Russia's upper class, Flip Flops
Flip flops: the world wide trail of an everyday commodity. Laurie Taylor talks to Caroline Knowles, Professor of Sociology at Goldsmiths, University of London, whose study takes a ground level view of...
2 Juli 201428min
History of Surfing; Coffee Shops and Idleness
Surfing - a political history. Laurie Taylor looks beyond the tanned bodies, crashing waves and carefree pleasure, talking to Scott Laderman, Associate Professor of History at the University of Minnes...
25 Juni 201428min
Late-Modern Hipsters - Before the Windrush
Before the Windrush - Laurie Taylor talks to John Belchem, Professor of History at the University of Liverpool, about his study of race relations in 20th century Liverpool. Long before the arrival of ...
18 Juni 201428min
Masculinity and betting shops; 'New' biological relatives and kinship
IVF - it's 35 years years since the initial success of a form of technologically assisted human reproduction which has led to the birth of 5 million 'miracle' babies. Laurie Taylor talks to Sarah Fran...
11 Juni 201428min
Make-up in Iran; Offshoring
Offshoring - the economy of secrecy. The concealment of wealth in tax havens is part of public debate, but John Urry, Professor of Sociology at Lancaster University, argues that offshore worlds now al...
4 Juni 201428min
Gender Inequality in China; Smokestack Nostalgia
Chinese women & the resurgence of gender inequality. Laurie Taylor talks to Leta Hong Fincher, about 'Leftover Women', her study of the pressures facing Modern Chinese women who are often locked out o...
28 Maj 201428min
Islamophobia and Anti-Semitism; Sociology of Sleep
Islamophobia and Anti-Semitism - similarities and differences. Comparisons of anti-Semitic and anti-Muslim sentiment are strikingly absent in British accounts of race and racism. Laurie Taylor talks t...
21 Maj 201428min
'Illicit' Dance; The Purpose of War
'Illicit' dance in India. Laurie Taylor talks to Anna Morcom, Senior Lecturer at Royal Holloway, University of London, about her extensive research into marginalised dancers in contemporary South Asia...
14 Maj 201428min
