Thinking Allowed

Last Edited: 30-Sep-2019 A Global British Comedy Collaborative document. Edited by John Lucas
Broadcast on BBC Radio Four unless otherwise indicated. Recordings are good unless otherwise indicated.

2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012


2006
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Episode
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2007
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2008
Date
Episode
Title
Cast
Parameters
02-Jan-2008
1
Cities and memory
 
 
09-Jan-2008
2
Violence - Arab Television
Laurie Taylor, Charlie Taylor
28:14, 26480, S
16-Jan-2008
3
Wealthy Irish and sandwiches
Laurie Taylor, Charlie Taylor
28:10, 26416, S
23-Jan-2008
4
Culture of apocalypse - Politics of the veil
Laurie Taylor, Charlie Taylor
28:00, 26251, S
30-Jan-2008
5
Urban nightlife - The Burlesque
Laurie Taylor, Charlie Taylor
28:01, 26275, S
06-Feb-2008
6
Craftwork and skill
Laurie Taylor, Charlie Taylor
28:03, 26298, S
13-Feb-2008
7
Family life running hotels - Slum travellers
Laurie Taylor, Charlie Taylor
28:01, 26277, S
20-Feb-2008
8
Superheroes - Ribbon culture
Laurie Taylor, Charlie Taylor
28:08, 26387, S
27-Feb-2008
9
Hoodies - City planning
Laurie Taylor, Charlie Taylor
27:52, 26140, S
05-Mar-2008
10
Mass collaboration - Free Trade
Laurie Taylor, Charlie Taylor
28:05, 26336, S
12-Mar-2008
11
Euro-islamaphobia - Viewing the body
Laurie Taylor, Charlie Taylor
27:54, 26163, S
19-Mar-2008
12
Scotland independence - Viewing the body
feedback
Laurie Taylor, Charlie Taylor
28:05, 26337, S
26-Mar-2008
13
Marseilles
Laurie Taylor, Charlie Taylor
27:48, 26076, S
02-Apr-2008
14
Cities and ethnicities
Laurie Taylor, Charlie Taylor
27:50, 26103, S
09-Apr-2008
15
Pets as Kin - India and spirituality
Laurie Taylor, Charlie Taylor
28:08, 26383, S
16-Apr-2008
16
Gay chav erotic - investment clubs
Laurie Taylor, Charlie Taylor
28:10, 26420, S
23-Apr-2008
17
Cook books and identity -
Cultural identities and globalisation
Laurie Taylor, Charlie Taylor
27:58, 26223, S
30-Apr-2008
18
Passengering - Superclass
Laurie Taylor, Charlie Taylor
27:49, 26087, S
07-May-2008
19
Hearing voices - Paganism
Laurie Taylor, Charlie Taylor
28:03, 26310, S
14-May-2008
20
Hikikomori - Women's anti -suffrage
Laurie Taylor, Charlie Taylor
27:57, 26215, S
21-May-2008
21
Population control - torture and democracy
Laurie Taylor, Charlie Taylor
27:53, 26141, S
28-May-2008
22
Boxing - urban outcasts
Laurie Taylor, Charlie Taylor
28:14, 26482, S
04-Jun-2008
23
Horses - Comfort of things
Laurie Taylor, Charlie Taylor
27:06, 25416, S
11-Jun-2008
24
Harlem
Laurie Taylor, Charlie Taylor
28:12, 26443, S
18-Jun-2008
25
Gentrification
Laurie Taylor, Charlie Taylor
28:01, 26270, S
25-Jun-2008
26
Violence - Tower Hamlets
Laurie Taylor, Charlie Taylor
28:06, 26356, S
02-Jul-2008
27
Trust - Violence in pubs
Laurie Taylor, Charlie Taylor
28:00, 26255, S
09-Jul-2008
28
Glamour - Advertising
Laurie Taylor, Charlie Taylor
27:48, 26006, S
16-Jul-2008
29
World dress - Relationships at work
Laurie Taylor, Charlie Taylor
27:41, 25955, S
23-Jul-2008
29
Bad Medicine, Heritage Miners
Laurie Taylor, Charlie Taylor
27:52, 26137, S
30-Jul-2008
30
Punters, China Culture Laurie Taylor, Charlie Taylor
28:02, 26144, S
06-Aug-2008
31
Women and Gambling, Cleanliness
Laurie Taylor, Charlie Taylor
28:01, 26277, S
13-Aug-2008
32
Imagination and the Countryside
Laurie Taylor, Charlie Taylor
28:01, 26277, S
20-Aug-2008
33
Imagination and the Suburbs
Laurie Taylor, Charlie Taylor
28:01, 26280, S
27-Aug-2008
34
Imagination and the City
Laurie Taylor, Charlie Taylor
28:12, 26450, S
03-Sep-2008
35
Corporate PR, Highrise Living
Laurie Taylor
Produced by Charlie Taylor
28:15, 26491, S
10-Sep-2008
36
Cafe Culture, Human Waste
Laurie Taylor
Produced by Charlie Taylor
28:04, 26320, S
17-Sep-2008
37
Class and Reality TV, Balti Britain
Laurie Taylor
Produced by Charlie Taylor
27:40, 25948, S
24-Sep-2008
38
Crime and Consumerism, Meaning of Marriage
Laurie Taylor
Produced by Charlie Taylor
27:48, 26078, S
01-Oct-2008
39
Tartan, Dog Ownership
Laurie Taylor
Produced by Charlie Taylor
27:57, 26211, S
08-Oct-2008
40
Durkheim and Financial Collapse, Obesity
Laurie Taylor
Produced by Charlie Taylor
28:01, 26346, S
15-Oct-2008
41
Predicting the Financial Crisis, Work-Life Balance
Laurie Taylor
Produced by Charlie Taylor
28:08, 26387, S
22-Oct-2008
42
Urban Crime and Disorder, Demography of Death
Laurie Taylor
Produced by Charlie Taylor
27:50, 26103, S
29-Oct-2008
43
Human remains in museum collections,
Suicide rates
Laurie Taylor
Produced by Charlie Taylor
28:03, 26310, S
05-Nov-2008
44
US elections and the media, Tribute to
Studs Terkel
Laurie Taylor
Produced by Charlie Taylor
28:11, 26432, S
12-Nov-2008
45
women and domesticity, detection and
eradication of corruption
Laurie Taylor
Produced by Charlie Taylor
27:52, 26139, S
19-Nov-2008
46
male immaturity, women political prisoners
Laurie Taylor
Produced by Charlie Taylor
28:08, 26376, S
26-Nov-2008
47
Organisation - Disorganisation
Laurie Taylor
Produced by Charlie Taylor
28:26, 26669, S
03-Dec-2008
48
Sociology of Smell, Getting a Confession
Laurie Taylor
Produced by Charlie Taylor
27:59, 26241, S
10-Dec-2008
49
Cocaine Girls of the West End, Orgasm
Laurie Taylor
Produced by Charlie Taylor
27:55, 26174, S
17-Dec-2008
50
Chinese Capitalism, Concepts in Education
Laurie Taylor
Produced by Charlie Taylor
28:13,, 26458, S
24-Dec-2008
51
Detectives
Laurie Taylor
Produced by Charlie Taylor
28:04,, 26322, S
31-Dec-2008
52
Gang Culture
Laurie Taylor
Produced by Jayne Egerton
27:58,, 26228, S

2009
Date
Episode
Title
Cast
Parameters
07-Jan-2009
1
Popular Music and Violence, Etymology of 'Hooligan'
Laurie Taylor
Produced by Charlie Taylor
27:59, 26240, S
14-Jan-2009
2
Moral relativism
Laurie Taylor
Produced by Charlie Taylor
28:11, 26427, S
21-Jan-2009
3
Hole in the Wall, Victorian Light
Laurie Taylor
Produced by Charlie Taylor
27:54, 26158, S
28-Jan-2009
4
Post-Soviet Death Rates, Prisoners' Partners
Laurie Taylor
Produced by Charlie Taylor
27:46, 26041, S
04-Feb-2009
5
Renaissance dance, Working class Liverpool
Laurie Taylor
Produced by Charlie Taylor
27:49, 26081, S
11-Feb-2009
6
Drugs and society - Laddish masculinity in higher
education
Laurie Taylor
Produced by Charlie Taylor
28:04, 26317, S
18-Feb-2009
7
Kissing cousins - Wild cats in rural Wales
Laurie Taylor
Produced by Charlie Taylor
27:00, 25314, S
25-Feb-2009
8
Recession and health - Youth culture
Laurie Taylor
Produced by Charlie Taylor
27:57, 26209, S
04-Mar-2009
9
Documentaries - Intellectual property law
Laurie Taylor
Produced by Charlie Taylor
27:56, 26198, S
11-Mar-2009
10
American West - Garden love
Laurie Taylor
Produced by Charlie Taylor
26:44, 25069, S
19-Mar-2009
11
Rugby, Magic
Laurie Taylor
Produced by Jane Eggerton
27:42, 25980, S
26-Mar-2009
12
Politics of Climate Change, New Capitalism?
