Decline of the weekend; British riots of 2011

Thinking Allowed

BBC

Science, Society & Culture

4.4 • 973 Ratings

🗓️ 19 November 2012

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

What was behind the British riots? From Blackberry and gossip to hard facts and first hand accounts. Laurie Taylor talks to Daniel Briggs about his research into last year's summer of discontent and damage. A definitive account of the nature and causes of the riots of 2011. Also, is it all over for the weekend? The sociologists, Jill Ebrey and Guy Standing, ask whether or not the weekend as a time for rest, family life and pleasure, is threatened with extinction by contemporary patterns of work.

Producer: Jayne Egerton.

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