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Cosmetic tourism - Debt 5,000 years

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

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Stag tourism - Men and childbirth

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

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Conspiracy theories - International suffering

Exploring conspiracy theories and the suffering of strangers.

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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.

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Citizens without Frontiers - Monogamy in men

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

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22/02/2012

Laurie talks to Stefan Collini about the point of universities.

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Ambient religion - Poverty and social work

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

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Boxing styles UK vs US - Why nations fail

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

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Private military security; whisky tourism

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

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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.

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Rubbish - Civil Partnerships

Rubbish society: the social impact of waste.

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The High-life and the Row-life

Laurie Taylor discusses an ethnography of crack users and a study of a Cambridge crew.

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Raoul Moat - the media story; Indian sex workers

Raoul Moat - the media story, and prostitutes in Calcutta.

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Nationhood; recognising transgender

Transgender body modifications and latent nationalism, subjects of two prize-winning books

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Hebden Bridge; neighbours

Laurie Taylor explores the fortunes of Hebden Bridge. Also, a social history of neighbours

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Why Love Hurts

Laurie Taylor investigates the pain of love from a sociological perspective.

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Wine tasting; US philanthropy

US philanthropic foundations, and the changing language of wine tasting.

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AIDS conspiracy theories; comics

A cultural history of British comics plus AIDS conspiracy theories.

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Working class alienation - Nottingham council estate

Laurie Taylor talks to speakers at the 2012 British Sociological Association conference.

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Kinship

A special programme linked to a landmark study of 'kinship'.

• 28 mins

Hostility to tax; Mumbai slums

A study of the slums of Mumbai. Also, the rights and wrongs of taxation.

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Evil; the morality of cycling

Laurie Taylor asks if a sociology of evil is possible. Also, the morality of cycling.

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Urban Protest

Urban Protest: Laurie Taylor talks to David Harvey about trouble on the streets.

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Immortality; Evil

Laurie Taylor explores the ways in which human beings have resisted the idea of mortality.

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Builders and Musicians

Builders' lives and the cooperation between musicians.

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Sport under communism - Regeneration Games

Laurie Taylor discusses the security impact of the Olympics. Also, sport under communism.

• 28 mins

Jobs for the Boys

'Jobs for the Boys?' Discrimination and nepotism in the media industry, with Laurie Taylor

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