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I have to admit that I rather enjoy lecturing: it must the frustrated actor furiously emoting within me.

I have spoken at a number of places from the frightfully grand drawing rooms of stately homes to the frankly scuzzy back rooms of distant village halls. Most notably I have lectured for the Royal Horticultural Society in Doncaster and Ross-on-Wye, at the Garden Shows at both Stansted and Ragley Halls, at Urban Gardens, The Hardy Plant Society, Gardeners’ World Live, Coton Manor Garden School, The Hatfield Rose Festival, The English Garden School, The Oxford Literary Festival, Barnsley House, Capel Manor College and various local Horticultural Societies and Garden Clubs.

I have run the Design Forum at the Chelsea Flower Show (2007-8) and been the master of ceremonies at the Garden Media Guild Awards. But more importantly I run the theatre at the Malvern Spring Show. This is my favourite venue because the site is stunning, the people delightful and I can get away with almost anything. I co-host with my friend Joe Swift with guest appearances from Alan Titchmarsh, Monty Don, Chris Beardshaw and Diarmuid Gavin. If you have not yet been to Malvern then you should be thoroughly ashamed of yourselves.

Current Bookings:

March 11th: Penny Snell Flowers

April 11th: RHS Growing For Success Lecture at Evenley Wood Garden , Northamptonshire

April 12th: English Gardening School

May 1st: Grand Designs Live,Excel, London

May 3rd Grand Designs Live - with Three Men went To Mow

Malvern Spring Show 6th-9th May 2010

Gardeners World Live 16th-20th June

June 25th-27th: Cottesbrooke Plantfinders Fair

October 18th: Fagus Garden Club, Nailsea, Somerset

October 19th: Bath University Garden Club

January 11th Long Buckby Garden Club

Nigel Colborn and I also have a two man show called Green With Envy that we have trundled round the country to a number of differing theatrical venues ranging from the cafe at Forum 28 in Barrow-in-Furness (where all the technology exploded three minutes before curtain-up) to the grandeur of the Gaiety Theatre on the Isle of Man. If you, or someone close to you, own a theatre they we are very good. Nigel knows everything. We can be booked through All Electric Productions..

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Biography - Lectures

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Tel: 01327 857682
Email: james@blackpitts.co.uk

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James Alexander - Sinclair
Blackpitts House, Towcester
Northamptonshire NN12 8TD

01327 857682
james@blackpitts.co.uk

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