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The New Jerusalem: A Home of Your Own

BBC Two
on BBC Two England

A four-part series, narrated by Robert Lindsay, which traces the 50 year history of Britain's Welfare State.

The top priority of the new Welfare State was to clear the slums and give every family a decent home - but inspectors vetted tenants and only "respectable" families were chosen for the new estates. Corners cut and a decline in building standards since mean that now many people long to escape from council housing. What went wrong in constructing the New Jerusalem?
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Narrator:
Robert Lindsay
Producer:
George Carey
Source: Radio Times

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