Past Programs
Community and Society - 2007
The anthropology of daily life
16/08/2007
Think about the things you do every day -- eating breakfast, commuting to work, going about your job, watching telly on the sofa.
These routine activities might seem meaningless but our next guest, Joe Moran, says they're as significant to contemporary life as rituals are to tribal societies. He describes himself as an 'anthropologist of the everyday' and he looks at ordinary habits with fresh eyes to uncover their central role in our lives.
Joe Moran is the author of Queuing for Beginners: the Story of Daily Life from Breakfast to Bedtime, a book charting the changes to British routines since the 1930s.
Joe Moran joined Radio National from the BBC's Liverpool studios and spoke to the Book Show's Sarah L'Estrange, who asked him, 'why study everyday life?'
Malcolm Fraser launches Reflected Light Read Transcript
17/01/2007
This collection of reflections, evocations, commentary, criticism and humour, called Reflected Light, was launched by one of our great public speakers, former prime minister Malcolm Fraser, in Melbourne last year.
