Thinking Allowed Podcast
New research on how society works
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Cosmetic tourism - Debt 5,000 years
Wed 11 Jan 2012
5,000 years of debt, plus cosmetic surgery tourism.
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Uniforms and status in hospitals - Cities under siege
Wed 4 Jan 2012
Uniforms in hospitals and policing cities with military measures.
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Home Life 4: Shared Home
Wed 28 Dec 2011
Laurie explores the home lifestyle of six young people who live together.
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Madness - Anti Psychiatry and Psychoanalysis
Wed 21 Dec 2011
The rise and fall of the Anti Psychiatry movement. Also, the cultural prominence of Freud.
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Tipping points
Wed 14 Dec 2011
Laurie Taylor explores 'The Tipping Point' in new research at Durham University.
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Parents, Teens and the Culture of Sex: The Claims of Parenting
Wed 7 Dec 2011
Laurie Taylor explores new research into teenage sex in the parental home.
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Grammar Schools and Social Mobility; The Opera Fanatic
Wed 30 Nov 2011
Laurie Taylor explores opera in Argentina, plus grammar schools and social mobility.
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Older gays in rural areas; Protest over art and culture in America
Wed 23 Nov 2011
Laurie Taylor explores US art protests. Also, the lives of older, gay, rural dwellers.
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Race and the Seaside - The Brain
Wed 16 Nov 2011
Laurie Taylor looks at the limits of science with Bryan Appleyard and John Gray.
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Power Restoration After Hurricane Ike - White Middle Class Identity In Urban Schools
Wed 9 Nov 2011
Laurie Taylor looks at new research about middle-class parents and schooling.
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Kissing men - Decline of violence in history
Wed 2 Nov 2011
Laurie Taylor explores ideas about a decline in human violence with Steven Pinker.
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Muslim women's basketball - Still life
Wed 26 Oct 2011
Laurie Taylor discusses: globalisation is good for you - and Muslim women's basketball.
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Becoming Yellow - Journalist bias
Wed 19 Oct 2011
Laurie Taylor explores impartiality in TV political interviewing.
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Migration - Music and Politics
Wed 12 Oct 2011
Laurie Taylor explores music as a threat to national security and new work on immigration.
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Surnames - War, Politics and comic strip Superheroes
Wed 5 Oct 2011
Laurie Taylor explores surnames and comic book superheroes.
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Tour guide - Changing incomes
Wed 28 Sep 2011
UK income mobility as a multi-storey building? Also, New York tour guides.
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Understanding Suicide - Families, Secrets And Memories
Wed 21 Sep 2011
Laurie Taylor explores our understanding of suicide, and family secrets.
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Tales from the Field - Beauty capital
Wed 14 Sep 2011
Erotic capital and criminologists' tales from the field.
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Home Life 3: Nuclear Household
Wed 7 Sep 2011
Home Life 3: Laurie and sociologists visit a 'nuclear' family.
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Home Life 2: Single Person Household
Wed 31 Aug 2011
Home life 2: Laurie and sociologists visit a single person household.
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Home Life 1: Multi-Generational Household
Wed 24 Aug 2011
Home life 1: Laurie and sociologists visit a multi-generational household.
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Blame the parents? - Chungking Mansions, Hong Kong
Wed 17 Aug 2011
Blame the parents? New research on UK gangs. Also, Chungking Mansions in Hong Kong.
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Children, sex and mobile phones - Terror of history
Wed 10 Aug 2011
With Laurie Taylor. Mobile phones and sexual discovery, also the 'terror of history'.
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The mummy's curse - Death photography
Wed 3 Aug 2011
Laurie Taylor investigates the curse of the mummy and other myths of the Orient.
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Liverpool Riots - Children and Politics
Wed 13 Jul 2011
Laurie Taylor hears about the Liverpool riots and political childhoods.
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Comedy capital - Work's intimacy
Wed 6 Jul 2011
Laurie considers the links of our work and home lives plus the cultural currency of comedy
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Chavs - Ageing Goths
Wed 29 Jun 2011
That word 'chav' and the characterisation of the working class. Also, ageing Goths.
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The Politics of Sleep - Women Who Kill
Wed 22 Jun 2011
Laurie discusses the politics of sleep and women who kill.
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