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You're BookedEricka Waller - You're BookedThis week on the podcast, we visit the home of one of our favourite authors and favourite people, the brilliant Ericka Waller! Ericka is an award-winning columnist and the author of the acclaimed novels Dogs Days and Goodbye Birdie Greenwing. And, as you will hear, she is a voracious reader. We talked to her about filthy books, snacks in kids books and the genius of John Shuttleworth. Find out more about the books Ericka mentioned at our Bookshop.org store. Order Daisy's new novel Pity Party HERE. More about the London Writer's Salon Podcast HERE.BOOKS2024-07-221h 00
Conversation StreetJodie Prenger InterviewGlenda Shuttleworth first set foot in Weatherfield last August, and for Jodie Prenger, it's been a real whirlwind of a year! In this episode, we sit down with the actress behind Rovers' latest barmaid to chat about all things Corrie, from joining the beloved Shuttleworth clan and working in the pub alongside Sally Ann Matthews and Charlie Jordan, to launching Weatherfield's very first stage school, Little Big Shotz!
2023-08-1738 minConversation StreetJodie Prenger InterviewGlenda Shuttleworth first set foot in Weatherfield last August, and for Jodie Prenger, it's been a real whirlwind of a year! In this episode, we sit down with the actress behind Rovers' latest barmaid to chat about all things Corrie, from joining the beloved Shuttleworth clan and working in the pub alongside Sally Ann Matthews and Charlie Jordan, to launching Weatherfield's very first stage school, Little Big Shotz!
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Listen, Relax and Enjoy the Wonders of Full AudiobookNorth and South: A BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation Audiobook by Elizabeth GaskellListen to this audiobook in full for free onhttps://hotaudiobook.com/freeID: 589674
Title: North and South: A BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation
Author: Elizabeth Gaskell
Narrator: Full Cast , James Cartwright, Patsy Ferran
Format: Unabridged
Length: 03:37:59
Language: English
Release date: 10-27-22
Publisher: Penguin Books LTD
Genres: Fiction & Literature, Literary Fiction, Classics, General
Summary:
A major BBC Radio dramatisation of Elizabeth Gaskell's famous Victorian novel of pride, prejudice, politics and passion
When 19-year-old Margaret Hale is uprooted from her home in the rural South of England and transplanted to the industrial North, she struggles to adapt. Smoky, grimy and ugly, Milton seems...2022-10-273h 37
LitSciPod: The Literature and Science PodcastEpisode 3 - An Educational BindProduced by: Catherine Charlwood (@DrCharlwood) and Laura Ludtke (@lady_electric)
Music composed and performed by Gareth Jones.
About the episode:
This third episode of the third series of LitSciPod features an interview with education researcher and recent DPhil graduate Dr Ashmita Randhawa (@Rand_Ash). Through a discussion of Ashmita’s thesis on studio schools, we consider educational policy, STEM and the language of aspiration, and the long history of STEM shortages. At the end of the episode, you can hear Ashmita read Sarah Key’s poem ‘Be’. You can watch Sarah Kay reading it here https://www.ted.com/talks/sarah_ka...2021-05-261h 04
Once Upon A Time: A Storytelling Podcast"Jane Eyre" with Aaron SartorioYou might have read it in High School and you might have watched it on PBS, but you have DEFINITELY heard of Jane Eyre. Charlotte Bronte’s groundbreaking novel is one people just know, but why? Guest Host Aaron Sartorio joins Talia Smith as they discuss the relevance and eeriness of one of the most popular pieces of literature!RESOURCES:Podcast Links: https://linktr.ee/onceuponatimepodSupport Our Featured Artist, Mikaela Simon: @do...2020-11-2055 min
TORCH | The Oxford Research Centre in the HumanitiesLive Event: Invalids on the MovePart of the Humanities Cultural Programme, one of the founding stones for the future Stephen A. Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities. At a time when we are all locked down in our homes, Sally Shuttleworth and Erica Charters take a look, both serious and light-hearted, at the treatment of health and disease in the past, and particularly the period from the eighteenth to nineteenth centuries when invalids were actively encouraged to travel. The discussion will explore the creation of the health resort, and what life was like for invalids living in towns devoted to the sick. We will look at...2020-09-151h 02
