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B..B…B….BEETHOVEN with John Suchet (extraordinary stories behind the music you will hear in the 2026 international Classical Series)

John Suchet, the Flavel’s Honorary Patron, talks about the Beethoven pieces in the 2026 International Classical Series. Not a detailed analysis but rather a fascinating insight into how these

pieces came to be written – the personalities behind the music.

A regular presenter on Classic FM, John is an acknowledged authority on Ludwig van Beethoven and has written 8 books so far......

John’s talk follows the usual Friday format: an hour’s talk followed by a glass of wine in convivial company.

Friday 30th January 2026

Tickets £15, includes a complimentary glass of wine or soft drink after the talk

Concerts in the series are:

Friday 6th March 

Tamsin Waley-Cohen (violin) & George Fu (piano)

Friday 26th June

Martin Roscoe (piano)

Friday 20 November

Alexander Ullman (piano)

Are you interested in becoming a ‘Classical Supporter’ for a concert or concerts in the 2026 series? For full details of the scheme please contact Helen Deakin on 01803 835882

Downtown New York, 1952. Marty Mauser is a local legend: a hard-scrabbling ping-pong ace who sells shoes to make ends meet, while scalping the scene’s best players by night.  

Cocky, brittle, borderline delusional and brutally cruel to those who stand in the way of his dream, Marty won’t quit until he’s either raised the airfare to Japan to beat his #1 rival Koto Endo and be immortalised on a box of Wheaties – or else gets jailed on Rikers Island for one of his schemes-gone-bad.

a disclaimer: Marty Supreme isn’t actually a ‘ping-pong movie’. Josh Safdie’s acclaimed new film is really about ambition, sex, money, fame, greed, risk, destiny, desire – and how all of the above can turn on the bounce of a tiny white ball with a lead performance by Timothée Chalamet tipped to eat up awards season.

Directed by

Josh Safdie

Starring

Timothée Chalamet

Gwyneth Paltrow

Kevin O'Leary

Odessa A’zion

Abel Ferrara

and Tyler Okonma