Guest Speakers 2023

[Lyndylou57]

On 4/20/2023 at 7:30 PM, bluemarble said:

 

This is Cunard's page which I previously described as follows.

 

"About all Cunard publishes on their website is a "Guest speakers on board" page which provides only a very limited list of speakers. That list is mostly the speakers for special event cruises such as the Literature Festival at Sea and some of the QE Alaska voyages."

 

I took on the task of documenting which voyages are represented on that "Guest speakers on board" page. Here is the master list of the 17 voyages for the 29 speakers currently listed on that page, sorted by voyage number (here you are @techteach).

 

M335 - Literature Festival at Sea - Yvonne Battle-Felton

M335 - Literature Festival at Sea - Antony Beevor

M335 - Literature Festival at Sea - Luigi Bonomi

M335 - Literature Festival at Sea - Clare Chambers

M335 - Literature Festival at Sea - Alex Clark

M335 - Literature Festival at Sea - Artemis Cooper

M335 - Literature Festival at Sea - Daniel Finkelstein

M335 - Literature Festival at Sea - Alan Johnson

M335 - Literature Festival at Sea - Clare Mackintosh

M335 - Literature Festival at Sea - Val McDermid

M335 - Literature Festival at Sea - Greg Mosse

M335 - Literature Festival at Sea - Kate Mosse

M335 - Literature Festival at Sea - Andrew Hunter Murray

M335 - Literature Festival at Sea - Jamie Susskind

M335 - Literature Festival at Sea - Alan Titchmarsh

M335 - Literature Festival at Sea - Lynda La Plante CBE

Q313 - Singapore-Tokyo (Sailed) - Sally Gunnell OBE

Q315 - Beatles and Beyond (Sailed) - The Bootleg Beatles

Q320 - Alaska - Joseph Frey

Q321 - Alaska - Jill Heinerth

Q322 - Alaska - John Geiger

Q323 - Alaska - Philip Gray

Q323 - Alaska - George Kourounis

Q324 - Alaska - Philip Gray

Q325 - Alaska - Lynn Moorman

Q326B - Alaska - Mensun Bound

Q329 - Eastbound Transatlantic Crossing - Philip Gray

Q331 - Western Mediterranean  Sherree - Valentine-Daines

V310 - Southampton-Hamburg - Sally Gunnell OBE

V312 - Canary Islands - Yuvi

V318 - Iceland and British Isles - Sherree Valentine-Daines

V324 - Western Mediterranean - Pip McGarry

V327 - Central Mediterranean - John Waterhouse

 

Now 17 voyages (two of which have recently sailed) represents about 10% of the remaining 177 voyages for 2023. And with only one speaker listed for most of these voyages, that makes this list even more incomplete. I wonder if this list is limited to the designated "celebrity" speakers for these voyages.

 

Anyway, while better than nothing, I think you'll agree this list falls well short of the master lists of guest speakers Cunard used to provide.

Much appreciated