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What Does It Sound Like? Language

Barrister Hashi Mohamed reads his account of social mobility in modern Britain using his own experience to explore questions of race, class, education and language.

Barrister Hashi Mohamed arrived in London aged nine, as a child refugee. In People Like Us he explores the opportunities for social mobility in the UK. In this episode he concentrates on language, on accent and how we are often judged not only on what we say, but how we say it.

Producer: Nicola Holloway
Abridged by Sara Davies

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14 minutes

Last on

Fri 23 Oct 2020 00:30

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  • Thu 22 Oct 2020 09:45
  • Fri 23 Oct 2020 00:30