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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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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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Human Remains in Museum Collections - Suicide Rates

Laurie Taylor debates the changing attitudes towards the bodies displayed in our museums.

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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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Women and Domesticity - Corruption

Laurie Taylor talks to Amanda Vickery about the history of the home.

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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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Organisation/Disorganisation

Laurie Taylor discusses the many individualistic ways in which things can be organised.

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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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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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Chinese Capitalism - Concepts in Education

Laurie Taylor discusses the impact of China's economic reforms with Will Hutton.

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Detectives

Laurie Taylor brings past and present together to explore the culture of the detective.

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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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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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Moral Relativism

Laurie Taylor debates the universal notion of human rights.

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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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Post Soviet Death Rates - Prisoners' Partners

Laurie Taylor explores the human cost of rapid economic change.

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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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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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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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Impact of Recession on Health Inequalities - Youth Culture

Laurie Taylor discusses the personal psychological consequences of recession unemployment.

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Documentaries - Intellectual Property Law

Laurie Taylor considers the aesthetic and ethical aspects of documentary making.

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American West - Garden Love

Laurie Taylor tries to solve the myths of the great American West.

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Rugby - Magic

Laurie Taylor re-appraises Rugby with Tony Collins and Dr Dominic Malcolm.

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The Politics of Climate Change - New Capitalism?

Laurie investigates the politics of climate change & whether there is now a new capitalism

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Communism as a Religion - Cultural Capitalism

Laurie Taylor discusses what is being called the re-Stalinisation of Russia.

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Picturing the Social Order

Laurie Taylor sees an exhibition on how artists have represented social order through time

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Biometric Security - Ethnographer's Dilemma

Laurie Taylor explores the history of biometrics.

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History of Murder - Scottish Conservatives

From duels to drive-by, Laurie Taylor discusses the history of murder.

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Suicide - The Midriff

Laurie Taylor talks to Caroline Simone about her study of the families of suicide victims.

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Architecture and Living - Class Endures

Laurie Taylor asks if the buildings built today cater for modern life.

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