Four London kids make the transition from their familiar primary schools to an inner-city secondary school.
Four girls leave tiny primary schools on Scotland islands to start secondary school on the mainland.
Four 11-year-old girls leave the familiarity of their prep schools to join Cheltenham Ladies' College.
This programme looks at the Lyons, a lower middle class family.
1944 Education Act secondary education for all, selective tripartite system. Cultural capital. Cultura...
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...
The story of one school's groundbreaking battle to save problem pupils from the scrap heap and bring exam success.
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...
This program compares the country's oldest school, Winchester College, with a local comprehensive to illustra...
Laurie Taylor explores a unique piece of research conducted by BBC Lab UK and social scientists. Plus a tri...
How London has changed since Charles Booth's survey recorded social conditions in 1886. Deptford High Street was onc...
Four famous volunteers live with families who can't afford to eat. Theo Paphitis moves in with a working mum who regularly skips meals to...
Laurie Taylor discusses the largest ever survey of UK levels of deprivation. Plus new research on people who ...
Newspaper columnist Tony PARSONS explores the British class system. How have the aristocratic Gordon-Duff-Penningtons, owner of Muncaster C...
Newspaper columnist Tony Parsons explores the British class system. Tonight focuses on the Annely family who although working class ha...
Tony Parsons talks to the middleclass Jones family who live near Liverpool and run their own business.
Is the term 'Chav' indicative of a growing tendency to demonise the working class? Laurie discusses class and popular culture. ...
Phil Parry reports on new figures on drinking which show that Wales has become the binge drinking capital of Britain. He...
Ian Hislop salutes the unsung heroes of Victorian Britain who improved cities, housing and worki...
Ian Hislop celebrates the dynamic and eccentric Victorian reformers who brought about the most remar...
The perils of booze and sex are the focus for the final episode of Ian Hislop's series about Victori...
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