Baristas; 'People' History
Thinking Allowed
BBC
4.4 • 997 Ratings
🗓️ 7 May 2014
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
The rise & fall of the working class: Laurie Taylor talks to Selina Todd, social historian at St Hilda's College, Oxford, about her sweeping study of ordinary British people between 1910-2010. Rooting her analysis in first person accounts from factory workers, servants and housewives, she reveals a hidden history full of the unexpected: How many of us know that cinema audiences once shook their fists at Winston Churchill? Also, US sociologist, Yasemin Besen-Cassino, discusses her research on 'baristas', the preparers of coffee across the urban world. She finds a group of affluent young people who'll work for poor wages if they're associated with a 'cool' brand.
Producer: Jayne Egerton.
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| 0:44.0 | Hello. |
| 0:45.0 | Well, first of all, I bought a proper espresso machine and a bag of the professional implements |
| 0:49.5 | that go with it, you know, the frothing wand, the coffee |
| 0:52.0 | compressing tool and the metallic |
| 0:53.4 | coffee holders and then of course I had to go out and buy a proper coffee grinder |
| 0:56.6 | one with the dial which went from course to fine and once once that was all |
| 0:59.7 | in place I only needed to pick up the instruction book and begin my well my barista training frankly it's it's gone very well |
| 1:09.3 | Another espresso for you darling I shout down the hall, yanking the coffee |
| 1:13.7 | holder from the machine, sliding it under the grinder, patting the coffee smooth, |
| 1:17.3 | engaging the holder with the machine, pressing the on switch and watching as the |
| 1:21.3 | black coffee dribbles into the waiting cup. |
| 1:24.0 | Well now, now I do it all with a swagger you know, the sort of assured |
| 1:30.0 | synchronicity of movement you see in a professional barista. |
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