Born and raised on an ‘overspill’ estate in Birmingham, the writer Lynsey Hanley has experienced what a politician would call social mobility. In her books on housing estates and the British class system, she uses her own life to think through the psychosocial dimensions of crossing the class divide.

In the third episode of our series on class, Lynsey talks to Juliet Jacques about whether anything like social mobility is possible in Britain today. They discuss autodidactism, the political impact of ’80s pop, and how squatting, grants and the dole briefly subsidised a flowering of working class culture.

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