Thanks for the heads-up. I normally don't check out Radio 3 for spoken-word programming, but this series looks to be worth the effort.
RC On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 12:12 PM, David Goren <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Begin forwarded message: > > From: David Hendy <[email protected]> > Date: June 14, 2010 7:19:11 AM EDT > To: [email protected] > Subject: [RADIO-STUDIES] BBC Radio series starting tonight > Reply-To: David Hendy <[email protected]> > > Hi, > > I thought list-members might be interested to know that my five-part 'media > history' series starts at 11pm tonight on BBC Radio Three, and runs every > night this week. It's called "Rewiring the Mind", runs in 'The Essay' slot, > and it looks at ways in which media have shaped ways of thinking since about > 1900: > > > The Essay: Rewiring the Mind, 11pm, Radio 3:: > > The historian of broadcasting, David Hendy, explores the ways in which the > electronic media have shaped the modern mind. > > Episode 1 (Monday 14th June): "The Ethereal Mind": > > How did wireless conquer the world in the early years of the twentieth > century, and how did a fascination with radio among scientists and writers > unleash new ideas about the transmission of thought and the utopian > potential of invisible forces? > > Episode 2 (Tuesday 15th June): "The Cultivated Mind": > > How effective were the efforts of the BBC to improve the 'public mind' > between the wars? Did broadcasts such as W.B. Yeats's poetry recitals or > E.M. Forster's talks foster ideas of a 'spiritual democracy' and an > enlightened citizenry? > > Episode 3 (Wednesday 16th June): "The Anxious Mind": > > Tonight the reporting of the Holocaust in 1945 and television coverage of > the Challenger Space Shuttle explosion in 1986. If media have made us all > witnesses to horror and tragedy do they also help us to come to terms with > suffering, or just leave us depressed at the wrongs in the world? > > Episode 4 (Thursday 17th June): "The Fallible Mind": > > Two seminal TV programmes: the American drama Marty, broadcast in 1953, and > the BBC's Face-to-Face, from 1960, used unflinching close-ups to reveal > human beings as flawed individuals. Did they make us more compassionate - or > just more obsessed with the private lives of others? > > Episode 5 (Friday 18th June): "The Superficial Mind": > > Might the Internet, despite its wonderful power as a repository of > information and creativity, be slowly degrading or enhancing our mental > abilities? Are our brains ready for it? > > (Presenter: David Hendy. Producer: Matt Thompson). > > > > The series will also be available to listen to on BBC I-player for up to > seven days after broadcast. > > > > For further details and to listen again after broadcast - go to the BBC > website, follow links to Radio 3, then 'The Essay': > > http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006x3hl > > > > David. > > > > David Hendy, > > Reader in Media & Communication, > > University of Westminster. > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Swprograms mailing list > [email protected] > http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/swprograms > > To unsubscribe: Send an E-mail to > [email protected]?subject=unsubscribe, or visit the URL > shown above. > > > -- Richard Cuff / Allentown, PA USA International broadcasting / shortwave blog: http://www.intlradio.blogspot.com _______________________________________________ Swprograms mailing list [email protected] http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/swprograms To unsubscribe: Send an E-mail to [email protected]?subject=unsubscribe, or visit the URL shown above.
