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TA 02 Nov 11: Kissing men - Decline of violence in history Updated: 2011-11-02 17:00:00 Description: Laurie also examines an apparent rise in heterosexual men kissing other men, with Professor Eric Anderson; Laurie also explores Professor Steven Pinker's notion of a decline in human violence with Professor Anthony O'Hear....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD TA: Muslim Women's Basketball and Globalisation Updated: 2011-10-26 16:12:00 Description: Samaya Farooq tells Laurie on her new study of muslim sports women who combine faith and fitness. Also, Henrietta Moore with a positive take on globalisation....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD TA 19 Oct 11: Becoming Yellow - Journalist bias Updated: 2011-10-19 16:00:00 Description: Laurie Taylor explores impartiality in TV political interviewing with Professor Ian Hutchby and Lis Howell. Laurie also talks to Professor Michael Keevak about his new book Becoming Yellow: A short history of racial thinking....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD TA 12 Oct 11: Migration - Music and Politics Updated: 2011-10-12 16:00:00 Description: Laurie Taylor talks to Dr Ian Goldin about his book on immigration which argues that successful societies need immigrants. Laurie also talks to Thierry Côté author of 'Popular Musicians and Their Songs as Threats to National Security; Prof John Str...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD TA 05 Oct 11: Surnames - War, Politics and Superheroes Updated: 2011-10-05 15:45:00 Description: Laurie Taylor talks to Marc DiPaolo and Matthew Sweet about war politics and comic strip superheroes. He also examines the importance of surnames especially for children, explored in a new article by Dr Hayley Davies from Kings College London....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD TA: Tour guide and Changing income Updated: 2011-09-28 16:00:00 Description: Laurie Taylor explores new research into income mobility and the dynamics of poverty with Stephen Jenkins and John Holmwood. Also, the ups and downs of New York tour guides with Jonathan Wynn....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD TA 28 Sep 11: Tour guide and Changing incomes Updated: 2011-09-28 16:00:00 Description: Laurie Taylor explores new research into income mobility and the dynamics of poverty with Stephen Jenkins and John Holmwood. Also, the ups and downs of New York tour guides with Jonathan Wynn....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD TA: 21 Sept 11 Suicide and Family Secrets Updated: 2011-09-21 16:15:00 Description: Professor Laurie Taylor examines the history and motivation of suicidal people with sociologists Ben Fincham from the University of Sussex and Dr Mike Shiner from the London School of Economics.Laurie also talks to Professor Carol Smart From Manchest...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD TA: Crimologists Tales and Erotic Capital Updated: 2011-09-14 16:08:00 Description: Does being beautiful help your career? Laurie hears about two new studies from Daniel Hamermesh and Catherine Hakim. Also Louise Westmarland on tales from criminologists....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD TA: Home 3: Nuclear household Updated: 2011-09-07 16:17:00 Description: In the third of Laurie's sociological inspections of listeners' homes he visits the house of a nuclear family in Preston. Sociologists Jacqui Gabb and Peter Bramham accompany him....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD TA: Home 2: Single Living Updated: 2011-08-31 15:30:00 Description: In the second of Laurie's sociological inspections of listeners' homes he visits the house of someone living alone in the countryside of Argyll and Bute. Sociologists Roona Simpson and Bren Neale accompany him....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD TA: Home 1 - the multi-generational home Updated: 2011-08-24 18:15:00 Description: How do modern listeners live? In a sepcial edition Laurie and two experts conduct a sociological inspection of a multi generational family home....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD TA: Blame the Parents? & Chungking Mansions Updated: 2011-08-18 16:24:00 Description: Are parents to blame for children being involved in gangsd? Laurei hears new research from Judith Aldridge and Jon Shute. Also, Gordon Matthews' study of Chungking Mansions in Hong Kong....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD TA: Kids with Phones & Terror of History Updated: 2011-08-10 16:07:00 Description: How do young people use mobile phones in their intimate relationships? Emma Bond tells Lurie about her new research. Also, David Byrne and Teofilio Ruiz on Teo's new book The Terror Of History....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD TA: The Mummy's Curse Updated: 2011-08-03 16:04:00 Description: Roger Luckhurst and Marina Warner discuss the myth of the mummy's curse and Audrey Linkman considers the relationship between photography and death...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD TA: Martha Nussbaum Updated: 2011-07-27 15:42:00 Description: Is there a better way to judge the development of a country than to measure its GDP? The philosopher Martha Nussbaum tells Laurie about her 'human capabilities' approach....