One of the best documentaries I've seen in the last few years. In these four hour-long episodes, Mr McGarvey explores how important social class is in today's Scotland, examining the topic from a lot of various angles (from accent to postcode lottery, from crime to sport, from grouse shooting to zero-hour contracts ... whatever aspect you can think of, he probably looks at it) and talking about it with many people directly involved, whether professionally or by a particular personal experience.
His conclusion is depressing: however changed in shape (with landed gentry superseded by financiers and so on), class distinctions are as real today, and social mobility as pathetic, as they were one or two hundred years ago. (Which makes his personal, likewise documented, struggle with his own identity of a former working-class rapper, who based his career on being vocal against social inequality and the middle class, but who now finds he's turned middle-class himself, all the more difficult.)
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