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Walls: Laurie Taylor explores the social history and symbolism of human-made barriers.

Walls: Laurie Taylor explores the social history, significance and symbolism of human-made barriers.

Walls: A social history of the human made barrier which has divided people into those who should be kept safe and those who should be excluded. From Hadrian’s Wall and the Great Wall of China to the Berlin Wall. Laurie Taylor talks to David Frye, Professor of History at Eastern Connecticut University and Wendy Pullan, Professor of Architecture and Urban Studies at the  University of Cambridge.

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