Our next lecture will be on Tuesday 25th June at 7pm (doors open for refreshments at 6.30pm). This month's speaker is Colin Schindler and his topic is The Great Train Robbery and the making of the film Buster.

The Great Train Robbery was one of the most daring and best remembered crimes of the 1960s and probably the only one in which the public took the side of the criminals. This infuriated the Establishment which was, at the same time, dealing with the fallout from the Profumo Affair. Twenty five years after the robbery Colin resurrected the robbery by writing the screenplay for a film about it, concentrating on one of the gang leaders, Buster Edwards, and he will give us a first hand-account about the making of that celebrated film, starring Phil Collins and Julie Walters. 

This will be the last lecture in our 2023-24 programme and at the end of the evening we will have our customary free end-of-term raffle and will be revealing our exciting programe of lectures for 2024-25.  

The event is free to Arts Society members; £10 to non-members (£5 to students) including pre-lecture refreshments. For membership details, and further information, see www.theartssociety.org/coventry 

Do come to join us at the Theatre at Barr's Hill School, Radford Road, Coventry, CV1 4BU.  There is free onsite parking and is easy to get to either by car, on foot from the city centre or by bus.  A link to a separate document on the right-hand side of this webpage gives directions. You can also download details of all subsequent lectures in the 2023-24 programme via a link there.