Network
- Title
- Network
- Genre
- Fiction; Documentary; Feature; Drama; Poetry
- TX Date
- 17 May 1981
- Year of production
- 1981
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- Duration
- 00:51:09
- Description
- 3 pieces. 1. Radio Hallam programme about Hadfields steelworks (Sheffield) and the work cuts that have happened due to the economic recession.2. Slate - An Elegy. 2CR programme about the slate industry, an elegy for the lost industry, part documentary, part poem mixing fact, fiction, myth, legend, verse, and dictionary definition with social comment. The words are mixed with sound.3. Hallam Radio presents a short story entitled Handyman. Presenters/speakers: Paul Raison, Sean Street, Penny Seager, Jane Butler, Chris Cobb, Christopher Mellows, Eric Bean.
- Contributors
- Paul Raison; Sean Street; Penny Seager; Jane Butler; Chris Cobb; Eric Bean; 2CR; Radio Hallam; Christopher Mellows
- Keywords
- Miners; Unemployment; Steel industry; Steelworks; Economic recession; Slate industry; Hadfields Steelworks; Sheffield; Dismissal from employment; Iron and steel workers; Redundancies
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