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	Laurie Taylor discusses the latest social science research. Wednesday 4.00pm-4.30pm, Sunday 00.15am-00.45am

	Work and Play Archive
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	Work identity on the railway Decline of the weekend Travellers vs tourists Trouble at work Decoding organisation Wall Street women Social capital Jobs for the boys Sports under communism Musicians

	Builders Comics Hebden Bridge Boat race Whisky tourism Private military security Boxing styles UK vs US Cooperation Uniforms, status and hospitals Journalist bias

	Tour Guide in New York Privacy Work's intimacy Comedy capital The Politics of Sleep Paraphernalia Radical gardening Craft and community Demise of a Welsh steel town Irregular and undocumented workers

	Homophobia and football Global higher education Hairdressing and emotional labour Drugs trial calamity Au pairs Liverpool football club Alienation Lap-Dancing Musical Tastes Commuting

	Genealogy Barbecues The weekend Home Learning Book fairs Corridors Hong Kong Migrant Lives The Future of Work Teddy Diaries Tourists and Photography

	Music at Work in Britain Response to Wall Street An Ethnography of Wall Street Jazz Acquaintances Tea Rooms Boffins Work - Fair Access to the Professions Teddy Bears Female voyeurism as sex tourism

	Enthusiams Betting shops Slumming New Capitalism? Rugby Garden love Documentaries Youth culture Learning digital technology Popular music & violence

	Work/Life Balance The Benefits of Dog Ownership Cafe Culture Heritage Miners Relationships at Work Advertising Horses Comfort of Things Boxing Cook Books and Identity

	The British love of gardening Tourism Joseph E. Stiglitz - Globalisation Bob Marley Channel 4 Popular comedy The Oprah phenomenon Job satisfaction Blind Willie McTell Mediated

	Gay Chav Erotic Pets as Kin Mass Collaboration Family Life Running Hotels Craftwork and Skill Urban Nightlife

	The shock of the old Sunlight technology and health Dancers' bodies Workplace violence - war reporting football spectating habits Trading pits Runescape Dirty work Wedding presents Tourist TV










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Thinking Allowed

Archived programmes

Debate

Find out more about Thinking Allowed at the Open University

Producer's Pick

Gentrification of Harlem

Interview with Stiglitz

Drink and Society and types of nationalism

Richard Sennett and Grayson Perry - Craftwork and Skill

Ghosts of Berlin

Recent Programmes

25 March 2009
The Politics of climate change - New Capitalism?
18 March 2009
Rugby - Magic
11 March 2009
American West - Garden love
04 March 2009
Documentaries - Intellectual property law
25 February 2009
Recession and health - Youth culture
18 February 2009
Kissing cousins - Wild cats in rural Wales
11 February 2009
Drugs and society - Laddish masculinity in higher education
04 February 2009
Renaissance dance - Working class Liverpool
28 January 2009
Post Soviet death rates - Prisoners' partners
21 January 2009
Learning digital technology - Social impact of gas light
14 January 2009
Moral relativism
07 January 2009
Popular music & violence - Etymology of 'Hooligan'
31 December 2008
Gang culture
24 December 2008
Detectives
17 December 2008
Chinese capitalism - Concepts in education
10 December 2008
Cocaine girls in the west end - the history if the orgasm
03 December 2008
Sociology of smell - Getting a confession
26 November 2008
Organisation and disorganisation
19 November 2008
Male immaturity - Female political prisoners
12 November 2008
Women and domesticity - Corruption
05 November 2008
US elections and the media - Tribute to Studs Terkel
29 October 2008
Human remains in museums - suicide rates
22 October 2008
Urban crime and disorder - demography of death
15 October 2008
Predicting the financial crisis - work/life balance
08 October 2008
Durkheim and financial collapse - Obesity
01 October 2008

See also

Economic and Social Research Council
British Sociological Association
Royal Anthropological Institute

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