the teaching curator is a blog written by Jim Harris.

It’s called the teaching curator because that’s my job, leading academic programming at the Ashmolean Museum in the University of Oxford, an extraordinary meeting point of people and objects and the stories they generate.

I’m also one of the team that provides Pause for Thought on BBC Radio 2 and this blog began in order to publish the scripts I’ve written for that, mostly delivered on the Breakfast Show in conversation with Chris Evans, Zoe Ball, Sara Cox, Dermot O’Leary and others.

The scripts appear in the order they were broadcast and are dated accordingly, starting in January 2014. Wherever they are available, I’ve included links to the original broadcasts on the BBC Sounds app.

Although Pause for Thought comprises most of the content, I also occasionally post things written for St Olave Hart Street, the Anglican church in the city of London where I am one of the Readers, or connected to my work at Oxford.

If you’d like to get in touch or comment on anything, please drop me a line. My email address is at the bottom of the page.

The header image was taken at the Clyfford Still Museum, Denver CO. The landscape in the background image is in the Thunder Basin National Grassland in Northeastern Wyoming.