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Thinking Allowed: Shyness - Names

21/09/2016

Shyness - Names

BBC Radio 4 - Thinking Allowed, Shyness - Names

Shyness: a cultural history. Also, the relationship between names and identity.

Sociological discussion programme, presented by Laurie Taylor. Shyness: Laurie considers the cultural and sociological history of the 'shrinking violet'.

Shyness: Laurie Taylor talks to Joe Moran, Professor of English and Cultural History at Liverpool John Moores University and the author of study of the 'shrinking violet' in history and sociology. 
Also, a sociology of naming. Jane Pilcher, Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Leicester, explores the relationship between names and our sense of identity.
Producer: Jayne Egerton.

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