Stranger danger? Xenophobia’s unexpected history
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🗓️ 29 November 2021
⏱️ 39 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Just Between Us, the podcast with all of the answers, some of the time. |
| 0:05.0 | A bit of a different thing going on this week. |
| 0:07.3 | You've been immature and you've lied. |
| 0:10.3 | And now you're trying to turn it on me and manipulate me and gaslight me. |
| 0:13.9 | I was trying to manipulate you. |
| 0:15.7 | Diana, you would be chucking their clothes out of the window. |
| 0:18.1 | I know, I'd be like, are you joking? |
| 0:20.6 | I don't know. |
| 0:21.7 | I guess you'd have to ask. |
| 0:23.5 | Someone that has sex. |
| 0:24.2 | Someone that has sex. |
| 0:26.3 | And remember, it's just between us. |
| 0:30.9 | Hello and welcome to the History Extra podcast from BBC History Magazine, Britain's |
| 0:45.8 | best-selling history magazine. |
| 0:56.2 | I'm Ellie Corthorne. |
| 1:03.2 | In today's episode, you'll be hearing from the psychiatrist and historian George McCarrie. |
| 1:07.0 | George has just written a book about the history of xenophobia, |
| 1:12.4 | examining the surprising origins of the term and the ways in which Western thinkers have interpreted people's fear of strangers, from the 19th century to the present day. He was |
| 1:18.6 | joined in conversation by BBC History Revealed's production editor, John Borkham. |
| 1:23.9 | So I'm delighted to be speaking here today with George McCari, who is a psychiatrist, a historian, |
| 1:29.7 | and also the author of a new book, of Fear and Strangers, A History of Xenophobia, |
| 1:34.6 | which has recently been published here in the UK by Yale University Press. |
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