Thinking Allowed - Wealth - BBC Sounds Offshore finance and a millennial history of the wealthy.

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Superb episode - US professor, Brooke Harrington, interviewed on UK radio on the super rich/offshore a/cs. This is what you call research!

BBC Radio 4 - Thinking Allowed, Crowds The rich and diverse history of crowds in entertainment, sports and politics.

Laurie Taylor talks to writer Dan Hancox about the part crowds play in our lives and how they made the modern world. Also, Lisa Mueller, Associate Professor of Political Science at Macalaster College, Minnesota, asks why protests succeed or fail

BBC Radio 4 - Thinking Allowed, ECOLOGY Ecological harms: from the Californian desert to the Salisbury Plain.

Tales from a wounded desert – Laurie Taylor hears about a remarkable campaign for environmental justice in the US; also, the British Army as custodian of a unique landscape

Thinking Allowed - Solidarity - BBC Sounds Racial sympathy amongst white Americans and the meaning of solidarity.

Thinking Allowed is back! www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

BBC Radio 4 - Free Thinking, Community Post local elections and pre VE day events, Shahidha Bari explores ideas about community

An absorbing episode of BBCRadio4 BBCFreeThinking on the timely theme of *community*. @shahidhabari.bsky.social
in discussion with Selina Todd, Phillip Blond @mikesavagelse.bsky.social
Kirsten Stevens-Wood, Kieran Yates
You’ll not agree with everything—but good!
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BBC Radio 4 - Thinking Allowed, Garden Utopias Garden Utopias: from the suburban privet hedge to guerrilla gardening.

As I know there are some utopia folks here - sharing the ‘garden utopia’ episode of thinking allowed and a beautiful conversation with Laurie Taylor - www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

BBC Radio 4 - Thinking Allowed, Coffee Culture Hipster baristas in Philadelphia and Chinese-run espresso bars in Italy.

Laurie Taylor explores the subcultural lives of Philadelphia baristas employed in speciality coffee shops and asks why Italian espresso bars are so often run by Chinese baristas.

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Thinking Allowed - The Underclass - BBC Sounds The Underclass: its rise and fall.

Thinking Allowed. The Underclass: its rise and fall . Laurie Taylor in discussion with Loic Wacquant and Baroness Ruth Lister [from 2022] www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

BBC Radio 4 - Thinking Allowed, Tech Workers The hidden exploitation of workers at the heart of artificial intelligence.

Laurie Taylor lifts the lid on a sector of the economy associated with wealth, innovation and genius. Mark Graham uncovers the hidden human labour powering AI. Paula Bialski discusses her research with software developers

BBC Radio 4 - Thinking Allowed, Sea Travelling Shipboard travels and maritime maps.

Laurie Taylor talks to Helen Sampson, Professor in the School of Social Sciences at Cardiff University, about the lives & work of seafarers, and Sara Caputo, Senior Research Fellow at Magdalene College, Cambridge, about how the history of mapping the oceans reflects the creation of the modern world

BBC Radio 4 - Thinking Allowed, Architecture and Hope Can building design create hope, from high security prisons to homeless hostels?

Yvonne Jewkes, Professor of Criminology at the University of Bath, talks to Laurie Taylor about the design of prisons and the importance of an architecture of hope which nurtures the possibility of rehabilitation, from Limerick to Norway www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

BBC Radio 4 - Thinking Allowed, Wealth Offshore finance and a millennial history of the wealthy.

Laurie Taylor talks to Brooke Harrington about the world of offshore finance, how it works and its impact globally. Does offshore finance have costs for all of us at a time when democracies seem under threat and deepening inequalities are destabilising the world?

We definitely need to revitalize ethnography in education!
On the endangered art of ethnography www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/features/laurie-taylor-o...

Thinking Allowed - Wealth - BBC Sounds Offshore finance and a millennial history of the wealthy.

The sociology of offshore finance - fascinating perspective from the great Laurie Taylor www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

This is a lovely tribute by Laurie Taylor to my old colleague at New Humanist, Caspar Melville. We’d not been in touch for a while so I missed the news of his terrible accident. newhumanist.org.uk/articles/640...

BBC Radio 4 - Thinking Allowed, Sight and Power From Bentham's panopticon and surveillance cameras to conflicts over views of Mount Fuji.

Laurie Taylor talks to art lecturer Becca Voelcker about her research into the relationship between sight and power and David Lyon, Professor Emeritus of Sociology and Law at Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario on the surveillance which permeates all aspects of our lives

And for another perspective on life in #prison have a listen to this @crewebencrewe & Elaine Player talking w Laurie Taylor about #LifeImprisonment
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Listen now: Laurie Taylor hears how post war pioneers re-imagined the playground, moving beyond slides, swings and roundabouts and re-imagining our cities and communities.

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Thinking Allowed - Howard Becker - ARAB CONQUESTS AND SOCIAL MEMORY - BBC Sounds Laurie Taylor explores Howard Becker’s influential assumptions about Outsiders.

On my way to New York to talk about the life and craft of Howie Becker. This is a lovely conversation between Laurie Taylor www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

📻 Dr Simeon Koole (@uobrishistory.bsky.social) joins BBC #ThinkingAllowed to discuss how our understanding of the meaning of touch has evolved over time, particularly in the 19th & 20th centuries

Listen to the full programme 👉 bit.ly/4aZ1cg3

@uchicagopress.bsky.social

Thinking Allowed - Smoking - BBC Sounds Smoking in modern Britain and the Soviet Union.

Another great episode from Laurie, ⁦‪Jayne‬⁩ & team. This one reminded me about the perfume related one about the USSR & the West. #ThinkingAllowed I’m going to have to re-listen but that is never, ever a bad thing!!
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Good edition of #ThinkingAllowed on the uses and abuses of the term “elite”:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000n4xm

Engrossing edition of #ThinkingAllowed on Stanley Cohen, ft Stuart Hall, Conor Gearty, Claire Moon: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01qjc37 #humanrights

@sethrockman.bsky.social Hi Seth, I produce BBC Radio 4’s sociology series, Thinking Allowed. Can you get in touch? I’ve emailed you. jayne.egerton@bbc.co.uk Thanks!

Laurie & I are on the 9.30 from Euston. We’ll be sitting somewhere with a TA sign, so do look for us. I’m on 07933 091983

Radio 4 - Listen Live - BBC Sounds Listen live to BBC Radio 4 on BBC Sounds

Rising alarm about what new technology, and new media forms, are doing to boys and young men — Adolescence now, the ‘penny dreadfuls’ in the 19th century and the first movies in the early 20th. The Long View on the similarities - and the differences www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Yes we will both be there. Be lovely to catch up! I was ill for Caspar's funeral sadly.

Hi Les, I must admit I've hardly been active! I still haven't quite got my head round this place. Any chance you're going to the BSA conference?

@davidbuckingham1.bsky.social Hi David, I'm producing R4's The Long View & have sent you an email. Hope to hear from you. jayne.egerton@bbc.co.uk