Julie Hesmondhalgh: 'I wasn't aware of class until I went to drama school in London'
In an extract from her new book An Actor's Alphabet, the former Coronation Street and Broadchurch actor unpicks the prejudices that are still rife in the arts industry Our arts industry, like our country, is class-ridden. And yet to talk about class is often seen as a throwback. For decades, politicians have been trying to tell us that class doesn't exist, possibly in the hope that we'd all conveniently stop looking …