Summary
Snobbery is defined as the behaviour or attitude of people who think they are better than others. Laurie Taylor explores the social history, meaning and changing nature of this sense of superiority. He talks to David Morgan, Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Manchester, Bev Skeggs, Professor of Sociology at the LSE and Florence Sutcliffe Braithwaite, Lecturer in 20th Century History at University College, London.
Producer: Jayne Egerton
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| 0:36.6 | I'm Laurie Taylor, and this is the Radio 4 podcast |
| 0:39.5 | for thinking aloud. |
| 0:40.9 | Frankly, I have excellent taste in most matters in music, food, wine, home decoration. |
| 0:47.0 | Find out the basis for my superiority. Hello, anyone out there, anyone out there, |
| 1:03.0 | and don't be shining to the show. |
| 1:05.0 | Hello, anyone out there, anyone out there, |
| 1:10.0 | anyone at all, remember Wilfred Pick Pickles or perhaps remember his catch phrases. |
| 1:14.8 | How do, how are you? Are you courting? What's on the table, Mabel? His radio show which featured all those |
| 1:21.2 | catchphrases ran from 1946 to 1967 and at one time enjoyed |
| 1:26.7 | a weekly audience of 20 million. My mother was not one of them. In fact, if you wanted to hear have a go in my childhood home, |
| 1:34.8 | you'd have had to listen on the radiogram in the front room |
| 1:37.9 | rather than the wireless in the kitchen. |
| 1:39.5 | Mother didn't like Wilfred because he sounded common. |
| 1:42.4 | And not being thought common was her abiding concern. |
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