Another Geography related broadcast from the BBC - although David Harvey is
described as a 'leading economist'.
He's speaking on this afternoon's Thinking Allowed (BBC Radio 4 4pm London
time - but then later on iPlayer and as a BBC podcast):
Laurie Taylor discusses capitalism with leading economists David Harvey and
Ha Joon Chang.
For those outside the UK it's an interesting format - taking social science
ideas to a broader radio audience (I think Radio 4 audiences in the
afternoon are usually above a million, and the BBC podcasts are usually very
high in the charts.) Laurie Taylor is/was a sociology professor, which means
he knows his stuff, but also means he has a tendency to have his own agenda
and to talk over some of the contributors - I did a Thinking Allowed on
Suburbia a few years ago and I was struck by how little time you get to say
anything (even in a format like this which is pretty generous when compared
with most other mainstream radio.) It will be interesting to see how DH's
ideas come across in this format, when compared with the special
lectures/seminars that many of us have been to. Should be useful for
teaching purposes - and I think the podcast archive for Thinking Allowed is
kept permanently by the BBC.
Following on from my last email version of Radio Times, there's still a
chance to hear some of Hayden Lorimer's essays on the geographies of
running.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006x3hl
I listened to essay three this morning (ironically in the car driving out to
Royal Holloway) on running as a way of being in and reading the landscape -
it's brilliant and the section on running over snow-covered uneven ground is
quite literally a work of staggering genius (and you now have 9 hours left
to listen to it ...)
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David Gilbert
Professor of Urban and Historical Geography
Director: Social and Cultural Geography at Royal Holloway
Department of Geography
Royal Holloway,
University of London,
Surrey TW20 0EX.
Tel (01784) 443653
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