Free BBC Academy podcasting webinars available
The BBC Academy’s Production Unlocked is launching a series of free webinars for people who make Podcasts.
Running throughout May, the series brings together podcast presenters, producers and commissioners in and outside the BBC.
They’ll be discussing everything from formats, storytelling and what’s going to the next big Pod.
Places are free and you don’t need to work at the BBC or be a member of the BBC Academy. For details of the whole series see this link.
Here are the details of all the upcoming events:
Tuesday 11 May 1430
Your essential briefing on what’s just over the horizon of podcast production – inside the Beeb and out.
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A guide to festive season pottering
In Anna McGovern s new book, she writes about the joy to be found in mundane activities
23 December 2020 • 11:00am
Wrapping presents is a perfect example of festive pottering - just make sure you take your time
Credit: Peter Byrne/PA
Anna McGovern believes that there’s a delectable satisfaction to be found in everyday household tasks. Take, for instance, the washing up: “Fill a sink with water, sticking your finger in the water flow to check the temperature. Glance up around you. Add washing-up liquid and swish to create maximum bubble height. Pause. Watch the water going down the sink. Check water temperature again. Collect items to be washed. Flick bits and crumbs into the bin.”
Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart won the Booker Prize
The critics’ top eight choices based on Christmas selections in national newspapers, the London Evening Standard, the TLS, The Spectator and the New Statesman. Plus, we take a look at some of the other best books which were released in 2020.
Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart
The winner of this year’s Booker Prize is a tale of poverty, addiction and abuse set in and around Glasgow in the 1980s. Shuggie Bain’s mother is an alcoholic; his father, a violent, fitfully present taxi driver. As family members drift away, he becomes his mother’s sole carer – and it is their relationship that forms the novel’s emotional core. First-time author Douglas Stuart was praised for his poetic, slang-studded prose, and for his ability to find good in his characters, no matter how despicable their behaviour. Some critics, however, thought the book would have benefited from more rigorous editing.