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'Going and Staying' by Thomas Hardy (dramatisation)
A dramatised introduction to Thomas Hardy's 'Going and Staying' in which he bemoans the changes taking place with the introduction of modern machines. The reading of the poem is illustrated with archive footage. We then see Hardy explaining the effects on society of increasing mechanisation.
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