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🗓️ 16 August 2020
⏱️ 34 minutes
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In this week's Chops, Hannah chats to author Kerry Hudson about her autobiographical book Lowborn: Growing Up, Getting Away and Returning to Britain's Poorest Towns, which is now out in paperback. They chat about how class politics has changed post Brexit. why the middle-class view of growing up poor is often wildly inaccurate and that thorniest of words, "privilege". Have at it.
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0:00.0 | This is a passenger announcement. You can now book your train on Uber and get 10% back in credits to spend on Uber eats. |
0:11.0 | So you can order your own fries instead of eating everyone else's. |
0:15.0 | Trains, now on Uber. T's and C's apply. Check the Uber app. Standard Issue for all women. |
0:35.0 | Hello, Hannah here. |
0:37.0 | Welcome to this episode of the Sunday Chops, one of two chops that we are serving up this weekend. |
0:42.0 | The other one, which you should definitely |
0:44.2 | get in your ears after you finish listening to this is Mickey talking to |
0:48.1 | playwright and lawyer Rachel Mariner about her new play recovering misogynist. |
0:53.0 | Put on to this one. |
0:54.0 | In this episode of The Chops I have a chat with the brilliant |
0:58.0 | Kerry Hudson about her excellent new book, |
1:00.0 | Lowborn, growing up getting away and returning to Britain's poorest towns. |
1:05.0 | Which, spoiler alert, I absolutely loved. |
1:08.0 | Rather than tease what's coming up and what we talk about, |
1:11.0 | I think I'm just going to tell you that it's excellent and leave you to it |
1:14.0 | but I do need to make one slight correction to something that I say in it which is that I talk about |
1:19.8 | James Blunt going to Eton when in fact James Blunt went to Harrow. |
1:25.4 | Now that's a distinction that matters not much to most of us which kind of proves the point |
1:30.4 | I think but for the sake of accuracy to repeat James Blunt did not go to eat and he went to Harrow. |
1:36.5 | Okay enjoy this jobs enjoy the rest of your Sunday get in touch if you want to chat about |
1:41.2 | growing up working class where I am at that done |
1:43.8 | levy until next time. |
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