Modern slavery, School lunch boxes
Thinking Allowed
BBC
4.4 • 997 Ratings
🗓️ 13 January 2016
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Modern Slavery: Laurie Taylor explores the tensions and dilemmas at the heart of contemporary struggles against enslavement; from forced labour to sex trafficking. He's joined by Julia O'Connell Davidson, the author of a new study which argues that the 'new abolitionist movement' fails to address the fundamental realities of injustice and exploitation in a globalised world. The writer and journalist, Rahila Gupta, offers another perspective.
Also, school lunchboxes: Vicki Harman, Senior Lecturer in Sociology at Royal Holloway, University of London, considers the way in which middle class mothers view their children's packed lunches as a reflection of their parenting skills - sometimes struggling to satisfy their children's tastes and keeping on the right side of the school's strict guidelines. Is a home-made cupcake a transgression of rules or a worthy display of good mothering and home baking?
Producer: Jayne Egerton.
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| 0:00.0 | This is a Thinking Aloud Podcast from the BBC and for more details in our terms of use and much, |
| 0:06.2 | much more about thinking aloud. Go to our website at BBC.co.uk. |
| 0:12.2 | Hello. Now, what was your favorite childhood food? |
| 0:17.0 | Perhaps Marmite and tomato sandwiches? |
| 0:20.0 | Sew it putting with treacle, fish fingers and chips? |
| 0:22.0 | Tined Mandarin oranges, with evaporated. Stewart pudding with treacle, fish fingers and chips, |
| 0:22.6 | tined mandarin oranges with evaporated milk. |
| 0:26.1 | Well, there are plenty of other choices. |
| 0:28.6 | Food, glorious, food, |
| 0:32.4 | Pot and sausage apple. glorious food, hot, sausage and mustard, |
| 0:35.0 | while weary moods, cold jelly and custard, |
| 0:40.0 | cold jelly and custard |
| 0:44.0 | p's pudding and savalloys |
| 0:48.0 | what next is the question |
| 0:51.0 | rich gentleman have it boys in time. |
| 0:57.0 | I live there, but of course children's preferences nowadays whether for hot sausage and mustard or peas, |
| 1:04.9 | pudding and savalloys, count far less than they did in the days before such nutritional gurus |
| 1:10.7 | as Jamie Oliver introduced a moral dimension to the traditional maternal task of feeding |
| 1:16.9 | one's own children. Consider the contemporary complexity of doing something so apparently |
| 1:22.2 | simple as preparing your little one's school |
| 1:25.4 | lunchbox. |
| 1:26.4 | And that indeed is the very task considered in a new research article published in sociology |
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