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD TA: Privacy & Parenting by Mobile Phone Updated: 2011-07-20 16:17:00 Description: Why do we feel it so keenly when our privacy gets invaded? Christena Nippert-Eng talks about her new study of secrets and their betrayal. Also, Mirca Madianou on migrant Fillipina workers parenting their children by mobile phone....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD TA: Liverpool Riots and Political Children Updated: 2011-07-13 15:37:00 Description: Laurie explores the riots of Liverpool 30 years on with Richard Philips and Diane Frost. He talks abotu political influence on children with Dorothy Moss....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Comedy and Work Updated: 2011-07-06 16:01:00 Description: Comedy is often seen as a social leveller. But new research by Sam Friedman suggests comedic taste is linked to cultural snobbery. Also, Melissa Gregg's new book explores the the blurring of boundaries between work and home....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD TA: Goths and 'Chavs' Updated: 2011-06-29 16:03:00 Description: What happens to Goths when they get older? Paul Hodkinson tells lauire. Also, is the working class being demonised? Owen Jones and Imogen Tyler join Laurie to discuss....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD TA: Politics of Sleep and Women Who Kill Updated: 2011-06-22 15:53:00 Description: One on 3 of us claims to be suffering from lack of sleep - what social pressures are encroaching on our time in bed? Laurie speaks to Simon Williams. Also, how the media and judiciary react to women who kill: Louise Westmarland and Lizzie Seal....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD TA: H.G.Wells and Utopia & Paraphernalia Updated: 2011-06-15 15:49:00 Description: Should Sociology be founded on the study of Utopias? Ruth Levitas tells laurie that H.G.Wells thought so - and he was right. Also, Steven Connor and Michael Bywater on how the thigns in your pockets have magical meanings....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD TA: Dirt Updated: 2011-06-08 15:36:00 Description: Dirt, filth and why we like to be clean: A special edition recorded with an audience at the Wellcome Collection. Laurie talks to Amanda Vickery, Martin Rowson and Adam Kuper....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD TA: Katrina and Communist Memories Updated: 2011-06-01 16:10:00 Description: What impact did Hurricane Katrina have on family break up in New Orleans? Laurie speaks to Michael Rendall. Also how have the former communist countries of Eastern Europe deal with the memories of their history? James Mark and Jovan Byford discuss....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD TA: Playboy and Celebrity Politics Updated: 2011-05-25 15:41:00 Description: Is Playboy really an ally to the feminist cause? Carrie Pitzulo and Angela McRobbie join Laurie to discuss. Also, are celebrities putting young people off politics? A new report from Sanna Inthorn....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD TA: Cemetery Taboo and the viability of Cities Updated: 2011-05-18 15:44:00 Description: What remains for ever unsaid at the graveside? Kate Woddthorpe discusses her latest research. Also Sophie Watson and Matthew Gandy join Laurie to discuss the future of cities....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD TA: Russian Kids in Custody & The Paranormal Updated: 2011-05-11 15:39:00 Description: Britian and Russia lock up more young people than any other European country. Mary McAuley tells Laurie of her comparative study of their young offender institutions. Also, the paranormal and popular culture - Annette Hill and Matthew Sweet join Laur...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD TA: Poverty and Radical Gardening Updated: 2011-05-04 16:05:00 Description: How do the poor talk about poverty? Laurie talks to Tracy Shildrick about her study of he underprivileged in Teesside. Also the radical nature of gardening with George McKay and Tim Jordan...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD TA: Craft & Community and Hunting Updated: 2011-04-27 15:35:00 Description: Does making things really make us happy? How does craft contribute to bringing people together? David Gauntlett and Richard Sennett join Laurie to discuss...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD TA: BSA 60th Conference Updated: 2011-04-20 15:49:00 Description: Laurie speaks to Valerie Walkerdine about the impact of redundancy on a former steel town and hears from Vicki Harman about her study of ballroom dancing as he visits the British Sociological Association's 60th Conference....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD TA: Catholic Police in NI and Facebook in Trinidad Updated: 2011-04-13 15:36:00 Description: Mary Gethins tells Laurie about her in-depth study of Catholic police working in Northern Ireland. He discusses Facebook in Trinidad with Daniel Miller and David Wall....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD TA: Street Politics and Tahrir Square Updated: 2011-04-06 15:49:00 Description: Street Politics: protests, policing, revolution and just getting about - Leif Jerram and John Clarke discuss how the geography of cities have contributed to the development of society. Laurie also talks to Jeffrey Alenxander about 'perfoming' the rev...