From George Orwell's hatred of the suburbs to the sitcom caricatures of Hyacinth Bouquet and the Essex girls Sharon and Tracey. Suburbia has been the butt of jokes and intellectual sneers since the inter-war years.
But why, given that one third of us already live in the suburbs and many more are set to do so. Alison Light, writer on gender and the suburbs at UCL and Miranda Sawyer, author of Park and Ride join Jenni to explore how snobbism about the suburbs ans women's changing role went hand-in-hand. Tell us your experiences of living in suburbia... Park and Ride: Adventures in Suburbia by Miranda Sawyer, published by Abacus; ISBN: 034911319X
