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To Have and Have Not, 1980-1995

Episode 3 of 4

Kirsty Young looks at work in the 80s and 90s, an era of startling contrasts where jobs could enrich and exhilarate or humble and humiliate people.

Kirsty Young looks at work in the 80s and 90s, an era of startling contrasts where our jobs could enrich and exhilarate or humble and humiliate. Kirsty meets people who were flush with entrepreneurial spirit, building careers and starting their own businesses, but also those who fell out of work during the collapse of traditional heavy industry. Dipping into the rich and humorous archive of the time, Kirsty also sees how the jobs themselves were changing, the places we worked in were shinier and how the time we spent there was getting longer and longer.

59 minutes

Music Played

  • Japan

    Quiet Life

  • The The

    Giant

  • Padded Cell

    Far Beneath London

  • The Cure

    Prayers For Rain

  • New Order

    Blue Monday

  • Sade

    When Am I Going To Make A Living

  • Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark

    Electricity

  • David Bowie

    A New Career In A New Town

  • The Smiths

    Frankly Mr Shankly

  • Heaven 17

    We Live So Fast

  • Roxy Music

    Same Old Scene

  • Kraftwerk

    Pocket Calculator

  • The Emperor Machine

    How To Build A Super Computer

  • Siouxsie and the Banshees

    Happy House

  • Grace Jones

    Demolition Man

  • The Human League

    Seconds

  • The Human League

    Sound Of The Crowd

  • Boards of Canada

    Smokes Quantity

  • David Holmes

    Theme/I.M.C.

  • Architecture in Helsinki

    Do The Whirlwind

Credits

Role Contributor
Presenter Kirsty Young
Presenter Kirsty Young
Director Kate Misrahi
Director Kate Misrahi
Producer Kate Misrahi
Producer Kate Misrahi
Series Producer Steve Condie
Series Producer Steve Condie
Executive Producer Darren Kemp
Executive Producer Darren Kemp

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