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Inheritocracy

by Eliza Filby

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Start the Week, BBC Radio 4 · September 22, 2024

Chance and fortune

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Historian Eliza Filby explores the nature of privilege and inherited wealth through her own family's experience, including her grandfather who won a house in a card game, making them 'working class accidental millionaires' able to pass fortune to later generations.

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