Analysis
Darren McGarvey interviews a number of guests in his new four-part series including Hugo Rifkind, the son of a Tory grandee CLASS is one of the defining concepts of life, Scotland and capitalism – but barely receives much informed analysis on our TV screens. Instead, we are offered unstated but loaded assumptions in news, TV documentaries and countless other programmes, with a distinct bias on how success, aspiration and failure are seen and judged. In today’s environment Darren McGarvey’s Class Wars – a new four-part series on BBC Scotland – is a breath of fresh air, the first two of which have been aired. This is in the context of today’s media a watershed series, something which breaks through the barriers and unstated assumptions which shape TV broadcasting and commissioning. This is serious TV with complexity, intelligence, heart and explicit politics.