Dear Folks
Thought you might be interested in this. Would greatly appreciate it if you
could email it on to your pals & contacts who might be interested.
Cheers
Carmel
BEA CAMPBELL, BRITISH FEMINIST WRITER & BROADCASTER TO SPEAK IN MELBOURNE
Emily's List Australia presents: "Women in the New Britain"
7.30 pm, Wednesday 14 July - Trades Hall, Council Chamber, 54 Victoria St.,
Carlton.
British feminist writer and broadcaster Bea (Beatrix Campbell) will speak on
"Women in the New Britain" at 7.30 pm this Wednesday night at the Trades
Hall in Melbourne.
Ms Campbell, who is in Australia to speak at the Adelaide Festival of Ideas,
is now familiar to many Australians from her guest spot on Monday nights on
Phillip Adams' program, "Late Night Live" on ABC Radio National. She last
visited Australia on a speaking tour in 1996.
Ms Campbell's latest book, Diana: How Sexual Politics Shook the Monarchy was
published in June last year and was on the Sunday Times best seller list,
and No 1 in the Guardian culture shop list. Out in October is Stolen
Voices, co-written with Judith Jones, an investigation into the vested
interests behind the backlash against evidence of childhood sexual abuse
Her other books include Wigan Pier Re-Visited, a rendezvous with George
Orwell's 1930s text, which was winner of the 1984 Cheltenham Festival prize
for literature; Iron Ladies: Why Women Vote Tory, winner of the Fawcett
Prize; Unofficial Secrets, about the Cleveland Child Abuse controversy;
Goliath, an investigation into Britain's riots in the '90s and Sweet Freedom
(with Anna Coote), an account of the women's movement in Britain.
Ms Campbell writes for the Guardian, Observer, The Scotsman, The Mirror,
Express and Community Care.
Her television documentaries include I Shot My Husband and No One Asked Me
Why and Listen to the Children, an award-winning investigation of the
Nottingham ritual abuse case. She has also been a guest on the television
program "Question Time", "The Late Show", and "The Sundays". Her radio work
includes "The Moral Maze, "Vice or Virtue", and "Any Questions".
Ms Campbell is Visiting Professor of Women's Studies at Newcastle
University. In 1996, she was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Letters at
Salford University, a Doctorate of Letters at Oxford Brooks University and
an Honorary Doctorate of Letters by the Open University.
She has been commissioned to write a play with Judith Jones for West
Yorkshire Playhouse.
Ms Campbell travels to Sydney on Thursday (15/7) where she will present
another public lecture for the Search Foundation.
MEDIA INTERVIEWS: RING CARMEL SHUTE ON 0412 569 356
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