Social class
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
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
Swimming through Chocolate. Audio, 30 minutes
Chocolate, swimming and sport: life working at the Cadbury factory in Bourneville.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4 Extra
- 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
Voices from the Old Bailey. Series 2, Whose Law Is It Anyway? Audio, 45 minutes
Amanda Vickery asks whether ordinary people got a fair trial in the 18th century.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
Assignment. A Taliban Class War? Audio, 25 minutes
In Pakistan is the Taliban's appeal based on class conflict or religious faith?
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
Assignment. Inside Britain's Class System. Audio, 25 minutes
Does Britain's class system still hold people back in 2010?
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
Analysis. India, the Reluctant Tiger. Audio, 28 minutes
Dr Zareer Masani asks if India's new found prosperity is filtering down to the masses.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
The Reunion. The Last Debutantes, 1958. Audio, 41 minutes
Sue MacGregor reunites society girls, now in their 60s and 70s.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
In Our Time. The Great Exhibition of 1851. Audio, 45 minutes
Melvyn Bragg examines the exhibition that showcased Victorian Britain's industrial might.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
Starter for 10. Video, 90 minutes
Comedy about a working-class boy (James McAvoy) stumbling through university.
- AttributionBBC Two
- Available for 6 months
My Summer of Love. Video, 82 minutes
An unlikely bond develops as working class tomboy Mona meets the spoilt Tamsin.
- AttributionBBC Two
- Available for over a year
In Our Time. The Aristocracy. Audio, 45 minutes
Melvyn Bragg examines the origins, power and eventual decline of the British aristocracy.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