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD TA: Mafias and Live Music Updated: 2011-03-30 16:14:00 Description: Does organised crime really spread into new territories? Federico Varese tells Laurie about the capacities and limitation of the Mafia. Also live music has overtaken recorded in terms of revenue - Simon Frith and Martin Cloonan tell Laurie why....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD TA: 23 march 11 New North Updated: 2011-03-23 17:35:00 Description: Professor Laurie Taylor discusses the influence of the 19th Century Temperance Movement and examines the notion of power and prosperity shifting to the frozen North....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD TA: Stuart Hall Updated: 2011-03-16 16:02:00 Description: In a special edition, Laurie speaks to the cultural theorist Stuart Hall about his ideas on politics, national identity and multiculturalism....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD TA: Indian Outsourcing and Happiness Letters Updated: 2011-03-09 16:49:00 Description: Call centre workers in India are trained to emulate their callers. Laurie hears from Shehzad Nadeem about this leads to a parallel hybrid culture of westernised names and habits in India. Also, Marek Kohn discusses listeners reactions to the idea tha...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD TA: What Poor Leave Behind and Happiness Updated: 2011-03-02 17:12:00 Description: What is the legacy of a poor person? A new study by Patricia Drentea finds that it is something she calls 'ethical capital. Also, Laurie hears that we shouldn't worry about not being happy. Pascal Bruckner says the emphasis on banishing suffering onl...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD TA: Illegal Workers and Capital Punishment Updated: 2011-02-23 16:41:00 Description: What is the work experience of the illegal immigrants taking part in the British economy? Laurie hears about a new report from David Whyte. Also, is the American Death Penalty an anomaly in an age of abolition? David Garland and Ken MacDonald join La...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD TA: Islamic Capitalism and Sex between the Wars Updated: 2011-02-16 17:06:00 Description: How do Islamic societies respond to the perceived threat of capitalis? Charles Tripp tells Laurie. Also, Sex Before the Sexual Revolution, Laurie hears of a new study of England between the sheets between the wars....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD TA: Men's Health and Brazilian Cosmetic Surgery Updated: 2011-02-09 17:11:00 Description: How does class impact men's health? Alan Dolan tells Laurie about his new study. Also the phenomenon of plastic surgery in Brazil, where beauty is a right and the poor can get 'bum lifts' and 'nose jobs' for free. Alex Edmonds talks about his book Pr...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD TA: Bikes and Second Homes Updated: 2011-02-02 17:06:00 Description: How has the place of the bicycle changed in British Culture? Iain Sinclair tells Laurie. Also a new study on Second Homes by Chris Paris, discussed with Susan Smith....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD TA: Political Promotion and Justice For Hedgehogs Updated: 2011-01-26 16:54:00 Description: How to get ahead in Politcs - Biol Jones talks to Laurie about shinning up the greasy pole. Also, do freedom and equality sometimes conflict? A.C.Grayling and Ronald Dworkin (author of Justice For Hedgehogs) tell Laurie any supposed conflict is just ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD TA: Donating and Punishment Attacks Updated: 2011-01-19 17:01:00 Description: Why do people give more money to natural disasters than they do to those they perceive as man-made? A new report by Hanna Zagefka. Also, brutal punishment attacks in West Belfast - why do they have no impact in stopping youth deviance? Laurie and Dic...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD TA: Cosmopolitanism Wed 12 Jan 2011 Updated: 2011-01-12 15:30:00 Description: Laurie Taylor talks to David Held - Graham Wallace Professor of Political Science at the London School of Economics about his philosophical and practical account of contemporary global politics from a cosmopolitan perspective. Laurie also talks to...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD TA: Softer Masculinities and Dr Who Updated: 2011-01-05 16:40:00 Description: New research shows secondary school boys to be more relaxed about their gender identity than was expected, Mark McCormack discusses with Laurie. Also it Dr Who a leftish, anti-American, radical polemic? Marc DiPaolo and Matthew Sweet debate....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD TA: Utopia Wed 29 Dec Updated: 2010-12-29 16:31:00 Description: Laurie Taylor discusses utopia with Professor Russell Jacoby, Professor Barbara Graziosi, Professor Ash Amin and The Bishop of Whitby The Right Reverend Martin Warner....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD TA22Dec10: Christmas and Class Updated: 2010-12-22 16:48:00 Description: Chestnuts roasting on an open fire, children gathered beneath a sparking tree, a table groaning with turkey.....the cliches of the season are as alive and well as they were in Dickens time. But does everybody have equal access to the bounty of Christ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD TA: Over by Christmas and Race and Sport Updated: 2010-12-15 16:43:00 Description: Why did people say the First World War would be over by Christmas, and did they believe it? Laurie talks to Stuart Hallifax. Also Race and Sport: The creation of the stereotype of the 'black athlete', Ben Carrington and Bret St Louis discuss its impa...