5/7. Generation Hexed. The generation that is now under 35 is the first to pay for a welfare state from which it will derive little benefit. People born after 1970 will have to be more self-reliant than their parents. Will they also be more selfish? Journalist Camilla Cavendish asks whether the concept of mutual obligation can possibly survive in a culture in which workers are burdened with debt, rising taxation and the need to save for their own welfare.
Producer Innes Bowen Repeated on Sunday at 9.30pm