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The High-life and the Row-life

Duration:
28 minutes
First broadcast:
Wednesday 18 April 2012

What is the reality of life for a crack cocaine user in South London? Daniel Briggs new ethnography is a day to day observation of the people who use the drug, and their struggles to get the drug and also to get off it. He takes Laurie Taylor on an unsettling journey through violence and intimidation.
Also in the programme, eight men in a boat - but how to stop them from pulling in different directions? Anthony King tells Laurie about his research into how a Cambridge crew prepared for and won the Boat Race. He explains the factors which helped and hindered their attempt to establish a rowing rhythm, and discusses what this says about co-ordinating action in society at large.
Producer: Charlie Taylor.

  • Professor Anthony King

    Professor in Sociology at the University of Exeter

    Paper: Boat race: rhythm and the possibility of collective performance
    Anthony King, Mark de Rond
    The British Journal of Sociology
    Volume 62, Issue 4, pages 565–585, December 2011
    DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-4446.2011.01381.x

    Find out more about Anthony King

  • Dr Daniel Briggs

    Senior Lecturer in the School of Law and Social Sciences at the University of East London

    Crack cocaine users: High Society and Low Life in South London
    Publisher: Routledge
    ISBN-10: 0415671337
    ISBN-13: 978-0415671330

    Find out more about Daniel Briggs

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