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Tonight's lecture will be based on the film "Shackleton's Boat: The Story Of The James Caird".
Roderic Dunnett is website editor of the James Caird
Society. He got his interest in Shackleton from his
father, Harding McGregor Dunnett, Founder of the Society, author and the maker of tonight's film. Roderic has broadcast some 20 programmes on BBC Radio 3 and has written extensively on music, opera and books for The Independent, FT, Spectator, Oldie, Opera Now, The Strad,and the Church Times. He is the author of or contributor to books on the composers Dvorak and Debussy, Sir Peter Maxwell Davies and Sir Arthur Bliss, and has a special interest in English Opera and Eastern Europe, where he has travelled extensively. Other passions include Romano-Celtic remains, Greek History and Poetry (which he taught for 15 years), Boys' Hockey (of whose National
Championships he was the founder and administrator from 1981-94).