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Robots and AI

Laurie Taylor takes a cool, non dystopian look at future possibilities

• 28 mins

Restaurants - A Taste of Class

What are restaurants for? Laurie Taylor explores the many functions of dining out.

• 28 mins

The Restaurant: A Taste of Class

Laurie Taylor gets under the skin of the restaurant.

• 27 mins

Whither the Welfare State?

Laurie Taylor explores the origins and meaning of the welfare state.

• 28 mins

Whither the Welfare State?

Laurie Taylor examines the history of the welfare state.

• 27 mins

Hospices - Palliative Care

Laurie Taylor explores the history of 'easeful death'. Also, life in an English hospice.

• 28 mins

Hospices - Palliative Care

Laurie Taylor explores end of life care through the ages.

• 28 mins

War In The Air

Laurie Taylor explores the history of aerial bombing and tear gas.

• 27 mins

War in the air

Laurie Taylor explores the history of aerial bombing and tear gas.

• 28 mins

Marxism, 'Red' Globalisation

Marxism - does it have any contemporary relevance? Also, 'red' globalisation.

• 28 mins

Marxism, 'Red' Globalisation

Laurie Taylor talks to David Harvey, world authority on Marx's thought.

• 27 mins

Affluence

Affluence - what does it mean?

• 28 mins

GDP, Mali music

GDP - what are its limits? Also, the music of Mali.

• 28 mins

Politics and Emotion

The evolution of our contemporary idea of emotions and how they play out in politics.

• 28 mins

The New Economy

Finding work in the new economy and the death of homo economicus.

• 28 mins

The Trojan Horse Affair - Religion in schools

Laurie Taylor asks if there was an attempt to Islamicise schools in Birmingham.

• 28 mins

The Trojan Horse Affair - Religion in Schools

Laurie Taylor asks if there was an attempt to Islamicise schools in Birmingham.

• 28 mins

Christmas Television

Christmas television - an exploration of a very British tradition.

• 28 mins

Working-class actors, Class and classical music

Working-class actors, Class and classical music.

• 28 mins

The Housing Crisis, Squatting in Amsterdam

The housing crisis. Also, squatting in Amsterdam.

• 28 mins

The sensory landscape of the city

The scenes, smells, sounds and tastes of city life.

• 28 mins

Police culture

Police culture and socialisation - how has it changed?

• 28 mins

Countercultural seekers, Slum tourism

Countercultural seekers on the road to Kathmandu and slum tourism in Mumbai.

• 28 mins

Countercultural seekers/ slum tourism.

Counter cultural seekers and meaning of the hippy trail. Also, slum tourism in Mumbai.

• 27 mins

Stigma

Stigma - an old sociological concept revisited and recast for the 21st century.

• 28 mins

Populism

Are populist politics on the rise?

• 28 mins

A Valentine Day's special

A Valentine Day's Special programme exploring infidelity and the history of rings.

• 28 mins

Artisanal food - Natural foods

Artisanal and natural foods.

• 28 mins

The White Working Class.

The white working class - is there a 'left-behind'?

• 28 mins

Women and democracy - the language of power

Is democracy failing women? Also, how 'normality' is established in language.

• 28 mins