GEM Magazine - Birmingham & Solihull - October 2015

In this issue

In the October GEM Simon Topman MBE, shares a case study from his role as Entrepreneur in Residence at the Library of Birmingham. You can also find out more about the High Sheriff of the West Midlands, Jonnie Turpie. Get the juice on the Solihull BIG TASTE food and beer festival. Try your hand at making a masala mai tai cocktail. Find out why Anita Shervington is a science enthusiast on a mission and read about the last public hanging in Birmingham. Check out who has been out and about on the social scene in our Social GEMs and see what charity is making its mark. Try your hand at making an authentic tapa in your home, with a wine to match by our wine connoisseur Philippe Boucheron. Live the dream with local las Jalleh Alizadeh, lead in the stage adaptation of Meera Syal’s much-loved novel Anita and Me and find out why the head of Daytime Drama at the BBC, Will Trotter has an eye for drama as they celebrate a double achievement.