Summary
The Rich: Laurie Taylor talks to Rowland Atkinson, Research Chair in Inclusive Societies at the University of Sheffield, about his study of London as an 'Alpha City'. Compared to New York or Tokyo, the two cities that bear the closest comparison, it has the largest number of wealthy people per head of population. Has London been transformed into a 'capital for capital' , marginalising the needs of the majority of its population? They're joined by the historian and sociologist, Rainer Zitelmann, who has conducted the first, large scale study into attitudes towards the rich and argues that social envy can lead to scapegoating and finds intriguing differences of opinion amongst Americans, Germans, the British and French.
Producer: Jayne Egerton
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| 0:55.0 | the the part of Taunton |
| 1:17.0 | Taunet William Walton's cold tribute to London. Like so many of my teenage friends, I was only too happy to hear the Capitol so celebrated. After all, most of us in our hearts long to go to the great Wen. Of course, adolescent life in the suburbs of Liverpool was perfectly tolerable, particularly when it could include a ribble bus trip to the pubs and clubs of the |
| 1:34.7 | central city but everything always seemed well slightly secondhand almost an |
| 1:40.3 | imitation of what life must really be like for the people who inhabited all |
| 1:45.2 | those resonant names on my monopoly board the old Ken Road Palmael Fleet Street |
| 1:51.0 | Leicester Square Park Lane Whitehall and Mayfair. Events, events did |
| 1:57.5 | eventually take me to the metropolis and a new urban ignorance. |
| 2:03.2 | For when I was in Liverpool I'd somehow always understood the connections between the squashed |
| 2:08.4 | terraced streets of Bhutel and the tranquil estate agent greenery of Alerton in London so much of the city |
| 2:15.3 | remained wrapped in the sort of impenetrable fog that Dickens captures in the opening |
| 2:20.4 | words a bleak house and least visible of all, weather-rich, their |
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