Colour: a human history
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🗓️ 30 November 2021
⏱️ 49 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Just Between Us, the podcast with all of the answers, some of the time. |
| 0:05.0 | A bit of a different thing going on this week. |
| 0:07.3 | You've been immature and you've lied. |
| 0:10.3 | And now you're trying to turn it on me and manipulate me and gaslight me. |
| 0:13.9 | I was trying to manipulate you. |
| 0:15.7 | Diana, you would be chucking their clothes out of the window. |
| 0:18.1 | I know, I'd be like, are you joking? |
| 0:20.6 | I don't know. |
| 0:21.7 | I guess you'd have to ask. Someone that has sex. Someone that has sex. Right. And remember, |
| 0:27.5 | it's just between us. Hello and welcome to the History Extra podcast from BBC History Magazine, Britain's best-selling history magazine. |
| 0:50.6 | I'm Ellie Caulforn. When did we first connect the colour yellow with the sun? |
| 1:00.5 | Why do many cultures wear black in times of morning? |
| 1:04.2 | And how did red come to be the colour of political revolution? |
| 1:08.8 | Rianne Davis asks James Fox these questions and more, as they delve into |
| 1:13.9 | the fascinating history of humanity's complex relationship with colour. How can we use colours to tell |
| 1:21.1 | the history of humanity? Well, I think it's a really good way of telling the history of |
| 1:25.1 | humanity because humans have always been |
| 1:28.2 | intimately connected to colours, both because they surround us and we observe them and we see |
| 1:35.4 | them and we have emotional reactions to them, but also because we have been making them and |
| 1:41.3 | using them for tens, if not hundreds of thousands of years. So I think it's a |
| 1:45.9 | really useful way to interrogate our cultural history, as well as our psychological state, |
| 1:54.5 | as well as our emotional history as well. And thinking about the colour black first, |
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