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Joined April 2016
The @BBCSounds⁩ podcast version of @BBCInOurTime⁩ on Rawls has 18 mins additional material: on reflective equilibrium, democracy, reciprocity, inequality, anticapitalism, and the scope of Rawls’s influence. @annefabpeter⁩ ⁦@JoWolffBSG⁩ bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001h4…
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Tune in tomorrow morning, Thursday 19 January 2023, at 9.00 am (repeated at 9.30 pm) for @BBCInOurTime on @BBCRadio4, when @AnneFabPeter, @JoWolffBSG and I will be talking with Melvyn Bragg about the life, work, and theory of justice of John Rawls. 1/2 bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001h4b…
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I thoroughly enjoyed listening to Dr Mary Ann Lund @BurtonsAnatomy from @UoLEnglish speaking on @BBCInOurTime about the poet and priest John Donne. It is fantastic to see @UniofLeicester research featured on national radio. You can listen again here: bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001gx…
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Did you catch our @Hugh_Adlington on @BBCRadio4 speaking about John Donne known now as one of England's 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 finest poets of love? 💕 👂🏼Listen to the full episode here:👉🏼 bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001gx0… #poet #love #preacher
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Who was the poet and priest John Donne? Dr Mary Ann Lund (@BurtonsAnatomy) from @UoLEnglish joins the guest panel on @BBCInOurTime giving insight into his life and work. 📻Listen again 👇 bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001gx…
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In Our Time on #JohnDonne on Thursday, 9am, with Hugh Adlington, @BurtonsAnatomy, and @birkbeck_ETC’s Sue Wiseman
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Those seeking some food for thought this Betwixtmas should consider the latest episode of @BBCInOurTime. Featuring our Tutorial Fellow in English, Professor Fiona Stafford, it looks at Persuasion, Austen's last complete novel and radical masterpiece. bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001g9c…
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Was listening to the excellent #InOurTime on @BBCRadio4 and was curious about the Crossness Sewage Treatment Works - Bazalegette’s ‘Cathedral of the Marsh’s’ - “it’s beauty for the sewage workers alone to see”. They weren’t kidding. It’s stunning.
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Don’t miss @BBCInOurTime on Thurs 22 Dec at 9am on @BBCRadio4, where our Vice-Chancellor and literary scholar Prof Karen O’Brien will be discussing Persuasion – Jane Austen’s last complete novel, which was published after her death 📔
Persuasion, by Jane Austen - Thursday 22nd December at 9am @BBCRadio4 bbc.in/3YyBFE7
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🛷 "If I hadn't been very rich, I might have been a really great man." Orson Welles' masterpiece Citizen Kane, widely acclaimed as one of the greatest, if not the greatest, films yet made.

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Professor @StellaBruzzi discusses Citizen Kane, widely acclaimed as the greatest film made, on the latest @BBCInOurTime. Listen to the full conversation: bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001g37…
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📻You can listen back to BBC4's In Our Time featuring Dr Liam Chambers here: bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001fw…
Our colleague Dr Liam Chambers, Head of the Department of History @MICLimerick, will be speaking about the 1798 Rebellion on the next episode of In Our Time on @BBCRadio4 alongside Professor Ian McBride and Dr Catriona Kennedy. Thurs 8 Dec @ 9am or 9.30pm bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001fwb…
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On this day 150 years ago, HMS Challenger set sail from Sheerness in Kent on a voyage around the world sampling the oceans from 1872-1876. Hear @NHM_London ‘s @cgilesmiller discuss the voyage with Melvyn Bragg, @erikajones225 and @SamHistSci. @BBCinOurTime bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001fcv…
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Tune into @BBCRadio4's @BBCInOurTime tonight at 9:30pm for another chance to listen to our Prof @BBildhauer discussing the mediaeval German epic #Nibelungenlied with Melvyn Bragg, Dr @sarahkbowden and Prof Mark Chinca (@GermanCambridge).
This morning at 9am: "The German Iliad" - how Siegfried and Kriemhild's friendship with Gunther and Brunhild turns to revenge and slaughter in this medieval epic bbc.in/3gRrM35 @BBCRadio4
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Tomorrow at 9am - Professor Mark Chinca will be one of Melvyn Bragg's guests on BBC Radio 4 'In Our Time', discussing medieval Germany's most famous and notorious epic, 'The Nibelungenlied.' Listen online here: bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001fmp…
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Dr Sarah Bowden (@sarahkbowden) will be one of Melvyn Bragg’s guests on @BBCInOurTime this week, discussing The Nibelungenlied, a medieval German epic full of blood, violence & fantasy. Listen online: bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001fmp… #kingsgerman @kingsartshums @clamskcl @KingsCollegeLon
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