Thinking Allowed Episodes Episode guide
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Citizens without Frontiers - Monogamy in men
New research on men and monogamy. Plus, citizens without frontiers.
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Obesity - Cruel Optimism
Obesity Clinics and the 'cruel optimism' that still promises the good life.
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The Politics of Alcohol - Cooperation
The British and booze, and how we can all learn to cooperate much better.
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Conspiracy theories - International suffering
Exploring conspiracy theories and the suffering of strangers.
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Stag tourism - Men and childbirth
Stag Tours and men's experience of childbirth. Laurie encounters the modern male.
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Cosmetic tourism - Debt 5,000 years
5,000 years of debt, plus cosmetic surgery tourism.
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Uniforms and status in hospitals - Cities under siege
Uniforms in hospitals and policing cities with military measures.
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Home Life 4: Shared Home
Laurie explores the home lifestyle of six young people who live together.
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Madness - Anti Psychiatry and Psychoanalysis
The rise and fall of the Anti Psychiatry movement. Also, the cultural prominence of Freud.
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Tipping points
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
Laurie Taylor explores new research into teenage sex in the parental home.
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Grammar Schools and Social Mobility; The Opera Fanatic
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
Laurie Taylor explores US art protests. Also, the lives of older, gay, rural dwellers.
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Race and the Seaside - The Brain
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
Laurie Taylor looks at new research about middle-class parents and schooling.
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Kissing men - Decline of violence in history
Laurie Taylor explores ideas about a decline in human violence with Steven Pinker.
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Muslim women's basketball - Still life
Laurie Taylor discusses: globalisation is good for you - and Muslim women's basketball.
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Becoming Yellow - Journalist bias
Laurie Taylor explores impartiality in TV political interviewing.
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Migration - Music and Politics
Laurie Taylor explores music as a threat to national security and new work on immigration.
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Surnames - War, Politics and comic strip Superheroes
Laurie Taylor explores surnames and comic book superheroes.
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Tour guide - Changing incomes
UK income mobility as a multi-storey building? Also, New York tour guides.
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Understanding Suicide - Families, Secrets And Memories
Laurie Taylor explores our understanding of suicide, and family secrets.
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Tales from the Field - Beauty capital
Erotic capital and criminologists' tales from the field.
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Home Life 3: Nuclear Household
Home Life 3: Laurie and sociologists visit a 'nuclear' family.
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Home Life 2: Single Person Household
Home life 2: Laurie and sociologists visit a single person household.
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Home Life 1: Multi-Generational Household
Home life 1: Laurie and sociologists visit a multi-generational household.
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Blame the parents? - Chungking Mansions, Hong Kong
Blame the parents? New research on UK gangs. Also, Chungking Mansions in Hong Kong.
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Children, sex and mobile phones - Terror of history
With Laurie Taylor. Mobile phones and sexual discovery, also the 'terror of history'.
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The mummy's curse - Death photography
Laurie Taylor investigates the curse of the mummy and other myths of the Orient.
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Creating capabilities
Martha Nussbaum on human capabilities.
