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Fear
What are you scared of? We all seem to be afraid of something nowadays: that immigrants will take our jobs, that someone will nick the new car, that the patch of damp in the bedroom will engulf the whole house; of fierce dogs. Of buttons, yes even in a few documented case, afraid of buttons. And funnily enough, in nearly all those cases, with the possible exception of the dogs, though not the buttons, someone is making money out of our fears. In fact, whole industries have grown up to allay them.
After 9/11 the experts said we'd want to cocoon ourselves in a web of safety, stay home more. And apparently we are doing that. Good news then for home decor consultants and purveyors of DVDs. But it goes further than that. Perhaps these days there's more of a perception that the world is a risky place, though of course it's a moot point as to whether it really is.
From panic rooms to gated communities - Heather Payton talks to guests about the business of fear, the people who are making money out of the things we worry about most, whether it's terrorism, crime, or just something nameless we can't quite put our fingers on. Are they really helping -- or simply preying on us?
And, reporter Dylan Winter faces his fears with hypnotherapist, Jenny Bourne, and journalist Monica Porter shows us around her gated community
Guests
Frank Furedi
Professor of Sociology, University of Kent
Tom Gaffney
CEO Gaffco, leading US manufacturer of panic rooms
Chris Gordon Wilson
founder of Security Consortium International - international security experts
Anna Minton
author Building Balanced Communities: the US and UK Compared
Paul Salkovskis
Professor of Psychology, Institute of Psychiatry, Kings College London
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Frank Furedi
Gaffco
Security Consortium International
Building Balanced Communities: the US and UK Compared
Monica Porter
IFSEC - Global Security Conference
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