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Radio 4,·788 episodes
An exploration of human relationships with water.
13 Sep 2023,·28 mins
Boxing and Kickboxing: Laurie Taylor explores their potential for transforming lives.
06 Sep 2023,·28 mins
Laurie Taylor explores the unstoppable rise of the lower middle class.
30 Aug 2023,·28 mins
Laurie Taylor considers the impact of the asset management industry on our everyday lives.
07 Jun 2023,·28 mins
Fashion Re-imagined: how might we create a more equitable industry?
31 May 2023,·28 mins
How are algorithms transforming our relationships?
24 May 2023,·28 mins
Laurie Taylor considers the radical case for ending imprisonment.
17 May 2023,·28 mins
Taste and Lifestyle: how consumer culture remade taste and the West Indian front room.
10 May 2023,·29 mins
Laurie Taylor takes a journey through the dancefloor, from the electric slide to the tango
03 May 2023,·27 mins
Democracy - what threatens or promotes it?
26 Apr 2023,·29 mins
Laurie Taylor explores the causes and consequences of poverty in the UK and US.
19 Apr 2023,·28 mins
Elite universities and the lives of working class academics.
12 Apr 2023,·29 mins
Asylum and 'home' - the impact of asylum dispersal and Syrian refugees' quest for home.
05 Apr 2023,·29 mins
Museums: Then and now.
01 Feb 2023,·27 mins
The religion of work and welfare.
25 Jan 2023,·29 mins
Parenting - a cultural history.
18 Jan 2023,·28 mins
Dirty work - the invisible labour we choose not to see.
11 Jan 2023,·28 mins
Self-improvement: are 'wellness' and 'confidence' cultures enhancing our lives?
04 Jan 2023,·29 mins
Betting and investment - what are the connections and the differences?
28 Dec 2022,·28 mins
The Internet - how it shapes our understanding of the past and the future.
21 Dec 2022,·28 mins
The NHS and the 'sick note'.
26 Oct 2022,·28 mins
Protests: from Occupy to MeToo and Iran.
19 Oct 2022,·29 mins
Gender and alcohol - the craft drink scene and what constitutes a 'proper night out'?
12 Oct 2022,·28 mins
Laurie Taylor talks to Neil Vallelly about current feelings of futility and uselessness.
05 Oct 2022,·28 mins
Are we are more orderly society than in the past?
28 Sep 2022,·29 mins
Exploring the myth and reality six decades after the term gentrification was coined.
21 Sep 2022,·28 mins
The Sea - the privatisation of our oceans and the threat of plastic pollution.
14 Sep 2022,·29 mins
Survival of the city: how do cities manage to thrive and re-invent in the face of threats?
07 Sep 2022,·28 mins
Package holidays and ‘authentic’ travel: Laurie Taylor on the origins of budget tourism.
15 Jun 2022,·28 mins
The history of the high street. Also, dreams of consumption.
08 Jun 2022,·28 mins
