BBC Sounds - Thinking Allowed - Available Episodes

Package holidays and ‘authentic’ travel: Laurie Taylor on the origins of budget tourism.

• 28 mins
• 15 Jun 2022

The history of the high street. Also, dreams of consumption.

• 28 mins
• 08 Jun 2022

Ballroom dancing: its social history and sexual politics.

• 29 mins
• 01 Jun 2022

Plutocratic London and dynastic wealth.

• 28 mins
• 25 May 2022

Covid: how has it changed our economy and home lives?

• 29 mins
• 18 May 2022

Workplace misbehaviour: how has it changed over the years?

• 28 mins
• 11 May 2022

Psychiatry: Laurie Taylor explores the history of modern psychiatric practice.

• 29 mins
• 04 May 2022

Prison protest: from riots to hunger strikes.

• 28 mins
• 27 Apr 2022

Footwear: the 'magic' and the material reality.

• 28 mins
• 20 Apr 2022

Strongmen: what accounts for the global rise of authoritarian leaders?

• 27 mins
• 13 Apr 2022

The Underclass: its rise and fall.

• 27 mins
• 06 Apr 2022

Laurie Taylor explores the social construction of the notion of skilled work.

• 29 mins
• 02 Feb 2022

Extremism: going undercover with the far right, Islamists and anti feminists.

• 28 mins
• 26 Jan 2022

Why Sociology matters: an exploration of the meaning and purpose of Public Sociology.

• 28 mins
• 19 Jan 2022

Strangers & Xenophobia: an exploration of a historically rooted phenomenon.

• 29 mins
• 12 Jan 2022

Food, identity and nation - why food matters.

• 28 mins
• 05 Jan 2022

The value of things: why do we hang on to objects?

• 28 mins
• 29 Dec 2021

Covid: Crisis or opportunity?

• 28 mins
• 27 Oct 2021

Freedom: how it came to be equated with limited government and white people.

• 28 mins
• 20 Oct 2021

Love and romance in changing times.

• 28 mins
• 13 Oct 2021