The  LUNCHTIME COMMENT CLUB Ltd

Home
What's on next?
Where is it?
Who are we?
Who's attended?
Get in touch
Useful links
Gallery

 

Future Speakers...
(& for more about each Speaker, click their photo...)

2011

Wednesday 14th December 2011 BOOK FOR THIS LUNCH
  Dom Anthony Sutch - Benedictine Monk

...is a former Headmaster of the well-known Downside School. Having resigned his post he retired from education to become a parish priest in Beccles, Suffolk. Noted for his opinions on a wide-ranging variety of subjects, he is in constant demand as a speaker.

Back to top...

2012... 

Tuesday 6th March 2012 BOOK FOR THIS LUNCH
Jonathan Aitken - former Politician

Born in 1942, he is a former Conservative Member of Parliament in the United Kingdom, and British government minister. Convicted of perjury in 1999 he received an 18-month prison sentence, of which he served seven months. He is currently president of Christian Solidarity Worldwide.

Back to top... 

Wednesday 16th May 2012 BOOK FOR THIS LUNCH
Lord Triesman - Politician

Born in 1943, Baron David Maxim Triesman is a former Chairman of the Football Association, a British politician, a Labour member of the House of Lords and previously a minister at the Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills.

Back to top... 

Wednesday 10th October 2012

Speaker to be announced.  

Back to top... 

Wednesday 12th December 2012 BOOK FOR THIS LUNCH
Prue Leith CBE - Restaurateur, caterer, TV cook, broadcaster and cookery writer.

...was born in South Africa & has spent her working life mostly in London.

In 1960, Prue started a business supplying quality business lunches, which grew to become Leith’s Good Food Limited, with a turnover of £15m in 1995. In 1969, she opened Leith’s, her famous Michelin starred restaurant. In 1975 she founded 'Leiths School of Food and Wine' which trains amateur and professional chefs. She has been a cookery editor and food columnist for the Daily Mail, Sunday Express, The Guardian and The Mirror; and currently holds non-executive directorships at Whitbread plc. She chairs The Hoxton Apprentice and 3Es Enterprises, and is also Chair of the Board of Governors of Ashridge Management College. As well as many cookery books, including Leith's Cookery Bible, she has written four novels, 'Leaving Patrick', 'Sisters', 'A Lovesome Thing', & 'Choral Society'.

She has received many honours, including the Veuve Cliquot Business Woman of the Year in 1990, & seven honorary degrees or fellowships from UK universities. She was appointed OBE in 1989 and Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2010 Birthday Honours.


Back to top...