Orwell vs Kafka
A suite of special programmes broadcast over eight days on BBC Radio 4 comprising a reading of 1984, six 30-minute documentaries on the authors and the relevance of their writing today and a 3 dramas inspired by Kafka’s life and work. Listen to the all on this BoB playlist.
Influence of Google algorithms on political news search results
A major German project is examining the influence of Google algorithms on political news search results. Algorithm Watch is produced in cooperation with six “Landesmedienanstalten”, the regulatory authorities for new media in the German federal states of Bavaria (BLM), Berlin-Brandenburg (mabb), Hesse (LPR Hessen), Rhineland-Palatinate (LMK), Saarland (LMS), Saxony (SLM) plus the University Kaiserslautern and Spiegel […]
The Fall of the Berlin Wall
Try these recommended sources: BBC radio and TV archive footage 1948-1990 Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg has 250 short videos on life in divided Berlin Chronicle of the Wall is a multimedia history compiled by Federal Centre for Political Education, Deutschlandradio and the Zentrum für Zeithistorische Forschung Potsdam Good contemporary news coverage of the 25th anniversary can […]
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