The Grey Lit Café
Grey (or gray) literature – 'grey lit' for short – includes such forms of communication as reports, white papers, dissertations, newsletters, slide decks, blogs, and podcasts. The Grey Lit Café explores the opportunities and benefits that grey lit provides for professionals and researchers. The podcast is directed by Anthony Haynes, produced by Dr Bart Hallmark, and published by Frontinus Ltd, a communications agency focused on engineering, infrastructure, sustainability, and research. Frontinus provides consultancy, editing, writing, and training services. If you're creating some grey literature and would like some support, contact us via our website, frontinus.org.uk.
The Grey Lit Café
Where do podcasts come from? Letters as an antecedent
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Anthony Haynes
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Season 6
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Episode 54
Anthony Haynes writes: Cultural forms and communicative genres tend not to emerge from a vacuum: they tend to emerge from existing forms. In the case of podcasts, obvious candidates include lectures, essays, sermons, and radio interviews.
And, we suggest here, letters.
In this, the second of a series of three episodes devoted to the topics of letters, we examine the resemblance between podcasting and letters.
Using as a case study the literary correspondence between George Lyttleton and Rupert Hart-Davis, we explore the significance of various aspects of content and form, ranging from voice and types of orality to friendship and disagreement.
Reference
The Lyttleton Hart-Davis letters were published in six volumes by John Murray (1978-84).
Further listening
If you enjoyed listening to this episode, you might particularly enjoy the following:
And, we suggest here, letters.
In this, the second of a series of three episodes devoted to the topics of letters, we examine the resemblance between podcasting and letters.
Using as a case study the literary correspondence between George Lyttleton and Rupert Hart-Davis, we explore the significance of various aspects of content and form, ranging from voice and types of orality to friendship and disagreement.
Reference
The Lyttleton Hart-Davis letters were published in six volumes by John Murray (1978-84).
Further listening
If you enjoyed listening to this episode, you might particularly enjoy the following:
Credits
- Sound production: Bart Hallmark
- Music: from Handel's Water Music, courtesy of the United States Marine Band and Marine Chamber Orchestra
About the publisher
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