Uploaded March 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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"She's from the United States, she can't be upper class!"

Esther Rantzen and Australian body language expert Allan Pease take to the streets of Park Lane in London, to see if they can accurately identify upper class people.


Clip taken from That's Life!, originally broadcast on BBC One, 9 February, 1986.





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