Wally K launches Teesside’s anniversary lectures

The University of Teesside is celebrating ten years of university status with a special series of free Anniversary lectures, starting this month and featuring a range of speakers, including Honorary graduates and Visiting Professors.

Grangetown born playwright and University of Teesside honorary graduate Wally K Daly will launch the series on Wednesday 13 November, with a talk on ‘Earning a living as a writer’. His lecture will take place in the University’s Europa Building, Woodlands Road, Middlesbrough, from 6.30pm-7.30pm. Refreshments will be available from 6pm.

Wally said: “Although the title is ‘Earning a living as a writer’, it will be much more about dreaming your dream no matter how impossible it may appear, and how difficult to achieve, in whatever your chosen field, and going for it.

“I started life in what was considered the rough end of Grangetown, Vaughan Street by the works’ gates now happily bulldozed, and 35 years later got to write a song to be sung for the Queen at Hampton Court - to teach creative writing at the British Museum, the first person ever to do so - to write a musical, Follow The Star, that has now ran every Christmas for 30 years - to shake hands with playwright Arthur Miller whose book Focus I adapted for Radio 4, and to be twice awarded a Giles Cooper Award for the Best Radio play of the year.”

For details on the lecture series please call Sarah Buckley, Alumni Officer on 01642 384255, e-mail s.buckley@tees.ac.uk.

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