Wales: Culture and identity - Audio
16 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 13 years ago - ★★★★ - 6 ratingsWales is a vibrant nation with its own language, musical heritage and strong cultural identity. Central to this identity and a source of national pride, is rugby, which is deeply embedded in the national consciousness and explored in ‘Rugby and welsh identity’. Away from the sports pitch, this collection also looks at place and belonging, gender and race, nationalism and language, class, work, and political and cultural representation in Wales.
This material forms part of The Open University course D172 Contemporary Wales.
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Episodes
Rugby and Welsh identity
March 29, 2011 01:23 - 20 minutes - 18.7 MBGareth Williams, professor of history at the University of Glamorgan, discusses issues in Welsh life, paying particular attention to rugby.
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Place and belonging in Wales
March 29, 2011 01:22 - 8 minutes - 8.21 MBGraham Day connects place, with the notion of difference in contemporary Wales.
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Work and difference in Wales
March 29, 2011 01:21 - 8 minutes - 7.48 MBDave Adamson looks at occupations in Wales.
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Gender and race in Welsh society
March 29, 2011 01:20 - 9 minutes - 8.36 MBSandra Betts and Neil Evans discuss the issues of gender and race in Welsh society.
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The issue of class in Wales
March 29, 2011 01:19 - 7 minutes - 6.71 MBHow class relates to the notion of difference in contemporary Wales.
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Nationalism and Welsh language
March 29, 2011 01:18 - 10 minutes - 9.34 MBCharlotte Davies draws connections between Nationalism and the Welsh language
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Labour traditions
March 29, 2011 01:17 - 10 minutes - 9.79 MBAndrew Edwards describes how his work on Labour Traditions links with ideas of connections in Wales.
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Political representation
March 29, 2011 01:16 - 4 minutes - 4.13 MBAnwen Elias discusses the circuit of knowledge and its usefulness to social scientists.
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