Turner in Tonbridge talk....

I hear that The Civic Society talk about famous painter Turner at the Angel Centre yesterday evening was, sadly, not a resounding success. There used to be a problem at the meetings when speakers were asked (often rather bluntly) to speak up. This was partly due to the noise of the air con in the Riverside Lounge of the Angel Centre but also due to the lack of a microphone. So the committee of the society invested in a decent mic which has been put to use for most of this season's talks. However it seems that at last night's talk they experienced a few problems getting the sound levels right. I understand that hearing aids were being turned down all across the packed room! The subject matter at these talks is usually extremely interesting and I'm sure that last night's would have been no exception. That said it obviously helps to get the balance right between quality of sound, content and quality of speaker. It would be interesting to read comments from people who were actually at the talk....