THE ENGLISH

Thinking Allowed

BBC

Science, Society & Culture

4.4 • 973 Ratings

🗓️ 24 January 2024

⏱️ 30 minutes

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THE ENGLISH: Laurie Taylor asks how the country house became ‘English’ and explores changing notions of Englishness over the past 60 years. He’s joined by Stephanie Barczewski, Professor of Modern British History at Clemson University, South Carolina and author of a new book which examines the way the country house came to embody national values of continuity and stability, even though it has lived through eras of violence and disruption. Also, David Matless, Professor of Cultural Geography at Nottingham University, considers the way that England has been imagined since the 1960s, from politics to popular culture, landscape and music. How have twenty-first-century concerns and anxieties in the Brexit moment been moulded by events over previous decades?

Producer: Jayne Egerton

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0:47.0	Hello. Now our discussion of passports last week took me all the way back to
0:52.4	1953 when my mate Dave and I having learned that our new jazz heroes,
0:58.0	Miles Davis and Charlie Parker, could be heard live in Paris when we planned a trip to France.
1:04.3	But how on earth did we get there from Liverpool?
1:07.8	Well we eventually learned that all you had to do was take a special bus
1:11.8	to a place in Kent called Lid where you'd climb on a propeller
1:16.0	plane to the 2K from where there would be a train waiting to take you to Paris.
1:22.0	Now the bit that still sticks in my mind from that long, long journey was the moment
1:26.5	when the bus conductor dressed as an air hostess came to check our passports.
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1:36.8	visas please visas yes if you're from Liverpool you'll need a special visa to
1:42.3	leave the country.
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