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Serialised book readings, featuring works from various genres

Serialised book readings, featuring works of non-fiction, biography, autobiography, travel, diaries, essays, humour and history

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Book of the Week: Respectable

Lynsey Hanley

Sian Preece

Kirsteen Cameron

Book of the Week: Respectable: Episode 2: Respectable in the Eighties

Respectable

Episode 2

Episode 2: Respectable in the Eighties

Respectable in the Eighties

BBC Radio 4 - Book of the Week, Respectable, Respectable in the Eighties

Lynsey Hanley's personal exploration of the experience of class in 1980s Britain.

The Mirror, the Sun and the miners. Journalist Lynsey Hanley explores class aspirations and social mobility through the lens of her childhood on a West Midlands council estate.

Journalist Lynsey Hanley's personal exploration of the experience of class in Britain over the past four decades.

"I can draw an outline of the landscape that shaped us with words such as Nice biscuits, pornography, underpasses, 2p bus fares."

Hanley's childhood spanned the 1980s; when she discovered early on the joys and consolations of music, and gained political awareness by observing the ways in which different newspapers covered the Miners' Strike.

She offers a fascinating insight into what it took to leave her home in Chelmsley Wood, a vast council estate near Birmingham, and make her way against the odds through sixth form college, university and on into the world of professional journalism.


Written and read by Lynsey Hanley.

Abridged by Sian Preece.

Produced by Kirsteen Cameron.

Intelligent speech, the most insightful journalism, the wittiest comedy, the most fascinating features and the most compelling drama and readings anywhere in UK radio.

Drawing on her own experience, Lynsey Hanley explores class aspiration and social mobility

Lynsey Hanley explores class aspiration and social mobility through the lens of her own life. Abridged by Sian Preece and read by the author.

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