Today is International Bagpipe Day (10March) – the fourth year of this celebration of bagpipe music. All around the world from Berlin to Budapest and from Iran to Canada, pipers will be holding concerts and events. SOAS Radio has been running a series…
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Anna Randle, Head of Strategy at London Borough of Lambeth in south London talks to Jo Barratt about redefining local government in the fourth Civic Radio podcast If citizenship is a reciprocal relationship between the individual citizen and everyone else in the communities…
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We’ve seen the hotly anticipated release of Hilary Mantel’s books, and the stunning success of their adaptations for the stage. Now the TV adaptation, starring Mark Rylance and Damien Lewis has just drawn to a close on BBC TV in…
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This is the third of our podcasts from Civic Radio, exploring the role of the ‘civic’ in today’s world – a world in which commerce often squeezes out our collective experience as citizens, and in which the term ‘citizenship’ is usually used to…
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If you are someone who loves audio, or if you are looking for something new and inspiring to do in the week after Easter – check out The School of Sound.The School of Sound is 4 days of masterclasses about the…
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In this second podcast from Civic Radio, Jo Barratt talks to Simon Willis, Chief Executive of the Young Foundation about social inequality ad civic participation. Willis says that many people in the UK feel forgotten and disenfranchised, he is…
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Has the world of commerce encroached irrevocably on our civic spaces, and how much do we care? Civic Workshop is asking that question and looking at ways to reframe our everyday local experiences with an awareness of our collective social and political…
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Would you like to translate one of Pod Academy’s podcasts? We are looking for volunteer translators. We have just published our first translation. Héctor Pittman Villarreal from Peru has translated the transcript of the ethnomusicology podcast into Spanish – see it here. Pod…
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Here at Pod Academy we are convinced that podcasting is a great way to get research out to a wide audience, to make an impact. If you’d like to try your hand at making a podcast, here are some tips…
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Apparently, the average Brit eats 7000 calories on Christmas Day, amid a week of eating mince pies, chocolates and Christmas cake. No wonder many of us are calorie counting in the new year! But according to two academics at Harvard University, Richard Wrangham, Professor…
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