Back as 2 days we focus a day on the host of inputs required to inform Controls and a day on the Skills People need to make it happen.
Back as 2 days we focus a day on the host of inputs required to inform Controls and a day on the Skills People need to make it happen.
EVA33 - Putting the EV into AchiEVementApril 28 - 29 Armourers Hall
A new edition of the ISO BS EVM 21508 standard is being published April 2026.
This formally incorporates Risk Benefits Critical Chain Agile Earned Schedule Critical Path Governance Technical Performance Resource Management PMO and other aspects into what is still the best framework for Integrated Project Controls.
Day 1 will focus on how those topics are integrated and deployed.
Day 1 evening Dinner in the Armourers Hall.
Day 2 will focus on people and purpose.
All interspersed with the usual unusual .
Get in touch if you want to speak, support, sponsor, or possibly give a workshop on the 30th.
The event is an opportunity to rethink and remodel or revisit anew, as well as to share and make connections with the other interlocking controls and skills that are driving this strategy.
Sponsorship Packages
Sponsors will each be allocated a clear space, power supply and either a table or stand space on the networking area where delegates gather between sessions in the pre-conference, mid morning, lunch and afternoon breaks and during the break out sessions.
Main and Gold sponsors may erect suitable stands. Sponsors will be able to distribute brochures to all delegates. Erection of stands will be early morning on the day of the event or previous day by arrangement.
Every sponsor’s logo will appear on all marketing and event documentation produced by the organisers.
Supporters
We always welcome support from organisations which cannot sponsor but can offer help in kind. We are happy to enter into contra agreements for mutual benefit.
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Presentation opportunity each day
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Short address opportunity at dinner
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Stand space within the networking area
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Delegate list provided
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- PM Channel interview
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Special less than advertised ticket rate for employees and authorised customers
£8,000 + VAT
Pre-Conference Senior networking event drinks and dinner (Conversation Club)
Host a networking dinner for 50–70 in an exclusive venue that gathers together senior decision makers from the controls community. A year’s prospecting in an evening with guaranteed follow-ups.
The Conversation Club currently numbers 198 senior Project and Programme directors along with Government (IPA and major departments) National Audit Office and Academics.
As host your organisation has exclusive access to this audience for this event.
Itinerary:
16:00 Tea and Networking
17:00 Discussion, Tuned to your requirement.
18:00 Drinks and networking
19:00 Dinner and networking.
£5,000 + VAT
Speakers
Steve Wake
Controls and Skills Authority
ACOSTE
Steve Wake founded the EVM and the PMC Sigs in the Association of Project Management (APM) and was the Chairman of APM who led it to chartered status. He is now a member of the Guild of Educators, has set up a working party to develop a GCSE in Project Skills and is Chair of the British Standards Institution M/S 2 committee with responsibility for national standards in project programme and portfolio management. He is leading the development of BS202001 Project Controls in which MOD is a participant and working closely with PsACE community harmonising estimating practice in government and its supply chain. Also he represents BSi on ISO WG12 developing an Implementation guide to EVM and is Strategy Director of the Association of Cost Engineers, helping to shape its future.
Andrew Edkins
Professor Emeritus Management of Complex Projects at The Bartlett UCL
Andrew Edkins is emeritus professor of the management of complex projects at UCL. His career spanned being both an academic and practitioner focused on projects and their management. He is now in the post-career phase with roles as a non executive director, charity trustee, and peripatetic academic at Regents University and UCL. Messy projects - so what? Some projects are simple, but many are not. Some may say that we live in challenging times - they may be right. This presentation will reflect on both the nature of current projects and the context these projects are set in - and what the implications are for project management.
Stephen Carver
Senior Lecturer, consultant, Cranfield University School of Management
Stephen is rated as one of the top 3 lecturers at one of Europe’s top MBA Business Schools. He has a reputation of taking complex management concepts such as Project, Programme and Crisis Management and being able to distil them down, into highly informative and fun lectures - often using “storytelling” techniques. His attitude is “if you haven’t done it – you shouldn’t be teaching it” Unusually, for an academic, he has actually spent most of his working life in real business and has worked with many organisations in the banking, insurance and legal sectors. Stephen is an unusual blend of Academic, Businessman and Teller of Tales. He has taught worldwide, has appeared regularly on National Radio, TV and YouTube. Crisis Management - If your are not at the table then you are on the menu. Project/Programme managers crave control – but what happens when the risk register runs dry and “The World” falls down around you? Too often the response is defensive and inflexible. In this session Stephen will look at the nature of modern crisis and how best to survive those ghastly unknown unknowns.
