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Interviews - Writing For Radio
History & The Arts

Interviews - Writing For Radio

...think one of the really exciting things about drama on Radio 4, because of its scale, is you think OK yes we can do the entire works of Zola and we’ll do it, we’ll strip it across a week. So we had 27 episodes of Emil Zola: Blood, Sex and Money. And I can’t think of many other places in the known universe where you could do something of that scale. Including...
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Herbal medicine
Health, Sports & Psychology

Herbal medicine

...thinking was along the lines of "why give a patient a herb tea with an indeterminate amount of active ingredients, when it is possible to administer a small white pill with precisely measured amounts?" And so drugs such as digoxin, derived originally from foxgloves, and aspirin, based on chemicals found in meadowsweet and willow bark, were isolated and then synthesised...
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Harry Marshall - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Harry Marshall - Earth in Vision

...think has always sort of stood me in good stead and perhaps even inspired my career choice. He said, ‘You do this by the combination of a pair of binoculars, tweezers and a jam jar. And what you do is you look at the elephant through the wrong end of a pair of binoculars, you pick them up with tweezers and you put them in a jam jar.’ And I’ve always thought that...
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Children’s rights
Society, Politics & Law

Children’s rights

...think each makes her case? What points of continuity and change can you identify with nineteenth century concerns with education for citizenship? Finally, what points are made about the implications for welfare provision, of thinking of children as active citizens rather than future citizens? Children's rights part 1 (10.5 minutes 5 MB) Esther Saraga This tape is intended...
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Level 2: Intermediate 1 hr
Meddylfryd mentora (A mentoring mindset)
Education & Development

Meddylfryd mentora (A mentoring mindset)

...system addysg Cymru, a bydd fersiwn Gymraeg o’r cwrs yn cael ei chyhoeddi yn ddiweddarach yn 2022. Mae’r negeseuon ynghylch egwyddorion mentora a hyfforddi effeithiol a’r rôl bwysig mae mentoriaid yn ei chwarae fel addysgwyr athrawon yng nghyd-destun ysgolion yn parhau’r un fath ar draws systemau addysg. Bydd y cwrs yn gwella eich dealltwriaeth am rôl mentor o...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
Herodotus 'The Histories': a timeline
History & The Arts

Herodotus 'The Histories': a timeline

...system for recording dates. See, for example, Thucydides, 'The Peloponnesian War', Book 2, Ch. 2: “The 30 years' truce which was entered into after the conquest of Euboea lasted 14 years. In the 15th, the 48th year of the priestess-ship of Chrysis at Argos, in the Ephorate of Aenesias at Sparta, in the last month but two of the Archonship of Pythodorus at Athens, and...
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Approaching language, literature and childhood
Education & Development

Approaching language, literature and childhood

...thinking about literature in terms of its purpose. You’ll start considering two novels written for children, Marianne Dreams and Tom’s Midnight Garden, and learn some introductory linguistic techniques to help you identify how these works achieve their intended effects. You’ll then consider diversity and inclusion, and at the end of the course, you’ll think about...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Can comedy change your life?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Can comedy change your life?

...think and even how we act...Find out more about The Open University's Psychology courses Maeve Higgins once set herself a task. The Irish-born comedian wanted to see what life would be like if she stopped laughing at things that weren’t funny. Turns out it wasn’t as easy as she thought. “It was so effing hard,” she says. “Laughter is a lubricant and is expected,...
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