Diseases of Modern LifeAfter the Show: Victorian SpeedLast year, Diseases of Modern Life collaborated with The Projection Studio on the light and sound spectacular, 'Victorian Speed of Life'. Recently, Principal Investigator from Diseases of Modern Life, Sally Shuttleworth, sat down with Ross Ashton and Karen Monid from The Projection Studio to ask how the project impacted their work. This podcast features sounds from the show itself. 2019-04-0116 min
When Greeks Flew KitesSleep: A Third of Human HistorySarah Dunant presents a monthly dive into stories from the past that might help us make sense of today. This month, she examines sleep as a source of preoccupation and worry throughout history.Are you feeling tired? How many hours did you get last night? Feeling foggy with exhaustion? What about the leaders whose punishing schedules have them running up sleep debts of mammoth proportions? William Gladstone's detailed diaries recording his insomnia and its effects, are now historical artefacts. How might historians, fifty years from now, make use of Theresa May's crammed itinerary?These questions...2019-01-0827 minTORCH | The Oxford Research Centre in the HumanitiesWork, Time and Stress: Historical and Contemporary PerspectivesStress & overwork in both education and professional life in the Victorian era and the 'dynamic' nature of disability and the impact of the stresses of modern life has. Professor Sally Shuttleworth (Faculty of English Language and Literature) will look at discussions of stress and overwork in both education and professional life in the Victorian era, based on her research. Although we are clearly living in a radically altered world, there are nonetheless startling similarities in the ways the problems of overwork have been framed and debated, then and now.
Dr Marie Tidball (Faculty of Law, Centre for Criminology and TORCH...2017-12-0734 minTORCH | The Oxford Research Centre in the HumanitiesWork, Time and Stress: Historical and Contemporary PerspectivesStress & overwork in both education and professional life in the Victorian era and the 'dynamic' nature of disability and the impact of the stresses of modern life has. Professor Sally Shuttleworth (Faculty of English Language and Literature) will look at discussions of stress and overwork in both education and professional life in the Victorian era, based on her research. Although we are clearly living in a radically altered world, there are nonetheless startling similarities in the ways the problems of overwork have been framed and debated, then and now.
Dr Marie Tidball (Faculty of Law, Centre for Criminology and TORCH...2017-12-0734 min
MarsFollowing the Martian Invasion: Episode 4Red weed floats down the Thames by Kew Bridge. The Martians are busy aero-forming Earth to make it more like their dying Martian home. The South East lies in ruins and London is abandoned.Meanwhile in a house in Mortlake, Francis Spufford is joined by Professor Sally Shuttleworth (St Annes, Oxford) and space scientist Maggie Aderin-Pocock to consider Martian evolution and appearance in a terrifying close encounter.2017-03-0914 min
In Our Time: CultureNorth and SouthMelvyn Bragg and guests discuss Elizabeth Gaskell's novel North and South, published in 1855 after serialisation in Dickens' Household Words magazine. It is the story of Margaret Hale, who was raised in the South in the New Forest and London's Harley Street, and then moves North to a smokey mill town, Milton, in Darkshire. As well as Margaret's emotional life and her growing sense of independence, the novel explores the new ways of living thrown up by industrialisation, and the relationships between 'masters and men'. Many of Margaret Hale's experiences echo Gaskell's own life, as she was born in Chelsea...2017-03-0948 min
In Our TimeNorth and SouthMelvyn Bragg and guests discuss Elizabeth Gaskell's novel North and South, published in 1855 after serialisation in Dickens' Household Words magazine. It is the story of Margaret Hale, who was raised in the South in the New Forest and London's Harley Street, and then moves North to a smokey mill town, Milton, in Darkshire. As well as Margaret's emotional life and her growing sense of independence, the novel explores the new ways of living thrown up by industrialisation, and the relationships between 'masters and men'. Many of Margaret Hale's experiences echo Gaskell's own life, as she was born in Chelsea and...2017-03-0948 min
RSDS RADIO SOCIETÀ DEI SOGNINorth and SouthMelvyn Bragg and guests discuss Elizabeth Gaskell's novel North and South, published in 1855 after serialisation in Dickens' Household Words magazine. It is the story of Margaret Hale, who was raised in the South in the New Forest and London's Harley Street, and then moves North to a smokey mill town, Milton, in Darkshire. As well as Margaret's emotional life and her growing sense of independence, the novel explores the new ways of living thrown up by industrialisation, and the relationships between 'masters and men'. Many of Margaret Hale's experiences echo Gaskell's own life, as she was born in Chelsea and...2017-03-0948 min
