Polly Toynbee – An Uneasy Inheritance (politics)

One of our most respected, prolific and razor-sharp voices in social commentary, Polly Toynbee has written a colourful and entertaining examination of her own family, a family that contains everyone from the Glenconners to Jessica Mitford to Bertrand Russell, and features the ancestral home Castle Howard as a backdrop. She uses her forebears as the prism through which to examine the true state of class in Britain. 

Polly Toynbee is a journalist, author, and broadcaster. A Guardian columnist and broadcaster, she was formerly the BBC’s social affairs editor. She has written for the Observer, the Independent and Radio Times and been an editor at the Washington Monthly. She has won numerous awards including a National Press Award and the Orwell Prize for Journalism.

In conversation with Matt Stadlen