Category Archives: Podcast

Youth works

These are audio recordings from The Guardian‘s wide range of audio and podcasts.

In this colllection of recordings, young people who have begun to train as youth workers talk about their lives before and after the training. There are four recordings in this colllection; a six minute intoduction followed by three shorter individual case studies. The whole colllection lasts about fifteen minutes. These recordings were originally published on February 17, 2011 for a general public audience. They can be downloaded as mp3s and kept.

Link: http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/audio/2010/feb/17/youth-works-young-people1

Guardian podcasts are for personal and non-commercial use only. © All rights reserved by The Guardian.

Punishment Attacks

This 30 minute long podcast is an episode of Radio 4’s Thinking Allowed series which was broadcast by the BBC on 19 Jan 11 for a general public audience.

In this episode of Thinking Allowed, Heather Hamill, Laurie Taylor and the criminologist Dick Hobbs discuss why paramilitary punishment attacks have had no impact in stopping youth deviance.

Podcast link: http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/series/ta/all The podcast can be downloaded as a 14MB mp3 and kept.

In addition, the programme home page has details of Hannah Hamill’s research.

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No country for young people

This is a podcast from The Guardian‘s wide range of audio and podcasts.

In No Country for Young People, The Observer’s chief reporter Tracy McVeigh chairs a 35 minutes debate from a panel of under-25s from a range of backgrounds. They ask: is it harder than ever to be young in Britain? Is the burden acceptable? And is it the fault of older generations?

This podcast was originally published on 9 Jan 2011 for a general public audience. It can be downloaded as an mp3 and kept.

Link: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/audio/2011/jan/09/focus-podcast-no-country-young-people

Guardian podcasts are for personal and non-commercial use only. © All rights reserved by The Guardian.