''Culture Shock'' was a weekly
BBC World Service
The BBC World Service is a British Public broadcasting, public service broadcaster owned and operated by the BBC. It is the world's largest external broadcaster in terms of reception area, language selection and audience reach. It broadcas ...
radio programme, hosted by
Tim Marlow
Timothy John Marlow (born 1962) is a British writer, broadcaster and art historian who is the Director and Chief Executive of the Design Museum,Hannah McGivern (October 7, 2019)Tim Marlow leaves Royal Academy of Arts to head London’s Design Mu ...
.
''US Financial Times''
The programme ran from 2005 to 2008.
Format
The programme aimed to examine "the latest cultural trends from around the world, social or technological developments which are reflecting and shaping the way we live: what are people thinking, buying, or doing and why; the next wave of telecommunications, the latest design craze or toy, new ways to entertain, future behaviours".
Guests
Among guests on the programme were:
*James Harkin, author of ''Big Ideas: The Essential Guide to the Latest Thinking''
Mark Katz
the author of ''Capturing Sound: How Technology Has Changed Music''
*Professor Gerd Gigerenzer
Gerd Gigerenzer (; born 3 September 1947) is a German psychologist who has studied the use of bounded rationality and heuristics in decision making. Gigerenzer is director emeritus of the Center for Adaptive Behavior and Cognition (ABC) at the Ma ...
* David Levy, author of ''Love and Sex with Robots
''Love and Sex with Robots'' by David Levy, first published in 2007, is a book about the future development of sex robot
Sex is the biological trait that determines whether a sexually reproducing organism produces male or female gametes ...
''
*Professor Clay Shirky
Clay Shirky (born 1964) is an American pundit, writer, and consultant on the social and economic effects of Internet technologies and journalism.
In 2017 he was appointed Vice Provost of Educational Technologies of New York University (NYU), aft ...
from New York University
New York University (NYU) is a private university, private research university in New York City, New York, United States. Chartered in 1831 by the New York State Legislature, NYU was founded in 1832 by Albert Gallatin as a Nondenominational ...
*Professor Peter Singer
Peter Albert David Singer (born 6 July 1946) is an Australian moral philosopher who is Emeritus Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics at Princeton University. Singer's work specialises in applied ethics, approaching the subject from a secu ...
* Jeff Taylor of Monster.com
References
External links
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BBC World Service programmes