Sheldonian Theatre
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Oct 30, 2026
Iain McGilchristGUEST
about which we don't seem to talk enough.
Iain McGilchristGUEST
I was recently hosting a two-day symposium at the Sheldonian Theatre in Oxford on this very topic.
Iain McGilchristGUEST
I hope it will reach as many people as possible because, again, I think it is very important.
Iain McGilchristGUEST
And that brings me to what...
Lynette CalkinsNARRATOR
Dr. Jowett still presided at Balliol and Lewis Carroll could be seen daily walking across the quadrangle of Christ Church.
Lynette CalkinsNARRATOR
It was not so long since Rhodes had left Oriel to build an empire in South Africa and Ruskin had lectured on art at the Sheldonian Theatre.
Lynette CalkinsNARRATOR
Herkimer still guided the budding careers of young painters and Oscar Wilde was remembered for his epigrams but not yet known as a writer.
Lynette CalkinsNARRATOR
It was an Oxford of cobbled pavings which resounded to the clatter of dog carts driven by undergraduates.
HarryHOST
people, therefore the logic of the system.
HarryHOST
I talked about this in my Sheldonian speech.
HarryHOST
It's very clear that you can see from just every revolution, every regime change, that there's a certain logic that holds until a really rapid point when it just doesn't.
HarryHOST
And the logic of the system changes.
Peter HitchensHOST
That's the secret.
Sarah VineHOST
Anyway, dear Alas, if memory serves, I once attended a lecture at the Sheldonian in which Mr. Hitchens made, in passing, an inspired case against the cleaning of historic buildings.
Peter HitchensHOST
Quite niche.
Peter HitchensHOST
Against the what?
Irene TraceySOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
It is another example of Oxford's research addressing some of the most serious challenges facing people around the world.
Irene TraceySOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
This term also sees the Sheldonian series return for its third consecutive year, exploring a question that touches us all, identity.
Irene TraceySOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Amid rapid technological change, political polarisation and contested histories, questions of personal, national and cultural identity feel more important than ever.
Irene TraceySOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
I hope you'll join me at the Sheldonian on Tuesday the 10th of November for our first discussion on personal identity in the digital age.
Irene TraceySOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
You can find out more online.
Robyn WilliamsHOST
Professor Irene Tracey, Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University, and let's hope that that answer to Ebola comes off.
Olly StedmanGUEST
That's a lot of fossil fuel being used up.
Olly StedmanGUEST
On our gig next month at the Sheldonian in Oxford, we've explicitly said to people, think very hard before printing your acquire sheets with the notes on them.
Olly StedmanGUEST
See if you can find a different way of doing that.
Olly StedmanGUEST
Maybe there's a tablet that you can use.
Stanley ArlidgeHOST
In previous years, there's been protests about Palestine.
Stanley ArlidgeHOST
And I was covering particularly a unity march against the far right that happened from Cowley marching down to the Sheldonian.
Stanley ArlidgeHOST
And there are about 300 people.
Stanley ArlidgeHOST
It was organized by a stamp to race them.
Stanley ArlidgeHOST
And suddenly you've got these people coming around with a band playing Bella Ciao and students were joining in.
Stanley ArlidgeHOST
They were cheering.
Stanley ArlidgeHOST
And then when we got to the Sheldonian, you've got people giving these big speeches against the far right as students stream out in their gowns.
Stanley ArlidgeHOST
about out of matriculation from a Sheldonian.
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In 2012, Oxford gave the first complete modern performance in over 250 years of the opera Anacriante from 1754, reconstructing missing portions of Rameau's score.
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In 2022, the project mounted the United Kingdom premiere of the original 1737 version of Castor et Pollux at the Sheldonian Theatre in Oxford.
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The project has been described as a model for how academic musicology and performance practice can work together productively.
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Summary Jean-Philippe Rameau was born in Burgundy in 1683, the seventh of 11 children, spent 40 years as a provincial organist passing through seven French cities, settled in Paris in his late 30s, married a singer half his age, and waited until the age of 50 to premiere his first opera.
William WhyteGUEST
I suppose the great monument that shows that the university really is back in France is probably the establishment of the Collège de Quatre Nations, the College of the Four Nations in Paris, or indeed Richelieu's rebuilding of the Sorbonne amidst all this is a sort of sign that there the university has survived.
William WhyteGUEST
In England, as soon as the restoration of the monarchy is effected in 1660, plans begin to be made for the rebuilding of chapels in Cambridge, the building of the Sheldonian Theatre in Oxford, which is a monument to the return of these universities.
William WhyteGUEST
There's something very interesting, as we were talking about before, of the ways in which the rebuilding of universities or the foundation of universities is seen as a sign of order and of renewal and of stability.
William WhyteGUEST
And that is something that's going to continue to be true throughout the 18th century.
Megan GoochGUEST
So I think I've got one of the best views in Oxford from my office.
Megan GoochGUEST
I've got a view over the Sheldonian Theatre and something called the Clarendon building.
Megan GoochGUEST
But I also get the pleasure of working in a building in an industrial estate to the south of central Oxford built in the 1960s.
Megan GoochGUEST
And that's really special as well.
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