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Thinking Allowed Episodes

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    Fitness & fatness

    Fitness & fatness: a programme exploring two sides of the same coin.

  2. Blackface - Minstrelsy

    Blackface and minstrelsy - a troubled history.

  3. Perfume

    Perfume: a social history of Chanel No 5 and Red Moscow. Also, the meaning of scents.

  4. The Rural Idyll?

    The Rural Idyll? The hidden relationship between the countryside and colonialism.

  5. Life Imprisonment

    Life imprisonment - why are those convicted of murder serving longer sentences than ever?

  6. The Orange Order

    The Orange Order: an exploration of its origins, practices and principles.

  7. Community & Social Capital

    Community & social capital. How connected to each other are we compared to previous eras?

  8. THE BED

    The Bed: an exploration of its history and many uses.

  9. Disinformation

    Laurie Taylor examines the spread of disinformation and how it can be challenged.

  10. The Meaning of Work

    The meaning of work: how has it shifted and evolved over time?

  11. DIRT

    DIRT: Its material and symbolic meaning.

  12. TEA

    Tea: A dark history of Britain's favourite beverage.

  13. GAMBLING

    Gambling: Who are the winners and losers?

  14. DEPORTATION

    Deportation - from the UK to the US.

  15. CORRUPTION

    Corruption - what is it and how can it be tackled?

  16. Civilians in the line of fire

    Civilians in the line of fire.

  17. The Rich

    The Rich in London. Also, global attitudes towards the wealthy.

  18. Fashion & VIP Parties

    Fashion & VIP parties - the hidden stories behind the glamour and wealth.

  19. REVOLUTION

    Revolution: Must all radical upheavals in the social and political order end in tragedy?

  20. Elites

    Elites: Why has anti-elitism become such a common stable of media and political rhetoric?

  21. Cars

    Cars: How do cars transmit our identities behind the wheel?

  22. Bunkers

    Bunkers: building for doomsday.

  23. Ignorance

    Strategic ignorance and knowledge resistance.

  24. Rummage - Waste

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

  25. Finance

    Traders and finance.

  26. Blood

    Blood - its many meanings.

  27. Trust in a time of pandemic

    Trust in a time of pandemic.

  28. Kidnap

    Kidnap for ransom, past and present.

  29. Loneliness

    Loneliness - is it a uniquely modern emotion?

  30. Citizenship

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

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