Social class
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
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
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
Four Thought. Series 4, Nothing to Lose. Audio, 15 minutes
Byron Vincent discusses nature versus nurture, and society's obligations to its weakest.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
The Essay. England Ejects, On the Old Rules, or Gentility. Audio, 15 minutes
Novelist Andrew Martin considers the loss of the 'old rules' and 'gentility'.
- AttributionBBC Radio 3
- Available for over a year
Analysis. Social Epidemiology. Audio, 30 minutes
Exploring the academic discipline which tries to work out why the health gap exists.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
Folk Song, Art Song. Audio, 30 minutes
Christopher Maltman debates the place of folk song in the classical recital repertoire.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4 Extra
- Available for over a year
Sport and the British. Tennis and Golf in Suburbia. Audio, 15 minutes
Clare Balding discovers how tennis and golf clubs were borne of Victorian middle classes.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4 Extra
- Available for over a year
Twenty Minutes. From Buddenbrooks. Audio, 20 minutes
Adrian Scarborough reads from Thomas Mann's classic novel set in the mid-1800s.
- AttributionBBC Radio 3
- Available for over a year
