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Democracy

Democracy - what threatens or promotes it?

• 29 mins

Dance Culture

Laurie Taylor takes a journey through the dancefloor, from the electric slide to the tango

• 27 mins

Taste and Lifestyle

Taste and Lifestyle: how consumer culture remade taste and the West Indian front room.

• 29 mins

Prison Abolition

Laurie Taylor considers the radical case for ending imprisonment.

• 28 mins

Digital intimacy

How are algorithms transforming our relationships?

• 28 mins

Fashion Re-imagined

Fashion Re-imagined: how might we create a more equitable industry?

• 28 mins

High Finance

Laurie Taylor considers the impact of the asset management industry on our everyday lives.

• 28 mins

The Petite Bourgeoisie

Laurie Taylor explores the unstoppable rise of the lower middle class.

• 28 mins

Boxing and Kickboxing

Boxing and Kickboxing: Laurie Taylor explores their potential for transforming lives.

• 28 mins

Water Ways

An exploration of human relationships with water.

• 28 mins

Guns

Guns: from gun sellers in the US to the impact of the gun on human progress.

• 28 mins

Woke

Laurie Taylor talks to philosopher Susan Neiman about the concept of 鈥榳oke鈥�.

• 28 mins

Sugar

Sugar: its social history and meaning in our lives.

• 29 mins

Pets

How the British relationship to companion animals has changed. Also, the dog walk.

• 28 mins

The Grave - Memorial Benches

Laurie Taylor explores the origins of the grave and the meaning of memorial benches.

• 28 mins

Intersections

Intersections - how violence impacts some people more than others.

• 29 mins

Hope and the 'good enough' life

Hope and the 'good enough' life.

• 28 mins

The Power of Song

The power of song: An iconic hymn, and singing and peacebuilding in South Sudan.

• 28 mins

The Passport

The Passport: a cultural history. Also, the trade in 'golden passports'.

• 29 mins

THE ENGLISH

THE ENGLISH: How the country house became 鈥楨nglish鈥�, and changing notions of England.

• 29 mins

Traditionalism - Russian Orthodox Converts

Traditionalism and Russian Orthodox converts.

• 28 mins

Capitalism

Capitalism: the origins of the word and a survey of attitudes to our economic system.

• 28 mins

Anonymity - Self-creation

Laurie Taylor explores hidden and crafted identities.

• 29 mins

Richard Sennett

Richard Sennett: A conversation with a leading cultural and social thinker.

• 27 mins

Garden Utopias

Garden Utopias: from the suburban privet hedge to guerrilla gardening.

• 28 mins

Opioids

Opioids in the US and UK: from illicit drug heroin to pharmaceutical drugs.

• 29 mins

The politics of the body

The politics of the body: movement and posture.

• 29 mins

The swimming pool

The swimming pool: its iconic role in our society and culture. Also, pool etiquette.

• 27 mins

Shopping

From the rise of the mall, to the closure of shops during Covid.

• 28 mins

The British Elite

Who runs Britain today? Are they a conservative chumocracy or a different kind of elite?

• 28 mins