Taking the fear out of Shakespeare
If you find Shakespeare’s language difficult, help is at hand.
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Art and war
UK composer Graham Fitkin’s pieces responding to the Iraq War and Guantanamo, Chain of Command and No Doubt, bring together words and music in uncompromising ways.
MoreThe art of listening: musical pitch
A musical journey from Bach to Dappy, looking at pitch, auditory illusions, ‘perfect pitch’, musical synysthesia and why cash machines use the tritone!
MoreDeath 24x a second
In this 4th Huston lecture, British film theorist Laura Mulvey analyses the relationship between stillness and the moving image in cinema, drawing on Rossellini’s Journey to Italy.
MoreLeveson Inquiry – the backstory
Lord Leveson’s inquiry into the culture, practice and ethics of the British press will report on 29 November. Angela Phillips looks at what motivated the tabloids to get stories by hacking phones and considers the options for reform.
MoreJean-Luc Godard – a portrait
A portrait of French film-maker, Jean-Luc Godard – director of Breathless and Weekend, writer for Cahiers du Cinema and one of the creators of the French New Wave.
MoreStaying live?
Musician, DJ and radio producer, Chris Berrow, discusses live music and what the word “live” actually means.
MoreHamlet’s Arab Journey: Shakespeare in the Arab world
Shakespeare in the Arab world, from a production off the coast of Yemen within Shakespeare’s lifetime to an early Egyptian Hamlet that is a musical with a happy ending.
MoreIt’s hard to be critical these days….
Dr. Hilary Rose considers the promise of interdisciplinarity, and explains her concerns about what she thinks might be the dulling of criticality through such endeavours.
MoreIs London like it used to be?
Think tourism is just for out-of-towners? Think again. Alex Bingham takes a stroll and encounters some of London’s walking guides. She finds out about University of Westminster’s guiding course and a lot more about London.
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