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My name is Richard Hames and you're listening to Navara FM.

What changed when history ended? The promise of those Halcyon days at the end of the

Cold War was not just about the end of a geopolitical conflict. A new sense of possibility opened

up for people around the world. In the UK, blarism brought with it a sense of change and a

washing away of the old stuffy social hierarchies. If you've been born on the wrong side of the

tracks, that no longer mattered because we now lived in an era of social mobility. Or maybe that's

not quite how it happened. Our socialism turned into progressivism. Something also was lost.

Lindsay Hanley is one of Britain's most perceptive writers on the politics and culture of class.

Her two books is States and Respectable. They are enormously sensitive to the mental

worlds of class as much as they explore physical environments that give people their identities.

In this episode, in our special series on class here on Navara FM, Lindsay Hanley and Juliet

Jakes discuss the experience and recent history of class in order to reach complexity.

What was it like to experience social mobility and not simply ponder it as a phrase in a policy

document? Well, on the way, they talk about autododacism as well as the impressions that journalists

sometimes try and do ordinary people.

What is social mobility? Although the term feels like it emerged from Blair Era focus groups,

the writer Lindsay Hanley suggests it's not simply a replacement for ideas of class solidarity.

But even if it intended to open up new experiences for people from working class

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