Producer delivers lectures via weblink

Oscar and Bafta-winning producer David Puttnam yesterday delivered the first of a series of lectures from his West Cork home to university students in Australia.

The initiative will see the producer deliver modules to university students outside Ireland from his Skibbereen residence using technology that has been enabled and powered by BT and Cisco.

The model, known as Atticus Education, is due to be rolled out in Asia, Britain and the US later this year.