DOCSLIB.ORG

The Ship 2019-2020 by Email to with Some of Our Alumnae

Total Page：16

File Type：pdf, Size：1020Kb

Download full-text PDF Read full-text
The Ship 2019-2020 by Email to with Some of Our Alumnae The Ship 2019 – 2020 St Anne’s College Record 2019 – 2020 • Number 109 • Annual Publication of the St Anne’s Society www.st-annes.ox.ac.uk 1 Contents Editorial: Judith Vidal-Hall 2 Jill Rutter: Migration 49 From the SAS President: Stella Charman 3 Sister Frances Benedicta: Oxford Letter 52 From the Principal: Helen King 4 SAS Branch Reports 54 H Salisbury: Should Doctors Take Sides? 62 COVID 19: WHAT WE DID UNDER LOCKDOWN: Sarah James-Short: Estranged in Oxford 64 a range of pieces from students trapped in College From the JCR: Joseph B Murphy 67 to inventions and doctors on the frontline JCR Amy Langer, Women’s Rep: Appeal for Memoirs 69 Shivani Chauhan 7 E Longrigg: Memoir 70 Hannah Dafforn 9 E Morgan: Memoir 73 Jessica Still 11 From the MCR: Lise Cazzoli 75 Will van Noordt 13 Student News: Results 77 Diane Ackerley: ‘Exovent’ – a Breath of Life 14 College News 80 C Kiire: Doctor on the Front Line: 18 Fellows’ news 85 Robert Stagg: What do we Mean by ‘Normal’? 21 Bonnie Chau: 594 Ways of Reading Jane Eyre 88 Alumnae Publications 91 Hadley Freeman: Graduation Moments 22 No Going Back: A Holocaust Story - Anna Patrick 94 100 YEARS OF DEGREES FOR WOMEN Alumnae news 97 St Anne’s College Record 2019-2020 Bristol and West Branch – Eve Phillips Front and back covers: © St Anne’s From The Ship 1919/1920 24 Gilia Slocock: St Anne Teaching the Virgin 98 Number 109 Annual Publication of the Cambridge Branch – Sarah Beeson-Jones archive collection. October 1920: Clare White: ‘Degrees by Degrees’ 27 St Anne’s Society (formerly known as the London Branch – Clare Dryhurst first degree ceremonies for women Alumnae Weekend and Feedback Request 99 Midlands Branch – Michele Gawthorpe Senia Paseta: Why Did it all Take so Long? 32 Association of Senior Members) In Memoriam 100 North East Branch – David Royal Inside back cover: North West Branch – Lizzie Gent Obituaries 101 Committee 2019-2020 © St Anne’s archive collection. From the Development Office: Edwin Drummond 39 Oxford Branch – Hugh Sutherland President – Stella Charman 1906: Home students take to the water Donations 113 South of England Branch – Stella Charman Libby Purves: Whither the BBC 41 Vice President – Hugh Sutherland Honorary Treasurer – Mary Martin Sian Lawrence: Extinction Rebellion 45 Honorary Editor – Judith Vidal-Hall P Farmer: XR, The Grannies’ View 47 Ex Officio – Helen King 2 www.st-annes.ox.ac.uk From the Editor From the SAS President JUDITH VIDAL-HALL ‘Lord! How empty the streets are Despite everything, they came forward career there while speculating on its A year of challenges and how melancholy … Jealous of with ideas and contributions: from the future as a national public broadcaster; STELLA CHARMAN every door that one sees shut up, centre-piece of this issue – the granting an activist granny from Extinction It’s not been the easiest of years harder to put it into practice. Before the existing lest it should be the plague; and of degrees to women – to the memories Rebellion makes the case for the older about us two shops in three, if for our new SAS president, but she coronavirus entered our lives we had ones such as of some themselves approaching their generation alongside the challenges not more, generally shut up,’ says looks ahead undaunted with plans begun to make progress, with an initial participation own century, by way of some refreshing thrown down by a younger member; Samuel Pepys in his Diary for 1665. for a renewed SAS focus on The Ship itself. This has always in the careers news from contemporary students and Jill Rutter reminds us that immigration This past year, my first as President of been an important way in which the SAS network, CV Following Pepys’ lead, I had thought to graduates trapped in College during is not going away any time soon but the St Anne’s Society, has been nothing has linked alumnae with the College and clinics and begin my editorial for this issue of The lockdown, plus inspiring accounts is likely to increase as refugees from less than extraordinary – and not in a illustrated our collective contribution fundraising Ship with a gloomy appraisal of the hard of a doctor working on the front line poorer countries flee the impact of the good way. Like so many members of to knowledge about the world. With a initiatives. The College is facing a times our present plague has created for throughout the pandemic and another spreading plague. our worldwide community of alumnae, circulation of 9,000, The Ship is widely challenging time ahead and needs the University, our College in particular who spent her time working