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Apr 2016
54m 23s

Student life and working class culture

IMMEDIATE MEDIA
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Our own Ellie Cawthorne talks about her new BBC Radio 4 series that focuses on 900 years of higher education. Meanwhile, author and broadcaster Stuart Maconie discusses his documentary about the decline of working class representation in the arts and media

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