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Punishing the Poor

Sociologist Loic Wacquant discusses the consequences of a growing US prison system.

• 30 mins

Modern-day Grave Goods - Politics of Alcohol

Laurie Taylor finds out about what we leave with the dead and why.

• 30 mins

Suburbia Planning - Modernity Forgets

From suburbia to housing estates, Laurie Taylor discusses town and city planning.

• 30 mins

Organ Donation - Flip Flops

The social and cultural influences on bereaved families' decisions to donate organs.

• 30 mins

White Collar Crime: Culture of Crime

1/3 Laurie Taylor explores white collar crime. What exactly is it, who commits it and why?

• 30 mins

White Collar Crime: Regulation of Crime

2/3 Why has corporate crime had such a low priority?

• 30 mins

White Collar Crime: Punishment of Crime

3/3 Laurie Taylor explores the punishment of white collar crime.

• 30 mins

E-Elections - Jazz

Will UK party politics be transformed by new media and digital technology?

• 30 mins

Anthropology of Wall Street - Rural Idyll

Laurie Taylor talks to the anthroplogist who spent a year studying Wall Street.

• 30 mins

Solo Living - Response to Wall Street

Why are more people living on their own and what are the consequences for society?

• 30 mins

Prison Clothing - Lewes Arms Boycott

Laurie Taylor explores the history of prison clothing, and the power of the boycott.

• 30 mins

Bourgeois Power and Marriage

Was marrying within the family key to success of the ruling classes in Victorian England?

• 30 mins

Mobility to Higher Education

Laurie Taylor is at the University of Bedfordshire to discuss class and social mobility.

• 30 mins

06/01/2010

Laurie Taylor discusses conscientious objecting in World War One.

• 30 mins

13/01/2010

Laurie Taylor discusses the cartoons that shook the world.

• 30 mins

20/01/2010

The Future of Work and Teddy Bear Diaries.

• 30 mins

27/01/2010

The Brits who stayed on in Hong Kong.

• 30 mins

03/02/2010

Laurie Taylor explores national branding and the commodification of ethnic identity.

• 30 mins

10/02/2010

African American consumer culture and the history of tea.

• 30 mins

17/02/2010

A history of Intellectual piracy; the morality of obesity.

• 30 mins

24/02/2010

Corridors under threat and is 'living apart together' a new form of family?

• 30 mins

03/03/2010

The secret history of the servant and the working class at Oxbridge.

• 30 mins

10/03/2010

The meaning of military futurology, and anti-racist comedy in the UK and US.

• 30 mins

17/03/2010

Laurie Taylor discusses milk and modernity, and why burglary is going out of fashion.

• 30 mins

24/03/2010

Book fairs and the Bow Street Runners.

• 30 mins

31/03/2010

Sexuality in later life and interracial relationships in Latin America.

• 30 mins

07/04/2010

Is the secular world under threat? Discussing new demographics and the future of belief.

• 30 mins

14/04/2010

Is the British weekend under threat? Plus new research on home education.

• 30 mins

Inequality and nakedness

A brief history of nakedness - its role in politics, protest and popular culture.

• 30 mins

Capitalism and Development

Laurie Taylor discusses capitalism with leading economists David Harvey and Ha Joon Chang.

• 30 mins