1. Next Monday, 17th May, at 12:00 UK time, hosted by the University of East Anglia: Social interaction in language teacher education: What a corpus can and can’t tell us by Fiona Farr from the University of Limerick. More info and a registration link here: https://bit.ly/33kKsOr From the blurb: “… it is still true to say that although language teacher education is much done, it is little studied.” The talk will look at “specific evidence-based accounts of the spoken and written discourse of experienced language teacher educators and student teachers”. Can’t quite express why, but this one intrigues me!

2. Next Tuesday, 18^th May, at 15:00 UK time is the third in the OECD ‘Ask an Expert’ series: Why play is so important for child learning and development will explore will “explore the important role play and risk-taking has in children’s lives, and how digital play is changing the game”. More info and registration here https://meetoecd1.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_diBIQTTlT3SfYWrZ6-FIQg Good that risk hasn’t been banned completely!

3. If crime fiction’s your bag, you’ll easily spend an hour or three exploring the Crime Reads site https://crimereads.com/ Here’s a piece on a film that Alfred Hitchcock never made about George Blake’s escape from Wormwood Scrubs Prison in 1966 https://crimereads.com/george-blake-prison-escape-hitchcock/ and here’s an interview with one of my current favourites, Jane Harper https://crimereads.com/jane-harper-the-australian-crime-author-everyone-seems-to-be-reading/

4. And, finally, an NTS ‘In Focus’ session on Gil Scott-Heron https://www.nts.live/shows/in-focus/episodes/in-focus-gil-scott-heron-10th-december-2019 Love it! None of that grime/garage/ jungle stuff ….