Home Life 3: Nuclear Household | Thinking Allowed

1: Baby on Board | Counterblast

Many people strive to be perfect parents. Dr. Mike Fitzpatrick (GP) argues that putting children first and adults last could be damaging to b...

3: Happy Days | A Labour of Love

The first holiday camps, hop picking, bonfire night, and trips to the countryside were ways families enjoyed themselves together in the earl...

6: Call Me Mother | A Labour Of Love

Program looks at the heart-rending experience of substitute parents - nannies, foster mothers, step-parents and housemothers as well as ...

Am I British? | Panorama

Reporter Greg McKenzie meets young people born or brought up in the UK who say Home Office immigration policy treats them as second-class citizens.

Au Pairing And Domestic Labour | Thinking Allowed

Laurie Taylor explores the sociology of housework and the lived experience of au pairing. With Ann Oakley and Rosie Cox.

Class By Class

This programme looks at the Lyons, a lower middle class family.

Episode 2 | Death Of Respect

Journalist John Ware examines the broken bits of Britain and questions whether they can be put back together again. He hears about the damage ca...

Happy Families | East

Sohail Rahman reports on polygamy in Britain, a mainly Islamic practice which, according to American academic Philip Kilbride, could offer solutions to...

Home Life 1: Multi-Generational Household | Thinking Allowed

How are our homes changing? In a special series Laurie Taylor and sociologists visit listeners' homes to explore...

Home Life 2: Single Person Household | Thinking Allowed

How are our homes changing? In a special series Laurie Taylor and sociologists visit listeners' homes to explore priv...

Jemima Khan And The Part-Time Wife

Jemima Khan investigates the practice of polygamy in the UK today. Why are some Muslim women opting to become part-time wives, and is it a...

Money Box Live: Cohabitation | Money Box

What are your financial rights if you're cohabiting?

Parenting Secrets | Britain's Secrets with Anne Robinson

Anne Robinson delves into different areas of contemporary British life. She tackles parenting, looking at some of th...

Privacy And Parenting By Mobile Phone. | Thinking Allowed

Why is privacy so important to us? Laurie Taylor discusses a sociological study of the role that privacy plays in e...

Real Families With Steve Evans

How much has 21st-century family life in Wales has changed? Does the nation still hold fast to traditional family values or is the family unit...

S1E02: Home Sweet Home | Darren McGarvey's Class Wars

Darren examines how social class and where we live impacts our lives in ways that few realise, from our addictions to o...

S2E2: British Bangladeshis | A Very British History

Dr Aminul Hoque tells the story of the thousands of Bangladeshi families who settled in the UK in the 1970s and 1980s.

S2E3: The British Chinese | A Very British History

British-born Chinese vlogger Shu Lin explores the history of the Chinese community in the UK from the 1950s through to the...

S2E4: Whatever Happened to the Boat People? | A Very British History

Therapist Rachel Nguyen tells the story of the Vietnamese Boat People who came to Britain in the 70s and...

Three Girls and Three Babies | The Trouble With Girls

Documentary following friends Becki, Stacey and Vanessa, three 16-year-old girls from Rochdale. Three pregnancies chang...