Social movements
A social movement is a loosely organized effort by a large group of people to achieve a particular goal, typically a social or political one. This may be to carry out a social change, or to resist or undo one.
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Multiculturalism
Melvyn Bragg examines whether it is possible to define how attitudes to race and identity have changed in the 20th century, given its vast shifts of population, cultures and peoples.
13 May 1999
Featuring: Stuart Hall, Avtar Brah
The Temperance Movement
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the British experience of teetotalism from the early 19th Century when abstaining from alcohol was a way for the new urban workers to get on in life.
3 February 2022
Featuring: Annemarie McAllister, James Kneale, David Buckingham