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WORKING CLASS LIFE | How have the traditional British working class been portrayed?
About this collection
Discover the roots of British working class traditions, remember some real working class heroes, and see how lives and attitudes have changed over the years by watching and listening to BBC programmes.
Programmes chosen from over 60 years of broadcasting reveal the changing ways in which the working class have been depicted by the media.
This collection was created in partnership with BBC Two's White season which explored the current challenges facing the white working class.
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Working Class Life Collection
THE INTERVIEW
George Best
Football legend George Best bares his soul about his personal life.
MAN ALIVE
Top Class People
How working-class celebrities like Twiggy became fashionable.
MAN ALIVE
Not in Our Class, Dear
How class conscious are we? Can Britain ever be a classless society?
TEN O'CLOCK BULLETIN
Scottish Miners Visit Eton
Explore this promotion of better understanding between social ...
NEWS
Brewery & 3 Working Men's ...
Working Men's Clubs send good cheer to the troops in Northern ...
NEWS
Working Men's Clubs
Should unescorted women be allowed into Working Men's Clubs? ...
FIVE GENERATIONS
The Changing Environment
A study of how urbanisation has changed working class speech ...
FIVE GENERATIONS
The Response To The ...
The language of the English working class explored.
HORIZON
Death of the Working Classes
Why does the working class in Britain die young?
MORNING IN THE STREETS
The people of Liverpool tell stories of their past and present.
NEWS EXTRA
British Shipbuilding in 1961
What kind of future might 1961 promise to the shipbuilding industry?
WHITE VAN MAN SPEAKS
Is it the van or the man inside it at the centre of the battle for British roads?
FILE ON FOUR
Miners' Strike
'File on Four' shares the experiences of striking miners in Goldthorpe.
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