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Thinking Allowed: Remembering Diana

Did Princess Diana’s death lead to a major shift in British culture?

Have a listen to the discussion on BBC Radio 4’s Thinking Allowed:

Beatrix Campbell discusses Princess Diana's death on BBC Radio 4's 'Thinking Allowed'.

Click to hear Beatrix Campbell discuss Princess Diana’s death on BBC Radio 4’s ‘Thinking Allowed’.

Professor of Sociology, Vic Seidler, talks to Laurie Taylor about his new book which analyses the repercussions of Diana, Princess of Wales’, death in 1997. He argues that the public outpourings of grief and displays of emotion prompted new kinds of identification and belonging in which communities came together regardless of race, class, gender and sexuality and helped to make visible changes in what might be called ‘New’ or ‘post-traditional’ Britain. Did her unexpected death see a challenge to ‘stiff upper lip’ reserve and to the typical split made in modernity between reason and emotion?
The writer, Bea Campbell, who has also written about the Diana ‘phenomenon’, joins the discussion. Also, the anthropologist, Henrietta Moore discusses the history and significance of Ethnographic research.

You might also be interested in my book, Diana: How Sexual Politics Shook the Monarchy.