| Description | Tracks 1 - 9: Actuality with a young man, Colin Price, from the East End of London and Charles Parker. Price talks about being forced to do surveying as part of his O-Level course in building as he was judged to have more 'ability' than other students. Price discusses his reasons for not wanting to continue to further education. He talks about his aspiration to be an electrician. Price discusses the changes in housing and in the Docklands area of Tower Hamlets and rising unemployment. He talks about his prospects for finding work after he finishes his O-Levels. Price describes what it is like to live in tower blocks, with reference to vandalism and his ideas about a solution to vandalism. He discusses whether there is a feeling of community in his tower block.
Tracks 10 - 13: Actuality with Martin Eaton, a teenager of Irish heritage from Bethnal Green, East London and Charles Parker. Eaton describes the housing in his area; the buildings are pre-war in the housing estate that he lives in. He talks about how he feels that there is a lack of community spirit in his area. Eaton describes his experience of changing from primary school to a secondary school, with reference to his teachers and how they influenced how he settled in. He talks about which lessons he enjoyed and why.
Total: 32.42 mins
Dubber's reference number: PLA KF571E0549280 |