Vertical Cities - India's property boom
Vertical cities: Laurie Taylor explores the increasing segregation of cities by height. Stephen Graham, Professor of Cities & Society at Newcastle University, ponders 'class war from above'. His explo...
8 Feb 201728min
The brave new world of virtual workers; also globalisation, the old and the new.
Globalisation: the history of the movement of goods, knowledge and people. Laurie Taylor talks to Richard Baldwin, Professor of International Economics at the Graduate Institute of International and D...
3 Feb 201728min
Health divides - Counting global health
Health divides: Where we live can kill us. Americans live 3 years less than their counterparts in France and Sweden. Scottish men survive 2 years less than English men. Across Europe, women in the poo...
25 Jan 201728min
Age of noise - British drinking
The 'age of noise': How a preoccupation with unwanted sounds came to characterise modernity. The 20th century saw the expansion of cities and technological change. The sounds of motor cars, vacuum cle...
18 Jan 201728min
Sexual violence in the Bangladeshi War of Independence - Global danger and the risk to research
Sexual violence in the Bangladeshi War of Independence. Laurie Taylor talks to Nayanika Mookherjee, Reader in Socio-Cultural Anthropology at Durham University, about the internationally unprecedented ...
11 Jan 201728min
Super Rich: The 1% of the 1%
The 'Super Rich' - Laurie Taylor presents a special programme on the 1% of the 1%. Rowland Atkinson, Research Chair in Inclusive Society at the University of Sheffield, Roger Burrow, Professor of Citi...
4 Jan 201728min
Laurie Taylor discusses the relationship between literature and sociology.
What is the relationship between literature and sociology? Laurie Taylor discusses fiction and the real world with crime writer Denise Mina, criminologist Dick Hobbs and English literature lecturer Ni...
28 Dec 201628min
Musicians Union - women heavy metal fans
The Musicians Union: Laurie Taylor explores the history of musicians efforts to be seen as workers, as well as entertainers. Martin Cloonan, Professor of Popular Music Politics at the University of G...
21 Dec 201626min
