BBC Sounds - Thinking Allowed - Available Episodes

Bunkers

Bunkers: building for doomsday.

• 27 mins
• 23 Sep 2020

Ignorance

Strategic ignorance and knowledge resistance.

• 27 mins
• 15 Jul 2020

Rummage - Waste

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

• 27 mins
• 08 Jul 2020

Finance

Traders and finance.

• 27 mins
• 01 Jul 2020

Blood

Blood - its many meanings.

• 28 mins
• 24 Jun 2020

Trust in a time of pandemic

Trust in a time of pandemic.

• 28 mins
• 17 Jun 2020

Kidnap

Kidnap for ransom, past and present.

• 28 mins
• 11 Mar 2020

Loneliness

Loneliness - is it a uniquely modern emotion?

• 28 mins
• 04 Mar 2020

Citizenship

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

• 28 mins
• 26 Feb 2020

Loss

Loss - an exploration of different forms of lost experience.

• 29 mins
• 19 Feb 2020

Water

Water: a cultural as well as a natural substance.

• 29 mins
• 12 Feb 2020

Nudity

Nudity - its cultural history and changing meaning.

• 29 mins
• 05 Feb 2020

Hidden gay lives

Hidden gay lives, from Polari to true crime stories.

• 29 mins
• 29 Jan 2020

Borders

Borders: from Calais to Mexico.

• 28 mins
• 22 Jan 2020

The Religious Right in the US

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

• 28 mins
• 04 Dec 2019

Black music cultures in London

Black music cultures - how did they evolve in London?

• 28 mins
• 27 Nov 2019

Thrift

Thrift and austerity

• 28 mins
• 20 Nov 2019

Time

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

• 28 mins
• 13 Nov 2019

Disasters

Disasters: from Haiti to New Orleans.

• 28 mins
• 06 Nov 2019

Immortality - transhumanism

Immortality and transhumanism

• 28 mins
• 30 Oct 2019