Charlie Tims
Associate
Charlie Tims recently co-wrote Video Republic, a look at the social and political significance of internet videos. He is currently involved in producing a part of the TED prize in London.
at 5:03pm on Thursday, 9th August 2007
National Treasures began this Wednesday on Radio 4. It features panellists including Robert Hewison, who is a Demos associate, debating the relative cultural value of different British landmarks, art-works and institutions. On Wednesday it was The Thames Estuary (forwarded by Germaine Greer) vs Stonehenge (forwarded by Tristram Hunt). You can catch it after the Today programme on Wednesdays or keenos can listen again.
These types of discussions provide a way for the different values we derive from culture to be expressed. They are one interpretation of the arguments that Robert Hewison and John Holden have made in a series of Demos pamphlets (most notably Cultural Value and the Crisis of Legitimacy) over the last four years.
After the show was recorded last Wednesday, we met up in a pub in Baker Street to record a podcast about cultural value. Through the hubris you can hear them discussing how cultural value can solve the "crisis of legitimacy" faced by cultural institutions in the UK that they argue is caused by the dysfunctional relationship between politicians, cultural professionals and the public. As ever you can listen to the podcast...
1. By subscribing via feedburner
2. Listening via the Internet Archive
3. Downloading the file (14.5MB)
4. Listening below on the embedded player (you need quicktime),
National Treasures began this Wednesday on Radio 4. It features panellists including Robert Hewison, who is a Demos associate, debating the relative cultural value of different British landmarks, art-works and institutions. On Wednesday it was The Thames Estuary (forwarded by Germaine Greer) vs Stonehenge (forwarded by Tristram Hunt). You can catch it after the Today programme on Wednesdays or keenos can listen again.
These types of discussions provide a way for the different values we derive from culture to be expressed. They are one interpretation of the arguments that Robert Hewison and John Holden have made in a series of Demos pamphlets (most notably Cultural Value and the Crisis of Legitimacy) over the last four years.
After the show was recorded last Wednesday, we met up in a pub in Baker Street to record a podcast about cultural value. Through the hubris you can hear them discussing how cultural value can solve the "crisis of legitimacy" faced by cultural institutions in the UK that they argue is caused by the dysfunctional relationship between politicians, cultural professionals and the public. As ever you can listen to the podcast...
1. By subscribing via feedburner
2. Listening via the Internet Archive
3. Downloading the file (14.5MB)
4. Listening below on the embedded player (you need quicktime),
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