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Afghanistan

Afghanistan: Afghan migrants in Britain. Also, the return of the Taliban.

• 28 mins

Love and Romance

Love and romance in changing times.

• 28 mins

Freedom

Freedom: how it came to be equated with limited government and white people.

• 28 mins

Covid

Covid: Crisis or opportunity?

• 28 mins

The Value of Things

The value of things: why do we hang on to objects?

• 28 mins

Food, Identity & Nation

Food, identity and nation - why food matters.

• 28 mins

Strangers

Strangers & Xenophobia: an exploration of a historically rooted phenomenon.

• 29 mins

Why Sociology Matters

Why Sociology matters: an exploration of the meaning and purpose of Public Sociology.

• 28 mins

Extremism

Extremism: going undercover with the far right, Islamists and anti feminists.

• 28 mins

SKILL

Laurie Taylor explores the social construction of the notion of skilled work.

• 29 mins

The Underclass

The Underclass: its rise and fall.

• 27 mins

Strongmen

Strongmen: what accounts for the global rise of authoritarian leaders?

• 27 mins

Footwear

Footwear: the 'magic' and the material reality.

• 28 mins

Prison Protest

Prison protest: from riots to hunger strikes.

• 28 mins

Psychiatry: a social history

Psychiatry: Laurie Taylor explores the history of modern psychiatric practice.

• 29 mins

Workplace Misbehaviour

Workplace misbehaviour: how has it changed over the years?

• 28 mins

Covid and change

Covid: how has it changed our economy and home lives?

• 29 mins

Wealth - Plutocratic London

Plutocratic London and dynastic wealth.

• 28 mins

Ballroom dancing

Ballroom dancing: its social history and sexual politics.

• 29 mins

Shopping

The history of the high street. Also, dreams of consumption.

• 28 mins

Package holidays and 'authentic' travel

Package holidays and 鈥榓uthentic鈥� travel: Laurie Taylor on the origins of budget tourism.

• 28 mins

Survival of the city

Survival of the city: how do cities manage to thrive and re-invent in the face of threats?

• 28 mins

The Sea

The Sea - the privatisation of our oceans and the threat of plastic pollution.

• 29 mins

Gentrification revisited

Exploring the myth and reality six decades after the term gentrification was coined.

• 28 mins

Rules and Order

Are we are more orderly society than in the past?

• 29 mins

Futilitarianism - Extreme Pessimists

Laurie Taylor talks to Neil Vallelly about current feelings of futility and uselessness.

• 28 mins

Gender and Alcohol

Gender and alcohol - the craft drink scene and what constitutes a 'proper night out'?

• 28 mins

Protests

Protests: from Occupy to MeToo and Iran.

• 29 mins

The NHS

The NHS and the 'sick note'.

• 28 mins

The Internet - how it shapes the past and the future

The Internet - how it shapes our understanding of the past and the future.

• 28 mins