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Episode 5 - Kitschies, indies, and ads: Juggling narrative forms |
Jared Shurin explores his wide-ranging interests from anthologising speculative shorts to the Kitschies Awards to ethical advertising for revisioning global narratives. |
Jaren Shurin, Chelsea Haith, Louis Greenberg |
12 Nov 2020 |
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Episode 4: Short stories are short: Edit for meaning |
Mahvesh Murad discusses the work of curating and editing anthologies of speculative short fiction, ethically, refusing the word 'diversity' for doing too little, too late. |
Mahvesh Murad, Chelsea Haith, Louis Greenberg |
05 Nov 2020 |
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Episode 3 - People like me: Speculation in Pakistan |
Sami Shah ranges over his radio, comedy and burgeoning literary career, and describes how he has to write himself into the speculative fiction space. |
Sami Shah, Chelsea Haith, Louis Greenberg |
23 Oct 2020 |
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Narrative Futures Coming Soon |
The trailer for the Narrative Futures podcast, devised and produced by Chelsea Haith, featuring interviews with eight authors and editors, and writing prompts by Louis Greenberg. |
Chelsea Haith, Lauren Beukes, Mohale Mashigo, Sami Shah |
28 Sep 2020 |
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What Tolkien learnt from 'Beowulf': Representations of Evil |
Monsters and evil in Tolkien |
Rafael J. Pascual |
16 Jul 2020 |
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Alan Garner |
A brief introduction to the British fantasy writer, Alan Garner. |
Felix Taylor |
12 May 2020 |
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Approaching Fantasy Literature |
A short introduction to reading and studying fantasy literature. |
Stuart Lee |
12 May 2020 |
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H. P. Lovecraft |
A brief introduction to the writer, H. P. Lovecraft. |
Stuart Lee |
12 May 2020 |
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Heroes and Villains in Game of Thrones |
Dr Carolyne Larrington gives a talk about Game of Thrones and the often complicated morality its characters have. Part of the Ashmolean Live Friday event on 29th January 2016. |
Carolyne Larrington |
10 Feb 2016 |
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The Hobbit at the Bodleian: World Book Day 2010 |
Judith Priestman, curator of literary manuscripts at the Bodleian library, discusses the World Book Day 2010 Tolkien exhibition, at which a selection of J.R.R. Tolkien's original artwork for The Hobbit, was on display to the public. |
Judith Priestman |
22 May 2013 |
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Crackpots and Eggheads: Eccentricity in Natural History |
In the first in a series of 'Eccentricity' lectures, Dr Brian Regal talks about the search for 'monsters', in particular the hunt for Sasquatch or 'Bigfoot', and the "crackpot" natural historians who were obsessed with the search. |
Brian Regal |
28 Jul 2011 |
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Talking Tolkien: The influences of Medieval Literature on the Fiction of J. R. R. Tolkien |
Stuart Lee and Elizabeth Solopova discuss the influences of medieval literature on the fiction of J. R. R. Tolkien. |
Stuart Lee, Elizabeth Solopova, Tara Mulholland |
25 Mar 2010 |
