KAMIKAZE...Divine Wind..

Two Kamikaze pilots speak of their experience...
https://aeon.co/videos/the-order-could-come-at-any-moment-two-kamikaze-pilots-tell-their-story
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xKmfPkbDPc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PsI79eO23K0

POET TONY WALSH ...BBC radio 4..LISTEN TO THIS..

I heard this on the radio this morning. It is an incredible conversation about EDUCATION, POETRY, CLASS, OPPORTUNITY, AND THE POWER OF CREATIVITY. Poet Tony Walsh talks to actress Julie Hesmondhalgh [Best known for her role in Coronation Street].
They simply discuss how they came to value writing and art and why the value of creativity is such a central feature of their lives. IT IS FANTASTIC.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0009cd2

For Y13 this could link to Harrison and issues linked to working class culture and opportunity.. but really this is just two interesting people discussing the power of art.

TONY WALSH is best known for being the poet that presented his poem 'THIS IS THE PLACE' at the vigil organised to respect the victims of the Manchester Arena terror attack.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PszMmYpQjPo

WATCH TONY PRESENT HIS POEM AND THEN TELL ME POETRY IS POINTLESS...
GO ON.. I DARE YOU. Check out the comments under the clip.

Some Dickens Resources....

Why you should read Dickens....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5czA_L_eOp4
LITERATURE...Charles Dickens..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9dB9BZWDBU&t=198s
Armando Iannucci...Dickens Documentary...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lZB6E0-yCk&t=256s

Radio....
In our Time...
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00547hx
Big Issue article..Dickens is more relevant than ever..
https://www.bigissue.com/culture/charles-dickens-relevant-ever/
BBC Culture...Dickens
http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20141216-why-the-world-loves-dickens

I think filmmmaker KEN LOACH is similar to Dickens as his films highlight social injustice and attack abuse of power....
Trailer for I Daniel Blake...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahWgxw9E_h4
KEN LOACH..Channel Four news debate with Tory MP..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-V7Iaycp5IU
CATHY COME HOME....A KEY MOMENT IN TV history....This film inspired one individual..DES WILSON... to help form the homelessness charity 'SHELTER'...ART HELPING TO CHANGE THE WORLD IN A POSITIVE MANNER !!!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xky8ZqhNAlo

GCSE Romeo and Juliet...

RSC...2018...Act 5 Scene 3...Juliet's death...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Q6tOsnbUjI&t=116s

Jonathan Pie....Satire..

Jonathan Pie....Extinction Rebellion..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TuCmdtcWKog
Stormzy on education..and opportunity...
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cambridgeshire-50005023

EXAMPLES OF SATIRE to develop understanding of Chuck Dickens' HARD TIMES..

The genius of BILL HICKS...
The Kennedy Assassination..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZq6UOiBu_Y
Selling weapons to Iraq...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-IZfpGG2cBE

Chris Morris...The Day Today...Episode One...Lampooning the codes and conventions of  News reporting...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eTGE9153VFE
BRASS EYE...CRIME...Chris Morris at it again..Mocking how the media report serious crime..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dRUuxZ-07e0
Trailer for FOUR LIONS...A Chris Morris film...comedy about Jihad!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ew-SrlQ9tlI
Chris Morris interview..Channel 4..Oct 2019....
https://www.channel4.com/news/satirist-chris-morris-on-his-new-film-and-whether-todays-world-is-beyond-parody

Final section of LIFE OF BRIAN....scathing satire on the absurdity of Christianity..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJUhlRoBL8M

Check anything by CHARLIE BROOKER....His work on Netflix is epic...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHun58mz3vI

TONY HARRISON RESOURCES...

