An Irregular Miscellany: A Selection Of Essays And Lectures From The Common University
- Autor: Vários
- Narrador: Vários
- Editora: Podcast
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Sinopse
Throughout the 1920s the Common University provided a free and ready source of education to the working classes of England through various lecture series and the distribution of educative pamphlets in the East End. At the time it renowned as a philanthropic exercise noted more for its good intentions than its practice of asking for lecturers' credentials. In the mid 1930s it shut down amid a small furore over the nonsense it was teaching. It was assumed by all involved that that would be the end of it.Then, toward the end of the 1990s the English poet A.F. Harrold discovered a box of papers in the attic of an elderly stranger. After exhaustive investigations, leads followed and clues uncovered he discovered that what he held in his hands were lecture notes, reports of speeches, lessons and seminars from the Common University long thought lost by educational historians. "Gosh," he thought, "This stuff's jolly interesting."Looking into the history of the Common University he found that the lives of those involved in it were surprisingly exciting and he dramatised those events and those intrepid people in a series of novels that begin with The Curious Education of Epitome Quirkstandard. Now, however, he has decided to share some of the original documents that lead him to stories through an irregular series of readings. He's right, it is jolly interesting. If not entirely factually correct.
Episódios
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Episode Twelve - An Irregular Miscellany: A selection of essays and lectures from the Common University
12/08/2006 Duração: 22min-In this episode: An Explanation about the Perplexity of certain Pyramids.
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Episode Eleven - An Irregular Miscellany: A selection of essays and lectures from the Common University
11/08/2006 Duração: 09min-In this episode: A Speech about The Future and How To Leave Something for it.
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Episode Ten - An Irregular Miscellany: A selection of essays and lectures from the Common University
10/08/2006 Duração: 07min-In this episode: A Talk and Some Thoughts about Unlucky Numbers.
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Episode Nine - An Irregular Miscellany: A selection of essays and lectures from the Common University
09/08/2006 Duração: 18min-In this episode: A Long Investigation into the History of Stockings
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Episode Eight - An Irregular Miscellany: A selection of essays and lectures from the Common University
08/08/2006 Duração: 09min-In this episode: Some Facts About Albert Pybus and those Giant Beavers
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Episode Seven - An Irregular Miscellany: A selection of essays and lectures from the Common University
07/08/2006 Duração: 03min-In this episode: You need a Fair-Sized Kitchen for this, and a very Small Bucket
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Episode Six - An Irregular Miscellany: A selection of essays and lectures from the Common University
06/08/2006 Duração: 13min-In this episode: An Essay about Small Bavarian Leather Shorts, and Lichtenstein
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Episode Five - An Irregular Miscellany: A selection of essays and lectures from the Common University
05/08/2006 Duração: 10min-In this episode: The Battle of Nietzsche's Moustache
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Episode Four - An Irregular Miscellany: A selection of essays and lectures from the Common University
04/08/2006 Duração: 03min-In this episode: For those who have considered becoming a Travelling Encyclopaedia Salesman
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Episode Three - An Irregular Miscellany: A selection of essays and lectures from the Common University
03/08/2006 Duração: 06min-In this episode: A Short thing all about Fainting, Fruit Flies and Viennese Scientists
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Episode Two - An Irregular Miscellany: A selection of essays and lectures from the Common University
02/08/2006 Duração: 10min-In this episode: The History of Water, and its Discovery by a 16th Century Anglo-Italian Explorer
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Episode One - An Irregular Miscellany: A selection of essays and lectures from the Common University
01/08/2006 Duração: 08min-In this episode: An Introduction to the Common University and An Irregular Miscellany