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NIGEL’S
SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS, LECTURES AND PERFORMING
If you would like me to speak to your organization,
society or club, or to give an after-dinner speech, or to perform at some
event, then please e-mail me direct to discuss availability and fees.
The following selection of past engagements
will give you an idea of what I tend to do:
Guest after-dinner speaker at CBI West
Midlands Summer Banquet at Birmingham.
Narrator in a performance of Stravinsky’s The Soldier’s Tale at the Playhouse, Norwich. With Chamber Orchestra Anglia conducted by
Sharon Choa. [This performance was later repeated at The Forum,
Norwich].
Guest after-dinner speaker at 75th anniversary
dinner of the Rotary Club of Banbury at Heritage Motor Centre, Gaydon.
Hull Literary and Philosophical Society –
“From Gravestones to Graffiti” – illustrated lecture on epitaphs and graffiti.
Wells Evening Society – “I Told You I Was
Sick” – illustrated lecture on epitaphs.
Shenington 2010 Circle – “my radio times” (the
picture show) – illustrated lecture based on my autobiography.
91 Club – Saddleworth – “Camping With
Kenneth – My Life With Kenneth Wiliams” – lunchtime talk.
In addition, I give
lectures and after-lunch talks in a number of different formats. My subjects include: ‘The Humour of Family
Sayings’, ‘Ten Great Quotations and the Stories Behind Them’ (as at the
Edinburgh International Book Festival) and ‘Camping With Kenneth – My Life With
Kenneth Williams’ and ‘my radio times’, based on my autobiography.
My illustrated
lectures ‘I Told You I Was Sick: Grave Epitaphs and Memorial Eloquence’ and
‘The History and Humour of Graffiti’ may be combined, if required, as ‘From
Gravestones to Graffiti’. ‘my radio
times’ can also be presented with illustrations.
I also do an evening
of reminiscences and readings from my writings (2 x 45 minutes with an
interval). This has been performed at
various festivals under the titles ‘Portable Soup’, ‘An Evening With Nigel
Rees’ and (as at the Daphne du Maurier Festival, Fowey), ‘Quoting and
Unquoting’.
As an after-dinner
speaker, I have made hundreds of appearances, including:
Serco Group plc
dinners
British Air Transport
Association dinner
British (Port)
Association dinner,
Andrew Lloyd Webber’s
Sydmonton Festival
Royal Institution of Chartered
Surveyors dinners
Dun and Bradstreet
conference dinner
Institute of
Advertising Practitioners in Ireland dinner, Dublin
British
Agro-Chemicals Association dinner
British Gas Energy
Management Awards dinners
The Newspaper Society
conferences
The English Speaking
Union dinner
Cunard QE2
‘An excellent speech. He hit
absolutely the right note for the audience concerned’ – organizer, Drinkmaster Ltd conference dinner
‘He was brilliant! A perfect end
to what had been a most enjoyable evening.
He left the audience in the perfect state – laughing and wanting more’
– organizer, Association of Project Managers’ dinner
‘His absolutely superb speech lifted the entire evening on to a higher
plane’ – organizer, Chartered Institute of Loss Adjusters’ dinner
e-mail
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