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Pets as Kin - India and Spirituality

Laurie Taylor explores the relationship between the British and their pets.

• 30 mins

Gay Chav Erotic - Investment Clubs

Laurie Taylor reflects on the homosexual eroticization of class with Paul Johnson.

• 30 mins

Cook Books and Identity - Culture and Globalization

Laurie Taylor and Andrea Tonner discuss celebrity cook books and Britain鈥檚 food culture.

• 30 mins

Passengering - Superclass

Laurie Taylor explores the conventions and rituals of car passengers with Dr Eric Laurier.

• 30 mins

Hearing Voices - Paganism

Laurie Taylor talks to Dr Julie Kirby about her research into people who hear voices.

• 30 mins

Hikikomori - Women's Anti-Suffrage

Laurie Taylor explores why Japanese adolescents are acutely withdrawing from society.

• 30 mins

Population Control - Torture and Democracy

Laurie Taylor debates how much influence states should have on their administrations.

• 30 mins

Boxing - Urban Outcasts

Laurie Taylor considers boxing in terms of race, class, and representation.

• 30 mins

Horses - Comfort of Things

Laurie Taylor explores how humans relate to horses and their personal possessions.

• 30 mins

Gentrification in Harlem

Laurie Taylor presents a special programme from New York.

• 30 mins

Gentrification

Laurie Taylor discusses the driving forces and patterns of gentrification in the UK.

• 30 mins

Violence - Victorian Slum

Laurie Taylor debates the rituals and micro-dynamics of violence.

• 30 mins

Trust

Laurie Taylor discusses the nature of trust in modern society with theorist Marek Kohn.

• 30 mins

Glamour - Advertising

Laurie Taylor discusses the history of glamour with Stephen Gundle.

• 30 mins

World Dress - Relationships at Work

Laurie Taylor discusses the world domination of the western business suit.

• 30 mins

Bad Medicine - Heritage Miners

Laurie Taylor reappraises the history of medicine with David Wootton and David Armstrong.

• 30 mins

Punters - Cultural Transfer

Laurie Taylor explores the complex relationships between sex workers and regular clients.

• 30 mins

Women and Gambling - Cleanliness

Laurie Taylor talks to Emma Casey about her research into women鈥檚 gambling experiences.

• 30 mins

Imagination and the Countryside

The dream the British have of the countryside is not always borne out by experience.

• 30 mins

Imagination and the Suburbs

Laurie Taylor talks to writer Iain Sinclair and sociologists Paul Barker and Nick Hubble.

• 30 mins

Imagination and the City

Laurie Taylor is joined by Will Self, Richard Sennett and Doreen Massey.

• 30 mins

Corporate PR - Highrise Living

Laurie Taylor discusses whether 鈥楥orporate Spin鈥� has launched an assault on democracy.

• 30 mins

Caf茅 Culture 鈥� Human Waste

Laurie Taylor examines our behaviour in coffee shops with Dr Eric Laurier.

• 30 mins

Class and Reality TV - Balti Britain

Laurie Taylor discusses the sub-text of reality TV programmes with Prof. Beverley Skeggs.

• 30 mins

Crime and Consumerism - Meaning of Marriage

Laurie Taylor debates the dark side of consumer culture with Steve Hall & Paddy Rawlinson.

• 30 mins

Tartan - Dog Ownership

Laurie Taylor explores the cultural and political history of tartan with Jonathan Faiers.

• 30 mins

Durkheim and Financial Collapse - Obesity

Laurie Taylor debates Emile Durkheim鈥檚 'Suicide' theory with Professor Steven Lukes.

• 30 mins

Predicting the Financial Crisis - Work/Life Balance

Richard Dale discusses his recipe for financial crisis with Laurie Taylor.

• 30 mins

Urban Crime and Disorder - Demography of Death

Laurie Taylor speaks to Harvard's Robert Sampson about what causes disorder in cities.

• 30 mins

Human Remains in Museum Collections - Suicide Rates

Laurie Taylor debates the changing attitudes towards the bodies displayed in our museums.

• 30 mins