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Goya
History & The Arts

Goya

...technique of fresco, in which the paint is applied to wet plaster. JANIS TOMLINSON What do we know about his life ? We really don't know very much. For his early life we have his correspondence to his home town friend Martin Sabater but it's very cut and dried correspondence. It's often about, you know, going hunting, about the good times they used to have. Sometimes...
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Level 2: Intermediate 5 hrs
Introducing Homer's Iliad
History & The Arts

Introducing Homer's Iliad

...techniques of oral poetry. [MUSIC PLAYING] NARRATOR Our tale, the Odyssey, starts with a nymph, a king and the aftermath of war at Troy. It's a decade since Odysseus left for his home, Ithaca, after the Trojan War. For seven years, he's been ensnared by the nymph Calypso. But he's pining for his wife Penelope and son Telemachus. The goddess Athena is rather a fan of...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
A freelance career in the creative arts Badge icon
History & The Arts

A freelance career in the creative arts

...techniques, ideas – that I otherwise might not have explored on my own.’ In a De:Formal interview (2018), the group shares this observation: ‘Many of our personal practices have expanded to include new mediums – for example installation and sound works – as a result of the collective confidence and knowledge of our group, and we have been able to accomplish much...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
The Empties Generation: Why did we hit peak booze in 2004
History & The Arts

The Empties Generation: Why did we hit peak booze in 2004

...techniques – upselling singles to doubles, for instance – to exceed revenue targets. All this was happening as the real cost of purchasing alcohol, allowing for inflation and changes in disposable income, fell every year from 1984 to 2007. As one liver consultant put it to me: “My patient who’s drinking 100–120 units per week can afford to buy three times as...
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Article 10 mins
Microbes – friend or foe?
Nature & Environment

Microbes – friend or foe?

...techniques are they exposed to oxygen. Microbiologists have devised a range of methods for culturing anaerobic microbes. One of the most important pieces of equipment is a cabinet flushed with a gas such as nitrogen which allows manipulations to be carried out in an oxygen-free environment. The operator carries out the work through rubber gloves connected to the inside...
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Level 1: Introductory 2 hrs
Sir David Attenborough - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Sir David Attenborough - Earth in Vision

...techniques we were using and that people were getting misled as to what it was they were seeing. So we harked back to The Making of The Living Planet and put it into 10-minute segments. And the embarrassing thing now is that a number of people think it’s rather more interesting than the programmes themselves, but there we are! Is the ‘golden age’ of natural...
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Video 40 mins
Children and young people: food and food marketing
Education & Development

Children and young people: food and food marketing

...techniques that encourage users to like and share, linking in their friends and spreading marketing messages through their networks. This makes the advertising particularly powerful in ways that counteract young people’s growing ability to understand what is healthy and why. Importantly, it also affects the other ways that they perceive food – as an item that...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
The problem with crime
Society, Politics & Law

The problem with crime

...technique of interior discussion so to call it which gives a voice and a thoughtful, intelligent voice to a whole stratum of society which had never been heard from before. We have Janice Galloway's first novel, "The Trick is the Keep Breathing", published in 1989, centred on a woman struggling out of a nervous breakdown, that's as far as possible from the old hard man...
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Level 2: Intermediate 1 hr