May Meeting: Wuthering Heights; Apples; The Decline of Modern Britain

Hi everyone, the content for our May meeting is below. No pressure to get through all of the material. Hope to see you there!

Book: Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte (1847)
Lockwood, the new tenant of Thrushcross Grange on the bleak Yorkshire moors, is forced to seek shelter one night at Wuthering Heights, the home of his landlord. There he discovers the history of the tempestuous events that took place years before - of the intense passion between the foundling Heathcliff and Catherine Earnshaw, and her betrayal of him. As Heathcliff's bitterness and vengeance is visited upon the next generation, their innocent heirs must struggle to escape the legacy of the past.

Movie: Apples, Director Christos Nikou (2020)
Amidst a worldwide pandemic that causes sudden amnesia, a man finds himself enrolled in a recovery program designed to help unclaimed patients build new identities.
Available on SBS on Demand

Podcast: The decline of modern Britain - where did it all go so wrong? Conversations (ABC Listen), 6 March 2026
For the last decade or so we've looked on as the United States has radically changed itself, but the UK has been changing too. The British people, famous for their aversion to radical and emotional politics have embarked on a course which was supposed to take them back to the comforting certainties of the past, but has instead, brought them into an uncertain new world. So what has happened to the land of toast and tea?