WEA is restarting its lecture programme with top speakers

THE Workers’ Educational Association (WEA) in Llanelli is restarting its lecture programme.

Among the list of speakers for the series will be broadcaster and journalist Huw Edwards, who played such a significant part in the TV coverage of the Queen’s funeral.

Speakers will lecture on a variety of topics, including politics, history, literature, music and transport.

Many speakers are closely linked to Llanelli, including Theo Davies-Lewis, Stuart Cole, Jon Gower and, of course, Huw Edwards.

Dates include: September 29 – award-winning photographer Graham Harries, Visions of Silence – Chernobyl 32 Years Later.

October 20 – award-winning journalist and Wales Online Welsh affairs editor Will Hayward, Independent Nation: Should Wales Leave the UK?

November 17 – Theo Davies-Lewis, columnist (New Statesman, Spectator, etc) and broadcaster.

January 19 – Professor Stuart Cole, Emeritus Professor of Transport, University of South Wales, The Great Western Railway in South Wales: 1855-2055.

February 16 – author and documentarian Jon Gower, The Turning Tide: A Biography of the Irish Sea.

March 23 – BBC News at 10 presenter and journalist Huw Edwards.

April 20 – musician and WEA tutor Chris Weeks, Aspects of Music.

The opening lecture, on Thursday, September 29, at 7.30pm, by local photographer Graham Harries, is an illustrated talk featuring photographs of the speaker’s visit to Chernobyl.

You can view some of the images online at http://gphotography.org.uk/ chernobyl/