Bath's prized podcasts

Bath University was presented with a European Excellence Award for podcasts of its lectures at a ceremony in Berlin last week. In its entry submission to the awards, which honour corporate communications and public relations, the university said that podcasts featuring public lectures by leading academics were accessed 188,000 times between November 2006 and September 2007. Nominees for the award included BASF, the European Commission, Heinz and Oxford University.