Lowborn: growing up, getting away and returning to Britain's poorest towns

Kerry Hudson Is Proudly Working Class But She Was Never Proudly Poor. The Poverty She Grew Up In Was All-encompassing, Grinding And Often Dehumanising. Always On The Move With Her Single Mother, Kerry Attended Nine Primary Schools And Five Secondaries, Living In B & Bs And Council Flats. She Scores Eight Out Of Ten On The Adverse Childhood Experiences Measure Of Childhood Trauma. Twenty Years Later, Kerry's Life Is Unrecognisable. She's A Prizewinning Novelist Who Has Travelled The World. She Has A Secure Home, A Loving Partner And Access To Art, Music, Film And Books. But She Often Finds Herself Looking Over Her Shoulder, Caught Somehow Between Two Worlds. Lowborn Is Kerry's Exploration Of Where She Came From. She Revisits The Towns She Grew Up In To Try To Discover What Being Poor Really Means In Britain Today And Whether Anything Has Changed. She Also Journeys Into The Hardest Regions Of Her Own Childhood, Because Sometimes In Order To Move Forwards We First Have To Look Back. 1. Aberdeen 1980 -- 2. Hue 2017 -- 3. Aberdeen 1981 -- 4. Liverpool 2017 -- 5. Aberdeen 2017 -- 6. Latvia 2017 -- 7. Aberdeen 1983 -- 8. Liverpool 2018 -- 9. Aberdeen 2018 -- 10. Canterbury 1986 -- 11. Liverpool 2018 -- 12. Canterbury 2018 -- 13. Airdriel987 -- 14. Airdrie2018 -- 15. North Shields 1988 -- 16. Hetton-le-hole 1989 -- 17. Hettm-le-hole 2018 -- 18. North Shields 2018 -- 19. Coatbridge 1991 -- 20. Coatbridge 2018 -- 21. Great Yarmouth 1995 -- 22. Great Yarmouth 1997 -- 23. Great Yarmouth 2018 -- 24. Great Yarmouth 1999 -- 25. Liverpool 2018. Kerry Hudson.