Graham Clarke MBE
Designer, Leader, Coach
Graham is an operating model designer turned portfolio architect, drawing on nearly 30 years of x-Government and international experience as a special advisor, management consultant, and Crown Servant. He is a Director of PROFOLIO Ltd.
Paul Major
Change & Transformation Leader
Changemaker
Paul is passionate about people and how we truly engage the human being in change and leads the changemaker human change practice. This group supports leaders and their teams in understanding their own personal change journey and also how to support the organisation in times of transformation to fully embrace new ways of working, encourage cultural shift and adopt behavioural changes that in turn lead to the realisation of tangible business benefits. Paul’s initial career spanned 15 years working in blue chip manufacturing and distribution organisations across a wide range of functional disciplines prior to focusing on delivering strategic change and transformation programmes. He has over 20 years’ experience in leading and supporting UK and global change programmes across the private sector, public sector and NGO’s. As well as being a regular and popular conference and event speaker, Paul is also a leadership coach, a qualified practitioner using the Lumina Learning psychometric tools and a Prosci Certified Change Management practitioner. Leading people through change – are you a “hugger” or a “handshake” leader? Being able to lead people, teams and organisations through change is now a core part of every leaders job – but probably the area we have had the least education and support on how to do it! So, what approaches work best? Show the love, hold the hand, give a hug or JFDI? This fun, yet challenging session will look at how we traditionally approach leading people through change and whether this really works. It will introduce research from Lumina Learning on what leadership styles are most successful at engaging people and what approaches actually block engagement. And it will ask the question, are we ready as leaders to successfully lead change – what do we need to know and learn to do it well?
Greg Lawton
Founder & CEO of Nodes&Links
The project controls industry now has access to AI-driven workflow automation that maintains professional rigor and full transparency. This system orchestrates complete project controls workflows, such as DCMA compliance, QSRA, delay analysis, earned value, and critical path, while exposing every calculation for audit and review. It executes the actual workflows schedulers perform, producing results in minutes that previously required days of expert time. Let's talk about how that's about to change everything for the PMO, what it looks like in real use cases, and the outcomes projects will see. Session content: - How AI orchestrates project controls workflows end-to-end - Validation approach and standards compliance - Real applications: compliance automation, delay analysis, optimization - Implementation considerations and adoption patterns - Industry implications: how automation changes practice at scale.
Louisa Scanlan
Founder & Director
Collaborate Business Solutions
Louisa is an organisational transformation specialist with over 25 years of HR experience spanning SME and FTSE 100 environments. In 2015, she founded Collaborate Business Solutions, a UK consultancy dedicated to creating more human workplaces through interventions that go beyond the transactional to the truly transformational. A licensed practitioner of Lumina Spark psychometric and the Emotional Culture Deck, Louisa brings an integrated approach to leadership development and organisational change. She is the creator of two proprietary, UK-trademarked frameworks — BREAKING™ and STRETCH™ — developed from both professional expertise and personal experience of navigating work-related stress. These frameworks help individuals and organisations sustain high performance without burning out. Louisa works with a diverse portfolio of clients including Arla Foods, WWF-UK, and the NHS, and her consultancy has built an award-winning reputation in the OD space. She combines deep leadership and organisational development expertise with innovative methodologies to transform organisations and develop authentic leaders, making her a trusted partner for businesses navigating growth and change. Emotions are Data As a leader, you will spend time looking at a variety of data sources; KPIs, financial information and sales targets. But do you spend time considering how your teams feel when they come to work? Emotions are data too and they impact our behaviours which can have a critical impact on the delivery of projects. In this session you will learn how to understand the impact of emotion at work, how to support the development of the emotions you would like your teams to feel along with recognising that our behaviours can impact others’ emotions daily. This workshop will introduce the delegates to the Emotion Culture Deck; a card activity which enables a deep dive into emotion in a highly interactive way.