Laurie Taylor
Produced by Charlie Taylor
28:04, 26317, S
01-Apr-2009
13
Communism as a Religion, Cultural Capital
Laurie Taylor
Produced by Charlie Taylor
27:36, 25887, S
last 30-60
seconds lost
08-Apr-2009
14
demonstrating power, class and wealth in
a visual way
Laurie Taylor
Produced by Charlie Taylor
27:49, 26087, S
last 30-60
seconds lost
15-Apr-2009
15
biometrics and identity, medical sociologists
and ethical
questions they face
Laurie Taylor
Produced by Charlie Taylor
27:59, 26238, S
22-Apr-2009
16
the history of murder, ethnography of Young
Scottish Conservatives
Laurie Taylor
Produced by Charlie Taylor
27:42, 26037, S
29-Apr-2009
17
suicide in the family, the depiction of women
in advertising
Laurie Taylor
Produced by Charlie Taylor
27:54, 26166, S
06-May-2009
18
architecture and the society for which it builds,
children of working class parents
Laurie Taylor
Produced by Charlie Taylor
27:42, 25983, S
13-May-2009
19
Sleepwalking to Segregation, the Mizrahis
Laurie Taylor
Produced by Charlie Taylor
28:13, 26457, S
20-May-2009
20
Slumming
Laurie Taylor
Produced by Charlie Taylor
27:57, 26220, S
27-May-2009
21
The betting shop, women working on assembly lines
Laurie Taylor
Produced by Charlie Taylor
28:08, 26380, S
03-Jun-2009
22
Decline of Political Parties, Ancient Rome and
Modern America
Laurie Taylor
Produced by Charlie Taylor
27:53, 26149, S
10-Jun-2009
23
human zoos, Girl Racers
Laurie Taylor
Produced by Charlie Taylor
28:21, 26579, S
17-Jun-2009
24
the role of travel in people's hobbies, Post-Soviet
Potato
Laurie Taylor
Produced by Charlie Taylor
28:07, 26367, S
24-Jun-2009
25
feelings towards traditional gypsy or Romani
culture, Halford Mackinder
Laurie Taylor
Produced by Charlie Taylor
28:10, 26420, S
01-Jul-2009
26
Medically unexplained symptoms, Lesbian Motherhood
Laurie Taylor
Produced by Jayne Egerton
28:00, 26264, S
08-Jul-2009
27
Can Darwin explain why some societies become modern?,
why western women are increasingly relaxed about
attending sex clubs
Laurie Taylor
Produced by Charlie Taylor
28:06, 26356, S
15-Jul-2009
28
Is an unequal society bad for your health, teddy bears
Laurie Taylor
Produced by Alison Hughes
28:01, 26272, S
22-Jul-2009
29
Why black girls succeed and fail in education, the
secret history of roads
Laurie Taylor
Produced by Charlie Taylor
28:02, 26287, S
29-Jul-2009
30
Cultural hybridity
Laurie Taylor
Produced by Charlie Taylor
28:07, 26364, S
05-Aug-2009
31
The Islamist movement in Turkey, what it takes to get
a decent job in Britain these days
Laurie Taylor
Produced by Charlie Taylor
28:05, 26335, S
12-Aug-2009
32
the myths and enduring realities of the British police,
the Scottish diaspora
Laurie Taylor
Produced by Charlie Taylor
27:59, 26242, S
19-Aug-2009
33
Does inequality lead to religion, cultural capital
and Oxford University
Laurie Taylor
Produced by Charlie Taylor
27:56, 26191, S
26-Aug-2009
34
Richard Hoggart
Laurie Taylor
Produced by Charlie Taylor
28:02, 26287, S
02-Sep-2009
35
Why do people return to their country of birth?,
the limits of ''silver power'
Laurie Taylor
Produced by Jayne Egerton
27:56, 26201, S
09-Sep-2009
36
the uneasy relationship between being clever and
popular, the emotional experience of war
Laurie Taylor
Produced by Charlie Taylor
27:58, 26229, S
16-Sep-2009
37
philosopher RG Collingwood, restorative justice
in Northern Ireland
Laurie Taylor
Produced by Pamela Rutherford
28:07, 26372, S
23-Sep-2009
38
The Tea Room, Acquaintances
Laurie Taylor
Produced by Pamela Rutherford
28:09, 26400, S
30-Sep-2009
39
what makes a scandal, the codes of criminal
communication
Laurie Taylor
Produced by Pamela Rutherford
28:09, 26403, S
07-Oct-2009
40
the consequences of a growing US prison system
Laurie Taylor
Produced by Pamela Rutherford
28:05, 26335, S
14-Oct-2009
41
what we leave with the dead and why, alcohol as
a lens to understand social change
Laurie Taylor
Produced by Pamela Rutherford
28:30, 26727, S
21-Oct-2009
42
housing estates and suburbs, why modernity
makes us forgetful
Laurie Taylor
Produced by Jayne Egerton
27:55, 26183, S
28-Nov-2009
43
organ donation, meaning and journey of the
flip flop sandal
Laurie Taylor
Produced by Jayne Egerton
28:06, 26345, S
04-Nov-2009
11-Nov-2009
18-Nov-2009
44
45
46
white collar crime -- the culture of the crime
Laurie Taylor
Produced by Charlie Taylor
27:57, 26215, S
27:54, 26166, S
27:28, 25763, S
25-Nov-2009
47
Will UK party politics be transformed by new media
and digital technology?, how musicians performing
can give new insights into negotiation, learning
and decision making
Laurie Taylor
Produced by Jayne Egerton
and Pamela Rutherford
28:03, 26300, S
02-Dec-2009
48
Investment banking and anthropology, idyllic
English village life
Laurie Taylor
Produced by Pamela Rutherford
27:59, 26244, S
09-Dec-2009
49
Why are more people living on their own, the
culture of Wall Street
Laurie Taylor
Produced by Pamela Rutherford
27:45, 26023, S
16-Dec-2009
50
the history of prison clothing, and the power of
the boycott
Laurie Taylor
Produced by Pamela Rutherford
28:01, 26282, S
23-Dec-2009
51
Was marrying within the family key to success of
the ruling classes in Victorian England
Laurie Taylor
Produced by Jayne Egerton
27:58, 26234, S
30-Dec-2009
52
class and social mobility
Laurie Taylor
Produced by Pamela Rutherford
27:56, 26203, S


2010
Date
Episode
Title
Cast
Parameters
06-Jan-2010
1
conscientious objecting in World War One, music at work
Laurie Taylor
Produced by Charlie Taylor
27:57, 26213, S
13-Jan-2010
2
cartoons that shook the world, the hidden significance
of holiday snaps
Laurie Taylor
Produced by Charlie Taylor
28:01, 26268, S
20-Jan-2010
3
The Future of Work and Teddy Bear Diaries
Laurie Taylor
Produced by Charlie Taylor
28:03, 26310, S
27-Jan-2010
4
the reasons behind people voting for the BNP, the lives
and attitudes of the British migrants still living in Hong Kong
Laurie Taylor
Produced by Charlie Taylor
27:56, 26198, S
03-Feb-2010
5
national branding and the commodification of ethnic identity
Laurie Taylor
Produced by Charlie Taylor
28:06, 26347, S
10-Feb-2010
6
African American consumer culture and the history of tea
Laurie Taylor
Produced by Charlie Taylor
27:59, 26238, S
17-Feb-2010
7
A history of Intellectual piracy; the morality of obesity
Laurie Taylor
Produced by Jayne Egerton
27:54, 26166, S
24-Feb-2010
8
Corridors under threat and is 'living apart together'
a new form of family
Laurie Taylor
Produced by Charlie Taylor
27:59, 26247, S
03-Mar-2010
9
The secret history of the servant and the working
class at Oxbridge
Laurie Taylor
Produced by Charlie Taylor
28:03, 26306, S
10-Mar-2010
10
The meaning of military futurology, and
anti-racist comedy in the UK and US
Laurie Taylor
Produced by Jayne Egerton
27:58, 26227, S
17-Mar-2010
11
milk and modernity, and why burglary is going out
of fashion
Laurie Taylor
Produced by Charlie Taylor
27:54, 26162, S
24-Mar-2010
12
Book fairs and the Bow Street Runners
Laurie Taylor
Produced by Charlie Taylor
28:24, 26626, S
31-Mar-2010
13
Sexuality in later life and interracial relationships in
Latin America
Laurie Taylor
Produced by Charlie Taylor
28:06, 26346, S
07-Apr-2010
14
Discussing new demographics and the future of belief
Laurie Taylor
Produced by Charlie Taylor
28:02, 26289, S
14-Apr-2010
15
the British weekend under threat, on home education
Laurie Taylor
Produced by Charlie Taylor
28:00, 26254, S
21-Apr-2010
16
injustice and inequality, A brief history of nakedness
Laurie Taylor
Produced by Charlie Taylor
27:54, 26169, S
28-Apr-2010
17
Capitalism and Development
Laurie Taylor
Produced by Charlie Taylor
28:05, 26344, S
05-May-2010
18
Crime tours, organised crime in Russia
Laurie Taylor
Produced by Charlie Taylor
27:47, 26058, S
12-May-2010
19
Evacuation, the barbecue
Laurie Taylor
Produced by Charlie Taylor
28:06, 26355, S
19-May-2010
20
the rifts and resentment created by researching
family history, a cultural history of Scouse
Laurie Taylor
Produced by Charlie Taylor
28:02, 26296, S
26-May-2010
21
Has black music declined?
