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Physiognomy and Teenage music
Do facial features indicate moral character? Laurie explores the culture of physiognomy.
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Niall Ferguson on financier Siegmund Warburg
Niall Ferguson tells Laurie Taylor about his new book on financier Siegmund Warburg.
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Subcultures
Girly pop and heavy metal: Laurie Taylor visits a university conference on sub-cultures.
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Social Capital
Is the buzz phrase 'social capital' a big mistake? Also, what it means to be a twin.
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Fanaticism
Fanaticism: use and abuse of a wild idea. Laurie Taylor talks to John Gray.
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09/06/2010
The changing way we commemorate the dead: a study of the war in Afghanistan.
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02/06/2010
Laurie Taylor explores the relationship of language to culture with AC Grayling.
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26/05/2010
Has black music declined? Laurie Taylor discusses with Paul Gilroy and Caspar Melville.
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19/05/2010
New research revealing the rifts and resentment created by researching family history.
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Evacuation
The social impact of sending millions from the cities to the country during WWII.
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Dective tours and Russian organised crime
From Morse to Wallander, the anthropology of the detective tour. Plus criminals in Russia.
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Capitalism and Development
Laurie Taylor discusses capitalism with leading economists David Harvey and Ha Joon Chang.
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Inequality and nakedness
A brief history of nakedness - its role in politics, protest and popular culture.
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14/04/2010
Is the British weekend under threat? Plus new research on home education.
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07/04/2010
Is the secular world under threat? Discussing new demographics and the future of belief.
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31/03/2010
Sexuality in later life and interracial relationships in Latin America.
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24/03/2010
Book fairs and the Bow Street Runners.
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17/03/2010
Laurie Taylor discusses milk and modernity, and why burglary is going out of fashion.
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10/03/2010
The meaning of military futurology, and anti-racist comedy in the UK and US.
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03/03/2010
The secret history of the servant and the working class at Oxbridge.
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24/02/2010
Corridors under threat and is 'living apart together' a new form of family?
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17/02/2010
A history of Intellectual piracy; the morality of obesity.
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10/02/2010
African American consumer culture and the history of tea.
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03/02/2010
Laurie Taylor explores national branding and the commodification of ethnic identity.
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27/01/2010
The Brits who stayed on in Hong Kong.
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20/01/2010
The Future of Work and Teddy Bear Diaries.
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13/01/2010
Laurie Taylor discusses the cartoons that shook the world.
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06/01/2010
Laurie Taylor discusses conscientious objecting in World War One.
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Mobility to Higher Education
Laurie Taylor is at the University of Bedfordshire to discuss class and social mobility.
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Bourgeois Power and Marriage
Was marrying within the family key to success of the ruling classes in Victorian England?
