Ros atkins biography of abraham

On 30 November at the Intellectual Forum, journalist and BBC presenter Ros Atkins shared his approach to communication and some of the personal and professional experiences which shaped it.

In his new book, The Art of Explanation, Ros describes how a system he first devised while an undergraduate at Jesus College is still the foundation of how he approaches communication and explanation in his work as a journalist.

In the first few minutes of his talk in Frankopan Hall, Ros explained how that system came to be.

“I developed it a couple of hundred yards away in North Court in Jesus College as a pretty green teenager arriving from the wilds of West Cornwall, faced with the first few history essays of term and thinking, this doesn't look viable”, he said.

“I was just thinking, my goodness, I'm being given an essay question, a list of twenty books, and a see you next week?”

The system Ros eventually devised to understand the informat