''Thinking Allowed'' is a radio discussion programme broadcast on

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on Wednesday afternoons between 16:00 and 16:30 and repeated between 00:15 and 00:45 on Monday mornings. It focuses on the latest

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research and is hosted by Laurie Taylor, who was formerly a

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at the

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. The programme was first broadcast in 1998. Occasionally, special editions of the programme are produced in co-operation with the

Open University The Open University (OU) is a Public university, public research university and the largest university in the United Kingdom by List of universities in the United Kingdom by enrolment, number of students. The majority of the OU's undergraduate ...

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''Thinking Allowed'' archive

Podcast feed
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