Laurie Taylor
Produced by Charlie Taylor
27:54, 26167, S
02-Jun-2010
22
how words shape and define our world; why some
regions prosper and others decline
Laurie Taylor
Produced by Jayne Egerton
27:55, 26183, S
09-Jun-2010
23
The changing way we commemorate the dead: a
study of the war in Afghanistan, literary
representations of the commuter
Laurie Taylor
Produced by Charlie Taylor
27:33, 25835, S
16-Jun-2010
24
Fanaticism; myths that make sense of life in a high
crime area
Laurie Taylor
Produced by Charlie Taylor
27:51, 26123, S
23-Jun-2010
25
social capital; what does it mean to be a twin?
Laurie Taylor
Produced by Charlie Taylor
27:55, 26173, S
30-Jun-2010
26
the sub culture of pop fans; Girly pop and heavy metal
Laurie Taylor
Produced by Jayne Egerton
28:15, 26486, S
07-Jul-2010
27
Siegmund Warburg
Laurie Taylor
Produced by Charlie Taylor
27:50, 26095, S
14-Jul-2010
28
Physiognomy and Teenage music
Laurie Taylor
Produced by Charlie Taylor
27:59, 26247, S
21-Jul-2010
29
a new ethnography of a lap dancing club; predictions for
the shape of British society in 2100
Laurie Taylor
Produced by Charlie Taylor
28:01, 26272, S
28-Jul-2010
30
How does having more choice affect our lives,  
life skills that Oslo drug dealers acquire
Laurie Taylor
Produced by Charlie Taylor
28:05, 26333, S
04-Aug-2010
31
Robots and gender - Economic progress
Laurie Taylor
Produced by Charlie Taylor
28:00, 26252, S
11-Aug-2010
32
Black Emancipation
Laurie Taylor
Produced by Charlie Taylor
27:47, 26056, S
18-Aug-2010
33
Disenchantment
Laurie Taylor
Produced by Charlie Taylor
27:57, 26213, S
25-Aug-2010
34
Alienation
Laurie Taylor
Producer: Jayne Egerton
28:05, 26338, S
01-Sep-2010
35
the decline in French culture and the power of networks
Laurie Taylor
Producer: Jayne Egerton
27:10, 25481, S
08-Sep-2010
36
British Society of Criminology Conference at Leicester
University
Laurie Taylor
Produced by Charlie Taylor
27:59, 26236, S
15-Sep-2010
37
Eavesdropping - CCTV in schools
Laurie Taylor
Produced by Chris Wilson
27:55, 26175, S
22-Sep-2010
38
Secrets of Capitalism - Religion and Science
Laurie Taylor
Produced by Chris Wilson
28:04, 26325, S
29-Sep-2010
39
Liverpool Football Club - Au Pairs
Laurie Taylor
Produced by Chris Wilson
28:05, 26337, S
06-Oct-2010
40
Drugs trial calamity - McCarthy stigma
Laurie Taylor
Produced by Chris Wilson
28:10, 26420, S
13-Oct-2010
41
Economic migration and happiness - Hairdressing
and emotional labour
Laurie Taylor
Produced by Chris Wilson
28:03, 26302, S
20-Oct-2010
42
Global higher education - Homophobia and football
Laurie Taylor
Produced by Chris Wilson
28:03, 26311, S
27-Oct-2010
43
Happy families? - Science's first mistake
Laurie Taylor
Producer: Jayne Egerton
27:50, 26110, S
03-Nov-2010
44
Supermax - Western Rule
Laurie Taylor
Produced by Chris Wilson
28:00, 26265, S
10-Nov-2010
45
Book publishing - Active Citizenship
Laurie Taylor
Produced by Chris Wilson
28:01, 26274, S
17-Nov-2010
46
Incivility - AK-47 (Kalashnikov)
Laurie Taylor
Produced by Chris Wilson
27:55, 26180, S
24-Nov-2010
47
Civic Core - Public convenience
Laurie Taylor
Produced by Chris Wilson
27:59, 26236, S
01-Dec-2010
48
Politically connected firms - Gangs and Territory
Laurie Taylor
Produced by Chris Wilson
28:03, 26314, S
08-Dec-2010
49
Cuban Cure - Moral Panics
Laurie Taylor
Produced by Charlie Taylor
27:55, 26185, S
15-Dec-2010
50
Over by Christmas - Race, Sport and Politics
Laurie Taylor
Produced by Charlie Taylor
27:52, 26128, S
22-Dec-2010
51
Christmas, compassion and class, from the Victorian
era to today
Laurie Taylor
Producer: Jayne Egerton
27:24, 25702, S
29-Dec-2010
52
Utopia
Laurie Taylor
Produced by Chris Wilson
28:50, 27033, S

2011
Date
Episode
Title
Cast
Parameters
05-Jan-2011
1
Softer masculinity in the sixth form - Dr Who
Laurie Taylor
Produced by Charlie Taylor
28:01, 26278, S
12-Jan-2011 2 Cosmopolitanism - Dietetics
Laurie Taylor
Producer: Jayne Egerton
27:26, 25734, S
19-Jan-2011 3 paramilitary punishment attacks, Donating to
disaster victims
Laurie Taylor
Produced by Charlie Taylor
27:46, 26035, S
26-Jan-2011 4 Justice for Hedgehogs, how Prime Ministers pick
their ministers
Laurie Taylor
Produced by Charlie Taylor
28:11, 26436, S
02-Feb-2011 5 The growth in second home ownership and the cult
of the bike
Laurie Taylor
Produced by Charlie Taylor
28:06, 26352, S
09-Feb-2011 6 Men's Health and Brazilian Cosmetic Surgery
Laurie Taylor
Produced by Charlie Taylor
28:16, 26512, S
16-Feb-2011 7 Islam and capitalism - Sex before the sexual revolution
Laurie Taylor
Produced by Charlie Taylor
28:14, 26480, S
23-Feb-2011 8 Irregular and undocumented workers - America's
death penalty
Laurie Taylor
Produced by Charlie Taylor
28:06, 26360, S
02-Mar-2011 9 Ethical capital - The Burden of Happiness
Laurie Taylor
Produced by Charlie Taylor
28:05, 26334, S
09-Mar-2011 10 Outsourced cultures - Happiness audience's response
Laurie Taylor
Produced by Charlie Taylor
28:10, 26411, S
16-Mar-2011 11 Stuart Hall
Laurie Taylor
Produced by Charlie Taylor
28:17, 26524, S
23-Mar-2011 12 the 19th Century Temperance Movement; the New North
Laurie Taylor
Producer: Jayne Egerton
28:02, 26295, S
30-Mar-2011 13 Live music - Mafia
Laurie Taylor
Produced by Charlie Taylor
27:55, 26189, S
06-Apr-2011 14 Streetlife - Performing politics in the square
Laurie Taylor
Produced by Charlie Taylor
28:03, 26298, S
13-Apr-2011 15 Catholic Police Officers in Northern Ireland - Facebook
Laurie Taylor
Produced by Charlie Taylor
28:05, 26329, S
20-Apr-2011 16 Demise of a Welsh steel town - Sexual politics of
ballroom dancing
Laurie Taylor
Producer: Jayne Egerton
27:55, 26179, S
27-Apr-2011 17 Craft and Community
Laurie Taylor
Produced by Charlie Taylor
28:16, 26506, S
04-May-2011 18 The Poor on Poverty and Radical Gardening
Laurie Taylor
Produced by Charlie Taylor
28:04, 26319, S
11-May-2011 19 Russian Children in Custody - Paranormal Media
