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A Point of View: The end of university as we know it?

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Mary Beard asks: Has the iconic university lecture had its day?

Mary Beard ponders the future of the university lecture - that symbolic centrepiece of university life - in the aftermath of the pandemic.

Mary Beard asks if the iconic university lecture might have had its day, in the aftermath of the pandemic.    

"I reckon that over my career I've done getting on for 2000 of them....I doubt I'll be doing another before I retire."

Producer: Adele Armstrong

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