An examination of family life by ANNE OWEN
Part 2: Death of a Patriarch
Unless the father makes on almost superhuman effort, there is no possibility of understanding; because the son is saying ' I don'even accept your frame of reference, with- in which to talk ' (Richard Hoggart on BBC1, March 1970).
Professor Hoggart was discussing the breakdown of communications between the generations and the end of what he has called the ' Protestant Ethic.'
Death of a Patriarch, part 2 of this three-part documentary, explores the changing pattern of life within the family itself with recordings of children discussing their own upbringing with their parents. and their views on the older generation.
With comments by DR ROBERT RAPOPORT of the Tavistock Institute, a Psychiatrist, and a Social Anthropologist. (from Birmingham)