Ageing and Society
What does it mean to grow older in Britain today? Laurie Taylor explores the changing realities of later life, from health and independence...
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20 of 586 episodesCharity Shops and Pocket Money
What does it really mean to give something away - or to buy something second-hand? And what, in the process, are we choosing not to see? Lau...
Strikes, Solidarity and South Asian Britain
How have South Asian communities in Britain fought for rights, dignity and belonging - and what can that history teach us today? Laurie Tayl...
Rethinking Sociology: Empire, Knowledge and Connection
What happens when we tell the story of modern Britain as part of a much bigger, global history? Professor Kate Pickett OBE has recently been...
Football and gambling
As a new World Cup approaches, what does it mean that gambling now sits so close to the heart of football - and how far has the game travell...
Ethics in sociological research
What does it mean to undertake "ethical" research in complex and changing social settings? Marion Vannier, from the University of Manchester...
Suicide, Society and Liveability
What does Émile Durkheim’s 1897 study of suicide tell us about the social conditions that shape whether life feels worth living and how does...
Debt and Wealth Inequality
What does an 18-month study of residents on a housing estate in southern England tell us about living with debt? Laurie Taylor talks to Ryan...
Extreme Sports
What can the worlds of mountaineering and endurance running reveal about changing ideas of freedom, identity and the body? Laurie Taylor tal...
The demise of Grand Theory?
What explains the apparent decline of grand theory in sociology, and what does this shift mean for the discipline today? Laurie Taylor asks...
Gentrification in Detroit and London
What do we learn when a city’s future is defined not by rapid change, but by who leaves and who stays? Laurie Taylor looks at two neighbourh...
Prison violence, sound and survival
The winner of the British Society of Criminology Book Award in 2025 was Kate Herrity. Her study looks at the way our different senses contri...
The go-along research method
How does the environment we move through shape the way we see and experience the world? Laurie Taylor talks to Alex Prior (London South Bank...
Colour in Film
How did the arrival of colour and film technology transform cinema and its cultural politics? Laurie Taylor explores the intertwined histori...
Dogs
DOGS – Laurie Taylor explores the making of the modern companion animal, from working animals to pampered pets. Chris Pearson, Professor of...
Learning Disabilities
Laurie Taylor talks to Simon Jarrett, Research Fellow at Birkbeck, University of London, about the social history of people with learning di...
The Irish in the UK
Laurie Taylor talks to Louise Ryan, Professor of Sociology at the London Metropolitan University, about her oral history of the Irish nurses...
Russian Propaganda
Laurie Taylor talks to Nina Khrushcheva, Professor of International Affairs at The New School in New York City about her research into the p...
Death
Laurie Taylor talks to Molly Conisbee, Visiting Research Fellow at the Centre for Death and Society at the University of Bath, about her ‘pe...
Objects and Stories
Seth Rockman, Associate Professor of History at Brown University, talks to Laurie Taylor about his study into the stories of the plantation...