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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.

  2. Renaissance Dance - Working Class Liverpool

    Laurie Taylor explores the obsession with dancing in the Renaissance with Margret McGowan.

  3. Post Soviet Death Rates - Prisoners' Partners

    Laurie Taylor explores the human cost of rapid economic change.

  4. Hole in the Wall - Victorian Light

    Laurie Taylor reveals how children teach themselves how to use digital technology.

  5. Moral Relativism

    Laurie Taylor debates the universal notion of human rights.

  6. Popular Music and Violence - The Etymology of 'Hooligan'

    Laurie Taylor discusses how music is used in conflicts with Dr Martin Cloonan.

  7. Gang Culture

    Laurie Taylor explores whether the past can reveal the causes and cures for gang violence?

  8. Detectives

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

  9. Chinese Capitalism - Concepts in Education

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

  10. Cocaine Girls in the West End - Orgasm

    Laurie Taylor explores the idea that the Imperial era was a product of repressed sexuality

  11. The Sociology of Smell - Getting a Confession

    Laurie Taylor is joined by Luca Turin and Rod Watson to explore the resonances of perfume.

  12. Organisation/Disorganisation

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

  13. Male Immaturity - Female Political Prisoners

    Laurie Taylor explores the contention that men might be failing to grow up.

  14. Women and Domesticity - Corruption

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

  15. US Elections and the Media - Tribute to Studs Terkel

    Laurie Taylor considers if the printed press is in decline.

  16. Human Remains in Museum Collections - Suicide Rates

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

  17. Urban Crime and Disorder - Demography of Death

    Laurie Taylor speaks to Harvard's Robert Sampson about what causes disorder in cities.

  18. Predicting the Financial Crisis - Work/Life Balance

    Richard Dale discusses his recipe for financial crisis with Laurie Taylor.

  19. Durkheim and Financial Collapse - Obesity

    Laurie Taylor debates Emile Durkheim鈥檚 'Suicide' theory with Professor Steven Lukes.

  20. Tartan - Dog Ownership

    Laurie Taylor explores the cultural and political history of tartan with Jonathan Faiers.

  21. Crime and Consumerism - Meaning of Marriage

    Laurie Taylor debates the dark side of consumer culture with Steve Hall & Paddy Rawlinson.

  22. Class and Reality TV - Balti Britain

    Laurie Taylor discusses the sub-text of reality TV programmes with Prof. Beverley Skeggs.

  23. Caf茅 Culture 鈥� Human Waste

    Laurie Taylor examines our behaviour in coffee shops with Dr Eric Laurier.

  24. Corporate PR - Highrise Living

    Laurie Taylor discusses whether 鈥楥orporate Spin鈥� has launched an assault on democracy.

  25. Imagination and the City

    Laurie Taylor is joined by Will Self, Richard Sennett and Doreen Massey.

  26. Imagination and the Suburbs

    Laurie Taylor talks to writer Iain Sinclair and sociologists Paul Barker and Nick Hubble.

  27. Imagination and the Countryside

    The dream the British have of the countryside is not always borne out by experience.

  28. Women and Gambling - Cleanliness

    Laurie Taylor talks to Emma Casey about her research into women鈥檚 gambling experiences.

  29. Punters - Cultural Transfer

    Laurie Taylor explores the complex relationships between sex workers and regular clients.

  30. Bad Medicine - Heritage Miners

    Laurie Taylor reappraises the history of medicine with David Wootton and David Armstrong.

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