The question I’ve never heard anyone ask, but I decided to answer anyway… what is a Piccadilly? Subscribe for more.
There’s a London Underground line, a street, a major landmark, major train station, and in turn multiple shops and businesses carrying the name. It’s time to dive into what it actually means.
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Video time stamps:
00:00 – The Question No-One Asks
00:44 – National Portrait Gallery
01:28 – Robert Baker
02:29 – Manchester Piccadilly
03:05 – Piccadilly line and Circus
03:56 – The Final Addition
04:07 – Why do we love the word Piccadilly?
04:25 – Outro
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Jade Cuttle explores new words in nature writing
In 1773, Phillis Wheatley became the first African American to publish a collection of poems. Jade Cuttle looks at the way her poems were described and asks what do we categorise as nature writing? Her essay considers the idea of “coining” and the work of a new generation of poets including Elizabeth-Jane Burnett, Khairani Barokka, Kei Miller and a collection called Nature Matters edited by Mona Arshi and Karen McCarthy Woolf.
Jade Cuttle is a New Generation Thinker on the scheme run by the Arts and Humanities Research Council and the BBC to put academic research on radio.
She is studying for her PhD at the University of Cambridge, writing journalism and her first book called Silthood, which explores ancient connections between soil and self. She has also released an album of poem-songs called Algal Bloom.
You can find examples of Essays written for Radio 3 by Kei Miller and Elizabeth Jane Burnett on the programme website.
Producer: Ciaran Bermingham
Source: The Essay – New Generation Thinkers 2024 – Digging for Words – BBC Sounds
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00:00 – What I noticed when I moved to Japan
01:40 – Key #1 – CONVENIENCE
04:34 – Key #2 – Why Japanese people don’t like Sweet stuff
07:44 – Key #3 – Food Training
09:17 – Key #4 – Why Food is smaller in Japan
11:03 – Key #5 – VARIETY
12:11 – Japan uses 1/2 this ingredient
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