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The Oyster Card
Episode 12 of 17
Peter Conrad looks at the electronic travel card used on public transport in London.
In 1954, the French critic and semiotician Roland Barthes began a series of essays in which he analysed the popular culture of his day. He called his essays "Mythologies." In this series of witty talks, the acclaimed writer and critic Peter Conrad delivers a series of 21st Century Mythologies in a French accent of the mind. Conrad ranges over the defining effluvia of our era, from the Shard, to the Kardashians to today, the Oyster Card.
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Tue 21 Oct 2014
12:04
BBC Radio 4
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21st Century Mythologies
Peter Conrad dissects the popular culture of his era, as Roland Barthes did 60 years ago.
