Polly Toynbee on her new book An Uneasy Inheritance: My Family and Other Radicals
Woman's Hour
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The Uneasy Truth About Class
I've written about social injustice all my life, but this time it's personal. I thought, look at myself, my own family, understand what it really means. People very rarely write the other story of privilege in which you cannot claim that your own merit alone has achieved the position you're in. And is that the word uneasy? Is that how you feel about it? It is. But the uneasiness is also that I come from this family of professors, teachers, administrators, and they have all been on the left side of life. They have always lived with this uneasiness about how do you support the underdog? How do you support greater equality for others and yet live
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