Melvyn Bragg on Class and Culture
IN this new three-part series Melvyn Bragg (right) explores the relationship between class and culture over the past 100 years.
He relates how the British even took class division to the trenches of the First World War, though the conflict saw the social classes join together to ensure the nation’s survival.
Taking the story on several decades, he relates how a rigidly class-based society responded to the changing times and economic hardship to the point where a classless society seemed a genuine possibility by 1945. With interviews and fascinating archive footage.