What Is Your Working Class?: Recent Episodes
Aidan Teplitzky
What is working-classness today? How does our working-classness impact our work and our lives?
What Is Your Working Class? is a new podcast exploring the rich variety that exists in working-classness today by talking to a range of artists, sociologists, and organisations that deal with class within their work. Each episode features a different guest talking about their work and covering subjects such as working-class representation, the complexity of meritocracy, class shame and pride, and how class intersects with gender, race, and sexuality.
Kirsty Thomas is an artist and the founder of Make Bank, an organisation who provides creative kits to secondary school children struggling with the additional costs of art subjects.
Orla O'Connor is a Theatre Maker and creative director of the Lit Theatre Company based in Nottingham.
Chris Neville helps to run The Beehive, an organisation providing working class political education in Greater Manchester.
Paul MacAlindin is a conductor and the artistic director of the Glasgow Barons, Govan’s own orchestra focussing on revitalising local venues with performances and makes music with Govan’s diverse communities.
Museum as Muck is a network of working-class people aiming to improve the working-class diversity in the museum sector.
The 93% Club are a network for state-schooled university students to gain better access to industries dominated by private school graduates. Fin Wright is the Marketing and Communications Director for the 93% Club.
Frances Hatherley is a freelance writer and curator and an associate research fellow at the Jo Spence Memorial Library Archive at Birkbeck University London.
Evangeline Harrison is an artist specialising in making puppets and community work originally from Burton-upon-Trent and now based in Leeds.
Cath Shayler is an artist and filmmaker originally from East Yorkshire and now based in London.
Beth Hughes is a researcher and curator originally from Warrington and now based in London and the curational lead for the Working Class British Art Network.
Jennifer Forward-Hayter is a photographer based in London and Dorset primarily focused on documentary and social performance.