4.4 • 973 Ratings
🗓️ 11 April 2012
⏱️ 29 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
We pay others to take away our household refuse from the front of our house whilst hoarding other junk in the attic. And while most of us wouldn't mind buying other people's discarded clothes in a charity shop, only a few are prepared to take even edible food from supermarket dumpsters. What hidden motives lurk behind our relationship with waste? Martin O'Brien, author of 'A Crisis of Waste?' and Jeff Ferrell, author of 'Empire of Scrounge', join Laurie to sift through the competing ways of understanding refuse. Producer: Charlie Taylor.
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
0:00.0 | Take some time for yourself with soothing classical music from the mindful mix, |
0:06.0 | the Science of Happiness Podcast. |
0:08.0 | For the last 20 years I've dedicated my career to exploring the science of living a happier more meaningful life and I want |
0:14.4 | to share that science with you. |
0:16.1 | And just one thing, deep calm with Michael Mosley. |
0:19.4 | I want to help you tap in to your hidden relaxation response system and open the door to that |
0:25.4 | calmer place within. Listen on BBC Sounds. |
0:30.0 | Choosing what to watch night after night the flicking through the endless |
0:38.3 | search and it's a nightmare we want to help you on our brand new podcast off the telly we share what we've been watching |
0:45.4 | Clairey ate it. Loads of games, loads of fun, loads of screaming. Lovely. |
0:50.8 | Off the telly with me Joanna Paige and me, Natalie Cassidy, so your evenings can be a little |
0:56.2 | less searching and a lot more watching. |
0:58.6 | Listen on BBC Sounds. |
1:01.4 | This is a Thinking Loud Podcast from the BBC and for more details in our terms of use and |
1:06.7 | much, much more about Thinking Aloud, go to our website at BBC.co. UK. |
1:13.0 | I once had a friend called Stephen, who like to be thought of as a bit of a film buff, |
1:19.0 | but I never really had much chance to sample the full extent of his critical acumen because if you |
1:24.0 | mention the name of a film that he admired he simply breathed out noisily and made a sort of |
1:28.6 | humming noise. What do you think of Blue Velvet, I'd say? O hmm, he'd go. |
1:35.0 | You could only get some comparative purchase on his particular likes |
1:39.0 | by noticing that some films got a bigger... |
1:41.0 | Blev and a bigger Mm-mm. None, none I remember did better than Blade Runner. |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from BBC, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of BBC and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2025.