Random Oxford Podcasts

Every object in the Ashmolean has passed from hand to hand to reach the Museum. In a new podcast, we uncover the invisible fingerprints left behind by makers, looters, archaeologists, soldiers, rulers, curators, and many more. These stories of touch reveal the ways in which the forces of conflict and colonialism have shaped Britain’s oldest Museum. Join the Ashmolean’s curators alongside artists, experts, and community members. Fingerprints will be released on the Ashmolean’s website, on Spotify, Apple, and wherever you get your podcasts, weekly from 21 January 2022 until 25 February 2022. Guests include Bénédicte Savoy, co-author of the Report on African Cultural Heritage, commissioned by Emmanuel Macron; Professor Dan Hicks, of Oxford’s Pitt Rivers Museum; and Simukai Chigudu, one of the founding members of the Rhodes Must Fall campaign.

Categories: Arts, History, Society & Culture

Tags: Archaeology, art, art history, Ashmolean, Ashmolean Museum, Benin, Benin Bronzes, British Museum, colonialism, heritage, History, Museum Studies, museums, oxford, Oxford University, Pitt Rivers Museum, restitution, University of Oxford

English Teachers Dr. Christian Taylor and Field Commander (ret.) Joe Payne introduce you to the Authorship Question of Shakespeare – who actually was the ‘Bard of Avon’?

Is it a conspiracy theory? Is that necessarily a bad thing? Tune in and find out!

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Categories: Arts, Education

Tags: authorship, canterbury, De Vere, english, Literature, Marlowe, oxford, Oxfordian, Shakespeare, Stratford, Stratfordian

Historian and broadcaster Professor Adam Smith explores the America of today through the lens of the past. Is America – as Abraham Lincoln once claimed – the last best hope of Earth?

Produced by Oxford University’s world-leading Rothermere American Institute, each story-filled episode looks at the US from the outside in – delving into the political events, conflicts, speeches and songs that have shaped and embodied the soul of a nation.

From the bloody battlefields of Gettysburg to fake news and gun control, Professor Smith takes you back in time (and sometimes on location) to uncover fresh insights and commentary from award-winning academics and prominent public figures.

Join us as we ask: what does the US stand for – and what does this mean for us all?

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Categories: Arts, History

Tags: America, History, oxford, Politics, United States

From a magician who inspired Shakespeare, and poems woven into Japanese prints, to manuscripts illuminated with the ancient love story of Layla and Majnun, this new podcast series will delve into the poetry and literature hidden in the collections at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford. Join us each Friday, from 5 February, for a new audio adventure. Objects Out Loud is produced and presented by Lucie Dawkins.

Categories: Arts, History

Tags: art, Ashmolean, curators, drama, History, Literature, museum, oxford, poetry, University of Oxford, Uplifting

A wonderfully intimate look into the life and work of India Hicks and her extraordinary family. In Season One we’re talking Movie Stars, Matadors and Maharajas as we have tea and cake with Lady Pamela, daughter of Lord and Lady Mountbatten and of course India’s much moved mum. Now in her 90s Lady Pamela’s stories will astound you; she’s first cousins with Prince Philip, travelled the world on the famous Commonwealth tour when Princess Elizabeth became Queen, befriended everyone from Grace Kelly to Gandhi and had a front row seat as her father, the last Viceroy of India, oversaw the complicated process of partition. We ask that if you have listened to this podcast would you be so kind as to consider making a donation to The Princes Trust – a charitable organisation with which India is actively involved. Many thanks. www.princes-trust.org.uk Produced by Lisa Francesca Nand and edited by Alex George.

Categories: Society & Culture

Tags: #bahamas, aristocracy, british, fashion, indiahicks, ladypamelahicks, mountbatten, oxford, Oxfordshire, style, tea, travel

Hand-picked by experts, every Tuesday we’ll post a 40-minute+ podcast of the best New Music from across the globe.

Categories: Music

Tags: alternative, Ben, electro, frank, Independent, indie, j, leeds, Marwood, music, new, oxford, pitchfork, POP, punk, Reading, triple, Turner, UK

Discussing his works chapter-by-chapter and interviewing Lewis experts.

Categories: Religion & Spirituality

Tags: christianity, CS, inklings, jack, lewis, Narnia, oxford