Thinking Allowed Episodes Episode guide
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The Subway
A special programme on the subway.
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The secret world of hair
The secret world of hair: an anthropological journey. Also, cancer and hair loss.
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Fertility Holidays - Male Infertility
Laurie Taylor discusses a study of IVF tourism. Also, male infertility.
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Global inequality - Signs of 'nation'
Global inequality and poverty - is it decreasing? Also, signs of 'nation'.
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Heritage and preservation
Heritage beyond saving: should we collaborate with, not defend natural processes?
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Sport and Philosophy - Inside an African-Caribbean Football Club
What sport teaches us about philosophy and the evolution of an East Midlands football club
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Fashion and class
Fashion and class: from the 'branded gentry' to the high street.
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The meaning of the face
Laurie Taylor explores the significance of the face.
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Doctors at war - Wasting GP's time
Doctors at war. Also, patients who worry about wasting their GP's time.
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Russian prison visitors - prison boundaries
Russian prison visitors. Also, prison boundaries.
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Craft work - 'dirty' work
Craft work. Also, 'dirty' work.
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Insuring against disasters - electronic finance
Insuring against disasters, and amateur financial traders.
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Drugs in warfare
The role of intoxicants in the context of warfare, from Nazi Germany to the Vietnam war.
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Elite education
How prestigious schools and universities around the world sustain inequality.
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Special programme on winner of Ethnography award
A special programme on the winner of the BSA/Thinking Allowed Ethnography award.
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A special programme devoted to the BSA/Thinking Allowed Ethnography Shortlist
A special programme devoted to the BSA/Thinking Allowed Ethnography Award shortlist 2017.
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The ways women age - Beauty politics
The ways women age. Also beauty politics.
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Grandfathers - Dementia carers
Grandfathers: a global study. Also, dementia carers.
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Teen bedrooms - Skydivers
Teen bedrooms. Also, skydivers.
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Money - how to break the power of the banks
The production of money: how to break the power of the banks.
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Squatting; a cross cultural history. Plus taking ones clothes off in public.
Squatting: a cross-cultural history. Also, taking one's clothes off in public.
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Platform Capitalism
Laurie Taylor explores platform capitalism - its origins, meaning and future.
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Terrorism: does it work? - The 'Hotline'
Terrorism: does it work? Also, the origins and development of the 'hotline'.
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Vertical Cities - India's property boom
Vertical cities - a three-dimensional view of urban life. Also, India's property boom.
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The brave new world of virtual workers; also globalisation, the old and the new.
Globalisation, the old and the new. Also, virtual workers.
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Health divides - Counting global health
Health divides. Also, counting global health.
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Age of noise - British drinking
Laurie Taylor considers how unwanted sounds came to characterise modernity.
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Sexual violence in the Bangladeshi War of Independence - Global danger and the risk to research
Sexual violence in the Bangledeshi War of Independence. Also, global danger and risk.
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Super Rich: The 1% of the 1%
Laurie Taylor and guests explore the origins of this wealthiest of elites.
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Laurie Taylor discusses the relationship between literature and sociology.
Laurie Taylor and guests explore the relationship between fiction and the real world.
