Alastair Lack will be our guest speaker on Saturday 22 March 2025
Alastair Lack was born in December 1944 and educated at Whitgift School and University College, Oxford where he read Politics, Philosophy and Economics and then Modern History. Post Oxford, he taught at Scindia School in Madhya Pradesh in India and worked in publishing in New York.
In 1971 he joined the BBC and subsequently worked as a producer on Radio 4 and as a Further Education producer in Television. But almost all of his more than twenty-seven years with the BBC were spent at the World Service, where he travelled widely. In that time he was a presenter, producer, editor and manager for a broad range of programmes, from international current affairs through sport and education to music and the arts. He worked in many countries – from South America to South Africa, from Canada to Australia, and met many leading politicians and personalities such as Nelson Mandela, Margaret Thatcher and Alistair Cooke. His final position was Head of English Programmes and a member of the World Service Board of Management.
Following his retirement from the BBC, he was Secretary of the Oxford University Society, the organisation that creates and supports over three hundred alumni groups of Oxonians worldwide. He has worked on events and projects with his old college, University College, was the The Secretary of the Oxfordshire branch of the OUS and in 2011 was made a Distinguished Friend of the University of Oxford.
He is now an official guide for the city of Oxford, a writer and contributor to university magazines such as Oxford Today and involved widely in Oxford life, both for Town and Gown. He is a life member of the Oxford Preservation Trust and involved with the Oxford literary festival and the annual University Alumni week-end.
In the world of cricket, he has been Chairman of the MCC Arts and Library committee and a member of both the main MCC Committee and the Publishing sub-committee. He is also a long standing member of The Bushmen cricket and dining club, having been a past President and captain of the club.
His other interests embrace history, politics, literature, architecture and the visual arts.
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