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Wine tasting; US philanthropy
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Available since Wednesday.
US philanthropic foundations, and the changing language of wine tasting.
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Why Love Hurts
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Available since Wed, 16 May 2012.
Laurie Taylor investigates the pain of love from a sociological perspective.
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Hebden Bridge; neighbours
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Available since Wed, 9 May 2012.
Laurie Taylor explores the fortunes of Hebden Bridge. Also, a social history of neighbours
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Nationhood; recognising transgender
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Available since Wed, 2 May 2012.
Transgender body modifications and latent nationalism, subjects of two prize-winning books
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Raoul Moat - the media story; Indian sex workers
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Available since Tue, 1 May 2012.
Raoul Moat - the media story, and prostitutes in Calcutta.
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The High-life and the Row-life
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Available since Wed, 25 Apr 2012.
Laurie Taylor discusses an ethnography of crack users and a study of a Cambridge crew.
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Rubbish - Civil Partnerships
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Available since Wed, 18 Apr 2012.
Rubbish society: the social impact of waste.
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Steeltown - Life after Burberry
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Available since Wed, 11 Apr 2012.
Steeltown meltdown and Burberry closure - life after industry death in two Welsh towns.
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Culinary Culture and Globalisation - Dignity
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Available since Wed, 4 Apr 2012.
With Laurie Taylor. Including Michelin-starred restaurants and the meaning of dignity.
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Home at RIBA
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Available since Wed, 28 Mar 2012.
What does the idea of home mean to us in Britain today? A special edition on private life.
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Private military security; whisky tourism
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Available since Wed, 21 Mar 2012.
Professionals and cowboys? UK and US military security workers. Also, 'whisky tourism'.
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Boxing styles UK vs US - Why nations fail
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Available since Wed, 14 Mar 2012.
Why Nations Fail. Plus boxing, UK and US style.
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Ambient religion - Poverty and social work
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Available since Wed, 7 Mar 2012.
Ambient faith and social work, and poverty between the wars. Presented by Laurie Taylor.
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22/02/2012
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Available since Wed, 29 Feb 2012.
Laurie talks to Stefan Collini about the point of universities.
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Citizens without Frontiers - Monogamy in men
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Available since Wed, 22 Feb 2012.
New research on men and monogamy. Plus, citizens without frontiers.
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Obesity - Cruel Optimism
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Available since Wed, 15 Feb 2012.
Obesity Clinics and the 'cruel optimism' that still promises the good life.
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The Politics of Alcohol - Cooperation
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Available since Wed, 8 Feb 2012.
The British and booze, and how we can all learn to cooperate much better.
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Conspiracy theories - International suffering
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Available since Wed, 1 Feb 2012.
Exploring conspiracy theories and the suffering of strangers.
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Stag tourism - Men and childbirth
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Available since Wed, 25 Jan 2012.
Stag Tours and men's experience of childbirth. Laurie encounters the modern male.
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Cosmetic tourism - Debt 5,000 years
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Available since Wed, 18 Jan 2012.
5,000 years of debt, plus cosmetic surgery tourism.
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Uniforms and status in hospitals - Cities under siege
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Available since Wed, 11 Jan 2012.
Uniforms in hospitals and policing cities with military measures.
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Home Life 4: Shared Home
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Available since Wed, 4 Jan 2012.
Laurie explores the home lifestyle of six young people who live together.
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Madness - Anti Psychiatry and Psychoanalysis
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Available since Wed, 28 Dec 2011.
The rise and fall of the Anti Psychiatry movement. Also, the cultural prominence of Freud.
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Tipping points
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Available since Wed, 21 Dec 2011.
Laurie Taylor explores 'The Tipping Point' in new research at Durham University.
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Parents, Teens and the Culture of Sex: The Claims of Parenting
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Available since Wed, 14 Dec 2011.
Laurie Taylor explores new research into teenage sex in the parental home.
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Grammar Schools and Social Mobility; The Opera Fanatic
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Available since Wed, 7 Dec 2011.
Laurie Taylor explores opera in Argentina, plus grammar schools and social mobility.
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Older gays in rural areas; Protest over art and culture in America
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Available since Wed, 30 Nov 2011.
Laurie Taylor explores US art protests. Also, the lives of older, gay, rural dwellers.
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Race and the Seaside - The Brain
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Available since Wed, 23 Nov 2011.
Laurie Taylor looks at the limits of science with Bryan Appleyard and John Gray.
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Power Restoration After Hurricane Ike - White Middle Class Identity In Urban Schools
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Available since Wed, 16 Nov 2011.
Laurie Taylor looks at new research about middle-class parents and schooling.
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Kissing men - Decline of violence in history
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Available since Wed, 9 Nov 2011.
Laurie Taylor explores ideas about a decline in human violence with Steven Pinker.
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