Zoos explored, Funeral arranging
Zoos in the modern world: Laurie Taylor talks to David Grazian, Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania and author of 'American Zoo: A Sociological Safari'. Zoos blur the bo...
11 Nov 201528min
The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership, The hidden life of domestic things
The Transatlantic Trade & Investment Partnership (TTIP) has stirred more passionate controversy than any other trade negotiations. Critics suggest it will undermine democracy and workers' rights, lowe...
4 Nov 201527min
Ambivalent atheism; Neoliberalism and old age
Ambivalent atheism: Laurie Taylor talks to Lois Lee, Research Associate with the Institute of Advanced Studies at University College, London, and author of a study of non religious people. In the UK t...
28 Okt 201528min
Human Rights in Northern Ireland, Social Mobility and Education
Northern Ireland & the unusual role of human rights discourse in the peace process. Laurie Taylor talks to Jennifer Curtis, honorary fellow in Social Anthropology at the University of Edinburgh, about...
21 Okt 201528min
Being Single - Modern Romance
Modern romance: love in the age of technology. Laurie Taylor talks to Eric Klinenberg, Professor of Sociology at New York University, & co- author of a new study exploring the dilemmas & pleasures of ...
14 Okt 201528min
Female Serial Killers, Secular Stagnation
Female Serial Killers: Although there is much written on male serial killers, there's less analysis of their female equivalent, perhaps because of their comparitive rarity. Elizabeth Yardley, Associat...
7 Okt 201528min
Russia's Red Web - Older Entrepreneurs
The 'Red Web': The Internet in Russia is a totalitarian tool but is also a device by which totalitarianism can be resisted. Laurie Taylor talks to Andrei Soldatov, a Moscow based journalist and co-aut...
30 Sep 201528min
Cross-Class Marriage, The social history of women-only train carriages
Cross class marriage: Laurie Taylor talks to Jessi Streib, Assistant Professor of Sociology at Duke University, US, about her study into the lives of people who married a partner raised in a social cl...
23 Sep 201528min
