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What has happened to working-class identity? On Radio 4's Start the Week, Adam Rutherford explored the political fractures within families and communities:

• Nicola Wilding discussed These Wild English: A Family, a Class, a Country on Fire, tracing three generations of her family and the pull of belonging, nationalism and far-right politics amid economic decline.
• Natasha Carthew drew on her personal experience of growing up poor in Cornwall in her latest work. Rough Edges brings to light the inequalities shaping coastal communities, where austerity, second homes and seasonal work deepen divisions and marginalisation. ("There are no blue plaques for people like us.")
• The poet Daljit Nagra reflected on his upbringing in a predominantly white working-class town for his collection, Yiewsley, exploring race, migration and the cultural shifts that have reshaped Britain from the post-war years to the present