Resources to assist the understanding of Tony Harrison's poetry...
Below is a PODCAST created from inside my own mind....
https://soundcloud.com/fishymedia/tony-harrisonthis-pen-is-all-i-have-of-magic-wand
Below is a discussion of V broadcast on BBC radio 4...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oW49WJ0F2HM
This is the film of V broadcast on Channel Four in 1987...IT CAUSED A FUSS because of the taboo language that litters the poem....below is the link to the first section of the YOU TUBE resource..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPutBM7zfv8
Part two..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=htVdIq8ID_g
Part Three..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgsJSAJwmOQ
Part Four...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gtEaDEdh2zE

Brilliant Radio Resources....
Discussion of V on Radio 4's BOOKCLUB...This was broadcast in 2016.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07dk0y1
The Sunday Feature from BBC Radio 3...A profile of Tony Harrison...
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08n1yl6
John Tusa interview from 2001...first broadcast on BBC Radio 3...
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00nc89r


Newspaper/online articles....
BBC..
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-21024372
The Guardian...
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/feb/18/tony-harrisons-poem-v-working-class
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/apr/28/the-guardian-view-on-tony-harrison-a-peoples-poet
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2007/mar/31/poetry.tonyharrison
The Independent...
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/its-the-famous-poem-that-drew-high-praise-and-huge-offence-but-does-tony-harrisons-v-still-have-the-8458044.html
Prospect magazine...The Bard of Beeston..
https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/magazine/tony-harrison-the-bard-of-beeston
The Yorkshire Post...
https://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/analysis/tony-harrison-the-yorkshire-poet-with-an-ear-for-the-heartbeat-of-language-1-8502035

YEAR 13..Sept 19...SHELLEY'S MASK OF ANARCHY...

Some resources to aid your understanding of this epic poem....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eh_pikNlEp4

Orgreave...The Miners' Strike..1984/85..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2jH53e6_jQ
Miners demand apology from the BBC for coverage of Orgreave..
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-south-yorkshire-27893072
IN OUR TIME...I love this BBC Radio 4 archive...
The Peterloo Massacre...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RtUbstQyLuA

YEAR 11 into 12...SO WHAT IS THE POINT OF ART AND LITERATURE?

So is this poetry?

John Cooper Clark....https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4qN9pduox0

Hollie McNish....https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2z-Cd3luqA&t=1s

Katie Tempest..https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Nl7Vv5ok1c
Three sided coin...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=41rf3xXZkcM

John Heartfield....

Picasso...Guernica..

David Almond visit to BGS
https://vimeo.com/133467392
Tony Harrison podcast...
https://soundcloud.com/fishymedia/tony-harrisonthis-pen-is-all-i-have-of-magic-wand

WARNING FROM HISTORY...

Check this film  'DON'T BE A SUCKER'..modern relevance?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vGAqYNFQdZ4

The idea that the ideology of the Nazis repulsed EVERYBODY before WW2 is a MYTH..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4zRZ7XLYSA 
The Cable Street Riots....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozndljflUgU&t=14s
Corporation Fields in HULL...The day Oswald Mosley was chased out of my city....
https://warrenrecordsuk.bandcamp.com/track/the-battle-of-corporation-fields
https://www.hulldailymail.co.uk/news/history/fascist-leader-sir-oswald-mosley-660973


14th April 2019...Labour MP David Lammy on Andrew Marr....look at some of the comments...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FMPiLNKM2BA 

Here James O'Brien interviews Nigel Farage....This clip exposes Farage for EXACTLY what he is and also illustrates the importance of homework...O'Brien's homework allows him to 'PIN' Farage...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-pyYoL9ngtE


HEGEL..' WE LEARN FROM HISTORY THAT WE DO NOT LEARN FROM HISTORY'...

How can we link these resources to our key texts?

GCSE POETRY RESOURCES for Y11

Guardsman Tromans is the soldier in REMAINS. Armitage used his experience to construct the poem. The narrative voice adopted by Armitage is presenting Tromans' experience in Iraq in 2003.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2DHWqppktFo
Akala...Ozymandias..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRWbo2x5lnA
Akala...London..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lo0GMqqEuus
British Library...Blake's London..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fl0yBrI24XM
Akala..The Prelude..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EGn1Ilx_3o4
John Agard..Checking Out Me History..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFV_06_UidI 

Images of War created by Don McCullin...

This is not McCullin but is an extremely powerful image.

POWER and CONTROL ORWELL..

GRETA THUNBERG..

This is her TED talk..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2QxFM9y0tY
ITV interview..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-bu2136AJUg
Greta...School Strike..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xgadosxS6Q0
Global strike..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJ_QkjieLmw

Malala Yousafzai
Trailer of Doc..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vE5gSHJkusU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXvs1vwiD0M

Cable Street 1938...Oswald Moseley..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozndljflUgU
Think about this in relation to Orwell's Animal Farm...