Joseph Lee
Programme Director
Mott MacDonald
Joseph is a Fellow Member of APM and a highly respected and experienced programme and project director. Joseph has a wealth of experience within project and programme management; he has led major projects and programmes across a wide array of sectors including real estate, infrastructure, energy, defence, life sciences and technology. He is an award-winning project manager who prides himself on being a reflective practitioner; since completing his MSc in Major Programme Management he continues to research his research into dynamic capabilities within project and programmes and the importance of cognitive diversity and psychological factors on programme performance. Psychology, Psychobabble and Psychopaths The use of psychology and misuse of psychobabble are increasingly evident in the delivery of projects and programmes. How do we distinguish between sound use of psychology and psychobabble peddled by snake oil salesmen? And who would agree with the statement that all Project Managers are psychopaths?
Adrian Pyne
Pyne Consulting Ltd
Adrian is pretty old. In an awfully long career he has led or rescued Transformations, and has built and advised on project delivery organisations in 12 industries and in both commercial and public sectors. Working in the UK and internationally. In the last 15 years Adrian has focussed and consulted on Project and organisational Agility, creating and sustaining project friendly organisations and advising start-ups.. Since the early 1990s, he has contributed to and co-authored UK PM standards, Association of Project Management Guides, plus the Gower Handbook of Programme Management (1st Ed.). In 2022 his own book: Agile Beyond IT, a Business Book Awards Finalist, was published (now also in Chinese), written he says, partly out of deep rage at so many organisations wasting investment. He has been on PM research steering committees, including into AI. Adrian remains a frequent writer and blogger, sometime grumpy old project manager, visiting lecturer and a regular webinar panel member, and is he says, still learning. He is a Trustee of MyMelanoma, a cancer research charity and lives in semi-retirement in Dorset with his partner, a retired RIBA award winning architect. Strangers in a Strange Land How organisations kill projects and how they can be helped to thrive. Looking back over some 40 years, innumerable surveys identify common reasons for project failure. We all know what they are. Many of these operate INSIDE projects but many are due to the OUTSIDE organisational landscape. These are the TWO GEOGRAPHIES OF PROJECTS, which formed a key theme in Adrian’s book: Agile Beyond IT. Project ‘best practice’ has long focused on the internal geography and it is only in recent years that the project profession has woken up to the impact of the organisational geography. Which is strange as Project professionals have always known they frequently need to fight for their project’s survival in a hostile landscape. Sadly, most senior leaders have yet to awaken….which is a hint…. In this session Adrian will outline why project failure often seems inevitable. Why it is crucial NOW to change the landscape, and what the changes could be. And if you think you know what organisation culture is………Adrian would like to introduce you to his iceberg, a modified McKinsey model and Edgar Schein. This session is also a taster for Adrian’s workshop.
Tommy Clarke
Head of Programme Controls
Sizewell C - Amentum
Tommy Clarke is a Senior Project Controls Director at Amentum and currently serves as Head of Programme Controls for Sizewell C. He is passionate about transforming schedule, cost, and risk data into clear insight that drives confident, outcome focused decisions. With over 20 years’ experience across major programmes in Oil & Gas, Water, Roads, and now Nuclear, Tommy brings a blend of straight talking energy, practical know how, and strategic perspective to his talks and presentations. Carolyn will tell the story and context of Sizewell C, how we plan to use replication to improve on delivery and how private financing can be used to fund new nuclear. She will also cover the set up of the PMO to enable achievement. Tommy talk through the more specific aspects of Project Controls establishment, the role of Amentum in supporting SZC as delivery partner and the pipeline of work we must support in a nuclear renaissance.
Carolyn le Roux
PMO Director of Sizewell C
Carolyn le Roux is the PMO Director of Sizewell C. Carolyn joined Sizewell C in 2018 and has led the development of project cost and risk estimates, supporting the HMG business case and investor capital raise processes. In her role as PMO Director, she is responsible for establishing and leading the project controls and digital functions to support Sizewell C in the delivery phase. Prior to joining the Sizewell C project Carolyn has held roles in Internal Audit, Policy, and Finance. She is a qualified accountant. Carolyn will tell the story and context of Sizewell C, how we plan to use replication to improve on delivery and how private financing can be used to fund new nuclear. She will also cover the set up of the PMO to enable achievement. Tommy talk through the more specific aspects of Project Controls establishment, the role of Amentum in supporting SZC as delivery partner and the pipeline of work we must support in a nuclear renaissance.
