#Ruskin200 - Ruskin, Science and the Environment

Diseases of Modern Life

This podcast was presented and edited by Dr Catherine Charlwood for the Diseases of Modern Life project.

Book for the 8th February Ruskin conference and public lecture at the Oxford University Museum of Natural History here.

The guests were

Professor John Holmes (University of Birmingham)

Dr Fraser Riddell (Trinity College, University of Oxford)

Professor Fiona Stafford (Somerville College, University of Oxford)

The quotation from Ruskin’s letter to his father was written on 31st January 1849 and can be found on page 93 of Volume 36 of The Complete Works of John Ruskin. I am indebted to William J Gatens’s 1986 article ‘John Ruskin and Music’ for highlighting this letter.

Music for this episode was extracts from ‘Qui la voce sua soave’ from Bellini’s opera I Puritani (1835). It was performed by Maria Callas at the Teatro alla Scala and directed by Tullio Serafin. This recording can be found at Liber Liber and is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution - Noncommercial - Share Alike 4.0 International Licence.