It was hard to whittle down our selection this month but in the end, we’ve plumped for five choice picks including an Oracy Education Commission podcast with Jacqui O’Hanlon, Director of Creative Learning and Engagement at the Royal Shakespeare Company; a piece from Professor Robert Eaglestone of the English Association on its response to the OCR’s recent secondary curriculum review, and an uncomfortably close to the bone new play set in the throes of a political campaign where no one knows quite what is truth and what is fiction. Plus we have Michael Rosen’s entertaining new almanac of words, and historian Alice Loxton’s (pictured) latest offering – Eighteen, in which she explores Britain’s past through the lives of 18 key figures at this crucial age. Her subjects include Chaucer, Mary Anning and Richard Burton and remind us that ‘the young are our future and they matter more than ever.’
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