Sirish Parekh
Head of Estimating & Benchmarking NISTA
Sirish is Head of Estimating & Benchmarking at NISTA. Previousy he was at National Highways as a Commercial Intelligence Manager and Estimating Manager, with experience in Cost Estimating & Modelling, Risk and Uncertainty management and Project Controls. He held various positions in Rolls-Royce as a Programme Manager on implementing Single Source Contract Regulations (SSCR), an Estimating Specialist, Supportability Engineering Manager and Whole Life Cost Engineer. He is currently developing intelligence reporting using historical data and introducing a career learning journey for the estimating profession. Sirish is Co-Chair of PsACE (Public Sector Advisory Community for Estimating), a group with 40 UK government departments and arms length bodies. As a member of the BSI MS/2 Committee, he also Co-Chairs the development and publication of a new Estimating British Standard. Using his current roles, experience and network, Sirish aspires to introduce consistency in estimates across government projects and improved benchmarking to achieve better value for money and project outcomes. Adaptive Estimating. Changing the estimating mindset. An approach to estimating that positions estimates as adaptive, living documents rather than static outputs, fostering a more collaborative, iterative, and dynamic process throughout the project lifecycle. It underscores the importance of strengthening clear communication between estimators and stakeholders to enable more informed decision-making. The session also advocates concentrating effort on clearly defining what is known (e.g. scope, risks, and assumptions) rather than relying on broad, ambiguous uplifts. Finally, it emphasises the value of greater consistency across government departments, supporting shared learning and innovation that enhances estimating capability to deliver improved project outcomes across all sectors.
David Jones
Gobal Head of Cost
Sodexon
David has over 20 years experience of working in numerous sectors as an engineering, risk and commercial leader. He has a passion for sharing and collaborating to enhance the costing and commercial professions demonstrated by the establishing cross UK government department and ACostE Estimating groups. He is also co-lead on the forthcoming BSi Estimating specification standard along with Sirish Parekh. AI, Benchmarking and Behaviour: The New Costing Trinity This talk explores how three forces—AI, benchmarking, and human behaviour—are converging to reshape modern estimating and costing practice. I outline how AI can enhance forecasting accuracy, how benchmarking provides the context for genuine organisational learning, and how behavioural science continues to influence decision making and bias in cost intelligence. The session presents a practical, integrated framework showing how organisations can combine technology, standards, and culture to build more resilient and predictive costing capability. I’ll illustrate where AI genuinely adds value, how benchmarking can evolve beyond a periodic exercise, and what leaders must do to address behavioural factors that still undermine good estimating.
Paul Fisher
Managing Consultant in Rail Costain
Paul Fisher has spent over 31 years working in a variety of Project Management and Controls leadership roles across the Defence Sector and more recently working with Network Rail. Paul recognises that people are at the heart of project success and that behaviour and leadership makes a fundamental difference in our chances of achieving our project objectives. Paul is married with two older ‘children’ and loves poetry and music. Football and Railways. Measuring success objectively. Paul is a Man City fan. Luke is a Man United fan. Paul and Luke work harmoniously together on a Network Rail project (most of the time). Which club has been the most successful in the last 15 years? Over the life of the clubs? How do we know; how do we remove subjectivity and emotion and stick to the facts and how does this relate to how we measure success on our projects? All will be revealed…
Luke Galvin
PM3 Consultant
Costain
Luke joined Costain in September 2023, following the completion of his bachelor’s and master’s in both Architectural Technology and Construction Project Management. Luke joined Costain as a Graduate P3M Consultant, where he swiftly joined Network Rail to work under the ‘Weather Risk Task Force,’ and has since spent the last two years working on a variety of interesting projects. Luke was recently promoted to P3M Consultant and has transitioned into the Rail sector where he looks forward to progressing with his career. Football and Railways. Measuring success objectively. Paul is a Man City fan. Luke is a Man United fan. Paul and Luke work harmoniously together on a Network Rail project (most of the time). Which club has been the most successful in the last 15 years? Over the life of the clubs? How do we know; how do we remove subjectivity and emotion and stick to the facts and how does this relate to how we measure success on our projects? All will be revealed...
