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On Midweek this week:-
VICTOR RYAN ROBERTSON
Victor Ryan Robertson was a gifted tennis player. He received a scholarship to college and was set for a career on the professional circuit. But he was side-tracked by music, dropped out of college and joined a rock band. While having voice lessons, his coach recommended he try opera and he took to it straightaway. He is now a Tenor and has sung in operas including La Traviata.
He is starring as Rodolfo in La Boheme at the Royal Albert Hall.
Box Office: 020 7838 3100.
TONY BENN
Tony Benn retired from Parliament in 2001 as MP for Chesterfield. He was the longest-serving Labour MP in the party's history, joining in 1942 and becoming an MP in 1950.
He is giving a talk Utopias and the Welfare State on Wednesday 22 February at 7pm, at Royal Geographical Society, 1 Kensington Gore, London SW7 2AR.
TicketWeb - Tel: 08700 600100.
The talk is a Serpentine Gallery event, programmed in conjunction with the current exhibition Elmgreen and Dragset: The Welfare Show.
JONATHAN KAPLAN
Jonathan Kaplan is a South African born surgeon. In a remarkable career he has travelled the world, from Israel to Angola and Baghdad, experiencing riots, tropical fevers and political upheaval. In Angola he took charge of a combat zone hospital, the only surgeon for 160,000 civilians. As a volunteer surgeon in Baghdad he treated casualties amid gunfights for control of hospitals and gangs of AK-47 wielding looters stripping pharmacies.
His book Contact Wounds - A War Surgeon's Education, is published by Picador, at £17.99.
He will be speaking at Jewish Book Week on Saturday 4 March.
SHELLEY KING
Shelley King is an actress. Her career began in the BBC series Angels in the 1970s. She has since appeared in productions including: Tandoori Nights and Bombay Dreams.
She is currently playing a 'middle aged over sexed matriarch' in Paper Thin, a dark dark comedy about sham marriages. It is currently at the Watermans Theatre, Brentford and will tour London and Birmingham.
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