Theme Meeting

Presenter Alan Freeland: Wouldn’t it be wonderful to be ruled by someone with intelligence, charm, empathy, oodles of love, and an ability to fashion a Golden Age. Be careful what you wish for.

Presenter Lorna Thomas: The Daughter of the Desert. Simultaneously an Iraqi nationalist and a British imperialist. Described by some contemporaries as an arduous and dangerous adventurer - who was the real Gertrude Bell?