Thinking Allowed

I haven't pushed Thinking Allowed for a while. I know I have mentioned it in the past but such a great show deserves to be mentioned more than once a year. For those of you new to the show, Thinking Allowed is a weekly radio show on all things sociological. It usually focuses on newly published research, but it's not dry in the slightest.

However, recently the show spent three weeks looking at theorists; Foucault, Goffman and Benjamin (which you can find on the website) and placing them within a historical context. The whole archive of shows are available for the foreseeable future from here.

In my opinion the easiest way to keep up with new shows is by subscribing to the podcast from here.
If you'd like any help with podcasts or in fact any other information about Thinking Allowed you've only to email me.

Thinking Allowed

I'm a bit embarrassed.

I really should have mentioned 'Thinking Allowed' to you ages ago, but it kept slipping my mind. Anyway, I'm putting it right now. 'Thinking Allowed' is a programme on Radio 4 about new developments and research findings in the social sciences. When Radio 4 came to UoB a couple of years back 'Thinking Allowed' was one of the shows recorded on campus. The photo above is proof of this happening. It's fronted by the quite marvellous Laurie Taylor and if you ask me nicely I might even tell you about the time he spoke at a librarian conference I attended.
Yes, I'm afraid there really are librarian conferences.

The great thing about 'Thinking Allowed' and indeed many other Radio 4 programmes, is that there's a massive archive available online. The Thinking Allowed' archive is divided into the following searchable sections:

1. Sex and Death,
2. Politics and Economics, 
3. Work and Play, 
4. Men and Women, 
5. Crime and Deviancy, 
6. Race and Class 
7. Culture and Belief. 

There's some brilliant stuff in the archive. If you like what you hear and would like to subscribe to the podcast of the show, just email me and I'll explain the procedure.