with And finally: an appeal from Amy Langer, the newly elected SAS Committee has praised and valued. This year we have our support to survive and thrive. It and the world generally. With regrets colleagues on the invention of a new- women’s representative for the JCR. had to place its plans and aspirations on confirmed our commitment to keeping would be greatly helped by a more for the absence of several ‘normal’ – but style ventilator. Our members have yet She is supervising the collection of hold for the time being. Nevertheless, it as a printed document, but also to active body of alumnae, working within check what we should understand by again delivered in infinite variety, from memoirs from former students to form some progress has been possible and developing an interactive online version local communities and alongside OUS this word in Robert Stagg’s illuminating the extraordinary travels of Jane Eyre to a long overdue College archive. See her the ‘new normal’ offers a number of we hope will encourage younger readers colleagues, to widen participation in piece – columns, in particular the the inspiring story of a current student. message and respond, please, before it to read it and all alumnae to keep in the top quality education offered by ever popular Russell Taylor with his opportunities to re-frame and re-boot 1920 was the year the University finally is too late! touch with comments, suggestions and Oxford and specifically to raise the inimitable Alex and the Careers column, the SAS! decided to grant degrees to women, ideas. Sadly we will now be unable to profile of St Anne’s among aspiring both victims of these turbulent times. My thanks to Jay Gilbert, who manages In last year’s Ship, Hugh Sutherland, who who, despite almost half-a-century of deliver on this aspiration until 2021. potential students. We want to generate communications in the Development was then President of the SAS, reflected But on second thoughts, and bearing in sitting finals and gaining firsts, had been a dialogue about this with as many Office. Though this is her first full on its role and purpose, and suggested A second aim for this year was to grow mind what Daniel Defoe implies in his denied the privilege of officially taking of you as possible and, paradoxically, experience of putting The Ship together, it was time to rethink its mission. So our an active Branch of the SAS in the Journal of the Plague Year (1722) – that their degrees. Our invaluable librarian coronavirus restrictions may assist us she rose above my demands and was first task following the 2019 AGM was North East of England in support of the plague was characterised more by Clare White and Professor of Modern in reaching out more widely via online invaluable in getting this to you while to reformulate our purpose in the light College’s outreach activity and the ‘Aim fortitude and resilience than by mob History, Senia Paseta, celebrate this, platforms. With the ‘Meeting Minds’ working from home. of the outcome of the St Anne’s ‘2025 for Oxford’ programme. However, our behaviour – it seemed more appropriate accompanied by excerpts from the Alumni weekend now going entirely Conversation’, and to align our activity plans for a launch event in April had to to begin with a heartfelt expression of 1920 issue of The Ship, then in its tenth Judith Vidal-Hall (Bunting 1957) digital and global in September, our more closely to that of the College as be cancelled, but we will return to this thanks to all those who have contributed year. The feelings of satisfaction and 2020 AGM will likewise be available to a whole: 'to engage St Anne’s alumnae in the coming year and would love to to the issue to make it so much jubilation at this long-awaited right are you in your own home and I hope will all over the world with the College in its hear from any alumnae in the area who more than my grim expectations had evident in its pages, excerpts from which mark a new beginning for the SAS with aspiration to understand the world and would be willing to join this enterprise. supposed. As Camus expressly says in La we include here. its updated role and purpose. Please change it for the better'. Peste (1947): ‘What's true of all the evils More broadly, we have also begun to make contact and join in! Among many outstanding pieces, Libby in the world is true of the plague as well. However, it is relatively easy to express explore ways in which alumnae can Purves, long-time reporter, presenter Stella Charman (Rees 1975) It helps men to rise above themselves.’ something in the abstract, rather actively support College, beyond the and host at the BBC, reflects on her own 4 www.st-annes.ox.ac.uk www.st-annes.ox.ac.uk 5 From the Principal From the Principal to review and develop our plans.