Eddie Obeng
Sensemaker
No one doubts that the world of projects has changed. We have moved from dedicated teams operating in a few industry segments to managing all change by projects with teams that span the globe and all public and private sector activities – everything except business as usual. In his thought-provoking and pragmatic talk, Eddie will explain how his work researching project success led him to a clear way to cover not just the success of the outcome but also the stakeholder perspective of the success of inputs, activities and outcomes with a balanced emphasis on the hard and soft metrics of projects and not just time, cost and quality. He will explain how to use broader thinking as a working tool and decision guide for the project team and stakeholders. You will leave with new concepts, clear language and the ability to deliver projects that are more universally seen as successful. Eddie ignored the maxim, “Stay in your lane”. Prof Eddie Obeng travels many lanes in parallel. A world-class speaker, educator, author of ten books on change, leadership & innovation based on his TED talk-famous, World After Midnight. The best selling All Change! (1994) an adventure-story-style book on, 'How to make projects work for you', was widely read and, kick-started the global movement of project management from specialism to mainstream. His research & development of concepts, frameworks and practical tools earned him the prestigious Sir Monty Finniston award, The design community adopted, and teach his 4 types of project model to graduates. His Sparq innovation framework is used to allocate billions in UK investment. He created QUBE described by The Wall Street Journal as” the most human centred virtual campus for teaching global executives”. He founded the world’s first Virtual Business School, Pentacle with the public sector and bulk of the FT500 as clients. He says that skills as a helicopter pilot and education in Engineering, Biotechnology & Economics make it easy for him to see through today's complexity, New Edition of All Change! from EddieObeng.com
Ben Fitzgerald
Associate Director Project Controls , AECOM
Ben Fitzgerald is a Fellow of the Controls and Skills Authority (FCaSA) and Certified Professional and a project controls practitioner with experience in complex infrastructure programmes. BS 202001:2025 is the first British Standard to specify mandatory requirements for project controls. Within months of its publication, it was applied as the basis for a maturity assessment on a complex infrastructure design project using a Claim-Argument-Evidence model. This paper describes the practical experience of building the assessment framework, conducting the assessment, and pivoting from findings to implementation. It offers observations on tailoring the standard to a supplier organisation context, structuring assessments for actionable outcomes, and the unexpected utility of a specification standard as an implementation guide.
Pari Mathur
Consultant,
th3rdcurve
Pari Mathur began her career in architecture, developing a sharp eye for design, detail and how people experience the world around them. That creative foundation now shapes the way she approaches project management and digital deployment at th3rdcurve. Today, she plays a key role in advancing th3rdcurve’s digital mission, leading technology build initiatives, supporting business transformation, and shaping AI adoption strategy. With a rare ability to simplify complexity, Pari brings a structured yet human-centred approach to transformation. Her energy, insight, and collaborative leadership style enable teams to navigate change with confidence and purpose, as she helps redefine how projects are delivered in an increasingly digital world.
