Artistes of the Month
Also featured: Aaron Heslehurst, Michael Bland
June Brown
June's
career began at the Old Vic playing 'Foible' in THE WAY OF THE WORLD -
as maid to Edith Evans as 'Lady Wishfort', but she is probably best known
to British and International Television audiences as the irrepressible
'Dot Cotton' in BBC's flagship drama EASTENDERS which she played for more
than eight years. Her 'marathon performance genius' (Time Out) as the
chain-smoking, bible thumping, hypochondriac and arch-gossip of the tumble-driers,
resulted in her character becoming a national institution. June has returned
periodically to EASTENDERS, and British audiences were thrilled to see
'Dot' return once again to 'Albert Square' in the autumn of 1998. The
character she created was so successful it resulted in the creation of
a puppet on SPITTING IMAGE - until recently the only fictional individual
to have been latex-ed.
Her directoral debut was in Folkestone with the PHARMACEUTICAL MIGRAINES and was followed up by the one act version of DOUBLE D by Matthew Westwood in Camden Etcetera Theatre, Camden; a ful version debuted at the Edinburgh Festival.
Her theatre work is extensive and has has included; two years touring with the original Young Vic Company in THE MERCHANT OF VENICE (as 'Jessica' and 'Portia'), THE KNIGHT OF THE BURNING PESTILE (as 'Luce') and THE SERVANT OF TWO MASTERS (as 'Beatrice'). No stranger to the big screen, her film credits include; SUNDAY BLOODY SUNDAY, STRAW DOGS, THE FOURTEEN (the mother), MURDER BY DECREE, NIJINSKY, SHERLOCK HOLMES, MISUNDERSTOOD, LACE (for Lorimer Productions) and MR BEAN.
More recently, when not playing 'Dot', June has played 'Amelia Sayers'
in an episode of THE VERDICT (Granada/Yorkshire), 'Grandma' in GEORGE'S
MARVELLOUS MEDICINE
(BBC Education) and appeared as 'Nanny Slagg' in the BBC's epic dramatisation
of Mervyn Peake's GORMENGHAST. Most recently she starred opposite Penelope
Keith in ITV's one off drama MARGERY AND GLADYS.
Aaron Heslehurst
A
native of Australia, Aaron began his journalistic career as a News reporter
for Prime Television/Seven Network in both Sydney and Canberra. Here he
gained invaluable experience in the many areas of news reporting as well
as developing his abilities as a live-on-air and on-set presenter. A landmark
in this initial stage of his career was the recognition of his work by the
Australian National Press Club, which presented him with the prestigious
and much coveted award for Best Creative Story on Tourism in 1998.
The experience gained in this position set the seal on his academic pursuits and cultural empathy resulting from his extensive travel throughout Europe, Asia and the United States of America. In fact it has been his interest in foreign travel and ability to communicate with peoples from a wide mix of cultures and many different social backgrounds that has been the corner stone of his subsequent career.
Following on from his work in his homeland, Aaron was appointed European Bureau Chief in London for Paramount Picture’s Real TV News. Here, he single-handedly increased the European story output to a height that had never before been achieved by the program. To attain this, Aaron was required to travel far and wide throughout Europe, researching, writing, directing, producing and shooting on location a constant flow of high impact interest material.
It was as Senior Newsreader and Editor for afternoon and evening programming
that Aaron made a very considerable contribution to the output of Copenhagen
based CNBC Nordic. Broadcasting news on the hour to more than five and
a half million homes throughout the Nordic region more than kept him busy.
However, he also broadcast live scheduled inserts to the entire CNBC Pan
European feed that reaches no less that sixty-five million homes across
the continent.
These have varied from the consequences of the ongoing war on terrorism, the vagaries of the Argentine economy, the plight of Japanese banking, trade disputes that rage between the EU and USA, EU competition rules, the Iraq war and the virtual collapse of world tourism that arose from the outbreak of the SARS virus. The impact that many of these events has had upon the fortunes of the world’s airlines has been yet another topic.
Aaron continues to work on these important projects as well as providing
reports for Fast Track, BBC World’s weekly travel news programme.
Very much in keeping with Aaron’s own great personal interest in
travel, this popular feature programme includes weekly reports on the
latest global airline news and not least advice on the hot deals offered
by the world’s airlines.
Michael Bland
At
the age of 58, and living with Parkinson Disease, Michael Bland won Kickboxing
Black Belt. Now in his 60's he is still an active kick boxer and tennis
player, motivates groups and audiences as a conference speaker, run training
course worldwide, advises corporate giants, coaches CEO's, lectures at
leading universities, is the author of 15 book and lives life on afterburners!
Michael was an Army survival instructor before reaching the top of the
public relations world as a consultant, trainer and former corporate communications
head of the Institute of Directors and Ford Motor Company Limited. He
combines his skills as a world class communication consultant with a wealth
of experience in human energy, reduce stress and get more fun and fulfilment
from life, work and relationships.
His talks are powerful, lively, funny, deeply thought provoking, infectious and memorable, with fantastic feedback from audiences - of all types - all over the world.
Michael's talks and workshops help people to:
- Have more energy
- Understand them selves better
- Improve self worth
- Perform more effectively
- Reduce stress levels
- Get more fun and reward out of life,
work and relating to others
He shows how to look at our lives, jobs and relationships from a different angle, how to feel more on top of things, and how to tap into huge, free reserves of energy of which we are normally unaware. And with more energy, we are able to feel less stressed, to find life more fun, to be physically and emotionally healthier, and to be more in touch with our own guiding forces.
Satisfied clients include: Orange, Institute 0f Directors, London Business
School, Rotary International and Siemens, to name but a few.
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