Load more

Recommended publications
  • April 2020 • Issue 2 PROSPERO
    The newspaper for retired BBC Pension Scheme members • April 2020 • Issue 2 PROSPERO REMEMBERING A GOLDEN AGE OF FILM PAGE 8 PENSION SCHEME | BBC PENSIONS PAUL BOHAN AT 100: ‘A REMARKABLE MAN’ Former BBC broadcast engineer Paul Bohan recently celebrated his 100th birthday, and BBC Volunteer Visitor Arthur Masson caught up with him to talk about the interesting times – and places – he’s seen in his long life. aul was born in Bishop Auckland, County He arrived at Stoney Cross and joined a unit servicing Durham, on 24 November 1919. aircraft, for approximately a year. He was then transferred to RAF Marham, and then to RAF PHe was educated at a council school in Byers Mildenhall. Eventually, with his service completed, Green village, where he obtained the first of many he was released in March 1947. (It is perhaps worth ‘accomplishments’, his 11-plus certificate! He was then posted to Meldrum and completed noting that, as he had passed the Commission 12 years as a TV engineer. He left school at 16 and joined the RAF, completing an examinations, if he had remained in service he would 18-month course at Cranwell as a wireless operator, then, have been a Commissioned Officer.) He was offered early retirement, which he accepted after successfully qualifying, went to RAF Thornaby. at the ‘ripe old age’ of 58 and joined Aberdeen After leaving the RAF he joined BOAC, which was the University Language Laboratory as their recording After one year, he went back to Cranwell for another state airline, and was posted to Sudan (Wadi-Halfa).
    [Show full text]
  • How Covid-19 Changed Community Life in the UK
    How Covid-19 changed community CONCLUSION + RECOMMENDATION WEEK 01 + 02: 23RD MARCH OVEWIVEW + KEY INSIGHTS ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS WEEK 04: 13TH APRIL WEEK 05: 20TH APRIL WEEK 06: 27TH APRIL WEEK 03: 6TH APRIL WEEK 08: 11TH MAY WEEK 09: 18TH MAY WEEK 10: 25TH MAY WEEK 12: 8TH JUNE WEEK 11: 1ST JUNE life in the UK WEEK 07: 4TH MAY A week by week archive of life during a pandemic. Understanding the impact on people and communities. 01/2 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 The Young Foundation’s mission is to develop better connected and stronger communities across the UK. As an UKRI accredited research organisation, social CONCLUSION + RECOMMENDATION investor and community practitioner, we offer expert WEEK 01 + 02: 23RD MARCH OVERVIEW + KEY INSIGHTS ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS WEEK 04: 13TH APRIL WEEK 05: 20TH APRIL WEEK 06: 27TH APRIL WEEK 03: 6TH APRIL WEEK 08: 11TH MAY WEEK 09: 18TH MAY WEEK 10: 25TH MAY WEEK 12: 8TH JUNE WEEK 11: 1ST JUNE advice, training and deliver support to: WEEK 07: 4TH MAY Understand Communities Researching in and with communities to increase your understanding of community life today Involve Communities Offering different methods and approaches to involving communities and growing their capacity to own and lead change Innovate with Communities Providing tools and resources to support innovation to tackle the issues people and communities care about For more information visit us at: youngfoundation.org Overview 01/2 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 Introduction About this document Covid-19 has radically changed the way we go about our day-to-day lives.
