The Oxford Comment

By Oxford University Press

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January 30, 2019 Based On A True Story - Episode 52 - The Oxford Comment
On this episode, we examine the significant role of academic consultants within television and movies, with the help of author and consultant, Diana Walsh Pasulka. The use of consultants on set has steadily increased since the early twentieth century, and we investigate why this trend has become a popular practice, and how it impacts the audience, the success of the project and its cultural impact on society.

Learn more about Diana Walsh Pasulka's book here: https://oxford.ly/2TpetpK
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The Oxford Comment Crew:
Executive Producer/Editor: Nicole Piendel
Host: Katelyn Philips
Associate Producers: Victoria McPherson, Katelyn Phillips, Stephen Mann, Madeline Johnson, Sarah Lee, Mara Sandroff, Jenny Rossberg
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January 30, 2019 Based On A True Story – Episode 52 – The Oxford Comment
On this episode, we examine the significant role of academic consultants within television and movies, with the help of author and consultant, Diana Walsh Pasulka. The use of consultants on set has steadily increased since the early twentieth century, and we investigate why this trend has become a popular practice, and how it impacts the audience, the success of the project and its cultural impact on society.
Music: Filaments by Podington Bear is licensed under an Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 International License.
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January 03, 2019 Oxford English Dictionary: Building dictionaries with crowdsourcing
As part of the celebrations of the Oxford English Dictionary’s 90th birthday, we had a live session about how crowdsourcing can be used to build dictionaries.
Dr Sarah Ogilvie, Director of Global Partnerships at Oxford Dictionaries, Oxford University Press, spoke about how you can get involved in collecting words for the Oxford English Dictionary (OED).
David Martin, Principal Editor and Head of the New Words Group, OED, explained how a word gets into the dictionary once it is submitted by a member of the public.
Find out how a dictionary is created: now and in the past, without the help of technology, and follow a word’s journey until it is included in the dictionary, the reasons behind it, and why some words will never make it.
Also, focusing especially on the language of young people today, Dr Ogilvie showed how words are collected for the iGen Language project, a Stanford University research initiative which aims to collect and analyse the language of people who have never known the world without the internet: the iGeneration, Generation Z, or digital natives.
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December 21, 2018 The History Of Holiday Traditions – Episode 51 – The Oxford Comment
On this episode of the Oxford Comment, we examine the history of holiday traditions and attempt to figure out why we continue to celebrate them; even the strange ones. Our guest, Gerry Bowler, author of “Christmas in the Crosshairs: Two Thousand Years of Denouncing and Defending the World’s Most Celebrated Holiday” explores the entire sweep of Christmas history and provides a global scope of its influence.
Music: Filaments by Podington Bear is licensed under an Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 International License.
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December 21, 2018 The History Of Holiday Traditions - Episode 51 - The Oxford Comment
Holiday traditions can stir up feelings of nostalgia and spark interest in exploring one’s ancestral past. We start to wonder where did these traditions come from? And how did these traditions spread and evolve?
On this episode of the Oxford Comment, we examine the history of holiday traditions and attempt to figure out why we continue to celebrate them; even the strange ones. Our guest, Gerry Bowler, author of “Christmas in the Crosshairs: Two Thousand Years of Denouncing and Defending the World’s Most Celebrated Holiday” explores the entire sweep of Christmas history and provides a global scope of its influence.
Learn more about Gerry's book here: https://oxford.ly/2SdO2CU
The Oxford Comment Crew:
Executive Producer/Editor: Nicole Piendel
Host: Katelyn Philips
Associate Producers: Marissa Lynch, Mackenzie Cutruzzula, Victoria McPherson, Katelyn Phillips
Production Coordinators: Stephen Mann, Madeline Johnson, Sarah Lee, Mara Sandroff, Jenny Rossberg
Follow Oxford Academic on Soundcloud, Stitcher and Google Play for new episodes of The Oxford Comment:
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From the cast and crew of The Oxford Comment, we wish you a Happy Holiday Season!
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December 12, 2018 घर की मुर्गी दाल बराबर / Ghar ki Murgi Daal barabar
कृतिका अग्रवाल, ऑक्सफ़ोर्ड ग्लोबल लैंग्वेज की हिंदी भाषा विशेषज्ञ, यहाँ बात कर रही हैं हिंदी की सरलता की। हिंदी बोलने, सीखने व उपयोग में बहुत ही सरल भाषा है। हिंदी जैसे लिखी जाती है वैसे ही बोली भी जाती है जिस वजह से हिंदी सीखने वाले इसे आसानी से सीख सकते हैं व हिंदी जानने वाले अन्य भाषाएँ आसानी से सीख सकते हैं। युवा पीढ़ी हिंदी को आज शायद मुश्किल, पुरानी व अप्रचलित मानती है, लेकिन हिंदी साहित्य व बॉलीवुड आज भी विश्व में बहुत लोकप्रिय है जो हिंदी की एहमियत को बरकरार रखते हैं। हिंदी कि मूल भाषा संस्कृत है, जो कई और भाषाओं की भी जननी है जिस वजह से हिंदी के कई शब्द अन्य भाषाओं से मिलते जुलते हैं।
Kritika Agrawal, Hindi language champion for Oxford Global Languages, is talking about the simplicity of Hindi. Hindi is easy to speak, learn, and use. Being a phonetic language, it makes Hindi versatile for new leaners of the language and native speakers find easy to learn foreign language if they have command over Hindi. She also highlights the fact the youth might think Hindi as old, traditional and difficult but the truth is, Hindi connects us to the world though Bollywood, its ancient literature. Hindi originates from Sanskrit, which is also mother of many other languages therefore many words in other languages are familiar to Hindi speakers.
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November 29, 2018 Silent Night – Sarah Quartel
for soprano duet and SATB (with divisions) unaccompanied
In this beautiful, atmospheric arrangement of Franz Gruber's 'Silent night' Sarah Quartel employs choral divisi and unexpected harmonies to create a lush bed of sound over which the soprano duet soars.
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November 29, 2018 Fill your hearts with joy and gladness – Sarah Quartel
for unison, SA, or mixed voices (SAT/SAB/SATB) and organ or piano
A joyful setting of a text by celebrated contemporary hymn-writer Timothy Dudley-Smith, Fill your hearts with joy and gladness is an uplifting anthem of praise and thanksgiving that features a supportive keyboard part and a soaring descant.
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November 29, 2018 Lux aeterna (from Sanctum) – Sarah Quartel
for SSSAA unaccompanied
Sanctum is a captivating setting of four movements of the Requiem text, inspired by the landscape of the west coast of Canada. Each movement depicts an aspect of Vancouver Island, exploring landscape as a place of healing and sanctuary. The combined effect is some of Quartel's most atmospheric and dramatic writing to date.
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November 29, 2018 Requiem Aeternam (from Sanctum) – Sarah Quartel
for SSSAA unaccompanied
Sanctum is a captivating setting of four movements of the Requiem text, inspired by the landscape of the west coast of Canada. Each movement depicts an aspect of Vancouver Island, exploring landscape as a place of healing and sanctuary. The combined effect is some of Quartel's most atmospheric and dramatic writing to date.
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FAQs about The Oxford Comment:

How many episodes does The Oxford Comment have?

The podcast currently has 882 episodes available.