23/01/2019

from The Essay · host BBC Radio 3

Andrew Martin's five essays that muse on the county of his birth and upbringing:This time, he ponders questions of class in God's Own County. "My dad was one of the men who went to work in suits, being a clerk on British Rail. He got on with the men in overalls, but he tried to stop me speaking like them." The author has enjoyed class mobility, and after recollections of his upbringing, he gets to hear from a friend about the 'County Set'.Producer: Duncan Minshull

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