Social class
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- Posted29 July 2019
Beyond Today. What does the Hollywood college scandal tell us about class privilege? Audio, 19 minutes
Money, class and university admissions.
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Classic Stories. Funny Stories, The Fall of Lord Barrymore by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Audio, 29 minutes
Two famous young bucks struggle for supremacy in fashionable London.
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Classic Stories. Funny Stories, The Model Millionaire by Oscar Wilde. Audio, 12 minutes
Oscar Wilde’s story about a naïve young man taken in by an artist’s model.
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Breaking the Class Ceiling. Audio, 28 minutes
Sathnam Sanghera asks if classism should be illegal.
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Thinking Allowed. Snobbery. Audio, 28 minutes
Snobbery - its meaning, history and changing nature.
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Thinking Allowed. The Class Ceiling. Audio, 29 minutes
The Class Ceiling: does privilege pay?
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The Essay. Yorkshire, 23/01/2019. Audio, 14 minutes
Andrew Martin's five essays that muse on the county of his birth and upbringing.
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The Trouble with Social Mobility. Audio, 28 minutes
Byron Vincent raises some practical, and moral, questions about social mobility.
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Political Thinking with Nick Robinson. The Justine Greening One. Audio, 44 minutes
The former cabinet minister on resigning, the class ceiling and another referendum.
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Belonging. Old Ties. Audio, 28 minutes
Why have the ties that gave so many of us a shared sense of belonging weakened?
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This is Capitalism. The Intangible Economy: The New Age of Capitalism - Episode 1. Audio, 14 minutes
David Grossman tells ten stories which help explain the world of contemporary capitalism.
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A Point of View. On Prefixes. Audio, 10 minutes
Adam Gopnik on why the prefixes we use speak volumes.
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Thinking Allowed. Working-class actors, Class and classical music. Audio, 28 minutes
Working-class actors, Class and classical music.
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Four Thought. Socially Mobile? Audio, 15 minutes
Michael Merrick challenges how we think about social mobility.
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Where Are All the Working Class Writers? Audio, 30 minutes
Why are so few novelists from working class backgrounds? Author Kit de Waal investigates.
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Thinking Allowed. The Restaurant: A Taste of Class. Audio, 28 minutes
Laurie Taylor gets under the skin of the restaurant.
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Thinking Allowed. Restaurants - A Taste of Class. Audio, 28 minutes
What are restaurants for? Laurie Taylor explores the many functions of dining out.
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Thinking Allowed. Fashion and class. Audio, 28 minutes
Fashion and class: from the 'branded gentry' to the high street.
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Thinking Allowed. Craft work - 'dirty' work. Audio, 28 minutes
Craft work. Also, 'dirty' work.
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The Essay. Burgess at 100, Burgess and Populism/Class - Dr Simon Rennie. Audio, 15 minutes
An essay by Simon Rennie about writer Anthony Burgess.
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Four Thought. Stereotypes. Audio, 15 minutes
Franklyn Addo describes how witnessing a murder transformed his life.
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