Inn and Out at the Top
In a long and very chequered career, among a bewildering variety of other jobs, Neil Hanson has been an Oxford graduate, a plasterer’s mate, an ice cream salesman, a holiday camp redcoat and – simultaneously – an art critic and a rugby league commentator. He’s edited the “boozer’s Bible”, the Good Beer Guide – a job, he says, where it was practically a sacking offence not to go to the pub at lunchtime. He also ran, and later owned, Britain’s highest inn, in a remote corner of the Yorkshire Dales, went round the world twice and worked as a print journalist and radio broadcaster in Britain, Australia and New Zealand. He is now a very successful author with over 60 published books to his name. As well as his own work, he’s also a “ghost writer” for among others, sports stars, showbiz legends, captains of industry, SAS men, pilots, a treasure diver, a polar explorer, a kidnap negotiator, a spy, a surgeon and the first woman to qualify as a professional gamekeeper and deerstalker.
An award winning speaker, he has entertained audiences at every type of occasion – corporate events, conferences, festivals, luncheon clubs, dinners and banquets – throughout the UK and in New York, Chicago, Washington DC, Kansas City, New Orleans, Richmond, Va., Sydney, Brisbane, Melbourne, Perth, Auckland and Wellington.
“Inn & Out at the Top” is a laugh-a-minute tour of the quirks and foibles, highs and lows of running Britain’s highest inn – so isolated that its next-door neighbour was 4 miles away and so high above sea level that it had its own climate, with winds that could tear car-doors off their hinges, and winter snows that cut off the inn for weeks on end.
A hugely engaging storyteller, Neil’s account of his time at the inn, grappling with tight-fisted farmers, eccentric characters, bizarre local customs, naturist weekends, “lates and lock-ins”, police raids, rats in the attic, close encounters with magistrates and planners, and the shooting of a famous double glazing commercial, is suitable for all audiences.
Video URL: https://vimeo.com/250133011
Based: Yorkshire but willing to travel anywhere, home or abroad.
Contact:
T: 07940 917795 E: dalepublishing00@gmail.com
‘Excellent, really enjoyable and entertaining.’- Lucy Moody, Head of Advertising, Everest Ltd
‘The best speaker I’ve ever heard.’- Audience member, Ripon
‘We’ve had such positive feedback. My husband laughed so much he was nearly crying!‘- Sandy Rysiok, Society of Municipal Treasurers
‘I’ve had nothing but positive responses, you really hit the right note.’- Commander Andrew Coles, HMS Drake, Plymouth
‘The best - and the best-received - of all the 100 events we’ve put on here.’
- Ed Tracy, Executive Director, The Pritzker Library, Chicago
‘You were awesome.’
- Thomas Power, Chairman, ecademy, London
‘Wonderfully entertaining - will be live at the Apollo next!’
- Audience member, Knaresborough
‘A wonderful speaker. Your humour, wit and entertaining ability kept a very diverse audience entranced.’
- Janet Munro, Soroptimist International
‘Fantastic, a tremendous evening.’
- Amanda Lydon, New York City
‘We’ve had some excellent speakers over the years, but you were the very best we’ve ever had.’
- Maurice Taylor, Rossett and Wakeman Lectures
Best Speaker (vote by audiences)
- Brisbane Festival
‘The feedback has been tremendous.’
- Off The Shelf, Sheffield
‘A wonderful speech.’
- Audience member, New Orleans
‘Extremely amusing and entertaining,’
- Peter Mate, U3A
‘A wonderful event. It went down fantastically well.’
- Rachel Feldberg, Director, Ilkley Festival
‘Thank you so much - your talk was brilliant.’
- Meriel Jeater, Curator, Museum of London
‘An outstanding speaker – warm, funny, humane.’
- Stephen Brown, Chairman, Yorkshire Post Literary Luncheons
‘The audience loved it, as did we.’
- Wendy Kent, Director, Knaresborough Festival
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