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OU on the BBC: Thinking Allowed - Plenty and stammering

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Introductory Level Updated 15 May 2013
The gulf between poor and plenty in the Land of the Free, and how people with speech impedients change their behaviour.
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OU on the BBC: Thinking Allowed - Middle Class enclaves and escapes

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Introductory Level Updated 08 May 2013
This week features a special edition of Thinking Allowed recorded at the British Sociological Association's 2013 conference 
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OU on the BBC: Thinking Allowed - Class survey

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Introductory Level Updated 30 Apr 2013
This week, Laurie Taylor discusses the 'Great British Class Survey', a unique piece of research conducted by BBC Lab UK and academics 
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OU on the BBC: Thinking Allowed - The power of oil

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Introductory Level Updated 23 Apr 2013
Oil is the focus of this week's Thinking Allowed 
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OU on the BBC: Thinking Allowed - English heritage and clergy lives

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Introductory Level Updated 16 Apr 2013
Laurie Taylor is in the Thinking Allowed studios this week discussing heritage politics in the UK, and the everyday lives of parish priests
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OU on the BBC: Thinking Allowed - Thatcherism and thrift chic

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Introductory Level Updated 10 Apr 2013
This week's Thinking Allowed asks, in light of Margaret Thatcher's death, is 'Thatcherism' a distinct ideology? 
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OU on the BBC: Thinking Allowed - Urban dereliction and gang labour

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Introductory Level Updated 22 Mar 2013
This week, Thinking Allowed looks at industrial ruination, and the origins and rise of gang labour in the UK
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OU on the BBC: Thinking Allowed - The social life and language of food

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Introductory Level Updated 19 Mar 2013
This week's Thinking Allowed explores the Italian food market, and the language of food and food politics 
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Ou on the BBC: Thinking Allowed - Art auctions and overflowing cemeteries

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Introductory Level Updated 12 Mar 2013
This week's Thinking Allowed asks how do auctioneers and buyers transact sales in seconds? Also: the Guatemalan cemetery with no more room
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OU on the BBC: Thinking Allowed - Drugs for life and youthful hankering

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Introductory Level Updated 06 Mar 2013
This week's focus for Thinking Allowed is the burgeoning consumption of medicine in the US and hanging onto a subcultural identity in later life 
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