In Our TimeNorth and SouthMelvyn Bragg and guests discuss Elizabeth Gaskell's novel North and South, published in 1855 after serialisation in Dickens' Household Words magazine. It is the story of Margaret Hale, who was raised in the South in the New Forest and London's Harley Street, and then moves North to a smokey mill town, Milton, in Darkshire. As well as Margaret's emotional life and her growing sense of independence, the novel explores the new ways of living thrown up by industrialisation, and the relationships between 'masters and men'. Many of Margaret Hale's experiences echo Gaskell's own life, as she was born in Chelsea...2017-03-0948 minTORCH | The Oxford Research Centre in the HumanitiesFRIGHT Friday - Fear of Cats and Other PhobiasProfessor Sally Shuttleworth gives a talk for the FRIGHT Friday series of talks, held in the Ashmolean Museum on 25th November 2016.2016-12-1215 min
Ada Lovelace Symposium - Celebrating 200 Years of a Computer VisionaryEnchantress of Numbers or a mere debugger?: a brief history of cultural and academic understandings of Ada LovelaceTo mark the 200th anniversary of Lovelace's birth, Elizabeth Bruton, Museum of the History of Science, reviews and explores academic and popular representations of Ada Lovelace and engage with the controversy of her claim as the first computer programmer. Includes an introduction from Sally Shuttleworth, Professor at University of Oxford.2015-12-1824 minAda Lovelace Symposium - Celebrating 200 Years of a Computer VisionaryEnchantress of Numbers or a mere debugger?: a brief history of cultural and academic understandings of Ada LovelaceTo mark the 200th anniversary of Lovelace's birth, Elizabeth Bruton, Museum of the History of Science, reviews and explores academic and popular representations of Ada Lovelace and engage with the controversy of her claim as the first computer programmer. Includes an introduction from Sally Shuttleworth, Professor at University of Oxford.2015-12-1824 minTORCH | The Oxford Research Centre in the HumanitiesFaith and Wisdom in ScienceA Book at Lunchtime discussion with Tom McLeish, Sally Shuttleworth, John Christie and Ard A. Louis An interdisciplinary discussion about Tom McLeish's "Faith and Wisdom in Science".
About the book:
"Do you have wisdom to count the clouds?" asks the voice of God from the whirlwind in the stunningly beautiful catalogue of nature-questions from the Old Testament Book of Job. Tom McLeish takes a scientist's reading of this ancient text as a centrepiece to make the case for science as a deeply human and ancient activity, embedded in some of the oldest stories told about human desire to understand the...2015-02-1935 min
St Anne's CollegeDiseases of Modern LifeProfessor Sally Shuttleworth, Head of the Humanities Division, gives a talk for the St Anne's Alumni Weekend 20142014-10-1551 minTORCH | The Oxford Research Centre in the HumanitiesScience and the HumanitiesAre the Humanities and the Sciences fundamentally different? Or do they share roots, values, aspirations and a common, contemporary predicament? Are the Humanities and the Sciences fundamentally different? Or do they share roots, values, aspirations and a common, contemporary predicament?Presenter: Howard Hotson, Professor of Early Modern Intellectual History, University of Oxford (Chair, Cultures of Knowledge network, TORCH)Respondents: Ian Walmsley, Pro-Vice-Chancellor, Hooke Professor of Experimental Physics, University of Oxford Mark Pagel, Professor and Head of the Bioinformatics Laboratory, University of ReadingChair: Sally Shuttleworth, Professor of English, University of OxfordThis seminar is part of "Humanities and the Public Good", a...2014-03-041h 16
Humanitas - Visiting Professorships at the Universities of Oxford and CambridgeIn Conversation: Writing the History of ReasonProfessor Lorraine Daston in conversation with Professor Sally Shuttleworth.2013-05-2834 minHumanitas - Visiting Professorships at the Universities of Oxford and CambridgeIn Conversation: Writing the History of ReasonProfessor Lorraine Daston in conversation with Professor Sally Shuttleworth.2013-05-2834 min
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"The Beatles are back in town. Backbeat is a back-story to cherish"
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Backbeat is now open at London's Duke of York's Theatre! Directed by the award-winning David Leveaux, Backbeat features all-time rock 'n' roll classics including Love Me Do, PS I Love You, Twist & Shout, Rock 'N' Roll Music, Long Tall Sally, Please Mr Postman and Money - live on...2011-10-2700 min