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Last broadcast on Mon, 26 Oct 2009, 00:15 on BBC Radio 4 (see all broadcasts).
Synopsis
How do housing estates and suburbs serve or fail to serve their residents? Three out of four British people live in the suburbs, many of which grew as cities and their populations expanded. Laurie Taylor is joined by Paul Barker and Lynsey Hanley to discuss housing estates and suburbs. What form of housing most fulfills people's desires? And will urban planning ever be able to fulfill Aneurin Bevan's dream of social integration?
Also on the programme, why modernity makes us forgetful. Does the speed and transience of life today damage our shared and individual memories? The social anthropologist Paul Connerton thinks it does. He discusses his latest book with Laurie Taylor.
Paul Connerton
Paul Connerton, Social Theorist and Research Associate in Social Anthropology at the University of Cambridge
How Modernity Forgets
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN-10: 0521745802
ISBN-13: 978-0521745802
Paul Barker
Paul Barker, Senior Research Fellow at the Young Foundation and author of The Other Britain, Town and Country and Towards a New Landscape
The Freedoms of Suburbia
Publisher: Frances Lincoln
ISBN-10: 0711229783
ISBN-13: 978-0711229785
Lynsey Hanley
Lynsey Hanley, journalist and writer
Estates; An Intimate History
Publisher: Granta Books
ISBN-10: 1862079854
ISBN-13: 978-1862079854
Broadcasts
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Wed 21 Oct 200916:00
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Mon 26 Oct 200900:15
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