Dr Colin Alexander
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Academic Page at NTU (https://www.ntu.ac.uk/staff-profiles/arts-humanities/colin-alexander)
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Research Publications (http://llr.ntu.ac.uk/rpd/researchpublications.php?pubid=d027fb45-3e02-4b93-a02a-929e71b7106b)
"Dr Colin Alexander is Senior Lecturer in Political Communications within the School of Arts and Humanities. He works in Communication and Society subject team
and contributes teaching to the BA Joint Honours Humanities, BA Media Communication and Culture and the MA Media and Globalisation degree programmes."
Colin Alexander's work on Coronavirus Propaganda
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"Coronavirus and the British Wartime Propaganda Playbook" (https://www.ntu.ac.uk/about-us/news/news-articles/2020/03/expert-vlog-coronavirus-and-the-british-wartime-propaganda-playbook)
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"COVID Propaganda from an Addicted Government" (https://www.ntu.ac.uk/about-us/news/news-articles/2020/11/expert-blog-covid-propaganda-from-an-addicted-government)
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"Understanding the Communications surrounding the Coronavirus Vaccine" (https://www.ntu.ac.uk/about-us/news/news-articles/2021/01/expert-blog-covid-propaganda-understanding-the-communications-surrounding-the-coronavirus-vaccine)
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"Coronavirus propaganda - in search of the BBC’s public service mandate" (https://www.ntu.ac.uk/about-us/news/news-articles/2021/03/expert-blog-coronavirus-propaganda-in-search-of-the-bbcs-public-service-mandate)
Other items mentioned in / relevant to the interview
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Colin Alexander, "Andrew Carnegie and the Great Philanthropic Misunderstanding", NTU (March 2021)
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"Coronavirus: The Queen's message seen by 24 million", BBC News (6 April 2020)
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"Coronavirus: Dame Vera Lynn uses 103rd birthday to buoy Britain", BBC News (20 March 2020)
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Vera Lynn (Wikipedia entry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vera_Lynn)
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Florence Nightingale Hospitals (Wikipedia entry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_hospitals_in_the_United_Kingdom)
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"Options for increasing adherence to social distancing measures, 22 March 2020", UK government (https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/options-for-increasing-adherence-to-social-distancing-measures-22-march-2020)
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Jacques Ellul, Propaganda: The Formation of Men's Attitudes, (1965)
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Laura Dodsworth, A State of Fear : How the UK government weaponised fear during the Covid-19 pandemic, Pinter & Martin (2021)
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"It Goes Against Everything I Believe In" (UK Vaccines Minister)
Acknowledgements, Copyright & Disclaimers
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The opinions expressed by Colin Alexander are his responsibility alone; they do not necessarily reflect the views of The Mind Renewed.
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All images of Colin Alexander are Copyright © Colin Alexander, all rights reserved, and used by TMR with kind permission.
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Podcast music: Chillout Me by Antony Raijekov (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)
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Slide show image: "Daddy, what did You do in the Great War?", UK Parliamentary Recruiting Committee [Public Domain] via Wikimedia Commons (slightly altered)
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TMR wishes to state that the fact that these creative materials appear in TMR productions should in no way be understood as implying that its creators endorse anything published by TMR.