Reel Conversations: Public Lecture with Christopher Frayling

In the course of a professional career in art education, broadcasting, film criticism and curation, Professor Sir Christopher Frayling has had many memorable - and sometimes candid - conversations with key directors, actors and production designers. In this illustrated lecture, Christopher shares some of the highlights, reminisces about the background to his conversations, and discusses what he learnt from them. The cast of characters will include Alfred Hitchcock, Doris Day and Clint Eastwood, the production designer Ken Adam, with a guest appearance by Lawrence of Arabia - the real one.


Professor Sir Christopher Frayling is a British educationalist and writer, known for his study of popular culture. He has published twenty-five books and numerous articles and exhibition catalogues on contemporary and modern art, design, film and the history of ideas. He is a writer and critic on number of subjects ranging from vampires to westerns. He has written and presented television series such as The Art of Persuasion on advertising and Strange Landscape on the Middle Ages. In the year 2000, he was knighted for “services to art and design education”. He is currently Professor Emeritus at Lancaster University's Lancaster Institute for the Contemporary Arts.