March 2026
Brian Johnson "Arthur Wakerley - Architect, politician and visionary."
February 2026
Karen Gimson "365 Days of colour in the garden."
January 2026
Dr Mike Pienkowski "When the red kite builds .. why and how we restored red kites across Britain.
November 2025
Andrew Brown "The history of the High Sherriff of Rutland".
October 2025
Alex Leger "Life on the licence fee - challenges and changes at the BBC". Focusing on the Blue Peter programme.
September 2025
"Derek Blunt "To the Manor Born" a look at Northamptonshire's big houses and their owners.
August 2025
Jayne Edwards, Litter Womble, "Litter Picking, the difference we can all make"
July 2025
Roberta Darbyshire .... Novelist
June 2025
Roger Browne "The great American songbook."
May 2025
April 2025
Sue Drage "Recycling ..."
March 2025
Mike Storr “Masters of Mirth – The Sequel”
February 2025
Sue Ablett “Antarctica”
Mick Burton "The River Trent"
January 2025
Bozena Kuncewicz "Polish Communities in Britain since WW2"
Stephen Warren "The Introduction of Paramedics to the NHS"
December 2024
Mick Burton "Our Christmas Story"
November 2024
David Skillen "Forewarned is Forearmed. The Royal Observer Corps in Peace and War"
John Constantine "A Magic Presentation about Death Defying Tricks and Stunts,
plus some Live Magic"
October 2024
Geoff Harris “Great British Eccentrics”
Carol Marsden “Carol’s Capers – Adventuring for Charity”
September 2024
Eddie Smallwood “Barber surgeons – their role in the War of the Roses”
Roxanne Dinsdale “Belly Dancing – The Myths of Middle Eastern Dance”
August 2024
Stephen Flinders "Catherine Crompton - a look in her diary"
Adrian Walker "Illustrated Wainwright's Coast to Coast Walk for LOROS"
July 2024
Colin Stewart "The Archaeology of Calke Abbey"
Bill Haley BEM "Life Aboard the Royal Yacht Britannia"
June 2024
Mary Campbell (Co-chair, Friends of the University of Leicester Botanic Garden) "The University of Leicester Botanic Garden - how it came into being"
Richard Warren "Thomas Cook, Rags to Riches"
May 2024
Rebecca Middleton from Canine Partners in Ashby (Training Assistance Dogs)
Dave Andrews 'My 25 Years in Local radio at BBC Radio Leicester’
April 2024
Stephen Hartley (for The National Trust) "The Calke Abbey Story"
March 2024
Julie Kinnear on 'Marilyn Munroe'
Mike Stroud on "Soup to Suspenders- The story of the Symington Brothers"