A History of Tennis, Talking Treatments
Thinking Allowed
BBC
4.4 • 997 Ratings
🗓️ 9 July 2014
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Tennis: From Victorian Pastime to Global Phenomenon. Laurie Taylor talks to life long tennis fan and cultural historian, Elizabeth Wilson. The story of tennis illuminates social change and struggle across the 20th century, going hand in hand with the march of modernity, globalisation, commercialisation and gender equality.
Also, Daniel Holman, a post doctoral researcher at the University of Cambridge, discusses class differences in the use of 'talking treatments' for mental health problems with Stephen Frosh, Professor of Psychology at Birkbeck College. Why are these treatments so underused by working class people?
Producer: Jayne Egerton.
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| 0:30.3 | This is a Thinking Loud Podcast from the BBC and for more details in our terms of use and |
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| 0:55.0 | It's Jokkermit who claims this classic. Six-four in the bit. |
| 0:58.0 | They have. |
| 1:00.0 | And so surely all these two wonderful, wonderful final. |
| 1:07.0 | Oh dear, oh dear, said my companion after that concluding moment in this year's men's single final. |
| 1:14.0 | That nice man lost, I do feel so sorry for him, he was trying so hard. |
| 1:18.0 | You must be terrible to lose in front of so many people. |
| 1:21.0 | You can see he's trying to be so brave about it look look I |
| 1:23.6 | realize not for the not for the first time actually that my attempts to get my |
| 1:27.2 | companion to concentrate on the technical points of a tennis match rather than indulging |
| 1:32.0 | in the type of motivational psycho bubble |
| 1:34.5 | beloved by the commentators, or you can see she's feeling the strain, he knows he |
| 1:38.6 | holds his face in his hands, I can see that once again I'd failed. So I fell back on brute materialism. |
| 1:45.5 | Well he's got no need to feel sad. |
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