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Podcast: Arts & Ideas
Episode: What Makes a Good Lecture?
Description: Mary Beard, Homi Bhabha and Seán Williams join Shahidha Bari to look at the etiquette of talks on zoom and the history of lectures. Lecturing someone can be a negative: you’re patronising or boring or telling them what to think. And yet, today we have TED talks, university staff are routinely recording lectures using video conferencing technology, and the history of thought is a history of persuasive speakers setting out their ideas before audiences.Dr Seán Williams is a BBC/AHRC New Generation Thinker who lectures in German intellectual and cultural history at the Univ...