The ‘Talking Hospitality Collection’ was created after Dr. Kevin O’Gorman of the University of Strathclyde Business School approached the Spoken Word Project. Dr. O’Gorman’s academic interests lie with the history and philosophy of hospitality and tourism. The collection was supported by a grant from the Higher Education Academy: Hospitality, Leisure, Sport and Tourism Network and contains over 50 radio and television programmes from the BBC archives.

The collected media was also used to create eight video podcasts on subjects ranging from hospitality in Roman Pompeii to the hospitality related musings of the French philosopher Jacques Derrida.The content of these podcasts was also supplemented with commentary from a range of leading Hospitality, Leisure, Sport and Tourism academics from the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow Caledonian University and Oxford Brookes University.
The potential contributions of this project to the community of those involved in hospitality, leisure, sport and tourism education are considerable; this project enables the addition of multimedia items to the mix of resources they already use. In addition to encouraging the use of contemporary technologies these resources help to bring students into closer touch with the realities of contemporary serious debate. Encouraging students, most of whom are not Radio 4 listeners, towards becoming participants in the wider ‘intelligent conversation of the nation’ is an important general educational goal in itself.

The 8 Talking Hospitality Podcasts are listed below, with links to the full podcasts. Where media clips are used, links are given to the full item used - usually BBC radio and television programmes but including other Spoken Word audio and video materials.

These resources have been made available through the JISC/NSF funded programme Digital Libraries in the Classroom through The Spoken Word project and by a further small grant from the Higher Education Academy (Hospitality, Leisure, Sport and Tourism Network). You must register as a user of Spoken Word Services to access them. Registration for educational use is quick, simple and free. This procedure protects both you and the rights holders of the materials under the terms of the user agreement cited on the form.

1. Historical Hospitality & Tourism

Media Used:
POMPEII:THE LAST DAY (PART 1)
POMPEII:THE LAST DAY (PART 2)

2. The Changing Face of the Olympic Spirit

Media Used:
STORYVILLE:GAMES IN ATHENS
PANORAMA OLYMPICS
LA TOURIST ATTRACTIONS SUFFER DURING OLYMPICS

3. Food and the Media

Media Used:
COOKING IN THE DANGER ZONE
PANORAMA:THE POLITICS OF FOOD WORLD FOOD SHORTAGE
DOCTORS’ DILEMMAS:4:YOU WANT ME TO BE DIRTY AND FAT

4. Hitler’s Olympic Games

Media Used:
HITLER’S OLYMPIC GAMES
PANORAMA OLYMPICS

5. Food and Social Class

Media Used:
THE FOOD PROGRAMME:THE TRIUMPH OF FRENCH GASTRONOMY
HOW WE LIVED THEN:HOT MEAT PIES, SAVELOYS AND TROTTERS

6. Youth Club Culture & Tourism Consumption in Ibiza

Media Used:
The 5 Live Report: Ibiza Hangover

7. Bedouin Hospitality

Media Used:
EXCESS BAGGAGE - MIDDLE EAST
FROM THE FOUR CORNERS PHILBY, H. ST. JOHN - FROM THE FOUR CORNERS
EVERYMAN:WILDERNESS:THE MYSTERY OF THE BEDOUIN - EVERYMAN:WILDERNESS:THE MYSTERY OF THE BEDOUIN

8. Unconditional Hospitality - Jacques Derrida

Media Used:
A Discussion with Jacques Derrida. Centre for Modern French Thought, University of Sussex, 1 December 1997 (not BBC media)
Online Video
Transcript