The Honorary Consul for Germany, Mark Green , gave a vibrant talk about Heinrich Schliemann. Mark has a wonderful command of the German language and, coupled with his sense of humour, engages in stimulating presentations. Coincidentally, there is a current TV...
Pastor Olaf came from Manchester to give us a most interesting talk. His choice subject was : Theolgie und Naturwissenschaft – quite a choice ! He spoke very quickly over complicated matters . He explored the various theories, especially the ‘Big Bang...
Jeff and Margaret Stansfield gave an intriguing talk about how they met on a snowy day in Prague. They explained coincidence after coincidence with stories of holiday overbookings, suitcases taken by mistake, names on suitcases and a letter going from Ipswich to...
On Wednesday evening we had a group of 12 members when we discussed “Was wir über Weihnachten und Silvester gemacht haben.” The group exchanged comments on surpising gifts, films seen on TV, books read and e-mails from German friends. The conversation...
Watch our 3 minutes of fame. Bradford Circle for Foreign Languages on TV. Video from the end of the 20th century. We were invited to Elstree studios to talk about the Circle on the BBC2 programme The Leisure Hour....
Fifty years’ membership of Bradford Circle for Foreign Languages was honoured when Margaret Stansfield (pictured right) was made a life member. President of the German section from 1994 to 2002, Margaret’s first taste of the Circle was in 1961, when she...