OCTOBER 2009
15/10/2009 - BBC Radio 4 Woman's hour interview re. Angie's new 'public understanding'
role. (4 million 'on the day' listeners, plus downloads, i-player and podcasts.) Angie received
over 200 emails following this interview! Hear it here:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/womanshour/03/2009_41_thu.shtml.
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15/10/2009 - Angie's Times Higher Education interview comes out. (THE has a
weekly circulation of 28,000, a weekly readership of 60,000 HE professionals and
www.timeshighereducation.co.uk registers a global audience of over 400,000 unique
HE users each month.) Read the article here:
http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=26&storycode=40867
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NOVEMBER 2009
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Angie gave an interview re. her new 'public understanding' role to The Philosophers'
Magazine. (Set up in 1997 this quarterly is distributed in the UK and USA and already
has a circulation which is doubling year-on-year and currently stands at 3,500. The
website receives around 3,000 unique visitors each week.
12/11/09 - Meeting with Dr Philip Pothen, Head of Communications, AHRC. He was
very pleased with how it went, see 'Many thanks' email in 'General Praise' file.
12/11/09 - interview for AHRC podcast on Angie's new role. Published on their
website on 8.12.09 and it can be found at
www.ahrc.ac.uk/News/Podcasts/Pages/angiehobbs.aspx
16/11/09 - Angie wrote some philosophical questions and answers to promote the
IGGY event, (The International Gateway for Gifted Youth) at Warwick Uni. (The
questions appear on give-away cards, students then need to visit the website to find
out the answer.)
19/11/09 - Guest contributor on Radio 4's In Our Time. This week's topic is Sparta.
3.5 million 'on the day' listeners, plus i-player and podcast downloads.
24/11/09 - 1530 – 1700 visiting Rugby school to inspect their philosophy zone
initiative (set up by rugby school to teach philosophy both face to face and via the
internet to a large number of students both nationally and internationally,) and
podcast.
The Nov/Dec issue of Philosophy Now magazine, Issue 76, carries a piece about
Angie's new role. (Distributed in the UK and USA the magazine has a circulation of
8,000 which is growing rapidly.)
DECEMBER 2009
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04/12/09 – 1400-1500: interview with Alex Barber (Glaucon’s challenge in Plato),
London, on London's (Sony Award winning!) JUST RADIO and for an Open
University edition of Plato’s Republic.
07/12/09 - 1100: Audio book recording for the Hodder publication Introducing
Philosophy, with Mark Vernon, London. (Hodder Education is part of Hachette Livre
UK the largest and one of the most diversified book publishers in the UK.)
09/12/09 - 1400 GMT phone interview with American 'Cabinet' magazine. Results in
4,000 word interview with Angie on the philosophy and history of friendship. Comes
out 17.03.10. (For email which includes link to relevant issue see email 'FW: Angie
Hobbs interview' in 'December 2009' folder. For PDF of the interview see the same
folder, email 'FW: PDF of piece for Cabinet no. 36.' The mag was 'Issue 36
Friendship Winter 2009/10')
14/12/09 - Audio book recording for the Hodder publication Introducing Ethics, with
Mark Vernon, London. (Hodder Education is part of Hachette Livre UK the largest
and one of the most diversified book publishers in the UK.)
14/12/09 - 2115-220: Radio 3's Nightwaves, live interview on Public Understanding in
Philosophy role. 300,000 'on the day' listeners, plus podcasts, downloads and iplayer.
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16/12/09 - Meeting at 1130, Arts Centre Cafe with Sara Liptai, local educational
consultant.
17/12/09 - 1530, London, meeting with the BBC's David Edmonds at the British
Library regards presenting BBC philosophy programmes
JANUARY 2010
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Interview about Public Understanding role published in The Philosopher’s Magazine
(tpm First Quarter 2010).
15-16/01/10 – Guest speaker at residential weekend on ‘Socrates’ at Burton Manor
College; most of the audience part of the ‘Philosophy in Pubs’ network.
17/01/10 – Presenting the Forum, on the BBC World Service at 9.00 am and 8.00pm
repeat (also repeated at 1.00am, on Radio 4.) 40 million 'on the day' listeners, plus
the Radio 4 repeat plus i-player and downloads.
19/01/10 - BBC World Service live recording of the Forum plus function afterwards
at the British Museum.
Accepted the request of Michael Cuthbert to become a ‘Town Philosopher’ of
Malmesbury. His emails are in ‘25.01.10’ folder.
FEBRUARY 2010
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01/02/10 - Angie wrote an 800wrd piece on 'Ethics and Money' for the Guardian's
Citizen Ethics in a Time of Crisis which was published both online and in a booklet on
21.2.10. The Guardian has an average daily circulation of nearly 300,000. Read the
article here: http://www.citizenethics.org.uk/
12/02/10 – 0840 interview on love with BBC Coventry and Warwickshire. BBC C&W
has 86,000 weekly listeners.
13/02/10 – 10 min interview on heroes and heroism with Irish Radio chat show, the
Weekend Blend (on National station Newstalk.)
17/02/10 – 1720-17.50 meeting with David Willetts MP at Warwick.
17/02/10 - The New York Times carries a very favourable piece about Angie’s new
title! (the NYT has a circulation of 950,000 every week-day.)
26/02/10 – The Guardian Citizen Ethics in a Time of Crisis debate and dinner at
British Museum (with Rowan Williams and Michael Sandel).
