Are The Kids Alright? BRASS TACKS, BBC TV, 1979 (Intro)

"With unemployment running at twice the national average, and further redundancies in the shipyards, the age of leisure has come early for many of Sunderland's youngsters.

Michael is 16, on the dole, and buying a £300 guitar on HP. His recently-formed group -- The Rejected -- is receiving encouragement from the local community theatre, which also faces redundancies as government cutbacks begin to bite.

What use is Sunderland's £7-million leisure centre and its pedestrian precincts to Michael's generation? Indeed, what will make things all right for these kids?." (Radio Times, Tuesday 14 August 1979)

The opening to one of the programmes in the Brass Tacks series, transmitted from BBC TV Studio A, Oxford Road, Manchester in 1979.

Footage from this film is included in several BBC documentaries on the Punk era and in Julian Temple's film, The Filth and the Fury.

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Education

Tags:

• punk
• TV
• documentary
• 1970s
• 1979
• Sunderland