Love and Romance
Thinking Allowed
BBC
4.4 • 997 Ratings
🗓️ 13 October 2021
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
LOVE & ROMANCE – Laurie Taylor unpacks different conceptions of love. He’s joined by Raksha Pande, Senior Lecturer in Social Geography at Newcastle University, whose latest research explores arranged marriages amongst people in the British-Indian diaspora. She finds that they have skilfully adapted cultural norms to carve out an identity narrative that portrays them as modern migrants offering a different take on romantic love. She’s joined by Eva Illouz, Rose Isaac Chair of Sociology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, who considers the ways in which romantic affairs in Western culture fail to spark or break up. What can ‘the end of love’ tell us about the effects of consumer culture on personal relationships?
Producer: Jayne Egerton
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| 0:48.0 | Hello, it's now the best part of a year since a good friend rang and gave me the sad news about the breakdown of his marriage. |
| 0:55.2 | It was a particularly tragic story because only five or six years before he'd positively bragged to me |
| 1:00.7 | about how he at last found the love of his life, someone who made him feel glad |
| 1:04.8 | to be alive, someone who understood him like no one else, someone whose very existence suddenly |
| 1:10.0 | made sense of all those silly romantic songs he'd previously poo-pooed, someone... |
| 1:15.0 | What... |
| 1:16.0 | Laurie, he said, there are no two ways about it. |
| 1:19.0 | She is someone I simply had to marry. |
| 1:22.0 | Love and marriage, love and marriage. |
| 1:27.0 | They go together like a horse and carriage. |
| 1:32.0 | Well, I naturally asked my friend what had so suddenly gone wrong with what had |
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