Genius of a writer.

I love how he smoothly transitions from history to politics, it gives you a very clear idea of how the two are inextricably intertwined.

We do not have such cerebral TV programmes on the BBC anyway more?

thank you so much for uploading these programmes

I don't think her glasses had any glass in them. Thompson is fekking glorious!

is this from early 1990s? It could be. He died in 93. "Customs in Common" was published in 91.

Im seeking a link berween epts description of rough music and dennis skinners community and family music making /singing giving him a voice and confidence building in publife .

Bravo!

and not a working-class accent to be heard

@edskeates5357

4 жыл бұрын

What's a working-class accent? Is accent a signifier of class or experience?

@sgbh8874

3 жыл бұрын

Ed Skates ~ Depends where you are

@urituba6993

3 жыл бұрын

Aye good point. I can hear it a bit in Roy Porter tho he was a grammar school boy and went to Cambridge.

@urituba6993

3 жыл бұрын

@@edskeates5357 It signifies an experience which can signify a class experience which can signify class innit. So accent is an imperfect signifier of class, which we can use to roughly gauge representation. In this case a quick skim of wikipedia lets us know that celestial teapot's implication that there's a lack of working class representation on this telly programme about the working class based on their accents is... accurate.