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In Defence of the Arts

Plain Speaking

English - May 30, 2019 18:38 - 31 minutes - 28.5 MB - ★★★★★ - 1 rating
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Lord David Puttnam joins the podcast to discuss the value of arts and humanities degrees.
Lord Puttnam spent thirty years as an independent producer of award-winning films including The Killing Fields, Chariots of Fire, Midnight Express, Bugsy Malone and Local Hero. Together these films have won ten Oscars, ten golden globes, twenty-five Baftas and the Palme D'Or at Cannes from 1994 to 2004, he was Vice President and Chair of Trustees at the British Academy of Film & Television Arts (BAFTA) and was awarded a BAFTA Fellowship in 2006. He is also a Fellow of the British Film Institute and is a member of the House of Lords in Westminster.