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    Conspiracy theories - International suffering

    Exploring conspiracy theories and the suffering of strangers.

  2. Stag tourism - Men and childbirth

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

  3. Cosmetic tourism - Debt 5,000 years

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

  4. Uniforms and status in hospitals - Cities under siege

    Uniforms in hospitals and policing cities with military measures.

  5. Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Life 4: Shared Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ

    Laurie explores the home lifestyle of six young people who live together.

  6. Madness - Anti Psychiatry and Psychoanalysis

    The rise and fall of the Anti Psychiatry movement. Also, the cultural prominence of Freud.

  7. Tipping points

    Laurie Taylor explores 'The Tipping Point' in new research at Durham University.

  8. Parents, Teens and the Culture of Sex: The Claims of Parenting

    Laurie Taylor explores new research into teenage sex in the parental home.

  9. Grammar Schools and Social Mobility; The Opera Fanatic

    Laurie Taylor explores opera in Argentina, plus grammar schools and social mobility.

  10. Older gays in rural areas; Protest over art and culture in America

    Laurie Taylor explores US art protests. Also, the lives of older, gay, rural dwellers.

  11. Race and the Seaside - The Brain

    Laurie Taylor looks at the limits of science with Bryan Appleyard and John Gray.

  12. Power Restoration After Hurricane Ike - White Middle Class Identity In Urban Schools

    Laurie Taylor looks at new research about middle-class parents and schooling.

  13. Kissing men - Decline of violence in history

    Laurie Taylor explores ideas about a decline in human violence with Steven Pinker.

  14. Muslim women's basketball - Still life

    Laurie Taylor discusses: globalisation is good for you - and Muslim women's basketball.

  15. Becoming Yellow - Journalist bias

    Laurie Taylor explores impartiality in TV political interviewing.

  16. Migration - Music and Politics

    Laurie Taylor explores music as a threat to national security and new work on immigration.

  17. Surnames - War, Politics and comic strip Superheroes

    Laurie Taylor explores surnames and comic book superheroes.

  18. Tour guide - Changing incomes

    UK income mobility as a multi-storey building? Also, New York tour guides.

  19. Understanding Suicide - Families, Secrets And Memories

    Laurie Taylor explores our understanding of suicide, and family secrets.

  20. Tales from the Field - Beauty capital

    Erotic capital and criminologists' tales from the field.

  21. Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Life 3: Nuclear Household

    Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Life 3: Laurie and sociologists visit a 'nuclear' family.

  22. Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Life 2: Single Person Household

    Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ life 2: Laurie and sociologists visit a single person household.

  23. Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Life 1: Multi-Generational Household

    Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ life 1: Laurie and sociologists visit a multi-generational household.

  24. Blame the parents? - Chungking Mansions, Hong Kong

    Blame the parents? New research on UK gangs. Also, Chungking Mansions in Hong Kong.

  25. Children, sex and mobile phones - Terror of history

    With Laurie Taylor. Mobile phones and sexual discovery, also the 'terror of history'.

  26. The mummy's curse - Death photography

    Laurie Taylor investigates the curse of the mummy and other myths of the Orient.

  27. Creating capabilities

    Martha Nussbaum on human capabilities.

  28. Privacy and parenting by mobile phone.

    Privacy and parenting by mobile phone.

  29. Liverpool Riots - Children and Politics

    Laurie Taylor hears about the Liverpool riots and political childhoods.

  30. Comedy capital - Work's intimacy

    Laurie considers the links of our work and home lives plus the cultural currency of comedy

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