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Beauty - Ugliness
Beauty and ugliness.
Smart Cities
Laurie Taylor presents a special edition recorded at the Open University in Milton Keynes.
Drifters
Laurie Taylor explores the life and times of the American train hopping hobo.
Post-Truth
Post-truth - what is it and how did we get to this point?
Creativity
Creativity re-examined. Has it become a meaningless buzz word for our times?
Push Buttons
Push buttons: pleasure, panic and the politics of pushing.
Palaces for the People
Palaces for the People: the decline in civic life.
Rich Russians - Millionaire tax flight
Rich Russians. Also, millionaire tax flight.
Maps and Postcodes
Maps and postcodes - what do they reveal about our society and selves?
White Privilege - Racial Ambiguity
What is white privilege? And what is the evidence that racial binaries are breaking down?
Shoes
Shoes: a cultural history.
Architecture and health
Architecture, housing and health.
Maoism
Maoism: its origins and development as a global political force.
Night-time Economy
The Night-time Economy: How has it changed over the years?
White Power Movement in US - Rise of Racist Right in Europe
The White Power Movement in the US. Also, the racist, far right in Europe.
Au pairing and domestic labour
Laurie Taylor explores the latest research into how society works.
Metrics
Laurie Taylor explores the increasing use of metrics across many aspects of our lives.
Identity
Identity: a special programme exploring the way in which we define ourselves.
Work - what is it good for?
Laurie Taylor explores the history, harms and downsides to our contemporary work culture.
Migrants - Refugees
Migrants and refugees.
Surveillance
Surveillance - how we are both watchers, as well as the watched.
The Class Ceiling
The Class Ceiling: does privilege pay?
Motorbikes
Motorbikes - a social and cultural history.
Walls
Walls: Laurie Taylor explores the social history and symbolism of human-made barriers.
Snobbery
Snobbery - its meaning, history and changing nature.
Skateboarding - Parkour
Skateboarding and parkour: lifestyle sport in the hyper regulated city.
Corridors
Corridors - their evolution and changing nature.
Spectacular Cities
Spectacular cities - from Kazakhstan to the United Arab Emirates.
Debt
Debt - from household to national.
Kitsch - Cute
Cute and kitsch: their nature and changing meaning.
Branding
Branding - the 'persuasion industries'.