    [Show full text]
  • Key to Adventure Challenge
    Key to Adventure Challenge Save Ink and Paper - Check the pages and please only print what you need or set to print 2 pages per A4 sheet Updated Version 1 – September 2016 Key to Adventure This challenge is designed for all sections of Girlguiding and can be completed by undertaking at least 5 challenges from different sections (or do more if you wish) plus the Coin Tree. Any proceeds from this challenge will be used to financially support the ongoing regeneration and upgrade of the facilities at Stoke Ash, Suffolk’s new county base (see page 12 for details). Our challenge is based on themes from life in Suffolk and each section is based on each letter of the words Stoke Ash. With our county symbol being a key; we would like to unlock your adventurous side whilst introducing you to our wonderful county. It is designed to be flexible so leaders can adapt it to make it fit into what time and facilities you have available locally. However, it should remain a challenge – not everything should be from the easier options we have included. There are lots of ideas but limited resources with this pack as this will allow you to use whatever resources you can find either locally, in books or online to fit the challenge. These are the Sections: S – Suffolk Punches & Farming T – Transport A – Artists & Sport O – Open Skies S – Seaside K – Kestrels & Amazing Wildlife H – History & Beautiful Buildings E - Explore new places around you Finally, if you feel you can, as part of this challenge we would like you to have some fundraising fun by making your own Coin ‘Ash’ Tree.
    [Show full text]
  • The International Media Coverage of China: Too Narrow an Agenda?
    Reuters Institute Fellowship Paper University of Oxford The international media coverage of China: Too narrow an agenda? by Daniel Griffiths Michaelmas Term 2013 Sponsor: BBC 1 Acknowledgements I would like to thank my supervisors, James Painter and Rana Mitter, for their help and advice with this research. I am also very grateful to the staff at the Reuters Institute and the other Fellows for making my time at Oxford so interesting and enjoyable. Finally, a big thank you goes to my family for all their love and support. 2 Table of Contents Executive Summary 4 1. Introduction 7 2. Literature Review 9 3. Methodology 10 4. Results 12 5. Conclusions and Recommendations 18 Bibliography 20 Appendix: Articles in Content Analysis 21 3 Executive Summary China is an increasingly important player in global affairs but there is very little research on how it is presented in the international media. This matters because even in today's increasingly interconnected world the media can often influence our perceptions of other countries. This study presents a content analysis of news stories about China in the online editions of the New York Times, BBC News, and the Economist over two separate weeks in the autumn of 2013. In total, 129 stories were analysed. Due to the time constraints of a three month fellowship it was not possible to compile a broader data set which might have offered greater insights. So this paper should not be seen as a definitive study. Instead, it is a snapshot intended to open a discussion about representations of China in the global media and pave the way for further research.
    [Show full text]
  • Asia House Insights the Middle East’S Pivot to Asia
    Asia House Insights The Middle East’s Pivot to Asia Issue 2 Trade. Building a future on bytes and boxes. Together we thrive Issued by HSBC Bank Middle East Limited U.A.E Branch, P.O.Box 66, Dubai, U.A.E, regulated by the Central Bank of the U.A.E for the purposes of this promotion and lead regulated by the Dubai Financial Services Authority. © Copyright. HSBC Bank Middle East Limited. 2019. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior written permission of HSBC Bank Middle East Limited. Trade. Building a future on bytes and boxes. Asia House Insights Issue 2 The Middle East’s Pivot to Asia Published March 2019 Contents Foreword by Lord Green, Chairman of Asia House 5 Baroness Fairhead, UK Minister for Trade and Export Promotion 6 The UK is the smart choice as the Gulf diversifies His Excellency Abdulla Al Saleh, Undersecretary for Foreign Trade, 8 UAE Ministry of Economy The Dubai Silk Road will be built on strong foundations Abdulfattah Sharaf, Chief Executive Officer, HSBC UAE 10 The art of collaboration Interview with Cordelia Begbie, Asia House Middle East Programme Manager 12 Driving engagement with the Middle East Bahrain Economic Development Board 14 The Middle East is just getting started with FinTech Analysis by Asia House Advisory 16 The Future of Diversification in the Gulf Ahmed bin Sulayem, Executive Chairman, DMCC 19 Dubai is well positioned on China's Belt and Road John Miu, Chief Operating Officer, ABP Royal Albert Dock London 22 We must create the conditions for success in the tech revolution About Asia House 24 Together we thrive Issued by HSBC Bank Middle East Limited U.A.E Branch, P.O.Box 66, Dubai, U.A.E, regulated by the Central Bank of the U.A.E for the purposes of this promotion and lead regulated by the Dubai Financial Services Authority.
