Documentary filmed throughout the year following the Grenfell Tower fire, hearing from those directly affected by the most devastating tower block fire in British h...
Amol Rajan looks at solutions to Britain's class inequality problem. How can employers and policy makers ensure a level playing fi...
How can working class students break through the barriers to landing Britain's elite jobs? Amol Rajan investigates the tips and tr...
Idris Elba confronts the reality of knife crime, speaking to those most affected - from the streets to the system - in a quest to uncover ...
When researching the UK labour movement at the turn of the twentieth century, Graham discovers the pioneering socialist and gay rights campa...
This program focuses on the daily struggle for survival in Britain by millions of families who lived in poverty, including...
In Edinburgh, Darren examines the link between poverty and crime: how does it impact kids and their future? But...
In 1963, armed with just a typewriter, a Midlands housewife began a 30-year battle against the permissive society. But how succ...
This programme looks at the Lyons, a lower middle class family.
Explores how ordinary people in Liverpool are paying the price for gang crime and drug crime in their community. Drug lords and organ...
An exploration into the lives of billionaires and issues such as tax avoidance, capitalism, socie...
An exploration into whether the spending of the super rich benefits all of us in Britain. While t...
An exploration of issues relating to gender equalit...
The world's economy brought into crisis as a result of loans to 'sub-prime borrowers'.
The making of the super rich in the early 2000s through private equity firms and hedge funds.
20 volunteers take part in an experiment to test their skills ...
This clip explores grammar schools and whether they help level the playing fiel...
Since the decline of grammar schools a comparison is made of how comprehensive schools and pri...
Exploration of issues of social class and education. Whether a public s...
The show features a wealthy family providing 'sponsorship' for a family living in poverty in the UK.
Program looks at the way traditional middle-class values and attitudes have been killed off by society and econo...
Middle class radicals come under the spotlight, including Angie Zelter, who has been imprisoned sixteen times f...
This prog looks at how the upper middle classes replaced the aristocracy as the establishment, illustrated ...
tracing the history of the middle classes this programme examines the snobbery & insecurities of the years between...
Geoffrey Palmer narrates a six-part documentary series tracing the evolution of the middle class in Brit...
As Darren examines social class, he begins to wonder if we can ever overthrow the legacy it continues to exert o...
As Darren examines the power imbalance which lies at the heart of social class, he begins to question whether...
Darren examines how social class and where we live impacts our lives in ways that few realise, from our addiction...
As Darren examines how social class shapes our identities and destinies, he meets people moving between the class...
Darren McGarvey sets out to understand why the privately educated dominate Britain's top jobs and uncovers the amazi...
Amol Rajan investigates how much class still matters in Britain's elite professions. What does it take for bright working-class youngsters to bre...
Jane Garvey and Julian Worricker present a special programme marking the 70th anniversary of William Beveridge's ground-breaking report which founded th...
John Humphrys examines the reasons behind the stark educational attainment gap between advantaged and disadvantaged pupils, which ha...
Demand for places at high-achieving state schools across the UK far outstrips supply, turning the schools admissions proce...
New research shows that the standard of teaching is the most important factor to a child's education. So why are so many bad teachers being al...
Laurie Taylor explores a unique piece of research conducted by BBC Lab UK and social scientists. Plus a tri...
Sophie Raworth and Justin Rowlatt investigate what we think of women at work. Why do men still h...
Sophie Raworth and Justin Rowlatt ask why, several decades after the Equal Pay Act, there is ...
Anne Robinson meets women from across the UK to find out what is still preventing them from achieving equality and what they are do...
Jacques Peretti investigates how the super-rich are transforming Britain. In the final part, he looks at how inequality was pinpointed as a...
Jacques Peretti investigates how the super-rich are transforming Britain. He looks at why the wealthy were drawn to Britain and meets the s...
How London has changed since Charles Booth's survey recorded social conditions in 1886. Deptford High Street was onc...
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