Thinking Allowed
New research on how society works
- Website
- http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006qy05
- Description
- New research on how society works
- Language
- 🇬🇧 English
- last modified
- 2025-02-18 18:05
- last episode published
- 2025-02-18 17:37
- publication frequency
- 9.3 days
- Contributors
- BBC
- Owner
- BBC Radio 4
- Author
- Explicit
- false
- Number of Episodes
- 569
- Rss-Feeds
- Detail page
- Categories
- Science & Medicine
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Episodes
| Date | Title & Description | Contributors |
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| 2025-02-18 | Laurie Taylor talks to Nina Edwards, the author of a new study which unravels the intimate narratives woven into the fabric of our most personal garments. Is there a profound and surprising significance to the garments we wear beneath our outer clothi... |
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| 2025-02-11 | Wealth: Laurie Taylor talks to Brooke Harrington, Professor of Economic Sociology at Dartmouth College, New Hampshire, about the world of offshore finance, how it works and its impact, globally. As part of her research, she earned her own wealth manag... |
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| 2025-02-04 | When, where, and who gets to touch and be touched, and who decides? How does touch bring us closer together or push us apart? These are urgent contemporary questions, but they have their origins in late nineteenth and early twentieth-century Britain. L... |
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| 2025-01-28 | Laurie Taylor explores the fascination for true crime stories. He's joined by Jennifer Fleetwood, Senior Lecturer in Criminology at City, University of London, whose latest work considers the remarkable rise in the number of people who speak publicly a... |
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| 2025-01-21 | After the Second World War, a vast experiment took place in which adventure playgrounds transformed bombsites and waste ground in the UK, creating opportunities for children, beyond the sanitised safety of more conventional play spaces with swings and ... |
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| 2024-11-05 | Laurie Taylor lifts the lid on a sector of the economy associated with wealth, innovation & genius. Mark Graham, Professor of Internet Geography at the Oxford Internet Institute, uncovers the hidden human labour powering AI. His study, based on hu... |
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| 2024-10-29 | Laurie Taylor talks to Ann Murcott, Honorary Professorial Research Associate, at SOAS, University of London about the origins and development of food packaging, from tin cans and glass jars to bottles and plastic trays. How central is packaging to glo... |
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| 2024-10-22 | Laurie Taylor talks to Jana Costas, Chair of People, Work & Management at the European University Viadrina, Frankfurt (Oder), Germany about the unseen cleaners beyond the shiny surface of Potsdamer Platz, a designer micro-city within Berlin's city... |
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| 2024-10-15 | Laurie Taylor talks to Helen Sampson, Professor in the School of Social Sciences at Cardiff University, about her voyage into the lives and work of seafarers. 25 years of fieldwork on merchant cargo ships has given her an unusual insight into the chang... |
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| 2024-10-08 | Is misogyny implicated in radicalisation, across the political spectrum? Laurie Taylor talks to Elizabeth Pearson, Senior Lecturer in Criminology at Royal Holloway, University of London about her primary research among two of Britain’s key extremist mo... |
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