Thank you to the wonderful people at TheatreDelicatessen for hosting us and keeping their bar open, to Ross Fairgrieve for the pro bono filming & to the Tedworth Trust for supporting this series on openDemocracy.
The list below provides jump links to specific points in the video
Coarse jump-links
- INTRODUCTION TO RECORD & RIDE
- SPONSORSHIP & RECLAIMING THE RECORD
- HOSPITALITY
- POVERTY
- GLOBALISATION
- OPTIMISM
Fine-grain jump-links
- INTRODUCTION TO RECORD & RIDE
- early relationship to bike Tour de France Early long distance riding
- SPONSORSHIP & RECLAIMING THE RECORD
- Kath question - Julian's ambivalence Toughness of ride Not caring about record Yet obsession with record
- Julian's answer
- "The world gone wrong principles"
- TCP - reclaiming the record
- Question about money and principles
- Kath - motivation, physical exertion and mental states The life lessons of climbing mountains & going slowly Vulnerability
- Going up a hill and camaraderie of other cyclist
- HOSPITALITY
- TCP - racist jokes & juxtaposition
- Strangers in the USA
- What do people want to know when they meet you? Fear
- SoG on racism and hospitality Jokes to make people less afraid Honour ethic - hospitality, traditionalism and racism
- Kindness and risk & how much you should expose yourself to
- Racism -
- More on race
- TCP Risk - threat or vulnerability? The strength of the weak
- Hospitality in face of language barrier - how does it work? China, Chian, helpfulness Kazakhstan
- POVERTY
- TCP - broadening horizons
- Individualism of the record and solidarity - tension Humility of travelling by bicycle
- Any negative impacts on people along the way? positive impacts
- GLOBALISATION China trucks and pigs
- TCP - Chinese Prometheanism & what kind of globalisation
- Globalisation & scene in Spanish brothel
- Borders and population movements
- Did Chinese people have any sense of unfreedoms?
- Global brands KFC or KFC
- OPTIMISM Adventure hard-on, commodified hope
- Chinese boy episode
- 2 types of hope
- Breaking the record to protest the spirit the record had been broken in
- TCP - Numbers, quantification and doing it the right way
- This is not for charity
- Revolutionary versus incremental projects
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