大象传媒

Sophie is from Jarrow on Tyneside, from where in 1936, 207 unemployed men marched almost 300 miles to the Houses of Parliament to protest about poverty and unemployment. Sophie investigate the reasons behind the Jarrow march by piecing together evidence from contemporary interviews and archive material from the time, to build a picture of why protesters took action, and what they achieved. The Jarrow March became a key moment in British history, and as Sophie sets out on her own journey to discover its origins, she is shocked by the conditions faced at the time by the people of Jarrow. Despite the men receiving a cool welcome in London, the march paved the way for the introduction of the welfare state in 1945, with a promise never to return to the conditions of the 1930s.