Episode 22: COVID-19 and the Creatives

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Episode 22

What is the future for creative work and performance in the aftermath of COVID-19? What lessons have we learnt and what is the long-term impact?

Professor Melissa Tyler and Professor Philip Hancock from Essex Business School speak to Professor Jules Pretty and Tom Carradine from Carradine's Cockney Singalong talks about his experiences during lockdown and in its aftermath.

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In their blog Professor Tyler and Professor Hancock discuss the impact of COVID-19 on the largely self-employed and freelance workforce who are the bedrock of UK’s entertainment economy. What have we learnt? How have things changed? And what is needed for performers, and the industry more generally, to make a fair, sustainable and accessible recovery? Read it now

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