Summary
Gambling: Laurie Taylor talks to Rebecca Cassidy, Professor of Anthropology at Goldsmiths, University of London, about her research into a pastime which was once a criminal activity but is now a respectable business run by multinational corporations listed on international stock markets. Who are the winners and losers created by this transformation? Also, Emma Casey, Associate Professor of Sociology at Northumbria University, discusses her research on gambling and social mobility.
Producer: Jayne Egerton
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| 0:48.0 | You said you all see this brand new razor I had it sharp in just the day. |
| 0:52.0 | I'm coming in there with my rules and I want you to |
| 0:54.3 | follow as you play. Hey Ged, keep your hands up on the table while you're dealing please. |
| 0:58.7 | Stop slipping the maces in there between your knees and don't be getting off the bottom because |
| 1:06.0 | hello my junior school pontoon evenings with Vinny and Den and Oscar hardly amounted to Phil Harris's Darktown poker club. |
| 1:16.5 | There was no real need for any of us to have a brand new sharp and razor in order to ensure the rules that you must follow when you play. |
| 1:26.4 | But even as we laid down our sixpancies and Threpney Joeies, we felt we were well joining |
| 1:32.3 | an exciting culture. We'd well joining an exciting culture. |
| 1:34.0 | We'd laid ourselves open to the operation of chance, |
| 1:37.0 | surrendered ourselves to Lady Luck, |
| 1:40.0 | while simultaneously and paradoxically believing like all true gamblers that when we won |
| 1:46.4 | chance was on our side. The added Freeson for me as a lower middle class kid |
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