39. Mark Foster: My Double Life
Swimmer Mark Foster is a five-time Olympian, six-time World Champion and eight-time World Record holder. If anyone was going to come out as gay at the height of their sporting career it should have been Foster – a confident, laidback guy who does not care what anyone thinks. Yet it took Foster half a lifetime. He comes to Ilkley to discuss his inspiring and moving memoir, My Double Life, a tale of one man’s pursuit of sporting prowess and personal freedom.
Seasoned ILF host Becky is primarily a ghostwriter. She has written for pink-pound entrepreneurs, survivors of trauma and abuse, mindfulness mentors, pole dancers, photographers and (nearly) a panto star. Her regular columns for The Yorkshire Post and Families Magazine were often a humorous take on life juggling teenage daughters, a mother with dementia and a dad whose ashes lived in a wine bottle in the kitchen cupboard.
Event Details
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- Date: Saturday 10th October
- Time: 2:30 pm
- Price£17.50/14.50 concessions
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