    [Show full text]
  • Deep Mapping
    Deep Mapping Edited by Les Roberts Printed Edition of the Special Issue Published in Humanities www.mdpi.com/journal/humanities Les Roberts (Ed.) Deep Mapping This book is a reprint of the Special Issue that appeared in the online, open access journal, Humanities (ISSN 2076-0787) from 2015–2016 (available at: http://www.mdpi.com/journal/humanities/special_issues/DeepMapping). Guest Editor Les Roberts University of Liverpool UK Editorial Office MDPI AG Klybeckstrasse 64 Basel, Switzerland Publisher Shu-Kun Lin Assistant Editor Jie Gu 1. Edition 2016 MDPI Basel Beijing Wuhan Barcelona ISBN 978-3-03842-165-8 (Hbk) ISBN 978-3-03842-166-5 (PDF) © 2016 by the authors; licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. All articles in this volume are Open Access distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution license (CC BY), which allows users to download, copy and build upon published articles even for commercial purposes, as long as the author and publisher are properly credited, which ensures maximum dissemination and a wider impact of our publications. However, the dissemination and distribution of physical copies of this book as a whole is restricted to MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. III Table of Contents List of Contributors ............................................................................................................... V About the Guest Editor .........................................................................................................VI Les Roberts Preface: Deep Mapping and Spatial Anthropology Reprinted from: Humanities
    [Show full text]
  • Caught in the Net
    Caught in the Net An analysis of the Guardian’s first venture into online journalism Simen Hunding Strømme Master Thesis in Modern International and Transnational History Department of Archaeology, Conservation and History UNIVERSITY OF OSLO Spring 2020 Caught in the Net An analysis of the Guardian’s first venture into online journalism i © 2020 Simen Hunding Strømme Caught in the Net An analysis of the Guardian’s first venture into online journalism Simen Hunding Strømme www.duo.uio.no ii Abstract This thesis examines the early period of internet journalism in Britain between 1993 and 2001. By undertaking a qualitative case study of London based newspaper, the Guardian, the thesis explores how newspapers started to consider online journalism as not only a new way of doing business, but as a completely new genre of journalism. In 1998, the Guardian was ranked the ninth biggest among twelve national daily newspapers in terms of circulation, but by 2001 its website was the most popular newspaper website in the country. The Guardian’s venture into online journalism began in 1995, when a team of developer known as the New Media Lab was tasked to develop a strategy for online publishing. Over the next few years, several web projects were launched, with varying level of success before pinnacling in a network of websites, Guardian Unlimited in 1999. The increasingly larger focus on the internet as both a tool and platform for publishing, which did not unfold without discontent and critique from advocates of traditional news making, changed the way the Guardian and other newspapers saw their media product and themselves as a company.
