Unemployment
Four Thought. Series 3, Colin Crooks: The Let-Down Generation. Audio, 15 minutes
Social entrepreneur Colin Crooks argues that we are wrong to focus on youth unemployment.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
Analysis. Wasted Youth. Audio, 30 minutes
Paul Johnson asks why young school leavers face such difficulty finding stable jobs.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
File on 4 Investigates. Is Jobcentre Plus working? Audio, 40 minutes
Allan Urry reports from the communities already hardest hit by the rise in unemployment.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
Face the Facts. The Recruits. Audio, 27 minutes
A recruitment scheme which left jobseekers thousands of pounds in debt and without work.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
Face the Facts. Jobcentre Plus - Not Working. Audio, 26 minutes
John Waite examines claims that the jobcentre service is badly stretched.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
File on 4 Investigates. Incompetence within the Learning and Skills Council. Audio, 40 minutes
Gerry Northam investigates allegations of incompetence in the Learning and Skills Council.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
Things We Forgot to Remember. Series 4, The Jarrow March. Audio, 28 minutes
Michael Portillo uncovers a violent precursor to the dignified 1936 Jarrow March.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
Things We Forgot to Remember. Series 2, Jack the Ripper. Audio, 30 minutes
Michael Portillo investigates the fear Londoners felt in the late 1880s.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
Young In The Arab World. Rabat. Audio, 23 minutes
Unemployment is high in Rabat, capital of Morocco, with inevitable impact on young people
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
Development Dreams. Health. Audio, 13 minutes
At any one time a large proportion of the world is in ill health
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
Letter from America by Alistair Cooke. The Tokyo G8 summit and unemployment. Audio, 15 minutes
A recap of the 1992 G8 summit in Tokyo and the proposed solutions to unemployment.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
An English Alphabet. U. Audio, 13 minutes
U for unemployment. An alphabetised look at the way we live in Britain
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
Network UK. Margaret Thatcher's Legacy in the North East of England. Audio, 13 minutes
The prospects for Britain's Conservative Party after the resignation of Margaret Thatcher
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
Network UK. Hull Fishing Industry. Audio, 13 minutes
The decline of the fishing industry in Hull, North East England
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
Network UK. Decline of Farming in Swaledale, Yorkshire. Audio, 13 minutes
Price-pressure on the farmers of Swaledale
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
The Black Stuff. Video, 102 minutes
Classic early 1980s drama about a Merseyside tarmac gang away on a contract on Teesside.
- AttributionBBC One
- Available for 1 month
