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James Burke
12+ albums
indiealternativeLo-Fiexperimentalbedroom
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There is more than one artist by the name of James Burke: 1. James Burke is an indie/alternative musician from Boston, Massachusetts. He is a member of the band Ginger Sunburn. https://jamesburke.bandcamp.com/ 2. James Burke is a British broadcaster, science historian, author, and television producer. Born in Derry, Northern Ireland and educated at Oxford, he received his MA in Middle English from Jesus College. Later he moved to Italy where he lectured at universities in Bologna and Urbino as well as at English schools in that country. During that time he was engaged in the creation of an English–Italian dictionary and the publication of an art encyclopedia. After a period of broadcasting work in 1966, he moved to London to join the BBC's Science & Features Dept. where he hosted and co-hosted a number of programmes. He was fascinated by the possibilities of television and the potential to educate and entertain by making programmes about science and technology. He also worked for a while as a teacher of English as a Foreign Language at the Regency Language School in Ramsgate. Burke first made his name as a reporter on the popular and very long-running BBC science series, Tomorrow's World. He was BBC television's science anchor and chief reporter on the Project Apollo missions, including the first moon landings in 1969. However, the prestige output of the BBC Features Department in the 1970s was the "epic 13-parter" dominated by one charismatic and scholarly figure, epi
