Thinking Allowed Podcast
New research on how society works
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Exhaustion: a historical study of weariness.
Wed 26 Jul 2017
Exhaustion: is extreme fatigue a peculiarly modern phenomenon?
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Fertility Holidays - Male Infertility
Wed 5 Jul 2017
Laurie Taylor discusses a study of IVF tourism and also male infertility.
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Global inequality - 'signs of nation'
Wed 28 Jun 2017
Is the Global South catching up with the North?
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Heritage and preservation
Wed 21 Jun 2017
Heritage beyond saving: should we collaborate with, not defend natural processes?
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Sport and Philosophy - Inside an African-Caribbean Football Club
Wed 14 Jun 2017
The philosophy of sport, and the evolution of a African Caribbean football club.
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Doctors at war - Wasting GP's time
Wed 24 May 2017
Doctors at war. Also, patients who worry about wasting their GP's time.
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Russian prison visitors - prison boundaries
Wed 17 May 2017
Russian prison visitors. Also, prison boundaries.
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Insuring against disasters - electronic finance
Wed 3 May 2017
Insuring against disasters, and amateur financial traders.
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Drugs in warfare
Wed 26 Apr 2017
The role of intoxicants in the context of warfare, from Nazi Germany to the Vietnam war.
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Elite education
Wed 19 Apr 2017
How prestigious schools and universities around the world sustain inequality.
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Special programme on winner of Ethnography award
Wed 12 Apr 2017
A special programme on the winner of the BSA/Thinking Allowed Ethnography award.
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A special programme devoted to the BSA/Thinking Allowed Ethnography Shortlist
Wed 5 Apr 2017
A special programme devoted to the BSA/Thinking Allowed Ethnography Award shortlist 2017.
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Money - how to break the power of the banks
Wed 8 Mar 2017
The production of money: how to break the power of the banks.
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Squatting; a cross cultural history. Plus taking ones clothes off in public.
Wed 1 Mar 2017
Squatting: a cross-cultural history. Also, taking one's clothes off in public.
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Platform Capitalism
Wed 22 Feb 2017
Laurie Taylor explores platform capitalism - its origins, meaning and future.
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Terrorism: does it work? - The 'Hotline'
Wed 15 Feb 2017
Terrorism: does it work? Also, the origins and development of the 'hotline'.
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Vertical Cities - India's property boom
Wed 8 Feb 2017
Vertical cities - a three-dimensional view of urban life. Also, India's property boom.
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The brave new world of virtual workers; also globalisation, the old and the new.
Wed 1 Feb 2017
Globalisation, the old and the new. Also, virtual workers.
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Health divides - Counting global health
Wed 25 Jan 2017
Health divides. Also, counting global health.
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Age of noise - British drinking
Wed 18 Jan 2017
Laurie Taylor considers how unwanted sounds came to characterise modernity.
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Sexual violence in the Bangladeshi War of Independence - Global danger and the risk to research
Wed 11 Jan 2017
Sexual violence in the Bangledeshi War of Independence. Also, global danger and risk.
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