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Podcast: Arts & Ideas
Episode: Why We Need New News
Description: New research looking at at reporting secret assassinations, countering propaganda & how we could update TV news bulletins, from the Being Human Festival, an annual event which involves public events put on by universities across the UK, presented by Shahidha Bari. Steve Poole teaches at the University of the West of England and is involved in a project - Romancing the Gibbet - that uses smartphone apps to evoke memories of C18th hangings hidden in the English landscape
Dr Clare George is Miller Archivist at the Research Centre for German and Austrian Exile Studies at the University...