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Tonight, the culture of class runs through this programme like Blackpool through a stick of rock.

But free-thinking has no truck with Channel 4's Benefit Street with its lower depths of attitude.

Class is always a matter of relationships. So tonight we lay next to one another, a review of Sheila Delaney's A Taste of Honey,

an interview with the Headmaster of Eaton, and a discussion of self-confidence and class.

Now, benefit reforms and economic inequalities may have brought class back onto the

front pages, but there's also something stirring culturally. Maybe it's the 100th anniversary of

the First World War, where working class lions were led by upper class donkeys, or so orthodoxy

has it. Another sign is the resurgence of interest in Joan Littlewood's theatre

company rooted in London's Stratford East, which is where, Sheila Delaney's The Taste of Honey was

first stage, and we'll review a new production soon. But first, the headmaster of Eaton College,

which has produced 19 Prime Ministers, including the present one.

Founded in 1440 by Henry the 6, its aim was to educate 70 poor boys.

It now educates 1,300 boys between the ages of 13 and 18.

I went to the college to meet the present headmaster Tony Little

and to talk to him about class and entitlement.

He's an interesting figure.

While educated at the college,

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