New research on how society works
Radio 4,·785 episodes
Laurie Taylor explores surnames and comic book superheroes.
05 Oct 2011,·30 mins
UK income mobility as a multi-storey building? Also, New York tour guides.
28 Sep 2011,·30 mins
Laurie Taylor explores our understanding of suicide, and family secrets.
21 Sep 2011,·28 mins
Erotic capital and criminologists' tales from the field.
14 Sep 2011,·28 mins
Home Life 3: Laurie and sociologists visit a 'nuclear' family.
07 Sep 2011,·30 mins
Home life 2: Laurie and sociologists visit a single person household.
31 Aug 2011,·30 mins
Home life 1: Laurie and sociologists visit a multi-generational household.
24 Aug 2011,·30 mins
Blame the parents? New research on UK gangs. Also, Chungking Mansions in Hong Kong.
17 Aug 2011,·30 mins
With Laurie Taylor. Mobile phones and sexual discovery, also the 'terror of history'.
10 Aug 2011,·30 mins
Laurie Taylor investigates the curse of the mummy and other myths of the Orient.
03 Aug 2011,·30 mins
Martha Nussbaum on human capabilities.
27 Jul 2011,·30 mins
Privacy and parenting by mobile phone.
20 Jul 2011,·30 mins
Laurie Taylor hears about the Liverpool riots and political childhoods.
13 Jul 2011,·30 mins
Laurie considers the links of our work and home lives plus the cultural currency of comedy
06 Jul 2011,·30 mins
That word 'chav' and the characterisation of the working class. Also, ageing Goths.
29 Jun 2011,·30 mins
Laurie discusses the politics of sleep and women who kill.
22 Jun 2011,·30 mins
Combs, keys, glasses - how everyday objects can have special powers. Also, Utopia.
15 Jun 2011,·30 mins
Dirt, filth and why we like to be clean: A special edition at the Wellcome Collection.
08 Jun 2011,·30 mins
Family breakdown post Hurricane Katrina. Also, remembering Communism.
01 Jun 2011,·30 mins
Is Playboy "an unlikely ally for the feminist cause"? Also, celebrity politics.
25 May 2011,·30 mins
New research on cemetery etiquette and on the future of cities.
18 May 2011,·30 mins
Laurie Taylor explores why street people and rough sleepers disguise their identity.
30 mins
Laurie Taylor explores representations of the paranormal; Russian youngsters in custody.
11 May 2011,·30 mins
Laurie Taylor explores radical gardening with George McKay.
04 May 2011,·30 mins
Laurie Taylor explores craft and community with Richard Sennett and David Gauntlett.
27 Apr 2011,·30 mins
A special edition with new research from the British Sociological Association conference.
20 Apr 2011,·30 mins
Catholic police officers in Northern Ireland and Facebook in Trinidad.
13 Apr 2011,·30 mins
Street Politics and 'performing' the revolution in Tahrir Square.
06 Apr 2011,·30 mins
Why does live music now make more money than recorded? Also, Mafias on the move.
30 Mar 2011,·30 mins
Laurie Taylor explores shifts in world power. Also, the legacy of 19th-century Temperance.
23 Mar 2011,·30 mins
