Tony Beale
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| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Education |
| Occupation | Retired |
| Location | NOTTINGHAM, Nottinghamshire, United Kingdom |
| Introduction | I've spent most of my life in teaching & leadership and headship roles in primary schools and in school improvement roles in wider education, mentoring newly qualified teachers & training and assessing graduate trainee teachers as a course director for the Graduate Teacher Programme. Before teaching I worked designing industrial furnaces. Pat & I have been married for 56 plus years & live near Nottingham. We have two children & five grandchildren. I'm an avid reader of politics, economics, philosophy, history & educational texts. I teach a philosophy group, lead a creative writing group for adults, and write short stories. I have a daily struggle with the Guardian cryptic crossword and have an enduring love of baroque music, especially JS Bach. My love affair with Preston North End Football Club - the club of my home town - has been a lifelong part of me. The Guardian, Bach & PNEFC are my companions of over 70 years; life without these would be unthinkable! Mostly, however, I spend my time thinking great but irrelevant & irreverent thoughts, being a grumpy old man & failing to make sense of this increasingly worrying world! |
| Interests | Baroque music, classical music, choral music, rock and roll, politics, reading, and travel, The Guardian, Shakespeare; Preston North End FC, Education, Philosophy, cryptic crosswords. |
| Favorite movies | Once upon a time in America,The Godfather, Deer Hunter, Kes,Brassed Off, Shane,The Magnificent Seven, Gone With the Wind, A Kid for Two Farthings, Genevieve,High Noon,Les Mis, Miss Saigon,African Queen,Midnight Cowboy,Dad's Army, Fawlty Towers, Cockleshell Heroes, Only Fools and Horses,Breakfast at Tiffanys, |
| Favorite music | JS Bach,Handel,Telemann, Correlli, Vivaldi, Purcell, Beethoven, Gerald Finzi,Kathleen Ferrier, Mozart, Haydn,Beatles, Rolling Stones,Chuck Berry, Joan Baez,Bob Dylan, Eric Clapton, Dire Straits, Eddie Cochran, Buddy Holly, Blondie,Queen, Simon and Garfunkel,Everly Brothers, Platters,Bread, Emma Kirkby, Gilbert and Sullivan, Monteverdi, Rod Stewart, American Pie,Graceland, |
| Favorite books | Tony Judt, Eric Hobsbawm, Timothy Garton Ash, Micheal Sandel,. Gerald Seymour,John Le Carre, A Shropshire Lad, The Deserted Village, Testament of Youth, Jude the Obscure, Brideshead Revisited, Germinal, August 1914, Grapes of Wrath, Moby Dick, Pilgrim's Progress, War & Peace, 1984, Animal Farm, Of Mice and Men, John Betjeman,The Raj Quartet,The Fib and other stories,Betsy Byers, Alan Garner, I am David,The Serial Garden, The Highwayman, The Snowgoose, The Wheel on the School, The Silver Sword, Cue for Treason, Great Expectations, Barchester Chronicles, A Christmas Carol, A Tale of Two Cities, Pickwick Papers, Bleak House, The Eighteenth Emergency, Children of the New Forest, Wilfred Owen,Siegfried Sassoon, The Republic, Lord of the Flies, Mrs Frisby and the rats of NIMH, Noam Chomsky, Ivan Illich, Albert Camus, Dickens, Tolstoy, Shakespeare |