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The Film Programme: The Class System And The British Film Industry

The Class System And The British Film Industry

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The class system and the British film industry.

Actor and writer Ben Bailey Smith asks writer Danny Leigh just just how much the class system plays its part in the British film industry.

With Ben Bailey Smith

Actor and writer Ben Bailey Smith has worked on numerous film sets and rarely hears a working class accent unless it's an upper class actor attempting the Cockney dialect or if it's an electrician working behind the scenes. He asks writer Danny Leigh just just how much the class system plays its part in the British film industry.

The Uckfield Picture House in Sussex has been run by the same family for 50 years, but the pandemic and lockdown is starting to threaten its future. Its owner, Kevin Markwick, has recorded a series of audio diaries for the programme as he prepares to open his doors for the first time in four months.

Caitlin Benedict, the presenter of NB: My Non-Binary Life, presents their choice of films to stream this week: Disclosure, A Fantastic Woman, Disobedience and Portrait Of A Lady On Fire.

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