Clerks, shop assistants, secretaries, salespeople — we have lots to learn from the lower middle class characters of classic detective fiction.

Thanks to my guest, Dr Nicola Bishop. Her book, Lower-Middle-Class Nation: The White-Collar Worker in British Popular Culture is published by Bloomsbury Academic.

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Mentioned in this episode:

— The Diary of a Nobody by George and Weedon Grossmith

— The Suburbans by Thomas William Hodgson Crosland

— "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" by T. S. Eliot

— The Mystery of the Blue Train by Agatha Christie

— After the Funeral by Agatha Christie

— The ABC Murders by Agatha Christie

— The Big Four by Agatha Christie

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