    [Show full text]
  • Underglobalization Beijing’S Media Urbanism and the Chimera of Legitimacy
    Underglobalization Beijing’s Media Urbanism and the Chimera of Legitimacy Joshua Neves Underglobalization Beijing’s Media Urbanism and the Chimera of Legitimacy Joshua Neves duke university press | durham and london | 2020 © 2020 Duke University Press All rights reserved Printed in the United States of Amer i ca on acid- free paper ∞ Designed by Drew Sisk Typeset in Portrait Text, SimSun, and Univers by Westchester Publishing Services Library of Congress Cataloging- in- Publication Data Names: Neves, Joshua, [date] author. Title: Underglobalization : Beijing’s media urbanism and the chimera of legitimacy / Joshua Neves. Description: Durham : Duke University Press, 2020. | Includes bibliographical references and index. Identifiers: lccn 2019032496 (print) | lccn 2019032497 (ebook) isbn 9781478007630 (hardcover) isbn 9781478008057 (paperback) isbn 9781478009023 (ebook) Subjects: lcsh: Product counterfeiting— Law and legislation— China. | Piracy (Copyright)— China. | Legitimacy of governments—China. | Globalization—China. Classification: lcc knq1160.3.n48 2020 (print) | lcc knq1160.3 (ebook) | ddc 302.230951— dc23 lc record available at https:// lccn . loc. gov / 2019032496 lc ebook record available at https:// lccn . loc. gov / 2019032497 Cover art: Xing Danwen, detail from Urban Fictions, 2004. Courtesy of the artist and Danwen Studio. Chapter 5 was originally published in “Videation: Technological Intimacy and the Politics of Global Connection,” in Asian Video Cultures: In the Penumbra of the Global, edited by Joshua Neves and Bhaskar
    [Show full text]
  • A Leader's Guide: Communicating with Teams, Stakeholders, and Communities During COVID-19 Exhibit 1 of 1
    Organization Practice A leader’s guide: Communicating with teams, stakeholders, and communities during COVID-19 COVID-19’s speed and scale breed uncertainty and emotional disruption. How organizations communicate about it can create clarity, build resilience, and catalyze positive change. by Ana Mendy, Mary Lass Stewart, and Kate VanAkin © Ewg3D/Getty Images April 2020 Crises come in different intensities. As a “land- communicators, those whose words and actions scape scale” event,1 the coronavirus has created comfort in the present, restore faith in the long great uncertainty, elevated stress and anxiety, and term, and are remembered long after the crisis has prompted tunnel vision, in which people focus only been quelled. on the present rather than toward the future. During such a crisis, when information is unavailable or So we counsel this: pause, take a breath. The good inconsistent, and when people feel unsure about news is that the fundamental tools of effective what they know (or anyone knows), behavioral communication still work. Define and point to science points to an increased human desire for long-term goals, listen to and understand your transparency, guidance, and making sense out of stakeholders, and create openings for dialogue. Be what has happened. proactive. But don’t stop there. In this crisis leaders can draw on a wealth of research, precedent, and At such times, a leader’s words and actions can experience to build organizational resilience through help keep people safe, help them adjust and an extended period of uncertainty, and even turn a cope emotionally, and finally, help them put their crisis into a catalyst for positive change.
    [Show full text]
  • Cheltlf12 Brochure
    SponSorS & SupporterS Title sponsor In association with Broadcast Partner Principal supporters Global Banking Partner Major supporters Radio Partner Festival Partners Official Wine Working in partnership Official Cider 2 The Times Cheltenham Literature Festival dIREctor Festival Assistant Jane Furze Hannah Evans Artistic dIREctor Festival INTERNS Sarah Smyth Lizzie Atkinson, Jen Liggins BOOK IT! dIREctor development dIREctor Jane Churchill Suzy Hillier Festival Managers development OFFIcER Charles Haynes, Nicola Tuxworth Claire Coleman Festival Co-ORdinator development OFFIcER Rose Stuart Alison West Welcome what words will you use to describe your festival experience? Whether it’s Jazz, Science, Music or Literature, a Cheltenham Festival experience can be intellectually challenging, educational, fun, surprising, frustrating, shocking, transformational, inspiring, comical, beautiful, odd, even life-changing. And this year’s The Times Cheltenham Literature Festival is no different. As you will see when you browse this brochure, the Festival promises Contents 10 days of discussion, debate and interview, plus lots of new ways to experience and engage with words and ideas. It’s a true celebration of 2012 NEWS 3 - 9 the power of the word - with old friends, new writers, commentators, What’s happening at this year’s Festival celebrities, sports people and scientists, and from children’s authors, illustrators, comedians and politicians to leading opinion-formers. FESTIVAL PROGRAMME 10 - 89 Your day by day guide to events I can’t praise the team enough for their exceptional dedication and flair in BOOK IT! 91 - 101 curating this year’s inspiring programme. However, there would be no Festival Our Festival for families and without the wonderful enthusiasm of our partners and loyal audiences and we young readers are extremely grateful for all the support we receive.
