Thinking Allowed Podcast
New research on how society works
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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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成人快手 Life 3: Nuclear Household
Wed 7 Sep 2011
成人快手 Life 3: Laurie and sociologists visit a 'nuclear' family.
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成人快手 Life 2: Single Person Household
Wed 31 Aug 2011
成人快手 life 2: Laurie and sociologists visit a single person household.
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成人快手 Life 1: Multi-Generational Household
Wed 24 Aug 2011
成人快手 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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HG Wells, Utopias, Paraphernalia
Wed 15 Jun 2011
Combs, keys, glasses - how everyday objects can have special powers. Also, Utopia.
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08/06/2011
Wed 8 Jun 2011
Dirt, filth and why we like to be clean: A special edition at the Wellcome Collection.
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Household breakup in New Orleans - Communist memories
Wed 1 Jun 2011
Family breakdown post Hurricane Katrina. Also, remembering Communism.
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Playboy - Celebrity politics
Wed 25 May 2011
Is Playboy "an unlikely ally for the feminist cause"? Also, celebrity politics.
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Cemetery Taboo - The City
Wed 18 May 2011
New research on cemetery etiquette and on the future of cities.
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Russian Children in Custody - Paranormal Media
Wed 11 May 2011
Laurie Taylor explores representations of the paranormal; Russian youngsters in custody.
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The Poor on Poverty and Radical Gardening
Wed 4 May 2011
Laurie Taylor explores radical gardening with George McKay.
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Craft and Community
Wed 27 Apr 2011
Laurie Taylor explores craft and community with Richard Sennett and David Gauntlett.
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Demise of a Welsh steel town - Sexual politics of ballroom dancing (BSA 60th Anniversary)
Wed 20 Apr 2011
A special edition with new research from the British Sociological Association conference.
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Catholic Police Officers in Northern Ireland - Facebook
Wed 13 Apr 2011
Catholic police officers in Northern Ireland and Facebook in Trinidad.
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