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What led to the demonization of the working class ? Owen Jones's book CHAVS : The Demonization of the Working Class suggests that the working class in Britain has gone from being the salt of the earth to the scum of the earth in a particular area of public opinion - the way that it is depicted in the media and by politicians. Simon Heffer, Bea Campbell, Richard Sennett and Owen Jones join Philip Dodd to discuss whether this change really has occurred and if so why. Is there any such thing as a working class now? And if there is then where is its voice and where does it go from here into a twenty-first century where more people in Britain now work in call centres than worked in the coal mines at the peak of their output?

The travel writer Patrick Leigh Fermor died last Friday and his death has been followed by an outpouring of respect and admiration from fellow writers. Colin Thubron talks about the man and his writing.

And there's a first night review of a new production of Schiller's play Luise Miller at the Donmar Warehouse in London, a new version by Mike Poulton.