News International Visiting Professor of Media: Matthew Engel

The 2010-11 News International Visiting Professor of Media, Matthew Engel, will be lecturing at 5.15pm on Tuesdays of Weeks 2, 3, 4, and 5 of Hilary Term (25 January, 1 February, 8 February, and 15 February).The first two lectures will be held in the Mary Ogilvie Lecture Theatre at St Anne's College, and the second two will be held at Green Templeton College.

The series is entitled 'Please, mister, can we have our ball back? Sport, the media, and the people', and the individual lectures are as follows:

25 January: 'Life and death? No, much more important than that': How sport turned into big business, big news - and a global obsession.

1 February: 'It's the cat's whisker': How sport grew and the media grew together, from cave paintings through the radio age to the earliest days of TV. And the story of the most famous and implausible sports reporter of all.

8 February: 'From Reith to wreath': The great days of sport on BBC TV. And how they ended.

15 February: 'You are the earth and the sky': How one man became the dominant force in the British media's coverage of sport. Does that mean he controls sport itself?