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD TA: Cuban Science and Moral Panics Updated: 2010-12-08 17:02:00 Description: How did Cuba manage to become a world leader in bioscience despite and economic blockade and a developing world economy? Laurie talks to Simon Reid-Henry. Also what does the term 'moral panic' mean and is it overused. Jewel Thomas and Chas Critcher d...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD TA: Gangs Dec 1 2010 Updated: 2010-12-01 17:30:00 Description: Laurie Taylor discusses the relationship between politics and business and looks at the influence territory has on gangs and gang culture....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD TA: Toilets and Civic Core 24 Nov 2010 Updated: 2010-11-24 17:30:00 Description: Laurie Taylor explores the notion of a 'civic core'- people who volunteer in their community and what they do. He also examines new research on the public convenience and finds it to be anything but convenient....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD TA: AK-47 Nov 17 2010 Updated: 2010-11-17 17:30:00 Description: Laurie Taylor talks to Professor Philip Smith about his new research looking at public incivility and examines the impact of the AK-47 (the Kalashnikov rifle) with former US Marine and writer C.J Chivers and military historian Richard Holmes...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD TA: The Public 10 Nov 2010 Updated: 2010-11-10 17:15:00 Description: Laurie Taylor talks to Dan Hind about his new book examining how best to promote the idea of citizen engagement. They're joined by Jesse Norman, Conservative MP for Hereford and South Herefordshire. Laurie also discusses the UK and US trade publishin...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD TA: supermax 03 Nov 2010 Updated: 2010-11-03 17:15:00 Description: Laurie Taylors talks to Dr Sharon Shalev about her new research examining the rise of the use of solitary confinement in American prisons. They are joined by Professor Andrew Coyle, a prison studies expert from Kings College London. Laurie also discu...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD TA: Happy Families 27 Oct 2010 Updated: 2010-10-27 16:15:00 Description: Professor Laurie Taylor talks to Pat Thane, Research Professor in Contemporary History at King's College London, about her new research looking at the notion of the ideal family. He also talks to Professor Ian Angell about his new book which attack...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD TA: Homophobia/football Oct 20 2010 Updated: 2010-10-20 16:30:00 Description: Professor Laurie Taylor examines new research which looks at homophobia and football. He also explores the growth of global higher education, looking at academic migration around the World....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD TA:Migration/Hairdressing 13 Oct 2010 Updated: 2010-10-13 16:00:00 Description: Professor Laurie Taylor examines migration and happiness centred on the relationship between income and wellbeing. He also looks at being paid to be happy- with a focus on hairdressing....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD TA: McCarthy / drugs trial Oct 6 2010 Updated: 2010-10-06 16:40:00 Description: Professor Laurie Taylor examines the sociological background to an experimental drugs trial that went wrong and talks to an American academic about the stigma attached to people accused of communist association or activity during the the McCarthy er...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD TA: Au Pairs/Liverpool FC 29 Sept 2010 Updated: 2010-09-29 16:15:00 Description: Professor Laurie Taylor explores the history and culture of Liverpool Football Club and examines the experiences of Slovakian au pairs working in England....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD TA: Capitalism 22 Sept 2010 Updated: 2010-09-22 16:00:00 Description: Professor Laurie Taylor explores the future of capitalism with economic thinkers Anatole Kaletsky and Ha-Joon Chang. And he talks to Pulitzer prize winning writer Mariylnne Robinson about the tension between religion and science....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD TA: CCTV and Eavesdropping Updated: 2010-09-15 15:59:00 Description: 85% of secondarty schools now have CCTV, Emmeline Taylor has asked them how they feel about that. Also Laurie talks to John L Locke and John Mullan about the time-honoured practice of eavesdropping....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD TA: Criminology Conference - Leicester Updated: 2010-09-08 15:45:00 Description: Hate Crime, filming in prisons, living out of skips...Laurie explores some of the diverse strands of crime research at the British Society of Criminology Conference at Leicester University....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD TA: the death of French culture 1 Sept 10 Updated: 2010-09-01 15:23:00 Description: Laurie Taylor discusses the decline in French culture with the writer Donald Morrison and former French Minister for European Affairs Noelle Lenoir....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD |
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