The UK strip and lap-dancing industry; blue jeans
Growth of the strip clubs - Why has erotic dance and stripping become a staple of the night time economy in the UK? Kate Hardy tells Laurie Taylor why her research suggests that the proliferation of t...
31 Loka 201228min
Trouble at work, travellers vs tourists
Trouble at work: Laurie Taylor considers the findings of the largest UK study on ill treatment in the workplace ever undertaken. He's joined by the researchers, Ralph Fevre and Amanda Robinson, who cl...
24 Loka 201227min
Sociologists and the financial crisis - Against security
Are the stringent checks at airports really for our benefit? 'Against Security', a new book by the acclaimed American sociologist, Harvey Molotch, explores the complex systems which are designed to ma...
17 Loka 201228min
The New Arab Man, Lords Club Affiliation
The 'New' Arab Man: Middle Eastern, Muslim men are often represented as 'zealots' and oppressors of women. But Laurie Taylor hears how 2 decades of research by the Professor of Anthropology, Marcia In...
10 Loka 201228min
Sickness Benefit Recipients - New Society 50 Years On
Sickness benefit claimants and their fear of the 'brown envelope'. Laurie Taylor hears about a new study into the views and experiences of the long term sick and disabled in the context of ongoing wel...
3 Loka 201228min
Race in an English village; decoding organisation
Bletchley Park, the decoding organisation, was at the heart of British intelligence operations in the Second World War. A mythology has grown around its secret activities, which some claim shortened t...
26 Syys 201228min
Ethnic pay gap, racial segregation
Segregation: a Global History of Divided Cities' Laurie Taylor talks to Carl Nightingale, the author of a groundbreaking new book about the ideology and practice of racial segregation in the city. Tra...
19 Syys 201227min
Odd couples, student drinking
'Odd Couples' - friendships which cross the boundaries of gender and sexuality. A new book challenges the widespread assumption that men and women are fundamentally different and can only forge signif...
12 Syys 201228min
