Race and the Seaside - The Brain

Thinking Allowed

BBC

Science, Society & Culture

4.4 • 973 Ratings

🗓️ 16 November 2011

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Laurie Taylor examines the limits of science and the machine age with writer Bryan Appleyard and philosopher John Gray and asks whether we are in danger of losing the essence of what it is to be human. And, kiss me quick hats, fortune tellers and buckets and spades. The cliched pleasures of the English seaside. But are those delights equally available to all? The seaside is traditionally inhabited by majority white populations, many of whom are older and retired. And although increasing numbers of ethnic minorities visit and reside by the coast, it remains stubbornly white in our collective imagination. New research by Dr Daniel Burdsey claims that our nation's identity is bound up with monocultural images of coastal resorts.

Producer: Chris Wilson.

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1:14.0	Hello. We never went to Blackpool except to see the lights and then of course we spent the whole time going up and down the golden mile in a crossville coach and so we never actually set foot on what my
1:24.5	mum probably regarded as contaminated ground. Instead we went to Lythms and Anne's. It was only a few miles
1:31.8	down the coast but he catered more for nice people, you
1:34.8	know for our sort of people. Class seemed to play a very big part in all our family seaside decisions
1:41.6	because we went to
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