Laurie Taylor
Produced by Charlie Taylor
28:06, 26355, S
18-May-2011 20 Cemetery Taboo - The City
Laurie Taylor
Produced by Charlie Taylor
27:56, 26191, S
25-May-2011 21 Playboy - Celebrity politics
Laurie Taylor
Produced by Charlie Taylor
28:15, 26499, S
01-Jun-2011 22 Household breakup in New Orleans - Communist
memories
Laurie Taylor
Producer: Jayne Egerton
27:53, 26157, S
08-Jun-2011 23 Dirt, filth and why we like to be clean
Laurie Taylor
Produced by Charlie Taylor
27:57, 26207, S
15-Jun-2011 24 HG Wells, Utopias, Paraphernalia
Laurie Taylor
Produced by Charlie Taylor
28:09, 26395, S
22-Jun-2011 25 The Politics of Sleep - Women Who Kill
Laurie Taylor
Produced by Charlie Taylor
27:56, 26203, S
29-Jun-2011 26 Chavs - Ageing Goths
Laurie Taylor
Produced by Charlie Taylor
28:16, 26506, S
06-Jul-2011 27 Comedy capital - Work's intimacy
Laurie Taylor
Producer: Jayne Egerton
28:02, 26235, S
13-Jul-2011 28 Liverpool Riots - Children and Politics
Laurie Taylor
Produced by Charlie Taylor
28:07, 26319, S
20-Jul-2011 29 Privacy and parenting by mobile phone
Laurie Taylor
Produced by Charlie Taylor
28:01, 26214, S
27-Jul-2011 30 Creating capabilities
Laurie Taylor
Produced by Charlie Taylor
27:44, 25953, S
03-Aug-2011 31 The mummy's curse - Death photography
Laurie Taylor
Produced by Stephen Hughes
28:05, 26288, S
10-Aug-2011 32 Children, sex and mobile phones - Terror of history
Laurie Taylor
Produced by Charlie Taylor
28:03, 26257, S
17-Aug-2011 33 Blame the parents? - Chungking Mansions, Hong Kong
Laurie Taylor
Produced by Charlie Taylor
27:52, 26078, S
24-Aug-2011 34 Home Life 1: Multi-Generational Household
Laurie Taylor
Produced by Charlie Taylor
27:56, 26150, S
31-Aug-2011 35 Home Life 2: Single Person Household
Laurie Taylor
Produced by Charlie Taylor
27:39, 25882, S
07-Sep-2011 36 Home Life 3: Nuclear Household
Laurie Taylor
Producer: Jayne Egerton
27:21, 26599, S
14-Sep-2011 37 Tales from the Field - Beauty capital
Laurie Taylor
Produced by Charlie Taylor
28:04, 26271, S
21-Sep-2011 38 Understanding Suicide - Families, Secrets And
Memories
Laurie Taylor
Produced by Chris Wilson
27:58, 26169, S
28-Sep-2011 39 Tour guide - Changing income
Laurie Taylor
Producer: Jayne Egerton
28:07, 26317, S
05-Oct-2011 40 Surnames - War, Politics and comic strip Superheroes
Laurie Taylor
Produced by Chris Wilson
28:07, 26315, S
12-Oct-2011 41 Migration - Music and Politics
Laurie Taylor
Produced by Chris Wilson
27:54, 26106, S
19-Oct-2011 42 Becoming Yellow - Journalist bias
Laurie Taylor
Produced by Chris Wilson
27:59, 26185, S
26-Oct-2011 43 Muslim women's basketball - Still life
Laurie Taylor
Produced by Charlie Taylor
27:54, 26114, S
02-Nov-2011 44 Laurie Taylor
Produced by Chris Wilson
27:58, 26182, S
09-Nov-2011 45 Power Restoration After Hurricane Ike - White Middle
Class Identity In Urban Schools
Laurie Taylor
Produced by Chris Wilson
28:01, 26225, S
16-Nov-2011 46 Race and the Seaside - The Brain
Laurie Taylor
Produced by Chris Wilson
28:02, 26229, S
23-Nov-2011 47 Older gays in rural areas; Protest over art and culture
in America
Laurie Taylor
Producer: Jayne Egerton
28:04, 26272, S
30-Nov-2011 48 opera in Argentina, grammar schools and social mobility
Laurie Taylor
Produced by Chris Wilson
28:06, 26305, S
07-Dec-2011 49 Parents, teens and the culture of sex - The claims of
parenting
Laurie Taylor
Produced by Chris Wilson
27:56, 26141, S
14-Dec-2011 50 Tipping points
Laurie Taylor
Produced by Chris Wilson
28:13, 26403, S
21-Dec-2011 51 Madness - Anti Psychiatry and Psychoanalysis
Laurie Taylor
Produced by Jayne Egerton
27:55, 26135, S
28-Dec-2011 52 Home Life 4: Shared Home
Laurie Taylor
Produced by Charlie Taylor
27:57, 26152, S

2012
Date Episode Title Cast Parameters
04-Jan-2012 1 Uniforms and status in hospitals - Cities under siege Laurie Taylor
Produced by Charlie Taylor
28:04, 26275, S
11-Jan-2012 2 Cosmetic tourism - Debt 5,000 years Laurie Taylor
Produced by Charlie Taylor
28:07, 26309, S
18-Jan-2012 3 Stag tourism - Men and childbirth Laurie Taylor
Produced by Charlie Taylor
27:57, 26159, S
25-Jan-2012 4 Conspiracy theories - International suffering Laurie Taylor
Produced by Charlie Taylor
27:53, 26093, S
01-Feb-2012 5 The British and booze, and how we can all learn
to cooperate much better
Laurie Taylor
Produced by Charlie Taylor
27:49, 26034, S
08-Feb-2012 6 Obesity - Cruel Optimism Laurie Taylor
Produced by Charlie Taylor
28:05, 26288, S
15-Feb-2012 7 Citizens without Frontiers - Monogamy in men Laurie Taylor
Producer: Jayne Egerton
28:12, 26392, S
22-Feb-2012 8 point of universities, outlaws Laurie Taylor
Produced by Charlie Taylor
27:47, 26010, S
29-Feb-2012 9 Ambient faith and social work, and poverty between
the wars
Laurie Taylor
Produced by Charlie Taylor
27:54, 26104, S
07-Mar-2012 10 Why Nations Fail, boxing, UK and US style Laurie Taylor
Producer: Jayne Egerton
28:00, 26205, S
14-Mar-2012 11 Private military security; whisky tourism Laurie Taylor
Producer: Jayne Egerton
28:03, 26257, S
21-Mar-2012 12 Home at RIBA Laurie Taylor
Produced by Charlie Taylor and
Jayne Egerton
27:37, 25839, S
28-Mar-2012 13 Culinary Culture and Globalisation - Dignity Laurie Taylor
Produced by Charlie Taylor
28:01, 26227, S
04-Apr-2012 14 Steeltown - Life after Burberry Laurie Taylor
Produced by Charlie Taylor
28:06, 26306, S
11-Apr-2012 15 the social impact of waste, how do civil partnerships
compare
Laurie Taylor
Produced by Charlie Taylor
28:04, 26262, S
18-Apr-2012 16 The High-life and the Row-life Laurie Taylor
Produced by Charlie Taylor
27:15, 25506, S
25-Apr-2012 17 Raoul Moat - the media story; Indian sex workers Laurie Taylor
Produced by Charlie Taylor
28:04, 26267, S
02-May-2012 18 Nationhood; recognising transgender Laurie Taylor
Produced by Charlie Taylor
27:43, 25937, S
09-May-2012 19 Hebden Bridge - Neighbours Laurie Taylor
Produced by Jayne Egerton
27:59, 26196, S
