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The Subway
A special programme on the subway.
Laurie Taylor goes underground - from New York to Delhi.
Exhaustion
Exhaustion: a historical study of weariness.
Exhaustion: is extreme fatigue a peculiarly modern phenomenon?
Management Jargon
Management speech - what's behind this empty talk?
Why is meaningless speech in the workplace so ubiquitous?
The Mafia - organised crime
The Mafia and organised crime.
The Mafia and organised crime from Sicily to Japan and the UK
Sectarianisation - The Middle East
Sectarianisation - a new explanation for conflict across the Arab Islamic world.
Sectarianisation - the Middle East
Laurie Taylor asks if a new theory offers an explanation for conflicts in the Arab world.
Robots
Laurie Taylor takes a cool, non-dystopian look at future possibilities.
Robots and AI
Laurie Taylor takes a cool, non dystopian look at future possibilities
Restaurants - A Taste of Class
What are restaurants for? Laurie Taylor explores the many functions of dining out.
The Restaurant: A Taste of Class
Laurie Taylor gets under the skin of the restaurant.
Whither the Welfare State?
Laurie Taylor explores the origins and meaning of the welfare state.
Laurie Taylor examines the history of the welfare state.
Hospices - Palliative Care
Laurie Taylor explores the history of 'easeful death'. Also, life in an English hospice.
Laurie Taylor explores end of life care through the ages.
War In The Air
Laurie Taylor explores the history of aerial bombing and tear gas.
War in the air
Marxism, 'Red' Globalisation
Marxism - does it have any contemporary relevance? Also, 'red' globalisation.
Laurie Taylor talks to David Harvey, world authority on Marx's thought.
Affluence
Affluence - what does it mean?
GDP, Mali music
GDP - what are its limits? Also, the music of Mali.
Politics and Emotion
The evolution of our contemporary idea of emotions and how they play out in politics.
The New Economy
Finding work in the new economy and the death of homo economicus.
The Trojan Horse Affair - Religion in schools
Laurie Taylor asks if there was an attempt to Islamicise schools in Birmingham.
The Trojan Horse Affair - Religion in Schools
Christmas Television
Christmas television - an exploration of a very British tradition.
Working-class actors, Class and classical music
Working-class actors, Class and classical music.
The Housing Crisis, Squatting in Amsterdam
The housing crisis. Also, squatting in Amsterdam.