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Work - what is it good for?

Laurie Taylor explores the history, harms and downsides to our contemporary work culture.

• 28 mins

Migrants - Refugees

Migrants and refugees.

• 28 mins

Surveillance

Surveillance - how we are both watchers, as well as the watched.

• 28 mins

The Class Ceiling

The Class Ceiling: does privilege pay?

• 29 mins

Motorbikes

Motorbikes - a social and cultural history.

• 28 mins

Walls

Walls: Laurie Taylor explores the social history and symbolism of human-made barriers.

• 28 mins

Snobbery

Snobbery - its meaning, history and changing nature.

• 28 mins

Skateboarding - Parkour

Skateboarding and parkour: lifestyle sport in the hyper regulated city.

• 25 mins

Corridors

Corridors - their evolution and changing nature.

• 28 mins

Spectacular Cities

Spectacular cities - from Kazakhstan to the United Arab Emirates.

• 28 mins

Debt

Debt - from household to national.

• 28 mins

Kitsch - Cute

Cute and kitsch: their nature and changing meaning.

• 28 mins

Branding

Branding - the 'persuasion industries'.

• 28 mins

CEO Society - Time Management

CEO Society and Time management.

• 27 mins

Detective fiction - homicide and social media

Detective fiction - how it represents social change. Also homicide confessions on Facebook

• 28 mins

No-Go Zones and Dangerous Holidays

Global no-go zones and the complex overlap between conflict and tourism.

• 29 mins

The Politics of Memorials

The Politics of Memorials - from Ireland to the Mississippi Delta.

• 26 mins

Conspiracy theories

Conspiracy theories - their origins and evolution.

• 28 mins

Land and territory

Land struggles: from Bolivia to Britain.

• 28 mins

Estates

Council estates - then and now. Laurie Taylor explores the concept of the 'sink estate'.

• 28 mins

Serial killers

Serial killers: the media and cultural response to these crimes.

• 28 mins

Cool

The origins & meaning of 'cool'

• 28 mins

Immortality - transhumanism

Immortality and transhumanism

• 28 mins

Disasters

Disasters: from Haiti to New Orleans.

• 28 mins

Time

Time - how do we use & how has this changed in the last 50 years?

• 28 mins

Thrift

Thrift and austerity

• 28 mins

Black music cultures in London

Black music cultures - how did they evolve in London?

• 28 mins

The Religious Right in the US

The religious right in the US - an exploration of their route to power.

• 28 mins

Borders

Borders: from Calais to Mexico.

• 28 mins

Hidden gay lives

Hidden gay lives, from Polari to true crime stories.

• 29 mins