Charity shop history, our relationship with 'stuff', and musical typewriters
Arts & Ideas
BBC
4.2 • 599 Ratings
🗓️ 10 November 2020
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
Matthew Sweet and guests discuss the history and ideas behind the charity shop, our relationship with 'stuff', and musical typewriters - aspects of November's Being Human Festival.
Matthew talks to researchers whose work is featured in the festival, which showcases research from a series of UK universities. His guests are anthropologist and soprano Jennifer Cearns from University College London; George Gosling, a historian at the University of Wolverhampton; Georgina Brewis of University College London's Institute of Education; plus Vaibhav Singh from the University of Reading, who shares his research into typewriters and plays a tune on a musical typewriter.
https://beinghumanfestival.org/
You can find conversations about love stories, researching archives, beer and buses, and haunted houses in previous episodes related to Being Human Festivals, alongside other new academic research in the Free Thinking playlist called New Research
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03zws90
Producer: Emma Wallace
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| 0:00.0 | Can I just say? |
| 0:01.5 | You're about to listen to a BBC podcast. |
| 0:04.0 | It's such a wonderful listen. |
| 0:05.6 | So nice. |
| 0:06.5 | There are loads more like it on BBC sounds. |
| 0:08.8 | Different paces, different heights. |
| 0:10.6 | The roof is buckling. |
| 0:11.9 | Where you can also listen to live sports commentary. |
| 0:14.2 | It's right foot goes for goal. |
| 0:16.7 | And then enjoy even more podcasts full of analysis and reaction to the big stories. |
| 0:21.6 | The stat that is astonishing is they ended with the lowest amount of possession. |
| 0:25.2 | And she's had to live with that. |
| 0:26.8 | So if you love sport, a passion, it's almost like a religion. |
| 0:29.7 | Listen on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:31.7 | Sort of expecting that every week now. |
| 0:34.6 | Hello, I'm Matthew Sweet and I love a bargain. |
| 0:39.7 | So do you, I expect. It's probably why you clicked on this edition of the Arts and Ideas podcast about the history and theory of the charity |
| 0:45.2 | shop. The rummaging starts after this message. Classical Fix, the show from Radio 3, |
| 0:51.2 | which opens up the incredible world of classical music to people who don't |
| 0:55.0 | know where to start. I'm Jules Buckley and each week I make a playlist for a special guest, |
| 1:00.8 | a DJ, pop musician, writer and they give me their honest reactions. I really loved this piece |
| 1:06.5 | of music. Really stunning. I was so distracted by this horns. I just got really annoyed and |
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