Thinking Allowed Episodes Available now
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Predicting the Financial Crisis - Work/Life Balance
Richard Dale discusses his recipe for financial crisis with Laurie Taylor.
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Durkheim and Financial Collapse - Obesity
Laurie Taylor debates Emile Durkheim’s 'Suicide' theory with Professor Steven Lukes.
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Tartan - Dog Ownership
Laurie Taylor explores the cultural and political history of tartan with Jonathan Faiers.
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Crime and Consumerism - Meaning of Marriage
Laurie Taylor debates the dark side of consumer culture with Steve Hall & Paddy Rawlinson.
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Class and Reality TV - Balti Britain
Laurie Taylor discusses the sub-text of reality TV programmes with Prof. Beverley Skeggs.
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Café Culture – Human Waste
Laurie Taylor examines our behaviour in coffee shops with Dr Eric Laurier.
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Corporate PR - Highrise Living
Laurie Taylor discusses whether ‘Corporate Spin’ has launched an assault on democracy.
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Imagination and the City
Laurie Taylor is joined by Will Self, Richard Sennett and Doreen Massey.
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Imagination and the Suburbs
Laurie Taylor talks to writer Iain Sinclair and sociologists Paul Barker and Nick Hubble.
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Imagination and the Countryside
The dream the British have of the countryside is not always borne out by experience.