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Staying Alive: Poetry and Crisis

Episode 4: Survival Takes Time

Interview with US poet Laura Sims, author of Staying Alive (2016) and Looker (2018)
Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism

What is Happening with TV?

Bruno Patino, director of the Journalism School, Sciences Po, Paris, ex-director of digital, strategy and TV channels at France Télévisions. Introduction by Richard Sambrook.
Journey of a Molecular Detective; David Sherratt

What's so great about Austen? Isn't she just bonnets and balls?

Some film and tv adaptations of Jane Austen's novels might give the impression that the stories are little more than Mills and Boon-type romances in empire-line frocks.
St Edmund Hall

On Not Writing

Stand-up comedian Stewart Lee (Honorary Fellow and alumnus of St Edmund Hall, University of Oxford) discusses the fantasy that stand-up comedy is spontaneous rather than written, and describes the evolution of stand-up over the last few decades.
Humanitas - Visiting Professorships at the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge

Mark Thompson (Symposium): Politics and Language - Friends or Enemies?

Symposium following Mark Thompson's series of talks for the Humanitas Programme. With Polly Toynbee, Gus O'Donnell, David Willetts MP and chaired by Andrew Marr.
Humanitas - Visiting Professorships at the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge

Mark Thompson: Not in my name

In his third lecture, Mark Thompson looks at what happens when modern rhetoric and morality collide, taking the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan as his principal examples.
Humanitas - Visiting Professorships at the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge

Mark Thompson: Consign it to the flames

Almost everyone accepts that science is our most authoritative guide to understanding the world so why is it so disputed when it comes to public policy? Mark Thompson examines what's happened to the 'argument from authority' in modern rhetoric.
Humanitas - Visiting Professorships at the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge

Mark Thompson: Inaugural Lecture - Is Plato winning the argument?

Drawing in particular on recent examples from American and British healthcare reform, Mark Thompson asks whether the language of politics is changing in ways which threaten public understanding of and engagement with the most important issues of the day.
Crime Fiction in Oxford

Inspector Morse in Print and on TV

Highly acclaimed crime writer Colin Dexter, OBE, talks at the Crime Fiction Day at St John's College, University of Oxford, on the theme of Inspector Morse.
Broadcast Media

Tomorrow Got Here Yesterday

Last of four lectures exploring the relationship between creativity and commerce through the prism of late 20th and early 21st century TV fiction on both sides of the Atlantic.
Broadcast Media

No More Heroes

Third of four lectures exploring the relationship between creativity and commerce through the prism of late 20th and early 21st century TV fiction on both sides of the Atlantic.
Broadcast Media

Why the Only Rule is that there are No Rules

Second of four lectures exploring the relationship between creativity and commerce through the prism of late 20th and early 21st century TV fiction on both sides of the Atlantic.
Broadcast Media

How to Grow a Creative Business According to the Laws of Chance

First of four lectures exploring the relationship between creativity and commerce through the prism of late 20th and early 21st century TV fiction on both sides of the Atlantic.

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