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Renaissance Dance - Working Class Liverpool

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

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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.

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Documentaries - Intellectual Property Law

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

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American West - Garden Love

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

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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

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Communism as a Religion - Cultural Capitalism

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

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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.

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Suicide - The Midriff

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

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Architecture and Living - Class Endures

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

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Segregation - Mizrahi Jews

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

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Slumming

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

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Betting Shops - Women on the Line

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

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British Constitution - Anciet Rome and Modern America

Laurie Taylor hears how the 'political party' is out of date & Roman politics in the US?

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Human Zoos - Girl Racers

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

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Potatoes - Leisure Pleasure

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

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Geopolitics and Empire - Romani Culture

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

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Medically Unexplained Symptoms - Lesbian Motherhood

Laurie Taylor explores medically unexplained symptoms - illness that has no physical cause

• 30 mins

Darwin and Modernity - Female Voyeurism as Sex Torism in Thailand

With Laurie Taylor. Can Darwin explain why some societies become modern?

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Equal Societies - Teddy Bears

Is an unequal society bad for your health?

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Black Girls and British Education - Roads

Why black girls succeed and fail in education?

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Cervantes Don Quixote - Cultural Hybridity

Cultural hybridity: is globalisation making the world homogenous?

• 30 mins

Islamic Movement in Turkey - Fair Access to Work

How Turkey's once revolutionary Islamists became a pillar of the state.

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The British Bobby - Scottish Diaspora

Laurie Taylor discusses myth and reality in the history of the British police.

• 30 mins

Personal Insecurity and Religious Belief - Oxford Admissions

Does inequality lead to religion? Laurie Taylor explores the lastest research.

• 30 mins

Richard Hoggart

Laurie Taylor discusses the life and work of leading cultural commentator Richard Hoggart.

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