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Outsourced Cultures - Happiness Letters

How answering calls will change your life: the cultural impact of call centres in India.

• 30 mins

Stuart Hall

A special edition: Laurie talks to cultural theorist Stuart Hall.

• 30 mins

The Impact of the Temperance Movement - The New North

Laurie Taylor explores shifts in world power. Also, the legacy of 19th-century Temperance.

• 30 mins

Mafias - Live Music

Why does live music now make more money than recorded? Also, Mafias on the move.

• 30 mins

Streetlife - Performing politics in the square

Street Politics and 'performing' the revolution in Tahrir Square.

• 30 mins

Catholic Police Officers in Northern Ireland - Facebook

Catholic police officers in Northern Ireland and Facebook in Trinidad.

• 30 mins

Demise of a Welsh steel town - Sexual politics of ballroom dancing (BSA 60th Anniversary)

A special edition with new research from the British Sociological Association conference.

• 30 mins

Craft and Community

Laurie Taylor explores craft and community with Richard Sennett and David Gauntlett.

• 30 mins

The Poor on Poverty and Radical Gardening

Laurie Taylor explores radical gardening with George McKay.

• 30 mins

Russian Children in Custody - Paranormal Media

Laurie Taylor explores representations of the paranormal; Russian youngsters in custody.

• 30 mins

Street Names - The Shock of Old

Laurie Taylor explores why street people and rough sleepers disguise their identity.

• 30 mins

Cemetery Taboo - The City

New research on cemetery etiquette and on the future of cities.

• 30 mins

Playboy - Celebrity politics

Is Playboy "an unlikely ally for the feminist cause"? Also, celebrity politics.

• 30 mins

Household breakup in New Orleans - Communist memories

Family breakdown post Hurricane Katrina. Also, remembering Communism.

• 30 mins

08/06/2011

Dirt, filth and why we like to be clean: A special edition at the Wellcome Collection.

• 30 mins

HG Wells, Utopias, Paraphernalia

Combs, keys, glasses - how everyday objects can have special powers. Also, Utopia.

• 30 mins

The Politics of Sleep - Women Who Kill

Laurie discusses the politics of sleep and women who kill.

• 30 mins

Chavs - Ageing Goths

That word 'chav' and the characterisation of the working class. Also, ageing Goths.

• 30 mins

Comedy capital - Work's intimacy

Laurie considers the links of our work and home lives plus the cultural currency of comedy

• 30 mins

Liverpool Riots - Children and Politics

Laurie Taylor hears about the Liverpool riots and political childhoods.

• 30 mins

Privacy and parenting by mobile phone.

Privacy and parenting by mobile phone.

• 30 mins

Creating capabilities

Martha Nussbaum on human capabilities.

• 30 mins

The mummy's curse - Death photography

Laurie Taylor investigates the curse of the mummy and other myths of the Orient.

• 30 mins

Children, sex and mobile phones - Terror of history

With Laurie Taylor. Mobile phones and sexual discovery, also the 'terror of history'.

• 30 mins

Blame the parents? - Chungking Mansions, Hong Kong

Blame the parents? New research on UK gangs. Also, Chungking Mansions in Hong Kong.

• 30 mins

³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Life 1: Multi-Generational Household

³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ life 1: Laurie and sociologists visit a multi-generational household.

• 30 mins

³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Life 2: Single Person Household

³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ life 2: Laurie and sociologists visit a single person household.

• 30 mins

³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Life 3: Nuclear Household

³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Life 3: Laurie and sociologists visit a 'nuclear' family.

• 30 mins

Tales from the Field - Beauty capital

Erotic capital and criminologists' tales from the field.

• 28 mins

Understanding Suicide - Families, Secrets And Memories

Laurie Taylor explores our understanding of suicide, and family secrets.

• 28 mins