Results

Africa’s Information Revolution: Rhetoric and Reality (2015)

Subject

Development studies; Information technology

Video podcast from the Oxford Internet Institute. Padrig Carmody analyses the phenomenal recent growth in mobile phone and internet usage in Africa. Based on over two hundred firm level interviews in...

DVD Find Other Online

Acting Masterclass: Lend Me Your Ears (2013 Video)

Series

Staging Shakespeare

Video podcast. A practical Masterclass with Gregory Doran from the Royal Shakespeare Company on how Shakespeare spins rhetoric for the actor, with Sam Leith, journalist and writer, and author of ‘You...

Shakespeare Shakespeare productions Online

Progress of peace talks following debate in Knesset (1979)

Genre

News report; Speech; Music

Derek Grant reports on the Egyptian-Israeli peace talks. Includes military band fanfare music, speech by US President, Jimmy Carter at a state dinner, on the aims of the peace talks and rhetoric on the...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Gulf crisis update - Thatcher, Hussein, Fitzwater (1990)

Genre

News report; Press conference; Speech

Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher says there will be no hostage deals with Iraq. Saddam Hussein makes a statement through an interpreter offering to hold talks with the USA; this is dismissed by White House...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Speech by Jimmy Carter on progress of peace treaty (1979)

Genre

Speech

Speech by US President, Jimmy Carter on Egyptian-Israeli peace talks following talks with Egyptian President, Anwar Sadat. Includes his view that both Israel and Egypt want peace, as well as rhetoric on...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Conservative conference - Ken Baker speech (1989)

Genre

News report; Speech

New Conservative Party Chairman, Kenneth Baker, makes his mark at this year’s conference in Blackpool. In a rousing speech he inspires the delegates with his confident style and rhetoric, bringing cheers...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Speak the Speech, I Pray You: On Shakespeare’s Language (2022 Video)

Brief video lecture by Robin Williams in which she explores the flexible metric structure on which the playwright layers plot, emotion, imagery, poetry, and rhetoric.

Shakespeare Shakespeare productions Online

John Major complete speech to Conservative conference (1994)

Genre

Speech

Recording of Prime Minister John Major’s complete speech to the Conservative Party conference in Bournemouth (14/10/94). He attacks the Labour Party on their proposals for devolution, Europe, and for...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Titus Andronicus (2011 Audio)

Series

Approaching Shakespeare

Focusing in detail on one particular scene, and on critical responses to it, this sixth Approaching Shakespeare lecture on Titus Andronicus deals with violence, rhetoric, and the nature of dramatic...

Shakespeare Shakespeare productions Online

Introduction to Richard III (2020 Video)

Series

The Shakespeare 2020 Project

Video made as part of The Shakespeare 2020 Project in which Robin Hizme introduces the main themes and characters from this, her favourite among the history plays. She focuses on the depiction of the title...

Shakespeare Shakespeare productions Online