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It's a Wonderful Life: A Radio Play
The National Press Club will close 2020 by presenting a 'radio play' version of the classic story "It's a Wonderful Life" on New Year's Eve at 7 p.m. ET. The cast of the one-hour "radio play" is comprised of Club members including former presidents Mark Hamrick, Angela Greiling Keane, Jeff Ballou and Gil Klein, along with Board of Governors members Debra Silimeo, Danny Selnick and Mark Schoeff, Jr. Professional broadcasters and Club members Dan Raviv, Barbara Porter, Sam Litzinger, Irv Chapman and Ken Mellgren are also in the cast, along with members Marc Wojno, Maureen…
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NPC Virtual Headliners Book Event: Nikita Stewart, "Troop 6000"
New York Times reporter Nikita Stewart will discuss her year with Troop 6000, the first Girl Scout troop founded by and for girls living in a homeless shelter in Queens, N.Y., at a virtual NPC Headliners book event on Thursday, May 21 at 3 p.m. Stewart is the author of “TROOP 6000: The Girl Scout Troop That Began in a Shelter and Inspired the World,” which is available for sale on Tuesday, May 19. She will be interviewed by National Press Club President Michael Freedman in an online event open to the public. Freedman will also take questions from the audience. Send your questions here:…
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NPC Headliners Newsmaker: Northern Ireland's Democratic Unionist Party Leader Sir Jeffrey Donaldson
Sir Jeffrey Donaldson, leader of Northern Ireland's Democratic Unionist Party (DUP), will address the prospects for restoring government in Northern Ireland following the adoption of a new post-Brexit trade agreement at a Headliners Newsmaker at 2 p.m. Wednesday, March 15 at the National Press Club. Britain and the European Union on Feb. 28 agreed on the Windsor Framework, a post-Brexit trade agreement for Northern Ireland that replaces the Northern Ireland Protocol, a stopgap measure that kept Northern Ireland in the EU for the purpose of facilitating trade. Donaldson's party had boycotted…
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NPC Headliners Newsmaker: Northern Ireland's First Minister-elect Michelle O’Neill
Northern Ireland’s First Minister-elect Michelle O’Neill will address the state of US-Irish relations and the prospects for forming a new government in Northern Ireland at Headliners Newsmaker event on Thursday, March 16 at 2 p.m. at a National Press Club. Britain and the European Union on Feb. 28 reached a post-Brexit trade agreement for Northern Ireland that is expected to ease tensions that arose on the island after the split. Disagreements arising from Brexit caused the Northern Ireland government to collapse. The Good Friday (Belfast) Agreement requires Northern Ireland’s government to…
Type: Event