16-May-2012 20 Why Love Hurts Laurie Taylor
Produced by Jayne Egerton
27:54, 26114, S
23-May-2012 21 Wine tasting, US philanthropy Laurie Taylor
Produced by Jayne Egerton
27:52, 26079, S
30-May-2012 22 AIDS conspiracy theories, comics Laurie Taylor
Produced by Jayne Egerton
28:03, 26246, S
06-Jun-2012 23 Working class alienation - Nottingham council estate Laurie Taylor
Produced by Jayne Egerton
27:07, 25373, S
13-Jun-2012 24 Kinship Laurie Taylor
Produced by Jayne Egerton
28:00, 26200, S
20-Jun-2012 25 the slums of Mumbai, the rights and wrongs of taxation Laurie Taylor
Produced by Jayne Egerton
27:53, 26102, S
27-Jun-2012 26 a sociology of evil, the morality of cycling Laurie Taylor
Produced by Jayne Egerton
28:04, 26263, S
04-Jul-2012 27 Urban Protest Laurie Taylor
Produced by Charlie Taylor
28:10, 26361, S
11-Jul-2012 28 Immortality; Evil Laurie Taylor
Produced by Jayne Egerton
28:03, 26246, S
18-Jul-2012 29 Builders and Musicians Laurie Taylor
Produced by Jayne Egerton
27:50, 26057, S
25-Jul-2012 30 Sport under communism - Regeneration Games Laurie Taylor
Produced by Jayne Egerton
27:51, 26073, S
01-Aug-2012 31 Jobs for the Boys Laurie Taylor
Produced by Jayne Egerton
28:02, 26239, S
08-Aug-2012 32 Social capital -- gentrification Laurie Taylor
Produced by Charlie Taylor
27:54, 26106, S
15-Aug-2012 33 Breaking rules -- Wall Street women Laurie Taylor
Produced by Charlie Taylor
27:50, 26045, S
22-Aug-2012
29-Aug-2012
05-Sep-2012
34
35
36
Italian Family
  1. Milan
  2. Naples
  3. Studio discussion
Laurie Taylor
Produced by Charlie Taylor
28:06, 26297, S
28:01, 26214, S
27:53, 26098, S
12-Sep-2012 37 Odd couples, student drinking Laurie Taylor
Produced by Jayne Egerton
28:15, 26443, S
19-Sep-2012 38 Ethnic pay gap, racial segregation Laurie Taylor
Produced by Jayne Egerton
27:48, 26014, S
26-Sep-2012 39 Race in an English village; decoding organisation Laurie Taylor
Produced by Jayne Egerton
27:50, 26046, S
03-Oct-2012 40 Sickness benefit claimants, and 'New Society' 50
years on
Laurie Taylor
Produced by Jayne Egerton
28:06, 26295, S
10-Oct-2012 41 The New Arab Man, Lords Club Affiliation Laurie Taylor
Produced by Jayne Egerton
28:02, 26233, S
17-Oct-2012 42 Sociologists and the financial crisis -
Against security
Laurie Taylor
Produced by Jayne Egerton
27:58, 26176, S
24-Oct-2012 43 Trouble at work, travellers vs tourists Laurie Taylor
Produced by Charlie Taylor
27:59, 26189, S
31-Oct-2012 44 The UK strip and lap-dancing industry - blue jeans Laurie Taylor
Produced by Jayne Egerton
28:02, 26232, S
07-Nov-2012 45 Couchsurfing - Trauma Advocacy Laurie Taylor
Produced by Jayne Egerton
27:52, 26087, S
19-Nov-2012
pre-empted in
normal slot
46 Decline of the weekend; British riots of 2011 Laurie Taylor
Produced by Jayne Egerton
27:50, 26049, S
21-Nov-2012 47 Archaeology of homelessness; residential care
revisited
Laurie Taylor
Produced by Jayne Egerton
28:00, 26243, S
28-Nov-2012 48 Family funerals; red tape Laurie Taylor
Produced by Jayne Egerton
27:48, 26014, S
05-Dec-2012 49 Work identity on the railway; how to be gay Laurie Taylor
Produced by Jayne Egerton
28:00, 26205, S
12-Dec-2012 50 Children in hospitals; History, heritage and
tradition in British politics
Laurie Taylor
Produced by Jayne Egerton
27:53, 26100, S
19-Dec-2012 51 Female jockeys; military migrants Laurie Taylor
Produced by Jayne Egerton
27:51, 26063, S
26-Dec-2012 52 Intoxication Laurie Taylor
Produced by Jayne Egerton
27:54, 26107, S

2013
Date Episode Title Cast Parameters
02-Jan-2013 1 Consuming Passions Laurie Taylor
Produced by Jayne Egerton
27:34, 25803, S
09-Jan-2013 2 Contagion; changing masculinity in retail Laurie Taylor
Produced by Jayne Egerton
27:56, 26143, S
16-Jan-2013 3 Birth of Neo-Liberalism; Music, Race and Difference Laurie Taylor
Produced by Jayne Egerton
27:56, 26148, S
23-Jan-2013 4 Class and Commuting - Engaging With Climate Change Laurie Taylor
Produced by Jayne Egerton
27:57, 26152, S
30-Jan-2013 5 Rock climbing in conflict; women in Russian prisons Laurie Taylor
Produced by Jayne Egerton
27:45, 25972, S
06-Feb-2013 6 Organised Crime in the UK Laurie Taylor
Produced by Jayne Egerton
27:55, 26125, S
13-Feb-2013 7 Stan Cohen (1942 - 2013) Laurie Taylor
Produced by Jayne Egerton
27:49, 26040, S
20-Feb-2013 8 'Ned' Pride in Scotland; Weapon Dogs Laurie Taylor
Produced by Jayne Egerton
28:02, 26241, S
27-Feb-2013 9 Fashion, Class and Mums; Red Racisms Laurie Taylor
Produced by Jayne Egerton
28:03, 26254, S
06-Mar-2013 10 Drugs for Life; Subcultural Identity Laurie Taylor
Produced by Chris Wilson 
28:02, 26233, S
13-Mar-2013 11 Guatemalan cemetery; Art auctions Laurie Taylor
Produced by Jayne Egerton
27:52, 26111, S
20-Mar-2013 12 Language of food politics; Italian food market Laurie Taylor
Produced by Jayne Egerton
28:00, 26247, S
27-Mar-2013 13 Industrial ruination; Gang labour in the UK Laurie Taylor
Produced by Jayne Egerton
27:59, 26222, S
03-Apr-2013 14 Women and the Armed Forces Laurie Taylor
Produced by Jayne Egerton
27:58, 26216, S
10-Apr-2013
15
Thrift Chic; Thatcherism
Laurie Taylor
Produced by Jayne Egerton
28:00, 26248, S
17-Apr-2013
16
English Heritage; Clergy Lives Laurie Taylor
Produced by Jayne Egerton
27:50, 26091, S
24-Apr-2013
17
The Power of Oil
Laurie Taylor
Produced by Jayne Egerton
27:51, 26110, S
01-May-2013
18
British class survey; Tribute to Geoff Pearson
Laurie Taylor
Produced by Jayne Egerton
27:58, 26215, S
08-May-2013
19
Middle Class Enclaves and Escapes Laurie Taylor
Produced by Jayne Egerton
27:55, 26161, S
15-May-2013
20
Stammering and Identity; Land of Too Much Laurie Taylor
Produced by Jayne Egerton
28:09, 26377, S
22-May-2013
21
Live Music - from Dance Hall to the 100 Club Laurie Taylor
Produced by Jayne Egerton
27:56, 26181, S
29-May-2013
22
Multicultural Prison; Jellied Eels Laurie Taylor
Produced by Jayne Egerton
27:58, 26218, S
05-Jun-2013
23
'Long Hours' work culture; Empty labour Laurie Taylor
