Shows
Paper CutsHarry and Meghan book dishes new Royal dirt – Plus are you a Stop The Boats Steve or a Remainer Ruth?We read the papers so you don’t have to. Today: Rishi being fishy? Suella says Sunak broke his immigration promises to her and the Telegraph has the receipts. Reign it in… How come Harry and Meghan come off unscathed in Omid Scobie’s new book of Royal revelations? Plus – It’s Mondeo Man all over again. The Telegraph searches for comforting stereotypes about the voters who will decide the next election. Miranda Sawyer is joined by journalist Rob Hutton of the Critic and comedian Gráinne Maguire.Support Paper Cuts a...2023-11-2740 min
1000 Better StoriesEveryday Changemakers - Ruth McLaren from Arran EcoSavvyOur Everyday Changemaker today is Ruth McLaren, Arran EcoSavvy's project and communications development officer.
Credits: Interview, recording and edit by Madeleine Scobie, Sound production by Kaska Hempel
Resources:
Arran Eco Savvy website: https://arranecosavvy.org.uk/
Green Islands Net Zero project: https://arranecosavvy.org.uk/green-islands-plans/
Project Videos
Zero Waste Cafe: https://vimeo.com/796376962/ce499f02e2
Active Travel Hub: https://vimeo.com/799647519/663c6e3da1
Community Shop: https://vimeo.com/826523465/3f3863284a?share=copy
Transcript
[00:00:00] Madeleine: Hello...2023-07-0313 min
TORCH | The Oxford Research Centre in the HumanitiesBook at Lunchtime: Celebrity Culture and the Myth of OceaniaAn intriguing case study on how popular images of Oceania, mediated through a developing culture of celebrity, contributed to the formation of British identity both domestically and as a nascent imperial power in the eighteenth century. At the end of the eighteenth century metropolitan Britain was entranced by stories emanating from the furthest edge of its nascent empire. In the experience of eighteenth-century Britain, Oceania was both a real place, evidenced by the journals of adventurers like Joseph Banks, the voyage books of Captain James Cook and the growing collection of artefacts and curiosities in the British Museum, and a...2019-12-1043 min
Faculty of English - IntroductionsRace and Empire, 1660-1760Ruth Scobie lectures on race and empire, 1660-1760. In this introductory lecture, Ruth Scobie outlines some of the historical contexts of literature written between 1660 and 1660, looking in particular at the topics of race and empire.2019-03-1425 min
The Oxford Centre for Life-WritingLife-writing and female celebrity - Panel 1Women's Lives and Celebrity in the 18th Century (chair: Anna Senkiw) Ruth Scobie - Pre-Truth Media and the Female Imposter: The Case of ‘Elizabeth Harriet Grieve’2018-01-0827 minTORCH | The Oxford Research Centre in the HumanitiesDavid Garrick's Wigless CelebrityRuth Scobie's bite-sized talk on a portrait of David Garrick by Johan Zoffany Dr Ruth Scobie looks at a portrait by Johan Zoffany of the eighteenth-century actor David Garrick, and asks what the picture's notorious wiglessness has to do with the actor's control of his extraordinary contemporary celebrity, in a TORCH Bite-Sized Talk at the Ashmolean Museum's Live Friday: Framed! event.2016-06-0712 min