Putney High School
Putney Ideas Exchange - don't miss out!
Putney Ideas Exchange (PIE) gets off to a great start for 2008: A political journalist, a leading surgeon, a best-selling author and a human rights specialist - these are the high profile guests coming to the school in January and February:
Dr Neil Bulstrode spoke about issues in Reconstructive & Plastic Surgery with a focus on both the ethical and medical side to the practice.
Wednesday January 16th at 4pm
Mary Ann Sieghart spent 19 years as a political commentator on The Times newspaper and has now left to write a book about contemporary Britain and to pursue other interests, including broadcasting. She spoke to girls about her career as a political journalist.
Tuesday January 22nd at 1.40pm
Gill Swain, a freelance writer and journalist, spent three months in Hebron working as a human rights observer on the Ecumenical Accompaniment Programme in Palestine and Israel (EAPPI). It is organised in the UK by the Quakers and you can read about it on their website: www.quaker.org.uk. She will be talking to the girls about daily life in the Palestinian territories after 40 years of occupation.
Monday February 4th at 1.40pm
Sarah Dunant is a writer, broadcaster and critic. She was born in London and studied history at Cambridge University. She has written eight novels, two screenplays and edited two books of essays. She has worked in television and radio, is a patron of the ORANGE PRIZE for women's fiction and reviews for The Times and The Independent on Sunday and The Guardian.
Tuesday February 26th at 1.40pm
