Land ownership: Prof. Laurie Taylor and guests BBC Radio4

I listen to this man when I can, every wednesday on Radio4 at 4:00 to 4:30pm.. I learn so much from him. I suggest you do also.

Here is the background on this weeks subject.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/factual/thinkingallowed.shtml

You can listen to the show again, for the next 7 days [after that, the next one]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/factual/rams/thinkingallowed.ram

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I mention this work, since so much of what I’m about, is to do with who own what, and what you can do on it! The program, with the experts, point out that not much has changed here in UK, since William the Conqueror. There is no shortage of land in the UK, just inequitable ownership. So, nothing new there then 🙂

Land ownership – Preamble.

The United States and Britain have been shaped by very different attitudes to land as property.

Laurie Taylor marches across the USA with Andro Linklater and Kevin Cahill to discover how an English idea underpinned the development of the world’s first land-owning democracy while, back home, our own pattern of land ownership would still look familiar William the Conqueror.

Additional information

Kevin Cahill

Who Owns Britain

Canongate Books

ISBN: 1841953105

Andro Linklater

Measuring America

Harper Collins

ISBN: 0007108877