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In the calm splendour of the Devon’s medieval Dartington Hall, Sir Harrison Birtwistle (HF 1965-67) – Harry to his friends – is honoured by a talented group of international musicians, celebrating his recent 85th birthday. Directing the Dartington...
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In 2003 The Harkness Fellows Association made a film about the experiences of Fellows over the years. This atmospheric video was created with a view to re-launching the Fellowships in the UK following the narrowing of focus in 1997. Later in 2003 Timothy Hornsby and...
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When I arrived at Stanford for my Harkness Fellowship, several of us were hosted by academic or campus families while we found our feet and, most importantly, bought a car. It was clear the host families enjoyed having these odd, British young people foisted on them,...
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Appropriately, it was his storytelling that stands out most vividly in my memories of Jim. I know of no other person who could tell a story so well or who would be urged so strenuously by friends to retell a tale even though everyone round the table had heard it...
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Chris Barnham After 25 years in the civil service, within a year of leaving I was a Labour councillor in Lewisham. In making that transition I went from a profession trusted by nearly 60% of the public to one trusted by 17%. And no one was more surprised than I....
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Whilst it may seem a strange thing to say, we have his stroke to thank for the fact that the full range of Stuart Devlin’s work has been presented in this fabulous book. A man with a strong work ethic and endless ideas, he would not have paused to look back unless...
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My Harkness year coincided with Donald Trump’s election and the 2017 Republican attempt to repeal Obamacare. So I promptly ditched one of my Harkness projects in November 2016 and decided to understand better what Republicans actually wanted national health policy to...
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Editor: To this day wherever I travel I remember the advice Jerri Fosdick gave us in our first introductory session in Philadelphia ” Do not underestimate how much emotional energy and space it takes to move to a different country – even small...
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If we do not change direction we will end up where we are headed – Lao Tse Cities need to change direction fast, if we are to satisfy our needs and retain social values. As the world tips towards the East, and to ‘mega cities’ of more than 10 million...
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Joining the BBC in 1963 as a general trainee, but with no clear vocational passion at that time, I had my first media lesson from the editor of Radio Newsreel. I was preparing my first ever piece to broadcast for the programme, 6.30 to 7.00 weekday nights. I cannot...
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Even among the many eminent people to emerge from a Harkness Fellowship, it will be difficult to find a person who has collected more honours, awards and prizes than Colin Blakemore (1965-68), the neuroscientist specialising in vision and the development of the brain....
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How far has the Harkness Fellows programme changed? There have been two changes, not one. The first, in 1988, as explained in the last Newsletter replaced the original open arms approach – poets, composers, writers, academics, journalists as well as people in health,...
