Author Horatio Clare talks to Captain Matthew Schanck (Chairman of the Maritime Search and Rescue Council) and Warren Lee (Director of Gloucestershire Action for Refugees and Asylum Seekers), about what he learned while researching his new book on the small boats crisis.
This event originally included Lord Alf Dubs. Unfortunately due to a change to the House of Lords’ voting schedule, and Lord Dubs’ humbling commitment to public service, he is no longer able to take part.
Fuelled by a one-dimensional story designed to stoke anger and division, migration has become one of the most divisive topics in British politics. It is time for a new conversation.
In his superb new book, We Came By Sea, bestselling writer and journalist Horatio Clare explores the small boats crisis in the English Channel. What he found from interviewing lifeboat crews, boarder officers, security guards and volunteers, was not the story we have been told, but the story of one of the great search and rescue operations ever mounted. Horatio believes it is a story that reveals a Britain that is as great and as good as the people in the dinghies believe it to be.
Captain Matthew Schanck is Chairman of the Maritime Search and Rescue Council, and the co-founder of the Maritime Emergency and Coastguard Policy Institute, providing evidenced-based policy recommendations to governments and international bodies.
Warren Lee has been Director of Gloucestershire Action for Refugees and Asylum Seekers (GARAS) since July and has worked in the Refugee and Migrant support sector for the last decade, both in the UK and abroad. GARAS supports refugees and asylum seekers of all ages and backgrounds, and from all over the world, from their arrival in the UK to their settlement in Gloucestershire.
Yellow-lighted Bookshop is a local independent bookshop and a regular partner on events at the Goods Shed. Their small-but-beautiful shops in Tetbury and Nailsworth are always worth a visit.
Advance tickets £12.50. They will cost £14 on the door on the night
Copies of We Came by Sea and other titles by Horatio Clare available to purchase at 10% discount on the retail price.
Licensed bar. Doors open at 6:15pm. Talk starts at 7:00pm.