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Street Names - The Shock of Old

Laurie Taylor explores why street people and rough sleepers disguise their identity.

• 30 mins

Cemetery Taboo - The City

New research on cemetery etiquette and on the future of cities.

• 30 mins

Playboy - Celebrity politics

Is Playboy "an unlikely ally for the feminist cause"? Also, celebrity politics.

• 30 mins

Household breakup in New Orleans - Communist memories

Family breakdown post Hurricane Katrina. Also, remembering Communism.

• 30 mins

08/06/2011

Dirt, filth and why we like to be clean: A special edition at the Wellcome Collection.

• 30 mins

HG Wells, Utopias, Paraphernalia

Combs, keys, glasses - how everyday objects can have special powers. Also, Utopia.

• 30 mins

The Politics of Sleep - Women Who Kill

Laurie discusses the politics of sleep and women who kill.

• 30 mins

Chavs - Ageing Goths

That word 'chav' and the characterisation of the working class. Also, ageing Goths.

• 30 mins

Comedy capital - Work's intimacy

Laurie considers the links of our work and home lives plus the cultural currency of comedy

• 30 mins

Liverpool Riots - Children and Politics

Laurie Taylor hears about the Liverpool riots and political childhoods.

• 30 mins

Privacy and parenting by mobile phone.

Privacy and parenting by mobile phone.

• 30 mins

Creating capabilities

Martha Nussbaum on human capabilities.

• 30 mins

The mummy's curse - Death photography

Laurie Taylor investigates the curse of the mummy and other myths of the Orient.

• 30 mins

Children, sex and mobile phones - Terror of history

With Laurie Taylor. Mobile phones and sexual discovery, also the 'terror of history'.

• 30 mins

Blame the parents? - Chungking Mansions, Hong Kong

Blame the parents? New research on UK gangs. Also, Chungking Mansions in Hong Kong.

• 30 mins

Home Life 1: Multi-Generational Household

Home life 1: Laurie and sociologists visit a multi-generational household.

• 30 mins

Home Life 2: Single Person Household

Home life 2: Laurie and sociologists visit a single person household.

• 30 mins

Home Life 3: Nuclear Household

Home Life 3: Laurie and sociologists visit a 'nuclear' family.

• 30 mins

Tales from the Field - Beauty capital

Erotic capital and criminologists' tales from the field.

• 28 mins

Understanding Suicide - Families, Secrets And Memories

Laurie Taylor explores our understanding of suicide, and family secrets.

• 28 mins

Tour guide - Changing incomes

UK income mobility as a multi-storey building? Also, New York tour guides.

• 30 mins

Surnames - War, Politics and comic strip Superheroes

Laurie Taylor explores surnames and comic book superheroes.

• 30 mins

Migration - Music and Politics

Laurie Taylor explores music as a threat to national security and new work on immigration.

• 30 mins

Becoming Yellow - Journalist bias

Laurie Taylor explores impartiality in TV political interviewing.

• 30 mins

Muslim women's basketball - Still life

Laurie Taylor discusses: globalisation is good for you - and Muslim women's basketball.

• 30 mins

Kissing men - Decline of violence in history

Laurie Taylor explores ideas about a decline in human violence with Steven Pinker.

• 30 mins

Power Restoration After Hurricane Ike - White Middle Class Identity In Urban Schools

Laurie Taylor looks at new research about middle-class parents and schooling.

• 30 mins

Race and the Seaside - The Brain

Laurie Taylor looks at the limits of science with Bryan Appleyard and John Gray.

• 30 mins

Older gays in rural areas; Protest over art and culture in America

Laurie Taylor explores US art protests. Also, the lives of older, gay, rural dwellers.

• 30 mins

Grammar Schools and Social Mobility; The Opera Fanatic

Laurie Taylor explores opera in Argentina, plus grammar schools and social mobility.

• 30 mins