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Michael Sheen is right – there is a class crisis in the arts

Actor Michael Sheen. Jeff Morgan 09/Alamy Dave O’Brien, University of Edinburgh and Mark Taylor, University of Sheffield The actor Michael Sheen recently complained about the lack of opportunities in film and journalism for working-class people. Writing in the New Statesman, Sheen said that the path he had taken into the film industry – as a working-class young man from South …