Produced by Jayne Egerton
27:53, 26127, S
12-Jun-2013
24
Scottish nationalism and identity; Austerity
Laurie Taylor
Produced by Jayne Egerton
27:35, 25819, S
19-Jun-2013
25
Remembering Diana
Laurie Taylor
Produced by Jayne Egerton
27:53, 26089, S
26-Jun-2013
26
Welfare reform; Crime in the Armed Forces
Laurie Taylor
Produced by Jayne Egerton
27:40, 26067, S
03-Jul-2013
27
Northern Ireland Sectarianism and Civility;
The Global Pigeon
Laurie Taylor
Produced by Jayne Egerton
28:09, 26352, S
10-Jul-2013
28
Terrorism Studies Laurie Taylor
Produced by Jayne Egerton
27:53, 26092, S
17-Jul-2013
29
Raising Middle-Class Black Children; Neon
Laurie Taylor
Produced by Jayne Egerton
28:16, 26448, S
24-Jul-2013
30
Food Work in Hospital Wards; The Bangladesh/India Border
Laurie Taylor
Produced by Charlie Taylor
27:56, 26143, S
31-Jul-2013
31
Smart/casual dining; 'Teddies' and 'Gollies' Laurie Taylor
Produced by Charlie Taylor
28:08, 26333, S
07-Aug-2013
32
The Minutemen; 'Lay' Witnesses in Court
Laurie Taylor
Produced by Charlie Taylor
27:50, 26045, S
14-Aug-2013
33
Drug Users; 'Militant' Liverpool
Laurie Taylor
Produced by Jayne Egerton
27:49, 26031, S
21-Aug-2013
34
Michel Foucault
Laurie Taylor
Produced by Jayne Egerton
28:07, 26317, S
28-Aug-2013
35
Walter Benjamin
Laurie Taylor
Produced by Charlie Taylor
27:52, 26086, S
04-Sep-2013
36
Erving Goffman
Laurie Taylor
Produced by Jayne Egerton
27:47, 25999, S
11-Sep-2013
37
Bohemian Soho
Laurie Taylor
Produced by Jayne Egerton
28:00, 26209, S
18-Sep-2013
38
Holiday hedonism in Ibiza; White working class voters
Laurie Taylor
Produced by Jayne Egerton
28:04, 26271, S
25-Sep-2013
39
Noodle narratives; British men dancing Capoeira
Laurie Taylor
Produced by Jayne Egerton
27:51, 26072, S
02-Oct-2013
40
Backpacking food tourist; Touring poverty
Laurie Taylor
Produced by Jayne Egerton
27:56, 26135, S
09-Oct-2013
41
Twitter; Elite University Admissions
Laurie Taylor
Produced by Jayne Egerton
27:55, 26125, S
16-Oct-2013
42
Section 136 and Mental Health Act; BBC World Service
Laurie Taylor
Produced by Jayne Egerton
27:51, 26069, S
23-Oct-2013
43
Muslim Fundamentalism; Customer Abuse to Service Workers
Laurie Taylor
Produced by Jayne Egerton
27:54, 26111, S
30-Oct-2013
44
Sex Workers and International Migration; Poverty in Britain
Laurie Taylor
Produced by Jayne Egerton
27:59, 26196, S
06-Nov-2013
45
Richard Hoggart; The Anti-Social Family
Laurie Taylor
Produced by Jayne Egerton
28:01, 26224, S
13-Nov-2013
46
Neoliberal Economics
Laurie Taylor
Produced by Jayne Egerton
27:50, 26051, S
20-Nov-2013
47
The Poppy; Traveller Children in Schools
Laurie Taylor
Produced by Jayne Egerton
27:52, 26076, S
27-Nov-2013
48
Boxing in Gleason's Gym; Sport and Capitalism
Laurie Taylor
Produced by Jayne Egerton
27:51, 26070, S
04-Nov-2013
49
Tooth Loss; Communist Utopia in a Spanish Village
Laurie Taylor
Produced by Jayne Egerton
27:33, 25780, S
11-Nov-2013
50
Chicago; Pocket Calculator in Papua New Guinea
Laurie Taylor
Produced by Jayne Egerton
27:41, 25908, S
18-Nov-2013
51
Couples and Chronic Illness; Fashion and Dress in Later Life
Laurie Taylor
Produced by Jayne Egerton
27:44, 25962, S
25-Dec-2013
52
Santa Helpers; Christmas Tradition
Laurie Taylor
Produced by Jayne Egerton
27:41, 25913, S

2014
Date Episode Title Cast Parameters
01-Jan-2014
1
Love
Laurie Taylor
Produced by Jayne Egerton
27:50, 26042, S
08-Jan-2014
2
Sensory Multiculturalism in an East End Market;
Cultural Passions
Laurie Taylor
Produced by Jayne Egerton
27:35, 25809, S
15-Jan-2014
3
Waiting in A&E; Faith and Doubt
Laurie Taylor
Produced by Jayne Egerton
27:58, 26178, S
22-Jan-2014
4
Why Music Matters?; Bhangra and Belonging
Laurie Taylor
Produced by Jayne Egerton
28:08, 26337, S
29-Jan-2014
5
Prostitution in the Community; Drinking and Moderation
Laurie Taylor
Produced by Jayne Egerton
27:54, 26114, S
05-Feb-2014
6
Numbers in Global Politics; Gay Rights and Religion
in Belfast
Laurie Taylor
Produced by Jayne Egerton
28:03, 26254, S
12-Feb-2014
7
Stuart Hall (1932-2014)
Laurie Taylor
Produced by Jayne Egerton
27:59, 26184, S
19-Feb-2014
8
The Great Indoors
Laurie Taylor
Produced by Torquil MacLeod
27:50, 26046, S
26-Feb-2014
9
Generational Divide; Webcam
Laurie Taylor
Produced by Jayne Egerton
28:12, 26389, S
05-Mar-2014
10
Elite Graduates in France and UK;
Surnames and Social Mobility
Laurie Taylor
Produced by Torquil MacLeod
27:57, 26155, S
12-Mar-2014
11
Post-Katrina New Orleans; The Capitalist Personality
Laurie Taylor
Produced by Jayne Egerton
28:06, 26306, S
19-Mar-2014
12
Race in Police Disciplinaries; Protestant Fishermen
in Scotland
Laurie Taylor
Produced by Jayne Egerton
27:55, 26128, S
26-Mar-2014
13
Poverty and 'Shame'; Small-Scale Technology in India
Laurie Taylor
Produced by Torquil MacLeod
28:01, 26215, S
02-Apr-2014
14
Kissing; The British Hitman
Laurie Taylor
Produced by Jayne Egerton
28:01, 26227, S
09-Apr-1014
15
The End of Capitalism; Reforming Capitalism
Laurie Taylor
Produced by Jayne Egerton
28:05, 26284, S
16-Apr-2014
16
British working class gardens - Why England fails
(at football)
Laurie Taylor
Produced by Torquil MacLeod
27:47, 26001, S
23-Apr-2014
17
The Ethnography Award 'Short List'
Laurie Taylor
Produced by Torquil MacLeod
27:56, 26140, S
30-Apr-2014
18
Ethnography Award: The Winner
Laurie Taylor
Produced by Jayne Egerton
28:00, 26204, S
07-May-2014
19
podcast
Baristas; 'People' History
Laurie Taylor
Produced by Jayne Egerton
27:46, 26138, S
14-May-2014
20
podcast
'Illicit' Dance; The Purpose of War
Laurie Taylor
Produced by Jayne Egerton
27:53, 26189, S
21-May-2014
21
podcast
Islamaphobia and Anti-Semitism; Sociology of Sleep
Laurie Taylor
Produced by Torquil MacLeod
27:51, 26152, S
28-May-2014
22
podcast
Gender Inequality in China; Smokestack Nostalgia
Laurie Taylor
Produced by Jayne Egerton
27:55, 26208, S
04-Jun-2014
23
podcast
Offshoring; Make-up in Iran
Laurie Taylor
