Social class
Thinking Allowed. Restaurants - A Taste of Class. Audio, 28 minutes
What are restaurants for? Laurie Taylor explores the many functions of dining out.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
Thinking Allowed. Fashion and class. Audio, 28 minutes
Fashion and class: from the 'branded gentry' to the high street.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
Thinking Allowed. Craft work - 'dirty' work. Audio, 28 minutes
Craft work. Also, 'dirty' work.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
The Essay. Burgess at 100, Burgess and Populism/Class - Dr Simon Rennie. Audio, 15 minutes
An essay by Simon Rennie about writer Anthony Burgess.
- AttributionBBC Radio 3
- Available for over a year
Four Thought. Stereotypes. Audio, 15 minutes
Franklyn Addo describes how witnessing a murder transformed his life.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
Still Loving Thy Neighbour? Audio, 28 minutes
Mark Hodkinson revisits the sitcom Love Thy Neighbour, forty years after it was last shown
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
Thinking Allowed. A special programme on Pierre Bourdieu. Audio, 28 minutes
Pierre Bourdieu: A special programme presented by Laurie Taylor.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
One to One. Sathnam Sanghera speaks to Alpesh Chauhan. Audio, 15 minutes
Sathnam Sanghera regards himself as middle class. Others do not. He explores why.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
One to One. Sathnam Sanghera talks to Janice Turner. Audio, 15 minutes
Sathnam Sanghera regards himself as firmly middle class. Others do not. He explores why.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
Thinking Allowed. Consumerism, Work-life balance. Audio, 28 minutes
Laurie Taylor explores the history of the modern, material world.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
Thinking Allowed. Cross-Class Marriage, The social history of women-only train carriages. Audio, 28 minutes
Laurie Taylor explores marriages between people from different class backgrounds.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
Thinking Allowed. Middle-class drug dealers, Globalisation of white collar work. Audio, 28 minutes
Laurie Taylor discusses a study into the selling of drugs among teens in suburban America.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
Thinking Allowed. The 'Precariat'; Humour in Sociology. Audio, 28 minutes
Laurie Taylor asks if there is an emerging mass class characterised by insecurity.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
Inside No. 9. Series 2, Nana's Party. Video, 30 minutes
It's Nana's birthday and she is excited about spending the afternoon with her whole family
- AttributionBBC Two
- Available for over a year
Analysis. Downward Social Mobility. Audio, 30 minutes
Social mobility is good for those on the up, but what about those who go down?
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
Clinging On: The Decline of the Middle Classes. Audio, 38 minutes
Is the middle class in decline? The divide between a rich elite and those now clinging on.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
The Unmaking of the English Working Class. Audio, 28 minutes
Historian Jon Lawrence of Cambridge University asks what has happened to the working class
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
Rooms with a View. Audio, 28 minutes
Tom Dyckhoff discovers that few things show our social status as clearly as windows.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
The Essay. Georgian Portraits, Amanda Vickery on Elizabeth Parker Shackleton. Audio, 15 minutes
Historian Amanda Vickery explores the life of Elizabeth Parker Shackleton.
- AttributionBBC Radio 3
- Available for over a year
Word of Mouth. Social Register. Audio, 28 minutes
Do we change the way we speak according to the person we are speaking to?
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
