Loss
Loss: Laurie Taylor explores different forms of loss, from the 'road not taken', in terms of personal life choices, to a lost world of paternalistic employment.
Loss: How should we understand the 'road not taken'? Laurie Taylor talks to Susie Scott, Professor of Sociology at the University of Sussex, about her study of lost experience - that vast terrain of things we have not done, that did not happen or that we have not become. Also, Tim Strangleman, Professor of Sociology at the University of Kent, reveals a lost world of paternalistic employment in which people enjoyed a well-paid job for life, free meals in silver service canteens, after work sports & theatre clubs & a generous pension on the horizon – the story of the Guinness Brewery in West London.
Producer: Jayne Egerton
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The Social Life of Nothing:Â Silence, Invisibility and Emptiness in Tales of Lost Experience by Susie Scott
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- Wed 19 Feb 2020 16:00´óÏó´«Ã½ Radio 4
- Mon 24 Feb 2020 00:15´óÏó´«Ã½ Radio 4
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