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Thinking Allowed Episodes

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    Organ Donation - Flip Flops

    The social and cultural influences on bereaved families' decisions to donate organs.

  2. Suburbia Planning - Modernity Forgets

    From suburbia to housing estates, Laurie Taylor discusses town and city planning.

  3. Modern-day Grave Goods - Politics of Alcohol

    Laurie Taylor finds out about what we leave with the dead and why.

  4. Punishing the Poor

    Sociologist Loic Wacquant discusses the consequences of a growing US prison system.

  5. Criminal Communication - Scandal

    Laurie Taylor discusses the secret codes of criminal communication.

  6. Acquaintance - Tea Rooms

    Laurie Taylor discusses the role of acquaintances.

  7. Restorative Justice in N.I - RG Collingwood

    The life of philosopher RG Collingwood, and restorative justice in Northern Ireland.

  8. Boffins - WWI Emotions

    Can children be both clever and popular in school? Laurie explores the role of class swot.

  9. Return Migration - Pensioners and Identity Politics

    Why do people return to their country of birth? Laurie Taylor explores return migration.

  10. Richard Hoggart

    Laurie Taylor discusses the life and work of leading cultural commentator Richard Hoggart.

  11. Personal Insecurity and Religious Belief - Oxford Admissions

    Does inequality lead to religion? Laurie Taylor explores the lastest research.

  12. The British Bobby - Scottish Diaspora

    Laurie Taylor discusses myth and reality in the history of the British police.

  13. Islamic Movement in Turkey - Fair Access to Work

    How Turkey's once revolutionary Islamists became a pillar of the state.

  14. Cervantes Don Quixote - Cultural Hybridity

    Cultural hybridity: is globalisation making the world homogenous?

  15. Black Girls and British Education - Roads

    Why black girls succeed and fail in education?

  16. Equal Societies - Teddy Bears

    Is an unequal society bad for your health?

  17. Darwin and Modernity - Female Voyeurism as Sex Torism in Thailand

    With Laurie Taylor. Can Darwin explain why some societies become modern?

  18. Medically Unexplained Symptoms - Lesbian Motherhood

    Laurie Taylor explores medically unexplained symptoms - illness that has no physical cause

  19. Geopolitics and Empire - Romani Culture

    Laurie Taylor discusses geopolitics and the science of spheres of influence.

  20. Potatoes - Leisure Pleasure

    Post-Soviet Potato: Laurie Taylor discusses the politics of spuds.

  21. Human Zoos - Girl Racers

    Exhibiting the 'Savage'. How Paris and London created human zoos in the name of science.

  22. British Constitution - Anciet Rome and Modern America

    Laurie Taylor hears how the 'political party' is out of date & Roman politics in the US?

  23. Betting Shops - Women on the Line

    Laurie hears of a new study which compares betting shops to 18th-century coffee houses.

  24. Slumming

    Slumming: how whites' wild times in America's black areas changed sex and politics forever

  25. Segregation - Mizrahi Jews

    Laurie Taylor hears of new research which counters contemporary fears about immigration.

  26. Architecture and Living - Class Endures

    Laurie Taylor asks if the buildings built today cater for modern life.

  27. Suicide - The Midriff

    Laurie Taylor talks to Caroline Simone about her study of the families of suicide victims.

  28. History of Murder - Scottish Conservatives

    From duels to drive-by, Laurie Taylor discusses the history of murder.

  29. Biometric Security - Ethnographer's Dilemma

    Laurie Taylor explores the history of biometrics.

  30. Picturing the Social Order

    Laurie Taylor sees an exhibition on how artists have represented social order through time

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