Lisa McKenzie: What’s Class Got to Do With It?

<p>🚨 Get 20% off tickets to the Battle of Ideas and see Take Me Home Live: <a href="http://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1851549427179/?discount=TMH26" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">http://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1851549427179/?discount=TMH26</a> 🚨</p><p>_ _ _ </p><p>In this episode of Take Me Home, Hilary and Sebastian are joined by working-class academic and author Dr Lisa McKenzie to talk about class, community, and what has happened to working-class life in Britain.</p><p>They discuss her play sixTeen, the legacy of the miners’ strike, the disappearance of shared civic spaces, and why so many working-class communities feel politically abandoned. Lisa also explains why she thinks the left has failed the working class, and what it would take to bridge the growing divide between different parts of British society.</p><p>Recommendations:</p><p><a href="https://www.newperspectives.co.uk/sixteen-by-lisa-mckenzie-and-jayne-williams" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">sixTeen</a></p><p><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/58045504-brideshead-revisited" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">Brideshead Revisted</a></p><p><a href="https://www.rebellionfestivals.com/" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">Rebellion Festival</a></p><p>Check out the SDP website or get in touch: </p><p><a href="www.sdp.org.uk" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">www.sdp.org.uk</a></p><p><a href="mailto:hilary.salt@sdp.org.uk" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">hilary.salt@sdp.org.uk</a></p><p><a href="mailto:sebastian.moore@sdp.org.uk" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">sebastian.moore@sdp.org.uk</a></p>