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Middle Classes: Their Rise and Sprawl
GenreDocumentary
Presented byGeoffrey Palmer
Country of originUnited Kingdom
Original languageEnglish
No. of series1
No. of episodes6
Production
Executive producerMichael Poole
ProducerRachel Bell
Running time50 mins
Original release
NetworkBBC Two
Release23 February 2001 (2001-02-23)

Middle Classes: Their Rise and Sprawl was a six-part BBC documentary television series broadcast in the United Kingdom in 2001, narrated by Geoffrey Palmer.

It gained favourable reviews including from Will Self who said "No simple overview can do justice to this programme — an exemplary series and mandatory viewing."[1]

In 2002 an accompanying book was published, written by the historian Simon Gunn and television producer Rachel Bell.[2] The television series was repeated on BBC Four in 2007.[3]

The series found renewed attention[4] in 2022 with the launch of the Conservative Party leadership campaign of Rishi Sunak. Sunak, then a student at Lincoln College, Oxford, was interviewed along with his parents about their decision to educate him at the independent school Winchester College, and said "I have friends who are aristocrats, I have friends who are upper class, I have friends who are, you know, working class but, well not working class!"[5]

Episodes

#TitleOriginal airdate
1"The People in Between"23 February 2001 (2001-02-23)[6]
2"Them and Us"2 March 2001 (2001-03-02)[7]
3"Leader of Society"9 March 2001 (2001-03-09)[8]
4"Troublemakers"16 March 2001 (2001-03-16)[9]
5"Lessons in Class"23 March 2001 (2001-03-23)[10]
6"Trouble Ahead"30 March 2001 (2001-03-30)[11]

References

  1. ^ https://web.archive.org/web/20201009125539/https://books.google.com/books?id=s98O6mjm94UC&pg=PT109&hl=en
  2. ^ https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/_/s98O6mjm94UC
  3. ^ "BBC Four - The Middle Classes: Their Rise And Sprawl, The People in Between". BBC.
  4. ^ "Rishi Sunak's old video on 'no working-class friends' resurfaces, goes viral". Hindustan Times. 10 July 2022. Retrieved 11 July 2022.
  5. ^ "Rishi Sunak criticised after footage emerges of him saying he has 'no working-class friends' – video". The Guardian. 11 July 2022. Retrieved 11 July 2022.
  6. ^ Middle Classes: Their Rise and Sprawl. "BBC Programme Index". genome.ch.bbc.co.uk. BBC. Retrieved 11 July 2022.
  7. ^ Middle Classes: Their Rise and Sprawl. "BBC Programme Index". genome.ch.bbc.co.uk. BBC. Retrieved 11 July 2022.
  8. ^ Middle Classes: Their Rise and Sprawl. "BBC Programme Index". genome.ch.bbc.co.uk. BBC. Retrieved 11 July 2022.
  9. ^ Middle Classes: Their Rise and Sprawl. "BBC Programme Index". genome.ch.bbc.co.uk. BBC. Retrieved 11 July 2022.
  10. ^ Middle Classes: Their Rise and Sprawl. "BBC Programme Index". genome.ch.bbc.co.uk. BBC. Retrieved 11 July 2022.
  11. ^ Middle Classes: Their Rise and Sprawl. "BBC Programme Index". genome.ch.bbc.co.uk. BBC. Retrieved 11 July 2022.

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