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1984: YTS Trainees on the State of Britain | A Moment to Talk | BBC Archive
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14:44Now PlayingA group of Youth Training Scheme trainees at the Tyne North Engineering Centre in Wallsend, Tyneside stop for a breather, to talk about their lives, jobs and concerns. Among the topics they discuss are education, employment, nuclear war, the imperial and metric systems of measurement, politics, and the harsh reality of moving from school onto the YTS scheme.
Clip taken from A Moment to Talk: YTS Trainees, originally broadcast on BBC Two, 19 August, 1984.
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