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Thinking Allowed
Wednesday 16:00-16:30
Sunday 24:15-24:45
Laurie Taylor discusses the latest social science research

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Sex and Death
Image of Mars and Venus representing Sex and Death. Copyright GettyFeatures include: orgasm and the West, viewing the recently dead, burlesque, and a social history of dying.

Politics and Economics
Henry Vlll by Holbein representing Sex and Death. Copyright GettyFeatures include: female political prisoners, Durkheim and financial collapse and torture and democracy.

Work and Play
Children's games by Breughel representing Work and Play. Copyright GettyFeatures include: the work/life balance, cafe culture, relationships at work and the British love of gardening.

Men  and Women
Image of Adam and Eve representing culture and belief. Copyright GettyFeatures include: women and gambling, male immaturity, intimate life and college girls.

Crime and Deviancy
The Garden of Delights by Heironymous Bosch representing crime and deviancy. Copyright GettyFeatures include: cocaine girls in the West End, urban crime and disorder, violence - rituals and micro-dynamics and hoodies.

Race and Class
'General Johnson Saving a Wounded French Officer', by Benjamin West representing race and crime. Copyright GettyFeatures include: class and reality TV, Balti Britain, China culture transfer and Euro-Islamaphobia.

Culture  and Belief
Image of The Last Supper representing culture and belief. Copyright GettyFeatures include: high-rise living, imagination and the city, paganism and India and spirituality.

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Gentrification of Harlem
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Drink and Society and types of nationalism
Richard Sennett and Grayson Perry - Craftwork and Skill
Ghosts of Berlin

Recent  Programmes
25 March 2009
The Politics of climate change - New Capitalism?
18 March 2009
Rugby - Magic
11 March 2009
American West - Garden love
04 March 2009
Documentaries - Intellectual property law
25 February 2009
Recession and health - Youth culture
18 February 2009
Kissing cousins - Wild cats in rural Wales
11 February 2009
Drugs and society - Laddish masculinity in higher education
04 February 2009
Renaissance dance - Working class Liverpool
28 January 2009
Post Soviet death rates - Prisoners' partners
21 January 2009
Learning digital technology - Social impact of gas light
14 January 2009
Moral relativism
07 January 2009
Popular music & violence - Etymology of 'Hooligan' 
31 December 2008
Gang culture
24 December 2008
Detectives
17 December 2008
Chinese capitalism - Concepts in education
10 December 2008
Cocaine girls in the west end - the history if the orgasm
03 December 2008
Sociology of smell - Getting a confession
26 November 2008
Organisation and disorganisation
19 November 2008
Male immaturity - Female political prisoners
12 November 2008
Women and domesticity - Corruption
05 November 2008
US elections and the media - Tribute to Studs Terkel
29 October 2008
Human remains in museums - suicide rates
22 October 2008
Urban crime and disorder - demography of death
15 October 2008
Predicting the financial crisis - work/life balance
08 October 2008
Durkheim and financial collapse - Obesity
01 October 2008

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Economic and Social Research Council
British Sociological Association
Royal Anthropological Institute 

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