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    Obesity - Cruel Optimism

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    Obesity Clinics and the 'cruel optimism' that still promises the good life.

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    1. The Politics of Alcohol - Cooperation

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      The British and booze, and how we can all learn to cooperate much better.

    2. Conspiracy theories - International suffering

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      Exploring conspiracy theories and the suffering of strangers.

    3. Stag tourism - Men and childbirth

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      Stag Tours and men's experience of childbirth. Laurie encounters the modern male.

    4. Cosmetic tourism - Debt 5,000 years

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      5,000 years of debt, plus cosmetic surgery tourism.

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In an extended interview Laurie Taylor speaks to Britain's leading cultural theorist, Stuart Hall.

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