Jonathon Xavier Coudrille is an artist, musician and writer from Cornwall. He will captivate his audience with his career in broadcasting, music and painting and likely entertain them with his ventriloquism and perhaps a banjo.

He will talk about his early life as the child of a TV star the ventriloquist Francis Coudrille, his early broadcasting career as a political satirist on both BBC Plymouth, Westward Television and BBC’s Radio Today programme. He will speak about his musical political satire on BBC, Southern Television where he became the station’s musical director, how his career in broadcasting was cut short by a car accident in 1972, which temporarily crippled him, and during his recovery, taking up writing and illustrating of children’s books, which lead him to become an award-winning author. He will bring his audience up to the present day where he lives and works in a cliff top house in Cornwall.

As an artist, one of the foremost surrealist painters in Britain, having exhibited at the Royal Academy and the South West Academy, and as a multi-instrumentalist having played in Soho Strip clubs and in the Royal Albert Hall with the National Symphony Orchestra, this should be a very memorable and exciting lecture.