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Arts & Ideas

Shoes

Arts & Ideas

BBC

Society & Culture

4.2598 Ratings

🗓️ 19 March 2020

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

From Roman sandals to trainers and stilettos. Shahidha Bari looks at the shoe trade, with guests including Thomas Turner, who has written about sneakers in his book The Sports Shoe, A History From Field To Fashion; Tansy Hoskins, who examines global commerce in her book Footwork: What Your Shoes Are Doing To The World; Rebecca Shawcross, Shoe Curator at Northampton Museum & Art Gallery; and Roman shoe expert Owen Humphreys from Museum of London Archaeology.

Producer: Emma Wallace

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome back to the home of the oxymoron. Evil genius. He asked the newspaper to print his obituary early so he'd enjoy it. That's like hiding at your own funeral. Yeah, a big, great gig. I'm Russell Kane. Join me to weigh in on whether the biggest players in history are more evil or genius. Becoming that rich, I'd say that is some level of genius. It also helps that it's a long time ago, right?

0:23.3

It's like the podcast version of telling your kids the ice cream van plays music when it's out of ice cream.

0:28.8

Listen to evil genius on BBC Sounds.

0:32.2

Hello, the poet Gertrter once urged his mistress to give him her shoes to press, he said, against my heart.

0:39.1

Fortunately, she didn't send him a pair of stilettos. We'll be talking about the meaning of shoes

0:43.6

for the Arts and Ideas podcast. Join me, Shahidabari, just after this.

0:49.3

Hello, I'm Jessica Curry, host of the Sound of Gaming podcast. If you love video game music or chatting over

0:56.4

a cupboard with some amazing composers as much as I do, then you really must come on over and

1:01.8

join us. I'll be meeting a different composer each week to talk about their work in games,

1:07.9

chatting about the music in some of my favourite scores, and lifting the lid on just

1:12.4

what us composers are getting up to behind the curtain while you're playing. Search BBC

1:18.2

Sounds for Sound of Gaming and hit subscribe to listen now. Hello, here at Free Thinking, you know that we'll jump at any chance to shoehorn in a terrible pun and a musical medley.

1:33.8

Any idea what today's program is about?

1:36.8

These boots are made for walking, and that's just what they'll do.

1:43.0

One of these days, these boots are going to walk all over.

1:47.3

Don't you?

1:48.5

Step on my blue suede shoes.

1:50.8

My need is in, be close as can be.

1:53.5

We make a mean team.

1:54.7

My deed is to me.

1:55.8

We get around together.

1:57.4

We grab whatever.

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