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Off The Shelf

Off The Shelf

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 Podcasts from Sheffield's Off the Shelf Festival of Words - celebrating books, words and ideas.University of Sheffield Player Art
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  • Diversity Drop: What’s Happening in Young Adult Fiction Now?

    Diversity Drop: What’s Happening in Young Adult Fiction Now?
    Nov 4 2025

    There has been a steep drop in diversity in children’s literature, bucking the trend of years of steady increase.

    How is Young Adult literature responding to the politicisation of diversity?

    Dr Aneesh Barai, Professor Karen Sands-O’Connor, author and columnist Dr Darren Chetty and award-winning author Sita Brahmachari, discuss their creative and critical writing about diverse youths in literature.


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    46 mins
  • The Morecambe Winter Gardens: Contested Histories

    The Morecambe Winter Gardens: Contested Histories
    Oct 31 2025

    The Morecambe Winter Gardens is a Grade 2* Listed Theatre. For five years Professor Vanessa Toulmin has been the Chair of the Preservation Trust responsible for raising over £4.4 Million pounds of funding to stabilise the building and restore its important features.

    Vanessa discusses the contested history of the venue, placing it in the wider context of 20th century performance studies and examining previously unknown histories that reveal a different narrative to the standard seaside variety hall that it has been placed within.
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    24 mins
  • Sheffield Music City

    Sheffield Music City
    Oct 29 2025

    Musician Neil McSweeney and colleagues from the Department of Music, examine music's deep roots in Sheffield's story while envisioning the creative potential of our musicians and music organisations to help define the city's future.
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    42 mins
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