Dr Sarah Dillon, BBC Radio 3 New Generation Thinker, will feature in two BBC Radio 3 Proms Extra broadcasts this Proms season. On Saturday 5th August she will contribute to a live discussion of H. G. Wells’ speculative fiction along with renowned science fiction writer Stephen Baxter who has been commissioned to write a sequel to The War […]
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BBC Academy Blog: Dr Sarah Dillon on balancing academia and broadcasting
In a new blog for the BBC Academy website, Dr Sarah Dillon – 2013 BBC New Generation Thinker and now presenter of Close Reading on BBC Radio 4’s Open Book and BBC Radio 3’s documentary series Literary Pursuits – reflects on the challenges and rewards of balancing broadcasting and academia.
Continue ReadingDr Orietta Da Rold’s Work on Mapping Paper in Medieval England Project Reported by BBC
The BBC reports on the work of the Mapping Paper in Medieval England project. The project team, led by Dr Da Rold, has as its aim to prepare a new dataset of Medieval Paper Manuscripts written in England between 1300 and about 1500. Funded by the Cambridge Humanities Research Grants Scheme, and building on data […]
Continue ReadingNew Generation Thinker Awards
Cambridge English has won two of the BBC’s New Generation Thinker Awards for 2015, through Trinity College Fellow in English Joe Moshenska and Selwyn PhD student Clare Walker Gore. Joe Moshenska has worked on the importance of touch in religious and early scientific debates, the philosophical history of tickling and the reception of Chinese medicine […]
Continue ReadingRob Macfarlane Shortlisted for Warwick Prize
Dr Rob Macfarlane’s book, The Old Ways, has been shortlisted for the Warwick University Prize for Writing. Read more via BBC news, the Telegraph & the Guardian.
Continue ReadingDr Burlinson in BBC News Magazine: Tesco and a strange bit of poetry
Dr Christopher Burlinson was interviewed for the BBC News Magazine’s article about Tesco’s ‘poetic’ double-page ads following the recent reports of adulterated foods in the supermarket’s range of products: Tesco and a strange bit of Poetry. And from the Evening Standard’s piece on the same topic: It gets verse and worse as Tesco horses around with poetry. […]
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