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Free Thinking: 2011: The Free Thinking Essay

Free Thinking: 2011: The Free Thinking Essay: Part 3: Corin Throsby

Corin Throsby

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Corin Throsby gives a talk on the fan mail Byron received.

Corin Throsby gives a talk on the fan mail Byron received, showing what those letters reveal about the creation of a celebrity culture that has continued to the present day.

Corin Throsby, one of BBC Radio 3's New Generation Thinkers, gives a talk on the extraordinary fan mail received by the poet Lord Byron, recorded at the 2011 Free Thinking Festival

We think of fan mail as a recent phenomenon, but in the early 19th Century the poet Byron receieved hundreds of letters from love-sick admirers. Cambridge academic Corin Throsby takes us on a journey into Byron's intimate fan mail and shows what those letters reveal about the creation of a celebrity culture that has continued into the globalised present. 

This essay is recorded in front of an audience at the BBC Radio 3 Free Thinking Festival 2011, which takes place at The Sage Gateshead 4 - 6 November. The New Generation Thinkers are winners of the inaugural talent scheme run the BBC Radio 3 and the Arts and Humanities Research Council to find the brightest academic minds in the arts and humanities with the potential to turn their ideas into fascinating broadcasts.

Free Thinking: 2011

The Free Thinking Essay

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Series of events from the 2011 Free Thinking festival of ideas. The theme is change

Series of events from the 2011 Free Thinking festival of ideas. The theme is change, exploring the mania for change around the globe

Radio 3 New Generation Thinkers give talks in front of an audience at The Sage Gateshead

Series in which Radio 3 New Generation Thinkers give talks in front of an audience at The Sage Gateshead as part of the 2011 Free Thinking ideas festival

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