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Oxford Kafka24

'Kafka's Ape' and 'Words and Music'

Interview with the creatives behind two shows inspired by Kafka's story 'A Report for an Academy' which explore race, migration, ageing and "humanimal" agency.
Reimagining Ancient Greece and Rome: APGRD Podcast

Marco Martinelli and Teatro delle Albe: Italy and Community Theatre

A podcast episode with Marco Martinelli
Approaching Shakespeare

Love's Labour's Lost

Emma Smith continues her Approaching Shakespeare series with a lecture on the play Love's Labour's Lost.
Chaucer for Beginners

Chaucer 3 - The Miller’s Tale

Professor Marion Turner introduces the ribald and humorous world of one of the Canterbury Tales' most famous stories – "The Miller's Tale."
TORCH Post-Show Conversations
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TORCH Post-Show Conversations: Scandaltown

Listen in as Caroline Taylor and Ruth Moore discuss a recent production of Mike Bartlett's 'Scandaltown'
Narrative Futures

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.
Edward Lear's Feelings

Laughter

Lear once spoke of 'this ludicrously whirligig life which one suffers from first and laughs at afterwards.'
Approaching Shakespeare
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The Two Gentlemen of Verona

Professor Emma Smith gives the last of her 2017 Shakespeare lectures on his early comedy, Two Gentlemen of Verona.
Approaching Shakespeare
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The Merry Wives of Windsor

Professor Emma Smith lectures on Shakespeare’s The Merry Wives of Windsor.
Approaching Shakespeare
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All's Well That Ends Well

Professor Emma Smith lectures on Shakespeare’s comedy All's Well That Ends Well.
Approaching Shakespeare
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Cymbeline

Professor Emma Smith continues her Approaching Shakespeare series with a lecture on one of Shakespeare’s later plays, Cymbeline.
Alumni Voices

Writer and performer, Gyles Brandreth (New College, 1967)

Celebrated writer, broadcaster, performer and former politician, Gyles Brandreth, talks about his extraordinary career and varied interests in this podcast.
Oxford Writers' House Talks

‘Comedy, Collaboration and Blur’: Talk and Q&A with John Osborne and Jane Berthoud

An insightful discussion between comedy writer John Osborne and ex-Head of BBC Radio Comedy, Jane Berthoud.
St Edmund Hall

Making a Mockery of Democracy

Comedian Al Murray, St Edmund Hall, 1987, talks about standing against Nigel Farage as a political candidate for Thanet South in the guise of his 'Pub Landlord' comedy persona.
Valentine's Day at Oxford

Love's Labour's Lost

Emma Smith continues her Approaching Shakespeare series with a lecture on the play Love's Labour's Lost.
St Edmund Hall

On Not Writing

Stand-up comedian Stewart Lee (Honorary Fellow and alumnus of St Edmund Hall, University of Oxford) discusses the fantasy that stand-up comedy is spontaneous rather than written, and describes the evolution of stand-up over the last few decades.
D.H. Lawrence

DH Lawrence 2. Humour

Catherine Brown gives the second lecture in the DH Lawrence series.
St Anne's College

Costume in Roman Comedy

From the St Anne's Classics Reunion. The role of costume in Roman comedy by Professor Matthew Leigh.
What is Tragedy?

Is Tragedy still Alive?

Discussion on whether tragedy still exists in modern culture, whether in films, modern theatre or and other creative arts.
Faculty of Classics

Roman Comedy: A funny thing happened...

Peter Brown gives his lecture on Roman Comedy. Part of the OxBridge Classics Conference for Schools lecture series.

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