Culture Shock (BBC World Service)

Culture Shock
Genre	All-news radio
Country	United Kingdom
Language(s)	English
Home station	BBC World Service
Hosted by	Tim Marlow
Air dates	2005 (2005) to 2008 (2008)

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

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
David Levy, author of Love and Sex with Robots

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

References

↑ US Financial Times

External links

BBC World Service

Presenters	Ros Atkins Matthew Bannister Nikki Bedi Owen Bennett-Jones James Coomarasamy Dan Damon Evan Davis Peter Day Lyse Doucet Tim Franks Harriett Gilbert Claudia Hammond Roger Hearing Paul Henley Razia Iqbal Lee James Bridget Kendall Julian Marshall Lerato Mbele Nuala McGovern James Menendez Gareth Mitchell Fergus Nicoll Andrew Peach Max Pearson Justin Rowlatt Stephen Sackur Valerie Sanderson Julian Worricker

Former Presenters	Audrey Carville Komla Dumor Paddy Feeny Russell Fuller Charlie Gillett Edward Greenfield Bob Holness Robin Lustig Seva Novgorodsev John Tidmarsh Dave Lee Travis

Announcers and newsreaders	Kathy Clugston Zoe Diamond Jim Lee Neil Nunes Iain Purdon Tom Sandars

Programmes	The Bottom Line Business Daily Click The Forum From Our Own Correspondent HARDtalk Newsday Newshour Outlook Outside Source Reith Lectures Science in Action Sportsworld Stumped World Briefing World Business Report World Have Your Say World Update World Book Club

Former Programmes	Caribbean Voices Culture Shock Europe Today The World Today The Strand The Word World Briefing Westway A History of the World in 100 Objects

Language Services	Arabic Bangla Nepali Brasil Mundo Pashto Persian Russian Somali Ukrainian Urdu

Closed Services	Albanian Romanian Polish

Miscellaneous	Bush House Greenwich Time Signal Lillibullero List of BBC newsreaders and reporters Radio Londres Radio Belgique Radio Oranje Radio Londra BBC Media Action London Calling The World John Tusa

Related articles	BBC News BBC Arabic Television BBC Persian Television BBC World News BBC Radio 4 BBC Monitoring BBC Learning English BBC World Service Television

Transmitter Sites	British East Mediterranean Relay Station Orfordness Woofferton

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