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How to Break into the Elite review – our prejudiced society in action

Amol Rajan’s film exposed how employers recruit in their own image to maintain the unequal status quo. What a horrific waste of talent

We live in a society that sees some of the best minds of every generation squandered because they are not expressed in the right accent or presented in the right clothes.

That was the conclusion it was difficult to avoid by the end of Amol Rajan’s documentary How to Break into the Elite (BBC Two). It looked at the likelihood of today’s youth being able to replicate his journey from state school boy in south London to BBC media editor, and showed the progress – or otherwise – of graduates from various backgrounds as they attempted to start their professional lives.

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