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House of Commons - Voting and Inequality

Laurie Taylor hears about the hidden workings of Parliament. Also, voting and inequality.

• 28 mins

Hoods - Construction Blacklist

Laurie Taylor explores the cultural history and many meanings of the hood.

• 28 mins

Drone warfare, Fitness instructors

Drone warfare: from soldiering to assassination? Also, the world of fitness instructors.

• 28 mins

Evangelicals - Troubled families

Evangelicals in the city. Also, 'troubled families'.

• 28 mins

Population change - Chronic illness

Population change: how it's transforming our world. Also, managing chronic illness.

• 28 mins

Racial segregation, Dementia and hair care

Racial segregation in the United States. Also, hairdressing for people with dementia.

• 28 mins

Foie gras & the politics of taste - Memories of Irish food

Foie gras and the politics of taste. Also, male Irish migrants recall the food back home.

• 28 mins

Success and Luck - Cosmopolitanism and Private Education

Success and luck. Also private school attitudes towards cosmopolitanism.

• 28 mins

Men and Violence - Stag Parties

Men, masculinities and violence. Also, stag parties, deviance and consumerism.

• 28 mins

Musicians Union - women heavy metal fans

The Musicians Union. Also women heavy metal fans.

• 28 mins

Laurie Taylor discusses the relationship between literature and sociology.

Laurie Taylor and guests explore the relationship between fiction and the real world.

• 28 mins

Super Rich: The 1% of the 1%

Laurie Taylor and guests explore the origins of this wealthiest of elites.

• 28 mins

Sexual violence in the Bangladeshi War of Independence - Global danger and the risk to research

Sexual violence in the Bangledeshi War of Independence. Also, global danger and risk.

• 28 mins

Age of noise - British drinking

Laurie Taylor considers how unwanted sounds came to characterise modernity.

• 28 mins

Health divides - Counting global health

Health divides. Also, counting global health.

• 28 mins

The brave new world of virtual workers; also globalisation, the old and the new.

Globalisation, the old and the new. Also, virtual workers.

• 28 mins

Vertical Cities - India's property boom

Vertical cities - a three-dimensional view of urban life. Also, India's property boom.

• 28 mins

Terrorism: does it work? - The 'Hotline'

Terrorism: does it work? Also, the origins and development of the 'hotline'.

• 28 mins

Platform Capitalism

Laurie Taylor explores platform capitalism - its origins, meaning and future.

• 28 mins

Squatting; a cross cultural history. Plus taking ones clothes off in public.

Squatting: a cross-cultural history. Also, taking one's clothes off in public.

• 28 mins

Money - how to break the power of the banks

The production of money: how to break the power of the banks.

• 28 mins

Teen bedrooms - Skydivers

Teen bedrooms. Also, skydivers.

• 28 mins

Grandfathers - Dementia carers

Grandfathers: a global study. Also, dementia carers.

• 28 mins

The ways women age - Beauty politics

The ways women age. Also beauty politics.

• 27 mins

A special programme devoted to the BSA/Thinking Allowed Ethnography Shortlist

A special programme devoted to the BSA/Thinking Allowed Ethnography Award shortlist 2017.

• 28 mins

Special programme on winner of Ethnography award

A special programme on the winner of the BSA/Thinking Allowed Ethnography award.

• 28 mins

Elite education

How prestigious schools and universities around the world sustain inequality.

• 28 mins

Drugs in warfare

The role of intoxicants in the context of warfare, from Nazi Germany to the Vietnam war.

• 28 mins

Insuring against disasters - electronic finance

Insuring against disasters, and amateur financial traders.

• 28 mins

Craft work - 'dirty' work

Craft work. Also, 'dirty' work.

• 28 mins