The Rise and Fall of the Council House

We Are History

Angela Barnes and John O'Farrell

History

4.9 • 802 Ratings

🗓️ 18 May 2020

⏱️ 58 minutes

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How the British state took it upon itself to provide millions of decent, affordable homes until Mrs Thatcher flogged them all off at massive discounts, so that housing would never be a problem for the young and low-waged ever again. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to We Are History and Angela's already lost it as we're trying to set the sound levels.
0:10.0	I'm sorry, I was supposed to start this one but we were to explain to the people listening at home about this full start of me just laughing is we are recording remotely because we're in lockdown. John's in his house in
0:22.3	Clapham. I'm in my house in Brighton. And it was a really simple thing our producer Spike asked us to do
0:28.3	then was to count backwards from 10. It's hard. It's hard. Just so that we can, you would not believe
0:35.1	how many takes that took for two reasonably well educated
0:38.7	individuals to just count backwards from 10.
0:42.7	There's so many different numbers to remember.
0:47.0	Sorry, welcome to We are HistoryPod.
0:49.7	I'm Angela Barnes.
0:51.0	And I'm John O'Farrell.
0:52.6	We're a little bit giddy because we've already recorded one episode today.
0:56.1	And so I think now we've got a bit giddy, haven't we, John?
0:58.7	We have.
0:59.3	We've gone from, you know, yeah, death and murder.
1:01.8	We're going to do something a bit happier now.
1:03.3	We're not happy, but just getting more less, a bit less murderous.
1:06.5	A slightly less murderous. Depends which councillors that you live on. Exactly. Well, you've given it away there, John.
1:12.0	Our episode today is, we're calling it the rise and fall of council housing in Britain.
1:17.3	But I have a lot to be had there.
1:18.8	I'll be leading this one because I probably have more knowledge of council estates than John.
1:24.2	I knew people who lived on estates when I was growing up, but they went shooting there.
1:29.6	They went shooting estates.
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