27 Sept, 12.00 - Horatio Clare on We Came By Sea: Stories of a Greater Britain
We Came by Sea is an untold story of the small boats crisis, a story which shows the best of us. It is the story of the volunteers
who help thousands of refugees in Calais, of the lifeboat crews mounting one of the great search and rescue operations of all
time, of an unrecognised, uncelebrated, all but unknown Britain which is giving its all to help the vulnerable and desperate. It is
a journey through an unexamined nation, a nation which is as truly great and good as the people in the dinghies believe
Britain to be. It is not the story we have been told, and it is a true story.
Biog.
Horatio Clare is a writer and broadcaster. His acclaimed memoirs, travel and children’s books include Running for the Hills (Somerset Maugham Award), A Single Swallow, Down to the Sea in Ships (Stanford Dolman Award), and Aubrey and the Terrible Yoot (Branford Boase Award), and Heavy Light. His book Your Journey Your Way – the recovery guide to mental health, is a Sunday Times self-help book of the year 2024. Horatio presents ‘Is Psychiatry Working?’ on BBC Radio 4 and writes regularly for the international press. His new book, We Came By Sea: stories of a greater Britain tells the unreported side of the story of the small boat crisis. Horatio currently delivers training to NHS intervention teams, lectures in non-fiction at the University of Manchester, and lives with his family in West Yorkshire