Thinking Allowed

{{Short description|BBC radio program}}

{{about|the BBC Radio 4 series||Thinking Allowed (disambiguation)}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}}

{{Infobox radio show

| show_name = Thinking Allowed

| format = Discussion

| runtime = 28 mins

| country = {{GBR}}

| language = English

| home_station = BBC Radio 4

| presenter = Laurie Taylor

| creator =

| producer = Jayne Egerton

| first_aired = 1998

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| website = {{URL|www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006qy05|Website}}

| podcast = {{URL|downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/ta/rss.xml|Podcast RSS feed}}

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Thinking Allowed is a radio discussion programme broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on Wednesday afternoons between 16:00 and 16:30 and repeated between 00:15 and 00:45 on Monday mornings.{{cite web|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006qy05|title=Thinking Allowed|publisher=BBC Radio 4|accessdate=16 December 2009}} It focuses on the latest social science research and is hosted by Laurie Taylor, who was formerly a Professor of Sociology at the University of York. The programme was first broadcast in 1998.{{cite news|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/the-week-in-radio-robert-hanks-1155647.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220507/https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/the-week-in-radio-robert-hanks-1155647.html |archive-date=7 May 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|title=The week in radio|last=Hanks|first=Robert|date=1998-04-11|work=The Independent|accessdate=2009-11-08}}{{cbignore}}{{cite news|title=Wanted: a bit of rough|last=Karpf|first=Anne|date=1998-04-11|work=The Guardian}}{{cite news|title=More Today will mean more trouble|last=Forgan|first=Liz|date=1998-03-20|work=The Times}} Occasionally, special editions of the programme are produced in co-operation with the Open University.{{cite web|url=http://www.open2.net/thinkingallowed/aboutpartnership.html|title=Thinking Allowed: About the series|publisher=Open2|accessdate=21 November 2009}}