Home Life 1: Multi-Generational Household

Thinking Allowed

BBC

Science, Society & Culture

4.4 • 973 Ratings

🗓️ 24 August 2011

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Thinking Allowed explores the changing nature of home in a 3 part summer series recorded in the homes of our listeners. Who do we live with, how do our homes operate and what do they say about us and about the dramatic social transformations of the last century and the century to come? By invitation, in each edition a new type of home is invaded, analysed and explained by Laurie Taylor and a panel of two sociologists round the kitchen table.

Much political debate still revolves around the assumption that most of us live in conventional family homes. However research suggests that in 20 years time only 2 out of 5 people will be in marriages and married couples will be outnumbered by other types of household. Behind closed doors, Britain is changing: Single living has increased by 30% in 10 years but at the same time financial pressures are fuelling a growth in extended families - people sharing bills, childcare and mucking-in in a way which makes private life far less private.

After generous invitations from Thinking Allowed listeners, Laurie Taylor visits three. In this edition he visits a big multi-generational family in Bristol accompanied by the sociologists Rachel Thomson and Esther Dermot. They attempt to divine the future for Britain's private life.

Producer: Charlie Taylor.

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1:00.6	I'm here in a pleasant street in a suburban part of Bristol. It's a, yes it's a nice
1:11.0	street. It's terraced houses on both sides, three-story terraced houses.
1:15.0	And the house I'm actually looking at directly is characterized by a very large pink-hydranger bush in the garden.
1:22.0	And that garden belongs to Kate Hughes and her
1:26.3	family and I'm here to meet Kate Hughes and her family as part of our short
1:30.0	series on life in the modern home which is why I'm also accompanied by two
1:35.2	sociologists. Now are we already Rachel? Yes. Yes. Okay well
1:41.6	Kate wish you could regret this.
1:46.0	Hello. Hello. Hello. I'm Laurie.
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