Re: [Swprograms] Fwd: [RADIO-STUDIES] BBC Radio series starting tonight

[Richard Cuff <rdcuff@xxxxxxxxx>]

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 <dbgoren@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> From: David Hendy <davidjhendy@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: June 14, 2010 7:19:11 AM EDT
> To: RADIO-STUDIES@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [RADIO-STUDIES] BBC Radio series starting tonight
> Reply-To: David Hendy <davidjhendy@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> 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.
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> David Hendy,
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> Reader in Media & Communication,
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> University of Westminster.
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