Living in class limbo – podcast

What does it mean to be working class in Britain in 2025? Danny Lavelle reports

How much does the way you speak define your social class? What about your parents' jobs or your source of income, schooling and housing?

The journalist and author Danny Lavelle has long been fascinated by the concept of class because of the way his life has unfolded. Moving between foster care, university, sleeping rough and becoming an Orwell prize-winning writer has led him to question how much the notion of class can help us understand life in 21st-century Britain.