Filled in the AHRC survey on Public Engagement.
MARCH 2010
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01/03/10 - 1445, podcast for Rugby School Ethics and Science conference on ‘What
is Health?’.
06/03/10 - 1100 Warwick TEDx talk on 'Censorship in Utopia,' and podcast, plus
interviews with The Warwick Boar and Warwick's radio station RaW.
11/03/10 – Rugby School's web-linked Perspectives Science and Ethics conference;
Angie talking on 'What is Health?'
24/03/10 - Psychologies Magazine phone interview on whether heroism and heroes
are relevant for today's woman.
APRIL 2010
13-14/04/10 – filming in Venice for upcoming documentary about the search for the idea of
Atlantis, in production with Associated Producers in Toronto and National Geographic
International. To be broadcast April 2010.
28/04/10 – Angie gives a Royal Institute of Philosophy lecture in Bradford entitled 'What is
Health?'
 30/04/10 - the Financial Times publishes an interview with Angie on how
philosophers/phy can help us deal with the financial crisis. The FT has a worldwide
circulation of nearly 400,000 per month. Read the article here:
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/aa1de23a-53f0-11df-aba0-00144feab49a.html
MAY 2010
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01/05/10 - Talk on 'What is Health?' to the British Undergraduate Philosophy Society
(BUPS) Annual Meeting at Warwick, 11:30, MS01.
03/05/10 - Angie's comments in the Financial Times (on What would the ancient
Greek philosophers counsel in today’s Greek crisis?) are picked up by the New York
Times and posted as the 'Idea of the Week.' (The NYT has a circulation of 950,000
every week-day.) Read the article here:
http://ideas.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/05/03/the-platonic-tonic-for-greece/
05/05/10 - speaking at Winchester Philosophy and Theology Society on ‘Plato on
Courage’.
06/05/10 - On BBC Radio 4's 'Today' programme discussing the results of the
Philosopher- Rulers vote (Angie ran a campaign on Twitter throughout the election,
encouraging people to vote for an alternative Cabinet of Philosopher-Rulers, as
recommended by Plato in the Republic). The programme has an average of 6.6
million listeners. Link here (Angie's on 06.53 - 06.57:)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/newsid_8664000/8664006.stm
09/05/10 – Angie's playing in the Philosophy Shop's Philosophers’ Football Match in
North London, a loose re-enactment of the Monty Python sketch, filmed by Sky,
including interviews and podcasts for Sky and the Philosopher’s Magazine.
13/05/10 - Lunch with BBC Executive Producer Mary Downes, regarding more
presenting work. Mary was very impressed with Angie's appearance on the 'Today'
programme.
18/05/10 - Angie's been invited to take part in a discussion in the House of Lords,
speaking on academia and the media. 6.00-8.00pm.
20/05/10 - Talk at the Warwick Alumni/ae Evening
26/05/10 - Angie was invited to contribute ‘a short reflection or two’ to the website
Sage Bites: Reflections on Quotations for Life at
http://sagebites.squarespace.com/http://sagebites.squarespace.com/ by the website’s
creator Dr Andy Mousley, Senior Lecturer in English at De Montfort University,
Leicester.
28/05/10 - Angie's talking on Radio 4's 'Woman's Hour' on leisure (4 million 'on the
day' listeners, plus downloads, i-player and podcasts.)
29/05/10 - Angie's chairing 'The Truth About Everything' at the Hay-on-Wye
Philosophy Festival (concurrent with its Literary Festival).
30/05/10 - 1430: Talk on Mental Health and Illness at the Hay-on-Wye Philosophy
Festival in the Globe Arts Centre/Cafe, Hay-on-Wye, alongside Lewis Wolpert and
Richard Bentall, AND doing a solo slot, 1800, on Plato on Erotic Love. Go to
HowTheLightGetsIn for more.
JUNE 2010
02/06/10 - BBC2’s Timewatch documentary 'Atlantis The Evidence' screens - Angie’s an
onscreen contributor. 1.95 million people tuned in,
(http://www.barb.co.uk/report/weeklyTopProgrammesOverview?) making it the 11th most
popular programme on BBC2 that week - a real feat for a historical/philosophical
documentary.
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16/06/10 - giving a talk at the NCCPE and AHRC Public Engagement in the Arts and
Humanities Workshop, Glaziers Hall, London.
25/06/10 – Angie’s interviewed by the Independent about the Philosophy Zone
initiative (set up by Rugby School to teach philosophy both face to face and via the
internet to a large number of students both nationally and internationally.) The article
will be published in their education supplement in September. (In February 2010 the
Independent had a daily circulation of 183,547.)
JULY 2010
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07/07/10 - Angie's in London meeting Hilary Lawson, Director of The Institute of Art
and Ideas and Director of the HowTheLightGetsIn Philosophy Fesitival in Hay. Hilary
says 'Given our joint interest in promoting philosophy it would be good to see if we
have projects where we could combine forces.'
18/0710 – Angie discusses philosophy and her 10 favourite pieces of popular music
which have inspired her politically for North Cotswold Community Radio
northcotswoldonline.com 19.30-21.30.
AUGUST 2010
5.04.10 – Angie takes part in the consultation process for the NCCPE’s Senior Managers
Toolkit (Report to be published December 2010)
Elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts