The extraordinary Maggie’s Culture Crawl took place last night. Hundreds of walkers assembled in the early autumn evening sunshine in Victoria Embankment Gardens.
The walk kicked off with music, a rousing warm up, and the fabulous Dame Harriet Walter and husband Guy Paul reading selections from Dickens’ Night Walks to see them off into the night. Later, actors Jamie Glover, Harry Livingstone, Sarah Whitehouse, and GAB’s own the wonderful Helen Mumby read poems from Josephine Hart’s anthology Catching Life by the Throat in the exotic surroundings of the Foreign & Commonwealth Office. Walkers came, stopped to listen, were gripped and then walked on to taste Fortnum & Mason’s tea before walking away into the night.
At the end of the 15 mile walk every walker was given a copy of Night Walks as a memento by Give a Book, who gratefully acknowledge the generous help of Penguin in doing this. It was all in aid of the excellent Maggie’s Centres whose new centre opens in Aberdeen on Monday. And GAB was pleased to be part of it.