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Thinking Allowed Episodes

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    Detective fiction - homicide and social media

    Detective fiction - how it represents social change. Also homicide confessions on Facebook

  2. CEO Society - Time Management

    CEO Society and Time management.

  3. Branding

    Branding - the 'persuasion industries'.

  4. Kitsch - Cute

    Cute and kitsch: their nature and changing meaning.

  5. Debt

    Debt - from household to national.

  6. Spectacular Cities

    Spectacular cities - from Kazakhstan to the United Arab Emirates.

  7. Corridors

    Corridors - their evolution and changing nature.

  8. Skateboarding - Parkour

    Skateboarding and parkour: lifestyle sport in the hyper regulated city.

  9. Snobbery

    Snobbery - its meaning, history and changing nature.

  10. Walls

    Walls: Laurie Taylor explores the social history and symbolism of human-made barriers.

  11. Motorbikes

    Motorbikes - a social and cultural history.

  12. The Class Ceiling

    The Class Ceiling: does privilege pay?

  13. The changing middle classes

    Laurie Taylor explores the changing middle classes.

  14. Surveillance

    Surveillance - how we are both watchers, as well as the watched.

  15. Migrants - Refugees

    Migrants and refugees.

  16. Work - what is it good for?

    Laurie Taylor explores the history, harms and downsides to our contemporary work culture.

  17. Identity

    Identity: a special programme exploring the way in which we define ourselves.

  18. Metrics

    Laurie Taylor explores the increasing use of metrics across many aspects of our lives.

  19. Au pairing and domestic labour

    Laurie Taylor explores the latest research into how society works.

  20. 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.

  21. Night-time Economy

    The Night-time Economy: How has it changed over the years?

  22. Maoism

    Maoism: its origins and development as a global political force.

  23. Architecture and health

    Architecture, housing and health.

  24. Shoes

    Shoes: a cultural history.

  25. White Privilege - Racial Ambiguity

    What is white privilege? And what is the evidence that racial binaries are breaking down?

  26. Maps and Postcodes

    Maps and postcodes - what do they reveal about our society and selves?

  27. Rich Russians - Millionaire tax flight

    Rich Russians. Also, millionaire tax flight.

  28. Palaces for the People

    Palaces for the People: the decline in civic life.

  29. Push Buttons

    Push buttons: pleasure, panic and the politics of pushing.

  30. Creativity

    Creativity re-examined. Has it become a meaningless buzz word for our times?

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