To Be Or Not To Be: Lockdown Shakespeare
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“To be or not to be?” A popular podcast series about literature’s most famous speech. We now have a new podcast A Reading Life, A Writing Life with Sally Bayley
London
Joined August 2020
A video sampling the forthcoming podcast series with @SallyBayley1 - reading, writing, living with and alongside the natural world. The series shows us how literature can help with the tricky business of life. Please support us here: https://t.co/uNRIHBknMT
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Withnail & I @BirminghamRep is hilarious & heartbreaking, a wild ride, a wicked script & a rocking musical - & it all ends with, well, as Hamlet. Superbly directed & designed. A privilege to witness it.
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@ToBeOrNotcast brilliant production by Andrew Smith in all those early episodes; then many of the later episodes are produced by @J_T_Bowen, Lucie Richter-Mahr & an ep by D.Gwalia. An Arts Cooperative of sorts ...
I’ve been listening to back episodes of the podcast by @SallyBayley1, ‘A Reading Life, A Writing Life’. I’m using them as a way to access my own calm space where the work of writing happens. Meditative and inspirational.
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Congratulations Kris and Andrew!
Delighted that our @BBCRadio4 documentary ‘Incandescent: The Phoebus Cartel’ presented by @shaunwkeaveny produced by @ToBeOrNotcast features on the #Seriously feed - which curates the world’s best audio documentaries and podcasts
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@SallyBayley1 Thanks Sally. It’s all down to our talented mutual friend @ToBeOrNotcast
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'Forward' is Birmingham's motto, but given devastating council cuts, how possible is that for cultural organisations now? For the Sunday Mercury I've written about @unibirmingham's funding for artists, which brings some hope to the city https://t.co/jm836HbyXy
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Winteringham's @BirminghamRep has, according to Artistic Director @SeanFoleyJ, 'a unique "democratic" auditorium – no boxes, no stalls/circle division: every seat gets the same amazing view.' A prime example of the City's distinctive, egalitarian culture currently under threat.
On Saturday it will be 101 years since the birth of Graham Winteringham, architect. He is best known for designing the new Birmingham Rep theatre on Chamberlain Square which opened in 1971 and won a RIBA award in 1972. Read more on this week's blog here https://t.co/14dDuEXOP4
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Following this week's devastating news, here's a collective response to the proposed Birmingham City Council Cuts from the Arts and Culture sector in Birmingham. To read the statement as a whole, you can find it in the News section on our website: https://t.co/4tknkVcvoj
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Birmingham’s cultural figures - from @JoeLycett to Carlos Acosta (@CAcostaOfficial), @DuranDuran to Napalm Death (@officialND) – have warned 100% cuts to the council's funding of arts organisations will “devastate” the ecosystem in Britain’s second city. https://t.co/IcYIPYQmue
theguardian.com
Napalm Death, visual artist Pogus Caesar and Peaky Blinders’ Steven Knight also among city’s cultural figures warning over ‘horrifying’ move
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The next in @paulsenwriter's excellent series of chats with Simon Schaffer - this one very topical and an issue I worry about as I have coursework I set my students that they could get AI to do for them.
Are A.I.'s going to undermine the university exam system? Latest episode of my interview with Cambridge historian Simon Schaffer on this topic and more is now live!
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Here’s the latest in my series of interviews with Cambridge professor Simon Schaffer. A fascinating re-evaluation of Alan Turing’s legendary 1950 paper on A.I. https://t.co/5I3EMK78Fc
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For a limited time the hardback edition of SHAKESPEARE’S BOOK (@WmCollinsBooks) is only £9.99 on Amazon. That's a huge 60% off!! The book tells the story of the creation of the Shakespeare First Folio, one of the most influential secular books in history, and those who made it!!
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I am ridiculously excited to reveal my forthcoming book, 'Shakespeare's Borrowed Feathers', with @ManchesterUP. I'm immensely proud of this huge project and can't wait for folk to read! Available to pre-order for £25 here: https://t.co/cr3IP1HCB2
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First episode of my interview with renowned Cambridge historian of science, Professor Simon Schaffer on the surprising history of A.I. Simon judges ChatGPT attempt to imitate him!
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I am thrilled to be heading back into the life and mind of @ZinnieH’s Lady M. She is a puzzle that I wasn’t done solving! What a woman! @Rosetheatre get ready… there is going to be a lot of blood!
🚨BREAKING NEWS 🚨 We are thrilled to share the complete cast for a new UK and US tour of Zinnie Harris’s acclaimed play Macbeth (an undoing) 🗡️🎭 💫Rose Theatre in association with Theatre for A New Audience present a Royal Lyceum Edinburgh production 💫
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A beautiful encapsulation of two completely different schools of rhetoric. And two very different ages of American politics separated by only a couple of years. @RestIsPolitics
Posting this today because it’s my birthday and this video makes me laugh. 🥳😂😁 https://t.co/W9bQVTx9fu
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'I, Robot': Asimov's brilliant title perfectly captures the threat of AI. The following will be genuinely illuminating, with Prof Simon Schaffer & @paulsenwriter, author of Einstein's Fridge. Artificial Intelligence: Lessons from History
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I’ve recorded an interview with brilliant historian of science, Professor Simon Schaffer of Cambridge University about the surprising and little-know history of artificial intelligence and what we can learn from that. Here’s the series trailer!
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'How can we know the dancer from the dance?' Yeats seeds an image of unalienated, perfectly self-expressive, joyous activity to aspire to, in individual & collective life, now that it's 2024 & always. Happy New Year, everybody. @EnglishAssoc @MichaelRosenYes @StuartKells
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Pick of the week in @ObserverUK “This fascinating documentary proves some old bits of kit are worth keeping” @Telegraph #PhoebusCartel
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#HappyNewYear from all at Rakkit Productions. Why not pour yourself a glass of something cheering and listen to our @BBCRadio4 doc at 17.00 presented by @shaunwkeaveny and produced by Andrew Smith (@ToBeOrNotcast) #PhoebusCartel
bbc.co.uk
Shaun Keaveny marks the centenary of planned obsolescence by exploring the Phoebus Cartel.
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