Who ya gonna call? Err... no one, actually. In this episode, Nicola and James chat with professor Lizzie Nixon as she unravels the curious tale of a phone box that wasn't a phone box on the streets of Nottingham. The story opens up the history of how public infrastructure like bus shelters, defibrillators and phone boxes came to be entwined with advertising. Ads can offer councils a revenue stream, but at what cost? And who really comes out the winner when councils make deals with outdoor advertising companies?

Show notes:

Find out more about Lizzie's workhttps://www.nottingham.ac.uk/business/people/lizern.phtml

Find out more about Adfree Cities at https:www.adfreecities.org.uk and on Bluesky and Instagram @adfreecities.

Credits:

Produced by Nicola Round and James Ward.

Edited by James Ward.

Presented by Nicola Round and James Ward.

Music by mishima.

Thanks to John Sheerman.

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