“The happy hen on your supermarket shelf: What do you buy when you buy free range eggs?” Part of the ‘all creatures great and small: animals and us’ Course by Christine Parker recorded on the 16th of May 2013
“Choosing compassion in a ruthless world: Barriers to ethical decision making” Part of the ‘all creatures great and small: animals and us’ Course by Naty Guerrero-Diaz recorded on the 9th of May 2013
“Not a dog: The history, vilification and politics of Dingoes” Part of the ‘all creatures great and small: animals and us’ Course by Lyn Watson recorded on the 25th of April 2013
“Sara Paretsky, Indemnity Only, 1982″ Part of the ‘Classics of Crime Fiction’ Course by Stephen Knight recorded on the 21st of May 2013
“Edgar Allan Poe, the three ‘Dupin’ stories” Part of the ‘Classics of Crime Fiction’ Course by Stephen Knight recorded on the 23rd of April 2013
“Agatha Christie ‘The Murder of Roger Ackroyd’” Part of the ‘Classics of Crime Fiction’ Course by Stephen Knight recorded on the 7th of May 2013
“Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes” Part of the ‘Classics of Crime Fiction’ Course by Stephen Knight recorded on the 30th of April 2013
“Wither Capitalism?” Part of the ‘Economics for Everyone’ Course by Tim Thornton recorded on the 28th of March 2013
“The Many Schools of Modern Political Economy” Part of the ‘Economics for Everyone’ Course by Tim Thornton recorded on the 21st of March 2013 Note: Due to technical difficulties, the audio in this recording is of poor quality for the first 3 and a half minutes, but improves significantly. Hang in there.
This short course will look at some major successes of crime fiction, reaching over time and place from Edgar Allan Poe’s 1840s America (but set in France), through Arthur Conan Doyle’s uncertain London, Agatha Christie’s disrupted rural English peace and Raymond Chandler’s threat-laden Los Angeles, to the modern complexity of Sara Paretsky’s feminist Chicago and [...]
