| Event type: | Meeting |
| Date: | 9th September 2026 |
| Time: | 12:00 pm |
| Group: | Speaker's Corner |
| Venue: | Mawdesley Village Hall |
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| Cost: | £3 |
Neil Hanson is a successful author with 70 published books to his name. As well as his own, much-acclaimed work, he’s also a “ghost writer”. His clients include household names - an American showbiz legend, England’s most legendary cricketer, a famous actor, one of Britain’s most decorated soldiers, an England football manager and a man who turned his family’s bakery into
Britain’s biggest fast-food chain - but also many less celebrated men and women who have led extraordinary lives or achieved remarkable things.
Among many others, they include SAS men, fast-jet pilots, explorers and adventurers, a treasure diver, a kidnap negotiator, a notorious gangster, the first woman ever to qualify as a gamekeeper and deer-stalker, a leading surgeon and a spy.
A hugely engaging storyteller and award-winning speaker, Neil has entertained audiences at every type of occasion - corporate events, conferences, festivals, luncheon clubs, dinners and banquets - throughout the
UK and right across the USA, Australia and New Zealand.
His talk “Inn & Out at the Top” is a laugh-a-minute tour of the quirks and foibles, highs and lows of his time running Britain’s highest inn back in the 1970s and 1980s, grappling with tight-fisted farmers, eccentric characters,
bizarre local customs, naturist weekends, “lates and lock-ins”, police raids, rats in the attic, close encounters with magistrates and planners, and the shooting of a famous double-glazing commercial.
