Can Advertising Be Art?
Teach Me A Lesson with Greg James and Bella Mackie
BBC
4.8 • 957 Ratings
🗓️ 26 April 2021
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
Greg James and Bella Mackie didn’t pay much attention at school. So they’re asking Britain’s most inspiring teachers to show them what they missed in this series of fascinating and fun lessons.
This week it's art with Ms Bates, who poses the question 'Can advertising be art?' as a way of starting a conversation about Pop Art - where did it come from? Why does it endure? And does being involved in advertising compromise an artist? We also find out which artwork Greg and Bella would shove a granny to get hold of (although they'd like to clarify that they would rather just pay for it).
Bad students of all ages are welcome. Expect brilliant teachers, captivating subjects but absolutely no homework.
Get in touch with your funny school stories and teacher recommendations - email us at teachme@bbc.co.uk. We'll read out some of our favourites in our BBC Sounds exclusive bonus episodes, Teach Me A Lesson - Break Time.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:05.0 | By the end of this podcast, we're going to answer the question, |
| 0:08.0 | Can Advertising Be Art? Art. Hello and Welcome to another teach me a lesson. |
| 0:23.0 | Bella, Bella, Bella. |
| 0:24.0 | Yeah, what? |
| 0:25.0 | The final one in the series. |
| 0:27.0 | I know, but all good things have to come to an end and there is the second series |
| 0:30.0 | so don't, you know, don't panic. |
| 0:31.0 | If you're a newbie to this podcast, why did I just say newbie? |
| 0:35.0 | Bella, please slap me and explain what the podcast is about. |
| 0:38.0 | Well, if you're coming in on episode 12, then I mean, congratulations for coming in, |
| 0:42.0 | but you know, there are 11 that you need to go back to but the way the thing is though is you don't have to listen sequentially |
| 0:47.3 | You don't but you do need to listen to all of them because learning as I've always said is fluid |
| 0:51.6 | Okay, you've never said that's not a thing you say, but yeah, sure. |
| 0:56.0 | Teach me a lesson where we ask teachers to teach us their favorite lesson and hopefully we all learn something new. |
| 1:02.0 | And we praise teachers, which is nice because they're not praised enough. |
| 1:05.0 | So that's what this is all about. |
| 1:06.7 | All the episodes are up online on the BBC Sounds app with some extra lessons including |
| 1:11.6 | our special guests, Joe Lissit, Clara Ampho and Claire Balding, |
| 1:15.4 | and in the one that comes out on Friday after this comes out, Tan France. |
| 1:20.8 | So BBC Sounds for all the episodes plus the extra ones, but the actual lessons are available wherever you get your podcasts from. |
| 1:29.0 | Today's lesson is art. Now I know the answer to this question, but I'm going to ask it anyway for the purposes of a podcast. |
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