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Great Writers Inspire

Chaucer

Professor Daniel Wakelin discusses the work of Chaucer and explains how he was one of the first to use everyday spoken English as a literary language in the 14th Century.
Great Writers Inspire

Ezra Pound

Dr Rebecca Beasley explains why we should read Pound, someone she considers as the central figure in early 20th Century poetry movements.
Journey of a Molecular Detective; David Sherratt

John Milton

Dr Anna Beer shares a few short extracts of Milton's poem Lycidas and discusses what they show about Milton's very special qualities as a writer.
Great Writers Inspire

John Milton

Dr Anna Beer shares a few short extracts of Milton's poem Lycidas and discusses what they show about Milton's very special qualities as a writer.
Great Writers Inspire

Why Dickens?

Dr Robert Douglas-Fairhurst talks of Dickens' life and influences and why these have made his works so popular.
Bio-Ethics Bites

Life and Death

If a patient decides she doesn't want to live any longer, should she be allowed to die? Should she be allowed to kill herself?
Oxford Internet Institute - Lectures and Seminars

What Will A Companionable Computational Agent Be Like? (Lovelace Lecture 2010)

Yorick Wilks explores the state of the art in modelling realistic conversation with computers over the last 40 years, and asks what we would want in a conversational agent (or 'Companion') designed for a long-term relationship with a user.

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