THE ENGLISH: Laurie Taylor asks how the country house became ‘English’ and explores changing notions of Englishness over the past 60 years. He’s joined by Stephanie Barczewski, Professor of Modern British History at Clemson University, South Carolina and author of a new book which examines the way the country house came to embody national values of continuity and stability, even though it has lived through eras of violence and disruption. Also, David Matless, Professor of Cultural Geography at Nottingham University, considers the way that England has been imagined since the 1960s, from politics to popular culture, landscape and music. How have twenty-first-century concerns and anxieties in the Brexit moment been moulded by events over previous decades?
Producer: Jayne Egerton
Heritage and preservation
Sport and Philosophy - Inside an African-Caribbean Football Club
Fashion and class
Doctors at war - Wasting GP's time
Russian prison visitors - prison boundaries
Craft work - 'dirty' work
Insuring against disasters - electronic finance
Drugs in warfare
Elite education
Special programme on winner of Ethnography award
A special programme devoted to the BSA/Thinking Allowed Ethnography Shortlist
Grandfathers - Dementia carers
Teen bedrooms - Skydivers
Money - how to break the power of the banks
Squatting; a cross cultural history. Plus taking ones clothes off in public.
Platform Capitalism
Terrorism: does it work? - The 'Hotline'
Vertical Cities - India's property boom
The brave new world of virtual workers; also globalisation, the old and the new.
Health divides - Counting global health
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