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Working-class actors, Class and classical music

Working-class actors, Class and classical music

FromThinking Allowed


Working-class actors, Class and classical music

FromThinking Allowed

ratings:
Length:
28 minutes
Released:
Dec 27, 2017
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

Working class actors: Laurie Taylor asks if acting is becoming an increasingly exclusive and elite profession. He talks to the actor Julie Hesmondhalgh and to Dave O'Brien, Chancellor's Fellow, Cultural and Creative Industries at the University of Edinburgh, and author of a new study which suggests that working class actors face increasing economic, as well as cultural obstacles, comparable to skydiving without a parachute. Also, class and classical music. Anna Bull, lecturer in the School of Social, Historical and Literary Studies at the University of Portsmouth, considers why this musical genre is seen as such a middle class preserve.

Producer: Jayne Egerton.
Released:
Dec 27, 2017
Format:
Podcast episode

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