Summary
WATER – Laurie Taylor explores the cultural life of a natural substance. Sophie Watson, Professor of Sociology at the Open University, considers the taken for granted-ness of this vital fluid and the everyday connections it forges amongst human beings. They’re joined by Benjamin J. Pauli - Assistant Professor of Social Science at Kettering University in Flint, Michigan, whose study of the Flint water crisis describes the way in which “water warrior” activists have expanded the struggle for water justice, connecting it to a broader fight for democracy.
Producer: Jayne Egerton
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| 0:00.0 | Take some time for yourself with soothing classical music from the mindful mix, the Science of |
| 0:07.0 | 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. |
| 0:30.3 | BBC Sounds, Music Radio Podcasts. |
| 0:35.0 | I'm Laurie Taylor and this is a podcast for BBC Radio Force, thinking aloud. |
| 0:41.0 | A podcast about water, about its myriad secular and |
| 0:44.9 | religious and architectural manifestations, about its uneven |
| 0:48.4 | distribution, its increasing cost, its liability to contamination contamination its very future. |
| 0:54.4 | Join me for this critical debate. |
| 0:57.0 | Hello, I woke this morning with water on the brain. I could think of little else, every type and every form of water, that half empty glass of water on my bedside table, when did I decide |
| 1:15.6 | I simply had to have water by my side at night, and that hot shower I took before shaving, |
| 1:25.2 | when exactly did the necessity of taking a daily shower replaced the childhood imperative of a weekly bath. And then from the top deck of my |
| 1:31.3 | bus to work, water everywhere. |
| 1:34.0 | Whole streets closed for water works, sudden glimpses through buildings of the Thames, the entrance |
| 1:39.1 | to the oasis in Covent Gardens, Central London's only heated outdoor pool, and just over the horizon, the two |
| 1:45.5 | fountains of Trafalgar Square, the 40-acre Serpentine Lake, the 30 ponds on Hampstead Heath. |
| 1:52.2 | Yes, water is never far away from the center of life and thought. |
| 1:57.7 | Well, so writes the academic progenitor of my thoroughly aquatic morning. She's Sophie Watson, professor of |
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