Marriage Today - A Social Institution

A variety of couples throughout the country describe the modern landscape of married life in Britain, with informed comment from a psychologist, a sociologist and a research psychiatrist.

Explore the brave new suburban world of Pat and Dickie, who are living on a freshly-built estate in Berkshire with its detached houses, social dislocation and house-bound wives club, and contrast this with Walter Fife's description of family life in the tenements of the Gorbals.

↗ Originally broadcast 16 September 1964.

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