Comprising: a talk given at the Natural Death Centre, 4 December 1991; "Change, British Society and the Family", given at a seminar of the National Education Commission, 4 April 1992; "The Relevance of Community", given at the Funerals Conference, Oxford, 18 April 1993; "An International Perspective", given at the Conference on Materials Production, Pietermaritzburg, 9 September 1993; "The Prospects for Open Learning", given to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Open University, 15 April 1994; "The Dead Citizen's Charter", 11 June 1994; an autobiographical talk given at the launch of "Your Head in Mine" at Manchester, 15 October 1994; "European Consumers at the Turn of the Century", given at a Consumentenbond seminar in Berlin, 1996; and "Can Lifelong Learning Prevent the Breakdown of Society?", given in Bremen, October 1996.