Child labour, Pogus Caesar, Allison Crowe - episode 3
July 1, 2008 – 9:05 pm by Matthew RevellThe Wolverhampton Radiophonic Institute: radio for thinking. Culture, politics and philosophy from Wolverhampton, hosted by Matthew Revell and Neil Calloway.
Originally broadcast on 27th June 2008 on WCR FM.
- 02.56: Mark Watson (editor of Minority Perspective) and Doug Hope (Wolverhampton South West propsective Parliamentary candidate for UKIP) discuss child labour. What are the alternatives for children in third world countries?
- 21.53: What is to blame for the events in Zimbabwe?
- 33.38: Bill, John and Andy are cycling from Wolverhampton to Paris in aid of the County Air Ambulance and the Beacon Centre for the Blind. They tell us about their plans for the journey.
- 43.21: Artist, photographer and film-maker Pogus Caesar talks about his career and his forthcoming Wolverhampton Art Gallery exhibition.
- 1:05.18: Canadian singer-songwriter Allison Crowe is our Creative Commons artist of the week. She talks about her music, her inspiration and running her own label. She also plays Happy People and Hold Back from her album Little Light.
- 1:28.01: Fordhouses singer-songwriter Nathanael Poole plays three of his songs and talks about his music.
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One Response to “Child labour, Pogus Caesar, Allison Crowe - episode 3”
It’s interesting how this episode displayed both the good and bad side of our global world.
On the good side, I listened to the podcast this morning during my train commute in Toronto, Canada: listening to a UK show to get a very interesting interview with Allison Crowe who is originally from Nanaimo, just up the road on Vancouver Island where I lived for over a decade. So wherever you are in the world, it’s now easy to pick and choose from interesting items all around that world and you are not forced to restrict yourself to only local things; Interesting stuff has a freedom to travel anywhere, and ironically sometimes come back to you via far away locales.
But the downside of this freedom of movement is that manufacturing goods is also traveling around the world nearly as easily, and the supply chain in our local stores now rarely comes from close by, but is often from oceans away. And that distance often bring obscurity to process on how they were made in the first place, i.e, child labour, corporation trying to influence the politics of countries like Zimbabwe. Customers and suppliers often go that route to be able to bring costs down, but these choices bring other problems we tend to forget, or tend to simply look away because it is the easy and cheaper choice. Computer people have the term “security by obscurity”; maybe we should label this “manufacturing by obscurity”.
So the good and bad side of globalization and the internet. Thanks for another great show Matthew and Neil.
By Daniel Robitaille on Jul 4, 2008