Produced by Jayne Egerton
27:59, 26282, S
11-Jun-2014
24
podcast
'New' Biological Relatives & Kinship -
Masculinity & Betting Shops
Laurie Taylor
Produced by Jayne Egerton
27:40, 25970, S
18-Jun-2014
25
podcast
Before the Windrush; The late modern hipster
Laurie Taylor
Produced by Jayne Egerton
27:39, 25959, S
25-Jun-2014
26
podcast
History of Surfing; Coffee Shops and Idleness
Laurie Taylor
Produced by Jayne Egerton
27:53, 26180, S
02-Jul-2014
27
podcast
Flip Flops, Russia's upper class
Laurie Taylor
Produced by Jayne Egerton
27:55, 26204, S
09-Jul-2014
28
podcast
A History of Tennis, Talking Treatments
Laurie Taylor
Produced by Jayne Egerton
27:53, 26182, S
16-Jul-2014
29
podcast
Rio, Protests and the World Cup; Dying in Prison
Laurie Taylor
Produced by Jayne Egerton
27:50, 26126, S
23-Jul-2014
30
podcast
Dalit Parties and Democratisation in Tamil Nadu;
History of the Elevator
Laurie Taylor
Produced by Jayne Egerton
27:59, 26280, S
30-Jul-2014
31
podcast
Race and Consumption; Non-Networking Graduates
Laurie Taylor
Produced by Jayne Egerton
27:52, 26158, S
06-Aug-2014
32
podcast
Gaybourhood and City Life
Laurie Taylor
Produced by Jayne Egerton
28:01, 26309, S
08-Oct-2014
1
podcast
Dementia Handbags; Place Hacking
Laurie Taylor
Produced by Jayne Egerton
27:44, 26042, S
15-Oct-2014
2
podcast
Drug Mules; 'Dads Only' Parenting Project
Laurie Taylor
Produced by Jayne Egerton
28:10, 26438, S
22-Oct-2014
3
podcast
Darjeeling Tea Workers; Junk Food Traders in
Secondary Schools
Laurie Taylor
Produced by Jayne Egerton
27:44, 26042, S
29-Oct-2014
4
podcast
Post-Dictatorship Art in Argentina; Young Jazz Musicians
in London
Laurie Taylor
Produced by Jayne Egerton
28:02, 26319, S
05-Nov-2014
5
podcast
Fugitives from the Law
Laurie Taylor
Produced by Jayne Egerton
27:53, 26175, S
12-Nov-2014
6
podcast
Meritocracy; Desert Island Doctors
Laurie Taylor
Produced by Jayne Egerton
27:37, 25931, S
19-Nov-2014
7
podcast
Islamic Youth Culture in Western Europe; Shoes
Laurie Taylor
Produced by Jayne Egerton
27:47, 26083, S
26-Nov-2014
8
podcast
Creative Britain - Sexology
Laurie Taylor
Produced by Jayne Egerton
27:33, 25872, S
03-Dec-2014
9
podcast
Port Cities; Middle Class Alcohol Use
Laurie Taylor
Produced by Jayne Egerton
27:41, 25900, S
10-Dec-2014
10
podcast
Global Payday Lending - After Redundancy
Laurie Taylor
Produced by Jayne Egerton
27:50, 26136, S
17-Dec-2014
11
podcast
Fat Gay Men; Butchers
Laurie Taylor
Produced by Jayne Egerton
27:35, 25909, S
24-Dec-2014
12
podcast
Rituals at Christmas
Laurie Taylor
Produced by Jayne Egerton
27:09, 25497, S
31-Dec-2014
13
podcast
Self-help and Self-improvement
Laurie Taylor
Produced by Torquil MacLeod
27:53, 26179, S

2015
Date Episode Title Cast Parameters
07-Jan-2015
14
podcast
War Games - Riding the Subway
Laurie Taylor
Produced by Jayne Egerton
27:27, 25782, S
14-Jan-2015
15
podcast
Grading Universities - Living Apart Relationships
Laurie Taylor
Produced by Torquil MacLeod
27:42, 26016, S
21-Jan-2015
16
podcast
Dissident Republicans and Tribute to Ulrich
Beck (1944 - 2015)
Laurie Taylor
Produced by Jayne Egerton
27:51, 26152, S
28-Jan-2015
17
podcast
Migraine - Social Stigma and Negative Labels
Laurie Taylor
Produced by Jayne Egerton
27:41, 25990, S
04-Feb-2015
18
podcast
Inside the Muslim Brotherhood, Privately Educated Girls
Laurie Taylor
Produced by Jayne Egerton
27:33, 25871, S
11-Feb-2015
19
podcast
Harvard Business School – The Construction of Pain
Laurie Taylor
Produced by Jayne Egerton
27:42, 26008, S
18-Feb-2015
20
podcast
Conservatism, Emotional Labour in a Care Home
Laurie Taylor
Produced by Jayne Egerton
27:44, 26034, S
25-Feb-2015
21
podcast
Romanian Economic Migrants in London - The British in
South Africa
Laurie Taylor
Produced by Jayne Egerton
27:45, 26048, S
04-Mar-2015
22
podcast
Commercial Surrogacy in India; Money
Laurie Taylor
Produced by Jayne Egerton
27:44, 26048, S
11-Mar-2015
23
podcast
A Lost Avant Garde, Biologising Parenthood
Laurie Taylor
Produced by Jayne Egerton
27:45, 26056, S
18-Mar-2015
24
podcast
Microbreweries - Love, Money and HIV in Kenya
Laurie Taylor
Produced by Jayne Egerton
27:51, 26157, S
25-Mar-2015
25
podcast
Global Clothing and Poverty; Fur Inheritance in Poland
Laurie Taylor
Produced by Jayne Egerton
27:48, 26097, S
01-Apr-2015
26
podcast
Citizenship Ceremonies - Families & Genes
Laurie Taylor
Produced by Jayne Egerton
27:41, 25998, S
08-Apr-2015
27
podcast
Free Will - Pets as Family
Laurie Taylor
Produced by Jayne Egerton
27:53, 26185, S
15-Apr-2015
28
podcast
The Ethnography Award 'Shortlist'
Laurie Taylor
Produced by Jayne Egerton
27:59, 26271, S
22-Apr-2015
29
podcast
The Ethnography Award Winner
Laurie Taylor
Produced by Jayne Egerton
28:00, 26282, S
29-Apr-2015
30
podcast
Post Traumatic Stress; Managing Beds in the NHS
Laurie Taylor
Produced by Natalia Fernandez
27:35, 25894, S
06-May-2015
31
podcast
Gentrification and Working Class Residents -
Division of Domestic Labour
Laurie Taylor
Produced by Jayne Egerton
27:54, 26198, S
13-May-2015
32
podcast
The Gym: A Social History; Tattoos at Work
Laurie Taylor
Produced by Jayne Egerton
27:39, 25957, S
20-May-2015
33
podcast
Poverty in Britain; Unemployment As a Choice
Laurie Taylor
Produced by Jayne Egerton
27:34, 25887, S
27-May-2015
34
podcast
Happiness Industry; Wellness Syndrome
Laurie Taylor
Produced by Jayne Egerton
27:52, 26157, S
03-Jun-2015
35
podcast
Anthropology - The Future of the A-level; Crime and Blame
Laurie Taylor
Produced by Jayne Egerton
27:49, 26716, S
10-Jun-2015
36
podcast
Lesbian Lives in Russia; Big Data
Laurie Taylor
Produced by Jayne Egerton
27:53, 26776, S
17-Jun-2015
37
podcast
The 'Precariat'; Humour in Sociology
Laurie Taylor
Produced by Jayne Egerton
27:48, 26700, S
24-Jun-2015
38
podcast
White Working Class Boys; French Thought
Laurie Taylor
Produced by Jayne Egerton
27:48, 26075, S
01-Jul-2015
39
podcast
