Diploma Lecture October 2012

Dispatches investigates the working conditions of clothing manufacturing units in the UK. With British consumers keen to buy the latest designer looks at cheap prices, this film exposes the real human cost behind high street fashion.

How the technology superbrands get us to buy their stuff, trust them and idolise them.

Fashion novice Alex Riley dives into the world of clothing superbrands.

Taking a close look at how the Beatles personified the huge changes that the 1960s witnessed. The Beatles decade began with a chance encounter in Liverpool.

The Beatles’ decade began in Liverpool in July 1957 when 16 year old John Lennon and 15 year old Paul McCartney met. This chance encounter produced one of the most important musical partnerships of the 20th Century. They listened to American artists and hung out in the Jacaranda coffee bar.

Why do we buy what we buy? Jacques Peretti investigates consumerism and the people who try and shape the public's appetites

Why do we buy what we buy? Jacques Peretti investigates consumerism and the people who try and shape the public\\\'s appetites.He also reveals how consumerism is driven by an appetite for \\\'new\\\' products.

Jacques Peretti reveals how fear is used by marketers to drive consumer spending.

We learn how selling to children makes childlike consumers of us all.