Beyond the nepo baby: the deep drivers of social mobility

Reasons Revisited

Geoff Lloyd

Society & Culture, Government, News, Politics

4.8 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 13 February 2023

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Hello! Nepo-babies are a new-fangled term but the issue of social mobility goes much deeper…in this episode Ed and Geoff explore why the same kind of people often seem to make it to the top. Why does your starting point in life still strongly determine where you’ll end up? We find out why it matters and if there’s anything we can do to change it. We’re speaking to social mobility tsar Alan Milburn, social entrepreneur Joe Seddon who helps state school pupils get into top Universities and to comedian Josie Long about how to open up the creative industries to more people.

Plus: Can Geoff persuade Ed to woo Justine with a ChatGPT Valentine's poem?

Guests

Alan Milburn, Chair, Social Mobility Foundation (@alanmilburn1958 & @SocialMobilityF)

Joe Seddon, Founder & CEO, Zero Gravity (@whatjoedid & @zerogravity)

Josie Long, Comedian & Co-Founder, Arts Emergency (@JosieLong & @artsemergency)

More info

Read the New York Magazine article on nepo babies in Hollywood

Read Vice's article about why American nepo babies have nothing on the British

Learn more about the Social Mobility Foundation and apply to their Aspiring Professionals Programme

Read Zero Gravity's Gap Zero Report on the network advantage

Learn more about Arts Emergency, get support as a young person, donate or become a mentor

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0:00.0	Hello, my name is Dan. How are you?
0:02.0	Oh, no.
0:02.8	Too formal, it's a match video call, not a job interview.
0:06.0	Hey, I'm Dan. How you doing, mate?
0:07.6	Oh, Australian?
0:09.2	Really?
0:10.0	Hey, Dan. I'm Sarah.
0:12.0	Doing just fine, mate.
0:13.4	And that's how Dan fell head over heels for Sarah.
0:18.1	I didn't realise this thing was on.
0:19.8	Oh, it's on.
0:21.2	Shall we start again?
0:23.1	Sure. Which accent?
0:25.6	Start something real with match video calls.
0:28.5	Download match.
0:29.9	On BBC I-Cloud.
0:31.5	Six robbers have carried out an armed rage,
0:33.2	stealing almost three tons of gold.
0:34.9	Inspired by Britain's biggest gold-high,
0:37.2	study shifts three tons of gold.
0:39.3	Slowing.
0:40.1	26 million pounds worth of pure gold
	...

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