Selected recordings from Festival events

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Selected recordings from Festival events

IF Oxford explores science and ideas at the festival in October, featuring 500 researchers and creative professionals every year. Selected videos and podcasts from events are featured online. Discover more: www.if-oxford.com

Episode

  1. 30/09/2021

    Alice’s Adventures Beyond the Canal

    Alice’s Adventures Beyond the Canal is a new audio play to mark the 150th anniversary of Alice Through the Looking-Glass. Alice has been reimagined and brought to you by IF Oxford and was written by author JC Niala to stimulate conversations about research at a free online event on: Friday 15 October, 7:30 pm (BST) / 2:30pm (EST) / 11:30am (PST) Book your free ticket to meet the author and researchers Alice is now a sassy, 21st century teenager, with a super-cool grandma, who explores brand-new scientific thinking which JC has uncovered by talking to researchers from across the globe, now working in the USA and UK. Exploring a new world, Alice (by New York-based actor, Kineta Kunutu) meets the Jester who is as characterful as the iconic Mad Hatter and where there was once madness, there’s now science. Alice unearths the importance of blending ancient ways with artificial intelligence for animal conservation in the ocean and heads into the sky to discover a new galaxy, meeting a Kingfisher played by BBC Radio 4 presenter of The Life Scientific and Professor of theoretical physics, Jim Al-Khalili. She learns about bats, and  looks up to the stars above, where she ponders on curious questions of language and voice recognition to solve a riddle of great importance to her. Alice’s Adventures Beyond the Canal Written and Directed by JC Niala Illustrations by Lisa Curtis. Sound recording and editing by Matthew Dunlop Produced by Dane Comerford This story was inspired by the 150th anniversary of Lewis Carroll’s Through the Looking-Glass and the work of AAAS IF/THEN Ambassadors: Abake Adenle, Adele Luta, Beata Mierzwa, Burçin Mutlu-Pakdil, Dorothy Tovar and Gracie Ermi; It was supported by the U.S. Embassy London and Oxford Playhouse Cast (in order of appearance): Narrator and voice of Grandma ….…….. JC Niala The Jester ………….………………… Dane Comerford Alice …………………………..….…………. Kineta Kunutu The Kingfisher ……………..…………….. Jim Al-Khalili Join the discussion event on 15 October, 7:30 pm, to meet the researchers and explore their worlds from where ever you are: Book your free ticket to meet the author and researchers

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IF Oxford explores science and ideas at the festival in October, featuring 500 researchers and creative professionals every year. Selected videos and podcasts from events are featured online. Discover more: www.if-oxford.com

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