Graham Greene and Josephine Reid

Professor Adam Smyth talks to cataloguer Lucy Kelsall and book conservator Nikki Tomkins about the seventeenth-century library of Nicholas Crouch, now in Balliol College, and how to deal with fragile books. 

A demonstration of and discussion about hand-press printing with the Bodleian's Dr Paul Nash. 

In episode 6 we ask the question: How can we use play to teach English? First up this week, Chris talks about how he has used play in his teaching, and introduces We'am to a game from his childhood days. Then they talk to Elly Setterfield, a young learner ELT specialist. Elly dis ...  Show more

How much is music a part of your life? Do you play any musical instruments? Did you use to play any when you were younger? Have fun in this musical episode (we even play some!) and learn more about the instruments we play and played in the past, what we think about them, our favo ...  Show more

Today Timothy revisits the question on learning human anatomy and how to organize the topics, with some extra comments on how he would change his answer today. What do you want to learn? Leave your question at  http://MasterOfMemory.com/. Music credit: Maurice Ravel’s String Quart ...  Show more

Sophie Duncan delves into the playwright’s world-famous tragedy to reveal what it tells us about youth in the Tudor era The doomed romance of young lovers Romeo and Juliet has captured imaginations across the centuries – but what does William Shakespeare’s play tell us about the ...  Show more