Sarah Churchwell , the School of Advanced Study’s public engagement chair and professorial fellow in American literature at the Institute of English Studies (IES), assesses leading men of the silver screen (1930s and 1940s) for the new BBC Radio 3 series ‘Five Screen Gods’, which airs at 10.45pm from 11–15 February. The first two episodes featured Clark Gable and Frederic March . The last three will focus on Charles Boyer , Joel McRea and Cary Grant .

Peter Coe, research associate at the Information Law and Policy Centre ( ILPC ) at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies ( IALS ), explains how children can be aided in using social media appropriately in the Education Business article, ‘ Children on social media ’.

The Letters of TS Eliot Volume 8: 1936–1938 co-edited by Professor John Haffenden , senior research fellow at the Institute of English Studies ( IES ) , is reviewed in The Guardian and the Observer. This is the eighth volume and is devoted to the letters the poet wrote between 1936 and 1938 as he approached the age of 50.

Sarah Churchwell , public engagement chair at the School of Advanced Study and professorial fellow in American literature at the Institute of English Studies (IES), talks about the history of the American dream in the third episode of the BBC’s ‘ American history’s biggest fibs with Lucy Worsley ’ (from 08:03–09.10 and 24:09–24:34).