Living in school limbo – podcast

How a lot does the best way you discuss outline your social magnificence? What about your folks’ jobs or your supply of source of revenue, training and housing?

The journalist and creator Danny Lavelle has lengthy been desirous about the concept that of sophistication as a result of the best way his existence has opened up. Moving between foster care, college, slumbering tough and turning into an Orwell prize-winning creator has led him to query how a lot the perception of sophistication can assist us perceive existence in 21st-century Britain.

Lavelle tells Helen Pidd about his studies, whilst unpacking concepts round social signifiers, demographics and relationships to labour. They talk about how the speculation of ‘working-class interests’ sits with the perception of individualism, and discover whether or not an individual’s high quality of existence or way of life is extra vital than their magnificence.

Lavelle, the creator of Down and Out: Surviving the Homelessness Crisis, talks about existence at the streets and the affect of UK govt cuts in a earlier episode of Today in Focus.

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