Class and Reality TV - Balti Britain
Laurie Taylor is joined by Professor Beverley Skeggs, to discuss the sub-text of reality TV make-over programmes and the manner in which they portray working class people.
CLASS and REALITY TV
According to new research around 78% of our free to air tv schedules is now comprised of reality TV advising us, chastising us, humiliating us and surprising us 鈥� but what is the underlying message about the kind of people we are supposed to think we are? Laurie Taylor is joined by Professor Beverley Skeggs, co-author of a recent ESRC research project entitled Making Class and Self Through Televised Ethical Scenarios. They discuss the sub-text of reality TV make-over programmes and the manner in which they portray working class people.
BALTI BRITAIN
Ziauddin Sardar talks about his new book Balti Britain 鈥� A Journey through the British Asian experience and discusses the nature of the relationship between Britain and the Indian Sub-continent.
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