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Oh, well, since YOU put it like THAT, this guy sounds COMPLETELY REASONABLE! 👍

interview 2026-09-07 1310ish

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(well, this was shit. will listen to the repeat later and decide if my assessment was fair.)

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https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00316q4

(yet another look at UK education)

Comps
Archive on 4

Financial Times columnist turned teacher Lucy Kellaway takes a personal journey through the education revolution launched fifty years ago to replace grammars and secondary moderns with comprehensives. The ambition was noble: the same opportunities for every child. But the story of Comps suggests that when lofty ideals collide with reality, things don’t always turn out as planned.

Lucy visits two very different models of comp trying to reconcile the history and their local demands and priorities, and speaks to three of the most influential politicians responsible for shaping today's state secondary school system - Lords Baker, Blunkett and Gove. She also discovers the deep roots of the tensions and challenges facing today's comps in a journey through a rich archive that charts the evolution of the comprehensive system in the last fifty years.
Producer: Jonathan Brunert

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57 minutes

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Today
20:00
BBC Radio 4
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00316l1

2026-03-10 1530-1600

Debt and Wealth Inequality
Thinking Allowed

What does an 18-month study of residents on a housing estate in southern England tell us about living with debt? Laurie Taylor talks to Ryan Davey from Cardiff University about his new book The Personal Life of Debt - Coercion, Subjectivity and Inequality in Britain, which tries to understand how debt affects people emotionally as well as economically.

Laurie is also joined by Sarah Kerr (LSE International Inequalities Institute), whose book, Wealth, Poverty and Enduring Inequality - Let’s Talk Wealtherty, investigates the stubborn persistence of inequality in the UK. Kerr argues that the gap between top and bottom earners has become entrenched and normalised across generations.

Producer: Natalia Fernandez

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28 minutes

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Sunday
06:05
BBC Radio 4

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https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002sfvg