Culture Shock (BBC World Service)

Culture Shock
Genre	All-news radio
Country of origin	United Kingdom
Language(s)	English
Home station	BBC World Service
Hosted by	Tim Marlow
Original release	2005 – 2008

Last updated March 22, 2019

Culture Shock was a weekly BBC World Service radio programme, hosted by Tim Marlow.^[1] The programme ran from 2005–2008.

The BBC World Service, the world's largest international broadcaster, broadcasts radio and television news, speech and discussions in more than 40 languages to many parts of the world on analogue and digital shortwave platforms, Internet streaming, podcasting, satellite, DAB, FM and MW relays. In November 2016 the BBC announced again that it would start broadcasting in additional languages including Amharic and Igbo, in its biggest expansion since the 1940s. In 2015 World Service reached an average of 210 million people a week. The English-language service broadcasts 24 hours a day.

Tim Marlow is a British writer, broadcaster and art historian. He is Artistic Director of The Royal Academy of Arts in London. Previously Director of Exhibitions at White Cube for over 10yrs. He is an award-winning broadcaster who has lectured on art and culture in over 40 countries. He has written and presented over 100 documentaries for radio and television.

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
David Levy, author of Love and Sex with Robots

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David Neil Laurence Levy is a British International Master of chess, a businessman noted for his involvement with computer chess and artificial intelligence, and the founder of the Computer Olympiads and the Mind Sports Olympiads. He has written more than 40 books on chess and computers.

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Professor Clay Shirky from New York University
Professor Peter Singer
Jeff Taylor of Monster.com

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References

↑ US Financial Times Archived 2011-09-01 at the Wayback Machine .

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[1] US Financial Times Archived 2011-09-01 at the Wayback Machine .

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