10+ mon, 1+ week ago (114+ words) Clip of a turban being tied during the 2009 BBC Wales/Indus programme From Wales To Timbuktu, on the BBC Wales Arts website. From Wales To Timbuktu: turban In order to see this content you need to have both Javascript enabled and Flash installed. Visit BBC Webwise for full instructions Michael Eccles from the Jump4Timbuktu organisation finds out how a turban is tied in Timbuktu, Mali. - Notebooks kept by Elly, Emma, Laura and Oli TV & Radio Programmes - 25 Nov 2013 18:3019:00 BBC Radio Foyle Arts Extra - 25 Nov 2013 18:3019:00 BBC Radio Ulster Arts Extra - 25 Nov 2013 19:0019:30 BBC One The One Show...

5+ mon, 3+ week ago (123+ words) A trade union says vice chancellor's pay rise could have saved multiple university staff jobs. The proposed archive service cuts are part of the university's cost-saving plans which risk 78 jobs. The vice-chancellor says the university needs to make "5.3m worth of savings. The contribution will enable the start of creating the Albert Gubay Business School, the university said. Cardiff University's boss says redundancy numbers are uncertain as Bangor also seeks job cuts. Thousands of shipwrecks lie on the UK seabed, many forgotten and many still mysteries. The North Wales Medical School, based at Bangor University, will initially train 80 students to become doctors. Campaigners say it can be tough for student unions to try to put on events without alcohol....

9+ mon, 4+ week ago (144+ words) March walk-outs could still go ahead but many affected staff have accepted settlements, say union. The isolation felt by many in the pandemic culminated in an unexpected career change for Yu Wang. A total of 36 staff at the University of Sheffield International College are at risk of redundancy. University of Sheffield experts say promotion of the Drink Less app could save the NHS "500m. New report says bringing airport back into use cannot be justified during climate crisis. Helen Shelton, from Sheffield, is part of a medical trial it is hoped will help stroke survivors. Overall survival rates were 25% higher among patients who received durvalumab, trial shows. The University of Sheffield building, as well as a "pocket park", will be built on Leavygreave Road. Sir James Fraser Stoddart, a former University of Sheffield lecturer, has died at the age of 82....

9+ mon, 2+ week ago (203+ words) AI Macular Degeneration Detection; New Money For Blind Sport Banks and ATMs; Assistive Tech for Work It's our 60th Birthday! It's All About The Music! Touch Screen Card Machines; Your Emails National Clinical Director for Eye Care; Two Mayors, Same Household Accessibility at Further Education Colleges; Guide Dog Retirement Age In Touch at Christmas Former British Army Soldier; then and now. The Lives of Youngsters Drag Queens and Kings Retinal Vein Occlusion; Reading the Room Highway Code Changes; Young Animator Tactile Paving Updates; Accessible Lateral Flow Tests Book Share; Winter Paralympics 2022 Visually Impaired in Ukraine European Blind Union on Ukraine, what3words Ukrainian Stories from Poland Elections Bill - The Final Decision; Accessible Opera Guide Dog Refusals at Indoor Establishments; NaviLens September marks the start of the new university term. We hear from some visually impaired students who are returning to their studies. They…...

5+ mon, 4+ day ago (300+ words) The joy of sewing, poet Fatimah Asghar, Painting in miniature. David Bailey, Don McCullin Is British Culture Getting Wierder? The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing Women, relationships and the law past and present The Council Estate in Culture Partition, colonial power and the voices of C16th women George Szirtes, Valeria Luiselli, Jhumpa Lahiri Childhood faces and fears Whatever happened to Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais? Feelings, and Feelings, and Feelings. The Free Thinking Festival Lecture A city is not a park but should it be? Anxiety and the Teenage Brain The Essay: Cooking and Eating God in Medieval Drama Crimes of Passion: Sophie Hannah, Michael Hughes and David Wilson Why Trespassing Is the Right Way To Go Shopping Around the Baby Market 'Calm Down Dear' - How Angry Should Politics Get? Healthy Eating Edwardian Style Marble, Muscle and Manly Bodies in…...

