This week on The Blurb our panel discusses different forms of violence in literature and whether it is ever too excessive. Elisabeth takes a look at disappointing novel endings and reviews The Child of Vengeance and Emma Gibbs suggests some TV adaptations for your procrastination pleasure. Presented by Rebecca Elson and produced by Anna Henley and Rebecca Elson.
Would you ever consider paying a company to write your dissertation for you? A firm offering just that has been targeting struggling students in York. Ivory Research insist the custom papers they sell should be used for reference only and that they come with a 100% plagurism-free guarantee but students could still be committing academic misconduct if they use the company's services. We hear from the company themselves and are joined LIVE in the studio by the university's Assistant Registrar for Student Progress Jen Wotherspoon to get her reaction. From the URY Newshour, Wednesdays at 6pm on URY.
On this week's URY Newshour, there's outrage from supporters of the proposed Feminist Society as YUSU refuse to ratify it for a second time - we've got all the details plus speak LIVE to two members of Women's Committee. Also we announce the results from the YUSU referendum results, hear all of the latest city and campus news plus have an extended look back at Roses 2013 with Sports Editor Al Riddell who speaks to the competitors in the Women's Canoe Slalom whose points won the tournament for York. The URY Newshour, Wednesdays at 6pm on URY.
Could you live on just a pound a day? URY News reporter George Lane is taking part in the Live Below the Line challenge, meaning that he has just £5 to spend on food, drink and other items from Monday to Friday this week. Three days into the challenge, find out how he's been getting on.
Could you live on just a pound a day? URY News reporter George Lane is taking part in the Live Below the Line challenge, meaning that he has just £5 to spend on food, drink and other items from Monday to Friday this week. Two days into the challenge, find out how he's been getting on.
Could you live on just a pound a day? URY News reporter George Lane is taking part in the Live Below the Line challenge, meaning that he has just £5 to spend on food, drink and other items for the next 5 days. Listen to how he got on during his first day.
In the first new episode of the second season of In The Stalls, James covers the controversy of the 2013 Olivier Awards, runs through the new theatre productions across the country this week, and previews Tessa Humphrey's Winter of Our Discotheque. In The Stalls is presented and produced by James Metcalf.
A preview of Winter of Our Discotheque, a play by Tessa Humphrey.
On this week's Blurb we bring you a poetry special! Jordan Allwood talks to us about the English Society's Poems and Pints and we bring you some of the student written poems performed at the event. Anna Henley tells us about the Juba Anthology and our panel discusses whether poetry is still as popular today as it once was. Presented and produced by Rebecca Elson
This week on URY's film review show Jordan Allwood defends James Bond Skyfall, we review Cloud Atlas and Rosie talks us through the latest cinema releases and offerings from York Student Cinema. Presented and produced by Rebecca Elson