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Radio 4,26 Jan 2007,9 mins

Brian Walden

A Point of View

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Following the death of the distinguished broadcaster and former MP Brian Walden, who presented many programmes for BBC Radio 4, this is one of his last talks for the series A Point of View. He argues - in this essay originally broadcast in 2007 - that Britain's "underclass" is gradually dropping out of national life. A Brook Lapping production for BBC Radio 4

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