Factory music, Volunteering post-recession
Laurie Taylor
Produced by Jayne Egerton
27:49, 26095, S
08-Jul-2015
40
podcast
Arab Londoners - Migrants and British identity
Laurie Taylor
Produced by Jayne Egerton
27:59, 26243, S
15-Jul-2015
41
podcast
Middle-class drug dealers, Globalisation of white collar work
Laurie Taylor
Produced by Jayne Egerton
27:41, 25970, S
22-Jul-2015
42
podcast
The colour black, Mixed-race people
Laurie Taylor
Produced by Jayne Egerton
27:45, 26020, S
29-Jul-2015
43
podcast
Prison gangs in US, Millionaire children
Laurie Taylor
Produced by Jayne Egerton
27:56, 26195, S
16-Sep-2015
1
podcast
Stop and search, Cancer patients and welfare reform
Laurie Taylor
Produced by Jayne Egerton
27:49, 26083, S
23-Sep-2015
2
podcast
Cross-Class Marriage, The social history of women-only
train carriages
Laurie Taylor
Produced by Jayne Egerton
27:49, 26092, S
30-Sep-2015
3
podcast
Russia's Red Web - Older Entrepreneurs
Laurie Taylor
Produced by Jayne Egerton
27:41, 25968, S
07-Oct-2015
4
podcast
Female Serial Killers, Secular Stagnation
Laurie Taylor
Produced by Jayne Egerton
27:46, 26034, S
14-Oct-2015
5
podcast
Being Single - Modern Romance
Laurie Taylor
Produced by Jayne Egerton
27:48, 26063, S
21-Oct-2015
6
podcast
Human Rights in Northern Ireland, Social Mobility and Education
Laurie Taylor
Produced by Jayne Egerton
27:47, 26056, S
28-Oct-2015
7
podcast
Ambivalent atheism; Neoliberalism and old age
Laurie Taylor
Produced by Jayne Egerton
27:48, 26055, S
04-Nov-2015
8
podcast
The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership,
The hidden life of domestic things
Laurie Taylor
Produced by Jayne Egerton
27:29, 25770, S
11-Nov-2015
9
podcast
Zoos explored, Funeral arranging
Laurie Taylor
Produced by Jayne Egerton
27:46, 26024, S
18-Nov-2015
10
podcast
Elite jobs, Hairdresser craft
Laurie Taylor
Produced by Jayne Egerton
27:53, 26144, S
25-Nov-2015
11
podcast
Frauds of the left, Siblings
Laurie Taylor
Produced by Jayne Egerton
27:36, 25871, S
02-Dec-2015
12
podcast
Everyday life, Cafe society
Laurie Taylor
Produced by Natalia Fernandez
27:51, 26112, S
09-Dec-2015
13
podcast
Land Ownership, Home at work
Laurie Taylor
Produced by Jayne Egerton
27:39, 25877, S
16-Dec-2015
14
podcast
Chess worlds, Competitive entrepreneurs
Laurie Taylor
Produced by Charlie Taylor
27:46, 25987, S
23-Dec-2015
15
podcast
A Special Programme on Rituals
Laurie Taylor
Produced by Jayne Egerton
27:39, 25871, S
30-Dec-2015
16
Fashion and Beauty
Laurie Taylor
Produced by Jayne Egerton
27:54, 26097, S

2016
Date Episode Title Cast Parameters
06-Jan-2016
17
The end of 'careers', Humour at work
Laurie Taylor
Produced by Jayne Egerton
28:00, 26192, S
13-Jan-2016
18
Modern slavery, School lunch boxes
Laurie Taylor
Produced by Jayne Egerton
27:49, 26028, S
20-Jan-2016
19
Con Men in New York, Iconography of punishment
Laurie Taylor
Produced by Jayne Egerton
27:45, 25962, S
27-Jan-2016
20
The Creative Economy, 'Grudge' Spending
Laurie Taylor
Produced by Jayne Egerton
27:51, 26056, S
03-Feb-2016
21
Consumerism, Work-life balance
Laurie Taylor
Produced by Jayne Egerton
27:59, 26189, S
10-Feb-2016
22
Weather forecasting, Young people and politics
Laurie Taylor
Produced by Jayne Egerton
27:46, 25982, S
17-Feb-2016
23
Museums and nationalism, Imagining utopias
Laurie Taylor
Produced by Natalia Fernandez
27:57, 26157, S
24-Feb-2016
24
Refusing adulthood, How young people feel about being poor
Laurie Taylor
Produced by Jayne Egerton
27:44, 25949, S
02-Mar-2016
25
The debt collection industry, Spousal job loss
Laurie Taylor
Produced by Jayne Egerton
28:00, 26198, S
09-Mar-2016
26
Small towns, Patient rescue and resuscitation
Laurie Taylor
Produced by Jayne Egerton
28:02, 26228, S
16-Mar-2016
27
Philanthropy - Charity
Laurie Taylor
Produced by Jayne Egerton
28:07, 26337, S
23-Mar-2016
28
Eviction, Self-build
Laurie Taylor
Produced by Jayne Egerton
28:03, 26253, S
30-Mar-2016
29
Dance halls, Pick-up artists
Laurie Taylor
Produced by Jayne Egerton
27:50, 26042, S
06-Apr-2016
30
The BSA and Thinking Allowed Ethnography Award Shortlist
Laurie Taylor
Produced by Jayne Egerton
27:46, 25980, S
13-Apr-2016
31
Ethnography Award winner, Transcultural football
Laurie Taylor
Produced by Jayne Egerton
27:48, 26013, S
20-Apr-2016
32
Happiness and government, Good parenting
Laurie Taylor
Produced by Jayne Egerton
27:40, 25896, S
27-Apr-2016
33
The Flaneur - Walking in the City
Laurie Taylor
Produced by Jayne Egerton
27:43, 25942, S
04-May-2016
34
Migrant women, Wedding paradoxes
Laurie Taylor
Produced by Jayne Egerton
28:03, 26242, S
11-May-2016
35
TV and Live Music in Prison
Laurie Taylor
Produced by Jayne Egerton
27:49, 26035, S
18-May-2016
36
Glasgow gangs - Russian gangs
Laurie Taylor
Produced by Jayne Egerton
27:41, 25906, S
25-May-2016
37
'Queer' wars, Nigerian beauty pageants
Laurie Taylor
Produced by Jayne Egerton
27:48, 26007, S
01-Jun-2016
38
Ale drinkers, Northern accents
Laurie Taylor
Produced by Jayne Egerton
27:50, 26050, S
08-Jun-2016
39
Engineers of Jihad, Orange Jumpsuits
Laurie Taylor
Produced by Jayne Egerton
27:46, 25983, S
15-Jun-2016
40
Secrecy at Work, Drugs and Employment
Laurie Taylor
Produced by Jayne Egerton
27:56, 26145, S
22-Jun-2016
41
A special programme on Pierre Bourdieu
Laurie Taylor
Produced by Jayne Egerton
27:46, 25978, S
29-Jun-2016
42
Good neighbours, The connection between sport and
domestic abuse
Laurie Taylor
Produced by Jayne Egerton
27:59, 26181, S
06-Jul-2016
43
Political women and language, The morality of sleep medication
Laurie Taylor
Produced by Jayne Egerton
27:37, 25836, S
13-Jul-2016
44
The English Defence League; 'Real' immigrants
Laurie Taylor
Produced by Jayne Egerton
27:39, 25869, S
20-Jul-2016
45
Food bank Britain, Food poverty in Europe
Laurie Taylor
Produced by Jayne Egerton
27:53, 26096, S
27-Jul-2016
46
Airport security, Retiring to Spain
Laurie Taylor
Produced by Jayne Egerton
27:47, 26005, S