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American West - Garden Love
Laurie Taylor tries to solve the myths of the great American West.
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Documentaries - Intellectual Property Law
Laurie Taylor considers the aesthetic and ethical aspects of documentary making.
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Impact of Recession on Health Inequalities - Youth Culture
Laurie Taylor discusses the personal psychological consequences of recession unemployment.
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Kissing Cousins - Big Cats in Rural Wales
Laurie Taylor is joined by Professor Adam Kuper to discuss the demise of kissing cousins.
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Drugs and Society - Laddish Masculinity in Higher Education
Laurie Taylor explores how the context in which drugs are consumed alters their effect.
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Renaissance Dance - Working Class Liverpool
Laurie Taylor explores the obsession with dancing in the Renaissance with Margret McGowan.
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Post Soviet Death Rates - Prisoners' Partners
Laurie Taylor explores the human cost of rapid economic change.
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Hole in the Wall - Victorian Light
Laurie Taylor reveals how children teach themselves how to use digital technology.
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Moral Relativism
Laurie Taylor debates the universal notion of human rights.
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Popular Music and Violence - The Etymology of 'Hooligan'
Laurie Taylor discusses how music is used in conflicts with Dr Martin Cloonan.
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Gang Culture
Laurie Taylor explores whether the past can reveal the causes and cures for gang violence?
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Detectives
Laurie Taylor brings past and present together to explore the culture of the detective.
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Chinese Capitalism - Concepts in Education
Laurie Taylor discusses the impact of China's economic reforms with Will Hutton.
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Cocaine Girls in the West End - Orgasm
Laurie Taylor explores the idea that the Imperial era was a product of repressed sexuality
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The Sociology of Smell - Getting a Confession
Laurie Taylor is joined by Luca Turin and Rod Watson to explore the resonances of perfume.
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Organisation/Disorganisation
Laurie Taylor discusses the many individualistic ways in which things can be organised.
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Male Immaturity - Female Political Prisoners
Laurie Taylor explores the contention that men might be failing to grow up.
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Women and Domesticity - Corruption
Laurie Taylor talks to Amanda Vickery about the history of the home.
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US Elections and the Media - Tribute to Studs Terkel
Laurie Taylor considers if the printed press is in decline.
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Human Remains in Museum Collections - Suicide Rates
Laurie Taylor debates the changing attitudes towards the bodies displayed in our museums.
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Urban Crime and Disorder - Demography of Death
Laurie Taylor speaks to Harvard's Robert Sampson about what causes disorder in cities.
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Predicting the Financial Crisis - Work/Life Balance
Richard Dale discusses his recipe for financial crisis with Laurie Taylor.
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Durkheim and Financial Collapse - Obesity
Laurie Taylor debates Emile Durkheimβs 'Suicide' theory with Professor Steven Lukes.
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Tartan - Dog Ownership
Laurie Taylor explores the cultural and political history of tartan with Jonathan Faiers.
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Crime and Consumerism - Meaning of Marriage
Laurie Taylor debates the dark side of consumer culture with Steve Hall & Paddy Rawlinson.
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Class and Reality TV - Balti Britain
Laurie Taylor discusses the sub-text of reality TV programmes with Prof. Beverley Skeggs.
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CafΓ© Culture β Human Waste
Laurie Taylor examines our behaviour in coffee shops with Dr Eric Laurier.
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Corporate PR - Highrise Living
Laurie Taylor discusses whether βCorporate Spinβ has launched an assault on democracy.
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Imagination and the City
Laurie Taylor is joined by Will Self, Richard Sennett and Doreen Massey.
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Imagination and the Suburbs
Laurie Taylor talks to writer Iain Sinclair and sociologists Paul Barker and Nick Hubble.