    [Show full text]
  • MURDER in the LUCKY HOLIDAY HOTEL – a Chinese House of Cards Meets Agatha Christie
    RadioDoc Review Volume 3 | Issue 2 Article 1 INTRIGUE: MURDER IN THE LUCKY HOLIDAY HOTEL – a Chinese House of Cards meets Agatha Christie. Drew Ambrose Al Jazeera Asia Pacific Follow this and additional works at: http://ro.uow.edu.au/rdr Part of the Audio Arts and Acoustics Commons, Chinese Studies Commons, and the Digital Humanities Commons Recommended Citation Ambrose, Drew, INTRIGUE: MURDER IN THE LUCKY HOLIDAY HOTEL – a Chinese House of Cards meets Agatha Christie., RadioDoc Review, 3(2), . Research Online is the open access institutional repository for the University of Wollongong. For further information contact the UOW Library: [email protected] INTRIGUE: MURDER IN THE LUCKY HOLIDAY HOTEL – a Chinese House of Cards meets Agatha Christie. Abstract Intrigue: Murder in the Lucky Holiday Hotel is a podcast that is Agatha Christie meets House of Cards with an Oriental twist. It tells the story of the downfall of Bo Xilai, a once powerful and charismatic politician, who could have eclipsed current President Xi Jingping as a future leader of China if the cards fell his way. Despite the challenges of reporting in China, BBC China Editor Carrie Gracie is able to explain with clarity the tale of money, sex and power than unravelled Bo Xilai. Gracie guides us through her five-part series with clear knowledge of her beat of 25 years. She is upfront about the many restrictions and hardships involved in reporting on an important tale from one of the world’s most repressive superpowers. Despite the seriousness of the subject matter, Gracie is a charismatic, jovial presenter, who delivers the story with zest.
    [Show full text]
  • East to West Migration in Europe, Seen from the Perspective of the British Press Pavla Cekalova1
    View metadata, citation and similar papers at core.ac.uk brought to you by CORE provided by Policy Documentation Center eumap.org Monitoring human rights and the rule of law in Europe Features > April 2008 > “Across Fading Borders: The Challenges of East-West Migration in the EU” ‘At Least They Are the Right Colour’: East to West Migration in Europe, Seen from the Perspective of the British Press Pavla Cekalova1 After the enlargement of the EU in 2004, immigration from the new EU Member States to the United Kingdom has grown into what the Office for National Statistics has called “the largest single wave of foreign in-movement ever experienced by the UK.”2 To see this East to West migration process in Europe from the perspective of the British press reveals how the choices made by the media in their reporting can reinforce existing xenophobia, racism and prejudices and create a feeling of hostility among the population. Statistical characterisations like the above, for example, have been the perfect foil for sensationalist stories, which described an “invasion” of Britain by “floods” of immigrants who were going to “swamp” the country.3 Media reporting, however, can also encourage coexistence, by countering prejudices and fears and emphasizing the benefits that the arrival of the newcomers has yielded for the country. This article presents some of the most common perspectives that dominated in the British press regarding the Central and Eastern European newcomers who arrived after the EU enlargement in 2004.4 There has been a clear division in how the issue of immigration from Central and Eastern Europe after the EU enlargement in 2004 has been covered by the British press.
    [Show full text]