{"id":8077,"date":"2019-10-25T16:46:49","date_gmt":"2019-10-25T15:46:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/?p=8077"},"modified":"2019-10-25T16:50:07","modified_gmt":"2019-10-25T15:50:07","slug":"podcast-dr-clarke-vs-flying-saucers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/podcast-dr-clarke-vs-flying-saucers\/","title":{"rendered":"Podcast: Dr Clarke vs The Flying Saucers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.shu.ac.uk\/about-us\/our-people\/staff-profiles\/david-clarke\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dr David Clarke<\/a>, Principal Research Fellow in Journalism has been speaking with <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jim_chisem?lang=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jim Chisem<\/a> for his podcast <a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/boadigital\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Talking History<\/em><\/a>. The pair discussed David&#8217;s work as curator of The National Archives UFO Project,\u00a0the history of the UFO phenomenon, and folklore in technological societies.<\/p>\n<p>Listen to the podcast <a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/boadigital\/2-dr-clarke-vs-the-flying-saucers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Image from Talking History at British Online Archives<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr David Clarke, Principal Research Fellow in Journalism has been speaking with Jim Chisem for his podcast Talking History. The pair discussed David&#8217;s work as curator of The National Archives UFO Project,\u00a0the history of the UFO phenomenon, and folklore in technological societies. Listen to the podcast here. &nbsp; &nbsp; Image from Talking History at British Online Archives<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1158,"featured_media":8078,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[139],"tags":[172,1317,1318,574,1320,1319,411],"class_list":["post-8077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-david-clarke","tag-flying-saucers","tag-jim-chisem","tag-national-archives","tag-online-archives","tag-podcast","tag-ufos"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/files\/2019\/10\/2019-02-CLARKE-TNA-UFO-podcast.jpg?fit=890%2C290&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8oFHo-26h","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2800,"url":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/book-launch-ufo-drawings-national-archives-dr-david-clarke\/","url_meta":{"origin":8077,"position":0},"title":"Book Launch &#8211; Tuesday 19 September:  &#8216;UFO Drawings From the National Archives&#8217; by Dr David Clarke","author":"Rachel Finch","date":"08\/09\/2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Update - 14 November 2017: Dr Clarke was interviewed for the Daily Star and spoke about his work and the book today. 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