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The Sociology of Smell - Getting a Confession

Laurie Taylor is joined by Luca Turin and Rod Watson to explore the resonances of perfume.

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Cocaine Girls in the West End - Orgasm

Laurie Taylor explores the idea that the Imperial era was a product of repressed sexuality

• 30 mins

Chinese Capitalism - Concepts in Education

Laurie Taylor discusses the impact of China's economic reforms with Will Hutton.

• 30 mins

Detectives

Laurie Taylor brings past and present together to explore the culture of the detective.

• 30 mins

Gang Culture

Laurie Taylor explores whether the past can reveal the causes and cures for gang violence?

• 30 mins

Popular Music and Violence - The Etymology of 'Hooligan'

Laurie Taylor discusses how music is used in conflicts with Dr Martin Cloonan.

• 30 mins

Moral Relativism

Laurie Taylor debates the universal notion of human rights.

• 30 mins

Hole in the Wall - Victorian Light

Laurie Taylor reveals how children teach themselves how to use digital technology.

• 30 mins

Post Soviet Death Rates - Prisoners' Partners

Laurie Taylor explores the human cost of rapid economic change.

• 30 mins

Renaissance Dance - Working Class Liverpool

Laurie Taylor explores the obsession with dancing in the Renaissance with Margret McGowan.

• 30 mins

Drugs and Society - Laddish Masculinity in Higher Education

Laurie Taylor explores how the context in which drugs are consumed alters their effect.

• 30 mins

Kissing Cousins - Big Cats in Rural Wales

Laurie Taylor is joined by Professor Adam Kuper to discuss the demise of kissing cousins.

• 30 mins

Impact of Recession on Health Inequalities - Youth Culture

Laurie Taylor discusses the personal psychological consequences of recession unemployment.

• 30 mins

Documentaries - Intellectual Property Law

Laurie Taylor considers the aesthetic and ethical aspects of documentary making.

• 30 mins

American West - Garden Love

Laurie Taylor tries to solve the myths of the great American West.

• 30 mins

Rugby - Magic

Laurie Taylor re-appraises Rugby with Tony Collins and Dr Dominic Malcolm.

• 30 mins

The Politics of Climate Change - New Capitalism?

Laurie investigates the politics of climate change & whether there is now a new capitalism

• 30 mins

Communism as a Religion - Cultural Capitalism

Laurie Taylor discusses what is being called the re-Stalinisation of Russia.

• 30 mins

Picturing the Social Order

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

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Biometric Security - Ethnographer's Dilemma

Laurie Taylor explores the history of biometrics.

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History of Murder - Scottish Conservatives

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

• 30 mins

Suicide - The Midriff

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

• 30 mins

Architecture and Living - Class Endures

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

• 30 mins

Segregation - Mizrahi Jews

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

• 30 mins

Slumming

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

• 30 mins

Betting Shops - Women on the Line

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

• 30 mins

British Constitution - Anciet Rome and Modern America

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

• 30 mins

Human Zoos - Girl Racers

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

• 30 mins

Potatoes - Leisure Pleasure

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

• 30 mins

Geopolitics and Empire - Romani Culture

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

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