UK TV industry is too 'squeamish' to discuss what it means to be working-class, claims top writer

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Leading TV writer James Graham said the amount of people working in television from lower socio-economic backgrounds 'maybe worse than it's ever been'.

The TV industry has been too 'squeamish' to discuss what it means to be working-class and so has excluded it from discussions about diversity, a leading TV writer has said.

Graham, 42, said that unlike other areas of underrepresentation in Britain, such as race or sexuality, that when it came to issues of class people did not 'feel it' as much 'in our bones'.Mr Graham claims the TV industry has been too 'squeamish' to discuss what it means to be working-class. Graham said of working class diversity: 'And yet – we are squeamish about defining it, and as a result, we quite often still exclude it from industry measurements around diversity.

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