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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!
Superb episode - US professor, Brooke Harrington, interviewed on UK radio on the super rich/offshore a/cs. This is what you call research!
Thinking Allowed - Wealth - BBC Sounds
Offshore finance and a millennial history of the wealthy.
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February 20, 2025 at 7:30 AM
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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!
Superb episode - US professor, Brooke Harrington, interviewed on UK radio on the super rich/offshore a/cs. This is what you call research!
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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, Crowds
The rich and diverse history of crowds in entertainment, sports and politics.
www.bbc.co.uk
May 19, 2025 at 10:35 PM
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
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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
BBC Radio 4 - Thinking Allowed, ECOLOGY
Ecological harms: from the Californian desert to the Salisbury Plain.
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May 22, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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
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Thinking Allowed is back! www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Thinking Allowed - Solidarity - BBC Sounds
Racial sympathy amongst white Americans and the meaning of solidarity.
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June 3, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Thinking Allowed is back! www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
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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!
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
in discussion with Selina Todd, Phillip Blond @mikesavagelse.bsky.social
Kirsten Stevens-Wood, Kieran Yates
You’ll not agree with everything—but good!
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
BBC Radio 4 - Free Thinking, Community
Post local elections and pre VE day events, Shahidha Bari explores ideas about community
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May 8, 2025 at 7:27 AM
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!
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
in discussion with Selina Todd, Phillip Blond @mikesavagelse.bsky.social
Kirsten Stevens-Wood, Kieran Yates
You’ll not agree with everything—but good!
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
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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, Garden Utopias
Garden Utopias: from the suburban privet hedge to guerrilla gardening.
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August 18, 2024 at 12:25 PM
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...
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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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www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
BBC Radio 4 - Thinking Allowed, Coffee Culture
Hipster baristas in Philadelphia and Chinese-run espresso bars in Italy.
www.bbc.co.uk
September 26, 2024 at 7:22 PM
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.
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
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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/...
Thinking Allowed - The Underclass - BBC Sounds
The Underclass: its rise and fall.
www.bbc.co.uk
April 13, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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/...
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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, Tech Workers
The hidden exploitation of workers at the heart of artificial intelligence.
www.bbc.co.uk
February 17, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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
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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, Sea Travelling
Shipboard travels and maritime maps.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 26, 2024 at 11:20 AM
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
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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, Architecture and Hope
Can building design create hope, from high security prisons to homeless hostels?
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October 3, 2024 at 10:11 PM
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...
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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?
BBC Radio 4 - Thinking Allowed, Wealth
Offshore finance and a millennial history of the wealthy.
www.bbc.co.uk
February 13, 2025 at 11:42 PM
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?
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We definitely need to revitalize ethnography in education!
On the endangered art of ethnography http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/features/laurie-taylor-on-the-endangered-art-of-ethnography/2013946.fullarticle#.U6WWktPepvM.twitter
On the endangered art of ethnography http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/features/laurie-taylor-on-the-endangered-art-of-ethnography/2013946.fullarticle#.U6WWktPepvM.twitter
Laurie Taylor on the endangered art of ethnography
The power of immersive research, and what it is like to b...
www.timeshighereducation.co.uk
December 1, 2024 at 9:35 AM
We definitely need to revitalize ethnography in education!
On the endangered art of ethnography http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/features/laurie-taylor-on-the-endangered-art-of-ethnography/2013946.fullarticle#.U6WWktPepvM.twitter
On the endangered art of ethnography http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/features/laurie-taylor-on-the-endangered-art-of-ethnography/2013946.fullarticle#.U6WWktPepvM.twitter
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The sociology of offshore finance - fascinating perspective from the great Laurie Taylor www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Thinking Allowed - Wealth - BBC Sounds
Offshore finance and a millennial history of the wealthy.
www.bbc.co.uk
February 16, 2025 at 6:36 AM
The sociology of offshore finance - fascinating perspective from the great Laurie Taylor www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
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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...
In remembrance of Caspar Melville
A tribute to the late Caspar Melville – writer, musicologist, and former editor of New Humanist.
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March 17, 2025 at 11:13 AM
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...
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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
BBC Radio 4 - Thinking Allowed, Sight and Power
From Bentham's panopticon and surveillance cameras to conflicts over views of Mount Fuji.
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January 2, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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
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And for another perspective on life in #prison have a listen to this @crewebencrewe & Elaine Player talking w Laurie Taylor about #LifeImprisonment
https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/thinking-allowed/id261548752?i=1000518085596
https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/thinking-allowed/id261548752?i=1000518085596
Life Imprisonment
Podcast Episode · Thinking Allowed · 21/04/2021 · 29m
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November 23, 2024 at 10:55 PM
And for another perspective on life in #prison have a listen to this @crewebencrewe & Elaine Player talking w Laurie Taylor about #LifeImprisonment
https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/thinking-allowed/id261548752?i=1000518085596
https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/thinking-allowed/id261548752?i=1000518085596
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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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January 28, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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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📚 https://buff.ly/4h9AyUh
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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/...
Thinking Allowed - Howard Becker - ARAB CONQUESTS AND SOCIAL MEMORY - BBC Sounds
Laurie Taylor explores Howard Becker’s influential assumptions about Outsiders.
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February 21, 2025 at 12:23 PM
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/...
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📻 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
Listen to the full programme 👉 bit.ly/4aZ1cg3
@uchicagopress.bsky.social
February 12, 2025 at 12:23 PM
📻 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
Listen to the full programme 👉 bit.ly/4aZ1cg3
@uchicagopress.bsky.social
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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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Thinking Allowed - Smoking - BBC Sounds
Smoking in modern Britain and the Soviet Union.
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March 25, 2025 at 9:24 AM
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”:
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000n4xm
Thinking Allowed - Elites - BBC Sounds
Elites: Why has anti-elitism become such a common stable ...
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November 18, 2024 at 11:11 AM
Good edition of #ThinkingAllowed on the uses and abuses of the term “elite”:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000n4xm
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000n4xm
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Engrossing edition of #ThinkingAllowed on Stanley Cohen, ft Stuart Hall, Conor Gearty, Claire Moon: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01qjc37 #humanrights
BBC Radio 4 - Thinking Allowed, Stan Cohen (1942 - 2013)
Laurie Taylor pays tribute to the work and legacy of the ...
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November 22, 2024 at 8:01 AM
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!
May 6, 2025 at 4:39 PM
@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!