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Thinking Allowed Episodes

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    Fashion & VIP Parties

    Fashion & VIP parties - the hidden stories behind the glamour and wealth.

  2. REVOLUTION

    Revolution: Must all radical upheavals in the social and political order end in tragedy?

  3. Elites

    Elites: Why has anti-elitism become such a common stable of media and political rhetoric?

  4. Cars

    Cars: How do cars transmit our identities behind the wheel?

  5. Bunkers

    Bunkers: building for doomsday.

  6. Ignorance

    Strategic ignorance and knowledge resistance.

  7. Rummage - Waste

    Rummage & waste: a social history of recycling and an examination of the meaning of waste.

  8. Finance

    Traders and finance.

  9. Blood

    Blood - its many meanings.

  10. Trust in a time of pandemic

    Trust in a time of pandemic.

  11. Kidnap

    Kidnap for ransom, past and present.

  12. Loneliness

    Loneliness - is it a uniquely modern emotion?

  13. Citizenship

    Citizenship - from schools to the process by which immigrants become British citizens.

  14. Loss

    Loss - an exploration of different forms of lost experience.

  15. Water

    Water: a cultural as well as a natural substance.

  16. Nudity

    Nudity - its cultural history and changing meaning.

  17. Hidden gay lives

    Hidden gay lives, from Polari to true crime stories.

  18. Borders

    Borders: from Calais to Mexico.

  19. The Religious Right in the US

    The religious right in the US - an exploration of their route to power.

  20. Black music cultures in London

    Black music cultures - how did they evolve in London?

  21. Thrift

    Thrift and austerity

  22. Time

    Time - how do we use & how has this changed in the last 50 years?

  23. Disasters

    Disasters: from Haiti to New Orleans.

  24. Immortality - transhumanism

    Immortality and transhumanism

  25. Cool

    The origins & meaning of 'cool'

  26. Serial killers

    Serial killers: the media and cultural response to these crimes.

  27. Estates

    Council estates - then and now. Laurie Taylor explores the concept of the 'sink estate'.

  28. Land and territory

    Land struggles: from Bolivia to Britain.

  29. Conspiracy theories

    Conspiracy theories - their origins and evolution.

  30. The Politics of Memorials

    The Politics of Memorials - from Ireland to the Mississippi Delta.

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