Episode 5 - Big Business and Bio-States
Discover how alcohol shaped industry, politics & society.
Professor Phil Withington hears how the mass-production of beer and spirits was closely connected to industrialisation and the rise of big business, popular political movements like Temperance, and the emergence of what is sometimes called the 'bio-state'.
Full transcript available here.
Guests:
Pete Brown is an author, journalist and broadcaster specialising in food and drink. He’s the Sunday Times Magazine’s weekly beer columnist and has published numerous books including:
Professor Virginia Berridge is Professor of History and Health Policy and former Director of the Centre for History in Public Health at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. She is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, the Royal Historical Society, the Faculty of Public Health and of the Royal College of Physicians. She is deputy chair of the London Drugs Commission reporting to the Mayor.
Her books include:
Pete Evans is the Archives and Heritage Manager at Sheffield City Council.
Dr David Beckingham is Associate Professor in Cultural and Historical Geography at the University of Nottingham. He has published widely on aspects of alcohol regulation and temperance, most recently in the journals Rural History and Journal of Historical Geography.
Credits
- Writer and Presenter: Professor Phil Withington (Professor in Social and Cultural History at the University of Sheffield)
- Writer and Presenter: Dr Nick Groat (Research Associate at the University of Sheffield)
- Producer: Julia Letts (Freelance Consultant at Letts Talk)
- Guest: Pete Brown (Author, Journalist and Broadcaster)
- Guest: Professor Virginia Berridge (Professor of History and Health Policy at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine)
- Guest: Pete Evans (Archives and Heritage Manager at Sheffield City Council)
- Guest: Dr David Beckingham (Associate Professor in Cultural and Historical Geography at the University of Nottingham)
