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Hello, you're about to listen to a BBC podcast, and I'm Ed Gamble, host of another BBC podcast, The Traitors Uncloaked.

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The Pop Top Ten podcast with Scott Mills and Rylan, and comedy specials

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Nearly 60 years ago, when I was a junior sociology lecturer at the University of York,

I was invited, together with Stanley Cohen, to give a

series of lectures to the inmates of the maximum security wing of Durham Prison.

Well, at that time, this small wing has some of the countries most feared, most, well, most

notorious criminals, John McVicca, the Cray brothers,, Ian Brady and the great train robber, Bruce Randalls.

Well, we wrote a book about our time in Durham Prison, a book called Psychological Survival,

which attempted, among other things, to document the distinctive claustrophobia of the security wing,

the lifeless, the almost soundless

atmosphere. It's like living in a submarine, said one prisoner. All of which meant that I was

fascinated to read a new book which concentrated on the soundscape of a very different prison, a far more,

well, normal type of prison, a soundscape

composed of constant clangs, bangs, bangs and jangles, a veritable cacophony of sound.

And that book is entitled, Sound, Order and Survival in Prison, The Rhythms and Rout and routines of HMS Midtown.

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