Synopsis
This programme covers the 30's and the extent of the depression. Contemporay film-makers recorded a vivid picture of unemployment and bad housing-but was it all gloom.
- Programme: History File
- Series: 20th Century Wrap
- Episode: 3: 1930s: What Depression?
- Channel: BBC Two
- Broadcast year: 1995
- History
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