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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

Parents, Teens and the Culture of Sex: The Claims of Parenting

Laurie Taylor explores new research into teenage sex in the parental home.

• 30 mins

Tipping points

Laurie Taylor explores 'The Tipping Point' in new research at Durham University.

• 30 mins

Madness - Anti Psychiatry and Psychoanalysis

The rise and fall of the Anti Psychiatry movement. Also, the cultural prominence of Freud.

• 30 mins

Home Life 4: Shared Home

Laurie explores the home lifestyle of six young people who live together.

• 30 mins

Uniforms and status in hospitals - Cities under siege

Uniforms in hospitals and policing cities with military measures.

• 30 mins

Cosmetic tourism - Debt 5,000 years

5,000 years of debt, plus cosmetic surgery tourism.

• 28 mins

Stag tourism - Men and childbirth

Stag Tours and men's experience of childbirth. Laurie encounters the modern male.

• 28 mins

Conspiracy theories - International suffering

Exploring conspiracy theories and the suffering of strangers.

• 28 mins

The Politics of Alcohol - Cooperation

The British and booze, and how we can all learn to cooperate much better.

• 28 mins

Obesity - Cruel Optimism

Obesity Clinics and the 'cruel optimism' that still promises the good life.

• 28 mins

Citizens without Frontiers - Monogamy in men

New research on men and monogamy. Plus, citizens without frontiers.

• 28 mins

22/02/2012

Laurie talks to Stefan Collini about the point of universities.

• 28 mins

Ambient religion - Poverty and social work

Ambient faith and social work, and poverty between the wars. Presented by Laurie Taylor.

• 28 mins

Boxing styles UK vs US - Why nations fail

Why Nations Fail. Plus boxing, UK and US style.

• 28 mins

Private military security; whisky tourism

Professionals and cowboys? UK and US military security workers. Also, 'whisky tourism'.

• 28 mins

Home at RIBA

What does the idea of home mean to us in Britain today? A special edition on private life.

• 28 mins

Culinary Culture and Globalisation - Dignity

With Laurie Taylor. Including Michelin-starred restaurants and the meaning of dignity.

• 28 mins

Steeltown - Life after Burberry

Steeltown meltdown and Burberry closure - life after industry death in two Welsh towns.

• 28 mins

Rubbish - Civil Partnerships

Rubbish society: the social impact of waste.

• 28 mins