Summary
Shopping: Laurie Taylor talks to Rachel Bowlby, Professor of Comparative Literature at University College London, about the history of shops & shopping, from pedlars to chain stores, markets to home delivery. Shops have occupied radically different places in political arguments and in our everyday lives, over time. They are sites of purchase but also of community. What’s their future in the age of Covid? Also, Robin Sheriff, Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of New Hampshire, explores young American women's dreams of shopping. What can dreams tell us about cultural change and consumption?
Producer: Jayne Egerton
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| 0:47.0 | In me Liverpoolo. |
| 0:50.0 | We speak with an accent exceeding here there, |
| 0:55.0 | Well, in my Liverpool home, the Scaffold, |
| 0:59.0 | it's a song with an opening couplet that probably makes little sense to non-scousers, we speak with an accent exceedingly rare, |
| 1:07.0 | meet under a statue exceedingly bare. |
| 1:10.0 | Well that statue is Liverpool Resurgent and it's by Jacob Epstein and it shows a naked man posing proudly at the bow of a ship. |
| 1:19.0 | It stands at some height from the ground outside the former Lewis's department store in the centre of Liverpool. |
| 1:26.0 | And it's always been a popular place to meet. A, let's get together under Dickie Lewis's. |
| 1:32.0 | The fact that a shop, a mere shop, was chosen as a site for the statue, |
| 1:37.0 | well that never seems to arouse any puzzlement. |
| 1:39.0 | Perhaps most of us simply remember the story of a woman who went asked where she would go when the end of the world was announced, |
| 1:45.2 | said she'd go to Lewis's, because nothing bad ever happened there. |
| 1:49.4 | It wasn't until I began reading a new book entitled Back to the Shops, The High Street in History in the Future, |
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