5+ mon, 4+ day ago (286+ words) Sarah Maldoror, Storm Jameson, the Hague Congress Muses and women's creativity Francis Ford Coppola's The Conversation Sleep justice and sleeplessness Free speech, censorship and modern China From algorithms to oceans Gas, oil and the Essex blues The Legacy of the Laundries New Thinking: How water shapes our history and environment Rock, Paper, Saints and Sinners New Thinking: East West artistic connections New Thinking: Light and Darkness What does feminist art mean? Hobbes, Abba, Waterloo and margarine Tacitus, Byron's fanmail and Bluey New Thinking: Exploring the local Recycling Victorian clothes, the history of costume design, the messages conveyed in art made from textiles and the stories encoded in ancient embroidery are explored by Shahidha Bari and her guests Isabella Rosner, Rianna Norbert-David, Jade Halbert and Danielle Dove. They also look at exhibitions at the Barbican Gallery in London and the Museum…...

8+ mon, 2+ week ago (152+ words) How Ghanaian fashion innovator Kwaku Bediako is redefining luxury In the Studio: Kwaku Bediako Available for over a year Ghanaian fashion innovator Kwaku Bediako is redefining luxury with sustainability at its heart. We step inside his world as he transforms second-hand garments into bold, high-fashion pieces, worn by global stars such as Stevie Wonder and Ian Wright. It was when he noticed how much material was being thrown away, that he decided to create a new brand, Cacao, where discarded fabrics can become the material for garments worn to red carpet events across the world. Kwaku has been commissioned by music producer GuiltyBeatz to make him a bespoke outfit ahead of this year's Grammy awards in LA and Daniel Dadzie goes with Kwaku as he hunts for second hand clothes at Kantamanto, Accra's largest thrift market. It's a place where…...

9+ mon, 2+ week ago (161+ words) Syria: hope and poetry Books to Make Space For on the Bookshelf: There's No Story There From Blackface to Beyonc" The Liverpool Biennial debate John Milton's Samson Agonistes The Battle of Culloden, Outlander, Peter Watkins New Generation Thinkers: The Feurtado's Fire Maryse Cond"'s writing plus Suzanne O'Sullivan The Essay New Generation Thinkers Jean Rhys's Dress New Thinking: Shakespeare's Life Lessons New Generation Thinkers: A social history of soup Bombing and morals, Flooding and the future New Generation Thinkers: Hoarding or Collecting? New Generation Thinkers: The Inscrutable Writing of Sui Sin Far New Generation Thinkers: Colonial Papers Links between Judaism and Christianity New Generation Thinkers: Beyond the betting shop Dr Julia Hartley, University of Warwick Dr Florence Hazrat, University of Sheffield Dr Mirela Ivanova, University of Oxford Sarah Jilani, University of Cambridge Adjoa Osei, University of Liverpool Dr Jake Richards,…...

5+ mon, 1+ week ago (313+ words) This mentorship scheme for four writers from an ESEA (East and Southeast Asian) background recently concluded. We caught up with one of the scheme's co-founders and the four writers who took part to find out more. JT Wong -Co-founder, EAST and Managing Director, Three Tables Productions Read Lydia's biography on the EAST website" Kayla Hendy (mentor Daisy Coulam) I can say with certainty I'm in a much stronger place after the BBC x EAST mentorship programme, especially when it comes to confidence and having a stronger sense of direction. I can't recommend mentorship in this industry enough. It can feel daunting to admit you need help (and even harder to ask for it!), but having someone who's been through it can give you the perspective and push you need. Read Kayla's biography on the EAST website David Cheung (mentor Manda…...

9+ mon, 2+ week ago (278+ words) Richard Linklater, Ultimate 90s Bollywood Song, Esther Swift Queenie, Female pirates, dating dramas Review: Film - Rosalie, TV - Becoming Karl Lagerfeld, Book - The Heart in Winter by Kevin Barry Jon Bon Jovi, Clare Pollard & Marina Warner, Viggo Mortensen and Vikki Krieps Liverpool's Taylor Swift Art Trail, Les Dennis, the state of UK festivals James Shapiro, BEKA, Molly Bloomsday Review of films Sasquatch Sunset and Ama Gloria and a look at Vivienne Westwood's clothes Kiss Me Kate, UK election: culture policies, Persephone Books Stephen Fry, New Comedians, Questlove Review: Film Green Border, Exhibition Stories of Henry VIII's Queens, TV: Federer: Twelve Final Days. Plus Joseph Coelho Kyoto, Nathaniel Rateliff, Midsummer Day poetry The Marilyn Conspiracy, Rachel Podger, Emma Glass Next to Normal, British TV history, In the Eye of the Storm Reviews - Douglas is Cancelled, Ronald Moody Sculptures, The Importance of Being Earnest…...