Weekly programmes from the Massachusetts School of Law (MSL), located in Andover, Massachusetts, USA, are now being broadcast around the world on the news and current affairs satellite radio networks of WRN – the international broadcaster, headquartered in London, England. MSL not only makes high quality, affordable legal education available to less privileged persons who previously were excluded from the legal profession, but also presents information on important subjects to the general public via television programmes, an intellectual journal, conferences, speeches by authors, blogs and books.
Senior staff members at MSL produce and host the two weekly shows that are distributed by WRN: Educational Forum, produced and hosted by Professor Diane Sullivan and Associate Dean and Professor, Michael L. Coyne, and Books of Our Time, produced and hosted by School Dean, Lawrence R. Velvel. The 60 minute shows bring together leading experts and authors to discuss and answer questions about a major topic in their field or important books they have written.
“We are pleased that WRN is carrying MSL’s enormously informative programs throughout Europe and North America” says Lawrence R Velvel, Dean of the Law School. “We know of no similar programs produced by any American higher educational institution since a University of Chicago radio program with Milton Friedman and Robert Maynard Hutchins in the 1940s, and we hope and believe that our programs will make a real contribution to listeners’ knowledge of crucial topics.”
Gary Edgerton, WRN’s Managing Director, says “We are delighted to be distributing the programmes from Massachusetts School of Law on leading digital radio platforms in North America and across Europe. I know listeners will enjoy the perspective that the programmes bring to a host of relevant and timely topics.”
The shows can be heard on WRN’s English language news channel on a number of leading cable TV services in European cities including Prague, Geneva, Brussels and Vienna at 1pm on Saturdays and repeated at 7am on Sundays. In the UK and Ireland, the shows can be heard on Sky digital channel 0122, Telewest Active digital cable channel 920 across the UK and NTL digital cable in Ireland at midday on Saturdays and repeated at 6am on Sundays. In the USA and Canada the shows can be heard on Sirius Satellite Radio, channel 140 on Saturdays at 9am ET/6am PT and again on Sundays at 4am ET/1am PT.
(Source: WRN/R Netherlands Media Network Weblog)