.30-9.00pm - £2.50

Wed 30th May
JOHN WHITE - THE VIEW FROM THE RABBIT HOLE
John takes us on a whirlwind tour of the “rabbit hole”, where we learn that reality exists only inside
our heads, “they” were never in charge: we were, that the world’s problems are its greatest opportuniti
es and there's never been more reason to believe that, far from being about to wipe ourselves out, we
are the closest we have ever been to getting it all very very right, to emerge into an entirely new
consciousness that will change life immeasurably for the better, for ever. The audience will also learn
never to look at their mortgage the same way again, and discover not only that there's
something they can do to help, but that they are, in fact, the answer.
The video of this lecture is now available at - www.malvernmessages.com - (Click here)
- Lyttleton Rooms - 7.30 - 9.00pm - £2.50

Fri 1st June
Tim Cranmore - ‘THE RECORDER - OR HOW TO TAME A TUBE’.
Anecdotal ramblings of the life of a recorder maker - A talk on the history, use, making and
refining of the recorder, with demonstrations of instruments, tuning and voicing with musical
examples. Tim Cranmore has been making recorders for nearly 30 years, and is now regarded
as one of the world's leading makers. His instruments are used for concerts and recordings,
by professionals and students on all five continents. Tim has a performers diploma from the
Guildhall School of Music, and participates in local music a recorder player, singer, and sax player
- Lyttleton Rooms - 3.00 - 4.30pm - £2.50

Sat 2nd June
Prof JOHN G. RARITY - WAVES AND PARTICLES AND HALFWAY BETWEEN,
ELECTRICAL & ELECTRONIC ENGINEERING
This talk introduces some of the paradoxical properties of light and how we
have exploited them. Newton was the first to propose that light was a stream of
particles, when observing that it travelled in straight lines. However many of you
will have experienced the iridescent colours associated with both natural and man
made diffraction gratings. These phenomena illustrate the wave like nature of light.
In the 20th century we reconciled ourselves to the fact that light can behave as
waves and a particles often in different parts of the same experiment.
This wave-particle duality is one of the essential features of the 20th century
theory of quantum mechanics (QM). Another unique property of quantum
mechanics is entanglement, where two particles (of light) have connected
(correlated) properties such that any measurement made on one instantaneously
sets a value for the other even when they are separated by large distances.
Towards the end of the century various groups (including ours in Malvern)
were able to experimentally demonstrate wave particle duality and
entanglement in the laboratory thus confirming quantum mechanics.
- Lyttleton Rooms - 6.00 - 7.30pm - £2.50