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Snakes & Ladders

Award-winning documentary-maker Cathy FitzGerald hops up and down the Snakes & Ladders board to hear stories of poverty and wealth.

An audio game of Snakes & Ladders in which the board squares represent the gradations of wealth in the UK today. Award-winning documentary-maker Cathy FitzGerald hops up and down the board to talk to people with very different incomes about their relationship to money.

Interviewees: Teona Bonsu, Bobby Bates, George Buchanan, Ade Hassan, Russ Davey, Simon Russell and Christine Isaacs.

Photo: David Gochfeld

Presented and produced by Cathy FitzGerald
Executive Producer: Sarah Cuddon
A White Stiletto production for 大象传媒 Radio 4

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37 minutes

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