Saturday, 5 June 2010

Brighton Festival Reviews and Other Things

The last couple of months have been busy busy, what with my amazing week at Radio 4, and 3 weeks reviewing the various Brighton Festival shows, and finishing the first year of my MA with a resounding 86.
In the next few weeks I have some more exciting stuff a-foot: firstly, meeting with the Radio 4 General Factual commissioner about a collaboration idea. I'm so excited about this, although who knows what exactly will come of it. In theory a collaborative Dphil with Radio 4, and my own programme, that's the dream anyway. But she's a busy lady so just the fact that she's giving me her time bodes well.
After that I'm stewarding for the International Auto/Biographical LHR conference, which is paid and means I get the fee waivered plus should get to meet some Oral History gods such as Ally Portelli and Ally Thomson.
Finally, I'm going to be running an oral history workshop organised by a lottery heritage funded project in Kent! I've always thought I'd do a good job at teaching, but that was before I imagined having to keep talking for the whole day and explain things. Uh oh...
OTHER than that, just enjoying Brighton in the sun, looking for an extra and proper job, looking forward to mine and Alex's 4 year anniversary!

Link to my most of my reviews on Unlimited Media's website here.