Kym Henderson
RFD *, MSc, BBus
Kym Henderson is Convenor and Project Leader of ISO/TC 258 Working Group 12, responsible for the recently published second edition of ISO 21508 (Earned Value Management) and the current revision of ISO 21511 (Work Breakdown Structure). He also led the development of ISO 21512:2024, the international EVM implementation guidance standard. These standards codify the global consensus on EVM good practice for projects, programmes and portfolios. He has applied EVM across projects ranging from small technology delivery projects to large Australian defence acquisition programmes. He project managed the Capability Acquisition and Sustainment Group’s Integrated Investment Portfolio Integrated Master Schedule (IIP IMS), which established the first enterprise-level integrated view of cost, schedule and workforce for the Defence Integrated Investment Portfolio (IIP). He has led or supported multiple Integrated Baseline Reviews for government and industry. Kym published the first independent validation of Earned Schedule using real project data in 2003 and contributed to early research, including publication in CrossTalk: The Journal of Defense Software Engineering. His thought leadership contributed to the global interest and uptake of ES which is now part of the ISO published EVM standards, marking transition from research to globally codified practice. He is Chair of Standards Australia MB-012 mirror committee to ISO TC258, Chair of the Project Governance and Controls Symposium Ltd (PGCS), a former Executive Vice President of the College of Performance Management (USA) , former core team member for the ISO EVM standard first edition and a core writing team member for the PMI Earned Value Management Practice Standard (2nd edition). Kym is a retired member of the Australian Army Reserve (Lieutenant Colonel) and lives with his wife Deanna at Manly Beach in Sydney. * RFD is Reserve Forces Decoration which was awarded for 15 years efficient service in the Australian Army Reserve. Abstract The second edition of ISO 21508, together with ISO 21512 and the forthcoming revision of ISO 21511, repositions Earned Value Management (EVM) as an integrated decision-support capability for projects, programmes and portfolios. This presentation focuses on what is new for practitioners and why it matters for improving project governance, management and controls practice, prediction confidence and delivery outcomes. Key developments include twelve new integration clauses that connect EVM with other project, programme and portfolio management processes; the direct integration of risk into the 11-step EVM process model (Clause 5); explicit inclusion of portfolio management; and the moving Earned Schedule into the body of the standard for time-based schedule analysis using EVM data. The session provides early insight into the new ISO EVM related standards framework and how this is likely to influence future practice, guidance, training and organisational adoption across global project, programme and portfolio delivery environments. Takeaways include: •Reframing EVM as an integrated governance, management and control system at project, programme and portfolio levels. •Enabling evidence-based decision-making rather than rely on optimism and intuition with earlier visibility of emerging issues for proactive attention and action before delivery objectives are threatened. •Creating performance visibility at all levels, including portfolio level where it is needed to support senior leadership strategic decisions. •Implementing scalable and tailorable EVM across agile, hybrid and traditional delivery environments for most projects, most of the time in most organisations.
Val Jonas
Risk Expert
Risk Ecosystems Ltd
Val Jonas is a global risk management specialist, working with government and corporate customers worldwide since 1988. She helps clients develop risk framework and policy, facilitating conversations on cultural, process and technical challenges of implementing enterprise risk management systems, from project and operations to strategic level. She is risk subject matter expert to ISO and BSI committees, Non-Executive Director for the International Community for Complex Project Management, and Project Assurance Lead for the Project Skills Alliance. She provides input to risk guides and publications worldwide. Shine on you crazy diamond. Never a dull moment with risk. Is that an AchiEVement? At EVA33 I will have been a risky person for 37 years, 9 months and 24 days. So what could have gripped a person for so long? In this presentation, Val will explore the facets of being a risk manager: solving problems across disciplines, projects, operations, functions, management levels, sectors, geographies and technologies. And try to measure the value earned from those 13812 days spent so far (and still counting) as a risky person.
Stephen Powell
Chief of PM capability
Rolls-Royce
As the Chief of Project Management Capability at Rolls-Royce, I lead the global strategic direction for project, programme, and portfolio management. With over 20 years of experience in aerospace and defence sectors I specialise in driving digital transformation, ensuring rigorous EVM governance, and fostering high-performance cultures. My career is defined by a track record of navigating complex, cross-cultural environments in the UK and USA, delivering multi-million-pound contracts and spearheading PMO global restructures, Committed to continuous improvement and the professional development of the next generation of PM talent. I hold an MSc with distinction in Project Management and am a dedicated advocate for using digital innovation to simplify complexity and deliver pride in execution.
Paul Lyalls
EVA Poet in Residence
Paul has over 20 years’ experience as a jobbing poet, and has worked and performed with Will Self, Kate Tempest, John Hegley, Miranda Hart, Roger McGough, John Cooper Clarke, Andrea Leavy, RastaMouse, George Best and yes, Michael Rosen. He was 2013/2014 Poet in residence at the Roald Dahl Museum, 2008 Poet for the London Borough of Brent and an official 2012 Olympic ‘Shake the Dust Poet’. Paul’s work is funny, fast-moving, hip, accessible, rhythmic, clever and real. Paul has gigged many unusual places including Arsenal FC’s dressing room, opening act for ‘The Libertines’ and appearing on the national news, as a result of a scheme to bring poetry to the masses in which Paul performed on a regular working No73 bus as it wound its way through central London to Oxford St.