WAR IS PEACE
IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH
FREEDOM IS SLAVERY...

POETRY Y11...

COTLB..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S93lvQ4Ukg8

YOUTH CLIMATE CHANGE PROTEST...

BBC Framing of the climate change protests....

Preston..
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/stories-47545575/preston-s-lonely-climate-change-warrior

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-england-manchester-47259801/north-west-children-take-part-in-climate-strike

LONDON...
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-47427788

ITV..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9RaPE5fV_Xg

R A T M...

The Zapp family.....

THE ZAPP FAMILY....What do you think?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0rFyH4EIHw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BenqIVrgnfU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJLr0hr143M

PROTEST...

These two images are from the inspirational JOHN HEARTFIELD who used his Art to challenge and mock the ideology of Hitler in 1930s Germany. Hitler tried to kill him but Heartfield escaped and eventually found sanctuary in America. The second image is titled 'WITH THIS SIGN WE WANT TO BETRAY YOU'. ART and PROTEST have a rich history.

Sike Lee's Oscar acceptance speech...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tTo3XYm33WU&pbjreload=10
Trailer for Blackkklansman:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFc6I0rgmgY
SPIKE LEE creates films that PROTEST and urge reform. I see Dickens in his work. Watch a few of his films. It will be time well spent.
Andrea Levy died on the 14th of Feb. She is an important British writer..here is a brief interview with her..Her book 'Small Island' is a MUST read for any Lit student:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6EG9YNGzJHM
There is a wonderful documentary on the I-player....
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b0bw9d69/imagine-2018-andrea-levy-her-island-story 
Jonathan Pie....SATIRE and PROTEST....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-O2NsPioKBs 
Homeless...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIRht6O7sCQ&t=103s
Article from The Guardian linked to the 'homeless' epidemic in our country.
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2018/nov/22/at-least-320000-homeless-people-in-britain-says-shelter
The FOOD BANK scene form Ken Loach's I Daniel Blake..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_n7o30Ra60 
Channel Four interview with Loach and Tory MP Kwasi Kwarteng..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-V7Iaycp5IU
The films of John Harris...Always worth a look..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNOgQMho6fE

POLLY STYRENE...IDENTITY....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4v7_Iv_vGK4
On the very mainstream Top Of The Pops...Still remember my Dad saying ' What's this bloody rubbish..Do they get paid for this.?.' whilst I was hypnotised by the words and music. THIS USE OF ART TRANSFORMED MY VIEW OF THE WORLD. THERE WAS ANOTHER WAY!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XmVhl5sFqaU
I saw both of these clips on TV when i was 13...it might be why i am a teacher!
Here's Joy Division on BBC 2 in 1979...Another big moment for a teenage boy from Hull.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FD2SfQJOK08
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wrR71BaH98
The Slits...TYPICAL GIRLS...Another moment...Check those lyrics!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QCk8tEOcwqU
Enjoy your George Ezra downloads!!

CAN ART CHANGE THE WORLD..??

OF COURSE IT CAN! Art can challenge and change human perception. If you can change consciousness and redirect the perception of a human being...YOU HAVE CHANGED THE WORLD!!
This is a blog entry that explores the idea that Literature and Art as social and political protest can be the catalyst for SOCIAL and POLITICAL CHANGE.
https://becuriouslit.blogspot.com/search?q=ART

This is a painting by Hitler...

In 2008 the CHAPMAN BROTHERS bought some of Hitler's paintings and added some interesting imagery...The first is titled..If Hitler had been a hippy how happy he would be....What do you think of this work? What was the aim of the brothers?

Below are examples of the art Hitler despised. Students might want to consider why dictators despise artists. WHY DID STALIN KILL POETS? What is it about ART that tyrannical leaders find so repulsive?
What does their reaction tell us about the power of Literature and Art?

This is a BBC article that explores the subject of Hitler's 'DEGENERATE' Art exhibitions.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-24819441
Article from The Guardian:
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2014/mar/13/degenerate-art-attack-modern-art-nazi-germany-review-neue-galerie

He was not a fan of the work below...WHY?

ALLEZ!