The Four Quartets will be read by Jeremy Irons on BBC Radio Four on Saturday January 18th, 2014, at 14:30 - 15.45 pm with an introduction by Michael Symmons Roberts, Lord David Alton and Gail McDonald.https://myshare.box.com/s/jbtssur3j8qebn9oqcfe...
World War One – day of World War One Poetry in Liverpool – Remembering the First World War and 16.5 million deaths
Remarks made by David Alton at the launch of the “Merseyisde at War” commemoration of World War One Poetry – hosted by Liverpool John Moores University on November 30th 2013 in Liverpool Visit: http://www.merseyside-at-war.org/ Forthcoming Roscoe Lecture: Thursday 13...
Zdenka Fantlova's The Tin Ring and Vasily Grossman's The Road – remembering the realities of the Holocaust.
Before attending a performance of the powerful drama, The Tin Ring, brilliantly brought to life by Jane Arnfield in the intimacy of Mr.Speaker's House at Westminster, I hadn't known that Zdenka Fantlova would be in the audience. It would be impossible not to be...
Zdenka Fantlova’s The Tin Ring and Vasily Grossman’s The Road – remembering the realities of the Holocaust.
Before attending a performance of the powerful drama, The Tin Ring, brilliantly brought to life by Jane Arnfield in the intimacy of Mr.Speaker's House at Westminster, I hadn't known that Zdenka Fantlova would be in the audience. It would be impossible not to be...
Why Britain Needs The Sharp Compassion of the Healer’s Art Maranatha Lecture October 3rd 2012. Manchester.
https://www.davidalton.net/media/ Click on this link for the power pont presentation which accompanies this lecture and which is in the Media section of the web site. Click on the linkbelow for a link to the video recording of the lecture:...
For 18 years David Alton was a Member of the House of Commons and today he is an Independent Crossbench Life Peer in the UK House of Lords.
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Letter from the Lord (David) Alton and Sir Geoffrey Clifton-Brown MP, co chairs of the All Party Parliamentary Group on North Korea, to Lord (David) Cameron, the Foreign Secretary, about the CCP’s forced repatriation of North Korean refugees in breach of both the 1951 Refugee Convention and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
£1 Trillion – Raised In Parliament Today. The Cost of Reparations In Ukraine and Bringing To Justice Those Responsible.
https://youtu.be/xlEfrgwELvc Alongside the fatalities, injuries and chronic suffering and misery which Putin’s war has brought to Ukraine, the economic cost of rebuilding and remedying war damage is now estimated to be close to £1 trillion. Yesterday David...
Stop Perpetrators Getting Away With Genocide – Public Letter sent to the UK Prime Minister and Foreign Secretary on the Genocide Determination Bill 2023-24. The letter was published this morning, 17 April 2024, 06:00 am UK time.
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