Thinking Allowed Episodes Episode guide
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Business Schools
Should business schools be shut down? Laurie Taylor examines the arguments.
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Law and Order
Law and Order: the drama series revisited 40 years later.
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Marx and Marxism
Marx and Marxism revisited.
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The Internet and Democracy
Laurie Taylor analyses the social and political consequences of our digitised world.
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Universal Basic Income
Universal Basic Income - could it work?
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Menswear Revolution
Menswear revolution - the changes in men's clothes over time.
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Winner of 2018 BSA/Thinking Allowed Ethnography Award
The winner of the 2018 BSA/Thinking Allowed Ethnography Award.
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Ethnography Award Shortlist 2018
The shortlist for the 2018 BSA/Thinking Allowed Ethnography Award 2018.
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Mixed-race families
When is mixed-race heritage passed down to the next generation and when is it not?
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Dating at university, Online dating
Hook-up culture: dating at university. Also, how online dating has changed our world.
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Sacrifice
Sacrifice - from Christ's crucifixion to Salafi jihadist suicide bombers.
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Racial inequality now, Women and political language
Racial inequality now. Also, women and political language.
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Women and democracy - the language of power
Is democracy failing women? Also, how 'normality' is established in language.
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The White Working Class.
The white working class - is there a 'left-behind'?
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Artisanal food - Natural foods
Artisanal and natural foods.
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A Valentine Day's special
A Valentine Day's Special programme exploring infidelity and the history of rings.
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Populism
Are populist politics on the rise?
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Stigma
Stigma - an old sociological concept revisited and recast for the 21st century.
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Countercultural seekers, Slum tourism
Countercultural seekers on the road to Kathmandu and slum tourism in Mumbai.
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Police culture
Police culture and socialisation - how has it changed?
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The sensory landscape of the city
The scenes, smells, sounds and tastes of city life.
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The Housing Crisis, Squatting in Amsterdam
The housing crisis. Also, squatting in Amsterdam.
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Working-class actors, Class and classical music
Working-class actors, Class and classical music.
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Christmas Television
Christmas television - an exploration of a very British tradition.
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The Trojan Horse Affair - Religion in schools
Laurie Taylor asks if there was an attempt to Islamicise schools in Birmingham.
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The New Economy
Finding work in the new economy and the death of homo economicus.
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Politics and Emotion
The evolution of our contemporary idea of emotions and how they play out in politics.
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GDP, Mali music
GDP - what are its limits? Also, the music of Mali.
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Affluence
Affluence - what does it mean?
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Marxism, 'Red' Globalisation
Marxism - does it have any contemporary relevance? Also, 'red' globalisation.