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28 minutes
First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW
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Laurie Taylor explores race relations in 20th-century Liverpool. Also, the phenomenon of the late modern 'hipster'. Show more
28 minutes
First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW
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Gay and lesbian life at home and in the 'city' - Laurie Taylor explores the evolution and decline of gay neighbourhoods in cities and the changing nature of gay domestic lives. Show more
28 minutes
First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW
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Laurie Taylor examines the tension between art and money. Also biologising parenthood: is neuroscience limiting how children's development is understood? Show more
28 minutes
First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW
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Laurie Taylor explores the disproportionate rates of HIV infection amongst young African women. Also microbreweries and the revival of traditional beer in the UK. Show more
28 minutes
First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW
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Laurie Taylor explores the history of the modern, material world. Plus the middle-class bias in work-life balance research. Show more
28 minutes
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Laurie Taylor discusses a study of Todmorden in Yorkshire. Also, the dilemmas surrounding the rescue and resuscitation of chronically ill patients. Show more
28 minutes
First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW
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Laurie Taylor asks if the government should aim to promote well being. Plus a look at the class bias in models of good parenting. Show more
28 minutes
First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW
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Laurie Taylor explores the hidden architecture of people's working lives. Also, drug-taking and employment. Show more
28 minutes
First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW
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Laurie Taylor hears about the hidden workings of Parliament. Also, what is the relationship between voter turnout and inequality? Show more
28 minutes
First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW
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Sexual violence in the Bangladeshi War of Independence. Laurie Taylor discusses the way in which the female victims were turned into national heroines. Also, global danger & risk. Show more
28 minutes
First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW
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Laurie Taylor discusses a cross-cultural history of alternative forms of housing. Also, a new study that analyses the phenomenon of public disrobement. Show more
28 minutes
First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW
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Sociological discussion programme, presented by Laurie Taylor. Laurie discusses a global study of grandfatherhood. Also, the challenges facing dementia carers. Show more
28 minutes
First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW
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Sociological discussion programme, presented by Laurie Taylor. Laurie asks if we should collaborate with rather than defend natural processes of decay and decline. Show more
30 minutes
First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FM
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The proposed Iran/India gas pipeline has become a new concern of foreign affairs; Dr Warwick Knowles discusses the policy implication of ‘Resource Nationalism’ for the West. Show more
30 minutes
First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW
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Laurie Taylor talks to Monica Greco about the challenge to the medical mainstream posed by medically unexplained symptoms. Show more
30 minutes
First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW
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Laurie Taylor discusses myth and reality in the history of the British police, and the paradox of the Scottish diaspora. Show more
30 minutes
First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW
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What happened to the Brits who stayed on after Hong Kong passed into Chinese hands? Also, the characteristics of the BNP's electoral support. Show more
30 minutes
First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW
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Laurie Taylor explores the break up of extended families in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. Also, how Central Eastern Europeans remember life under Communist rule. Show more
30 minutes
First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW
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Laurie Taylor explores the ideas of the Anti Psychiatry movement of the 1960s. Also, how can we account for the enduring cultural prominence of psychoanalysis? Show more
28 minutes
First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW
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Once a stag night was more than enough, now young men are taking 'stag tours'. Laurie explores new research on the old male ritual and also on men's response to childbirth. Show more
