Are The Kids Alright? BRASS TACKS, BBC TV, 1979 (Intro)

The opening sequence of one of the programmes in the BBC’s flagship current affairs series of the late 70s/early 80s, ’Brass Tacks’, broadcast in August 1979. Footage from this film is included in several BBC documentaries on the Punk era and in Julian Temple’s film, ’The Filth and the Fury’. RADIO TIMES BILLING: “With unemployment running at twice the national average, and further redundancies in the shipyards, the age of leisure has come early for many of Sunderland’s youngsters. “Michael is 16, on the