BBC SCHOOLS - GOING TO WORK: Work With People (TX 29/10/1984)

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  • We're off to Marks & Spencer, West Everton Age Concern, Ealing Squash Club and Hammersmith Hospital to talk to young workers who work with the public. Continuity includes Follows Shortly Slide with Music and Daytime on BBC2 Ident. From my own personal collection of VHS video tapes. Uploaded purely for educational purposes only.

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  • @geoffjoffy
    @geoffjoffy Місяць тому +50

    These old schools programes are a lot more interesting than the adult programmes they make today. Thanks.

    • @sybildisobedience500
      @sybildisobedience500 Місяць тому +4

      Agree 100%. I was so lucky to go to a state school in the 1970s.

    • @geoffjoffy
      @geoffjoffy Місяць тому

      ​@@sybildisobedience500 🙂

  • @louwoods9278
    @louwoods9278 Місяць тому +14

    in the 70s we would eagerly sit on the floor in the hall to await the arrival of the big cabinet tv to watch tv instead of being in the classroom!

    • @neil73
      @neil73 Місяць тому +1

      And pretend to dance to the cranky theme music. Same at my primary school

    • @AnnaBellaChannel
      @AnnaBellaChannel Місяць тому

      We did that in 1980's and 1990's too!

    • @mistofoles
      @mistofoles 22 дні тому

      @@AnnaBellaChannel Aha ! We actually had a darkened "Television Room" !

  • @AddyBittler-
    @AddyBittler- Місяць тому +21

    What a pleasant young fella mark is 👍..

  • @s.m975
    @s.m975 Місяць тому +14

    I wonder where Mark is now, and what he's doing

  • @lillymay3632
    @lillymay3632 Місяць тому +10

    The narrator, Julia Watson, very well spoken. How refreshing to hear good English being spoken.

    • @catofong6905
      @catofong6905 29 днів тому +2

      Quite right, but she would never get the job these days, she'd be slagged off for being too posh. Or elitist. Or...

    • @alanprior7650
      @alanprior7650 26 днів тому

      I think it is the same Julia Watson that was in the TV series "Casualty".

  • @sugarfree1894
    @sugarfree1894 Місяць тому +19

    Bless those girls looking after the old people

    • @bardo0007
      @bardo0007 Місяць тому +3

      Now they are old themselves, hope someone looking after them

    • @leefr76
      @leefr76 Місяць тому +3

      @@bardo0007don’t think they are that old!! Probably in their late 50’s and still working.

    • @DL-go1xh
      @DL-go1xh Місяць тому

      And they bring the change back - dont secretly drain the bank accounts. See, some honest scousers out there. Cant believe this was 1984 in that footage.

    • @goldieandblackie
      @goldieandblackie Місяць тому

      @@bardo0007 Fat chance of that today.

  • @markquelch9142
    @markquelch9142 Місяць тому +4

    First thing that stands out is how smart he looks . Shirt , tie , trousers and white Jacket. It's a look that helps give a person personal pride.
    Reminds me of how postman used to dress Peak Cap, shirt ,tie, trousers and blazer not like the scruffy uniforms they wear these days, half of them looks like they have slept in their uniform.

  • @atalanta9353
    @atalanta9353 Місяць тому +3

    When the big TV trolley was wheeled into the classroom and you could smell the Spam fritters frying. I loved school.

  • @rt492
    @rt492 Місяць тому +11

    Did you know that lQ peaked in 1975 in the UK? Every year since then average lQ has fallen. A consistent dumbing down. Once you see it, you realise it’s everywhere.

    • @Talentedtadpole
      @Talentedtadpole Місяць тому +1

      I blame Thatcher!

    • @shadowside8433
      @shadowside8433 29 днів тому

      IQ is just a stat to be twisted, in fact twisted more than most. Ignore it.

  • @rabbit64sj91
    @rabbit64sj91 Місяць тому +8

    Really interesting. I started my working life in 1980, aged sixteen. Enjoyed seeing the decade in which my young adult life began. 😀

  • @ianwraith3251
    @ianwraith3251 Місяць тому +21

    Interesting how this made for teenagers (?) 80s show assumes a higher level of intelligence & concentration in their audience than a modern BBC TV documentary for adults. Its modern equivalent would have needed to explain what a hospital was at the very start then a recap every 5 mins just in case the audience had forgotten or something. Also the presenter would definitely have needed to go on a 'journey'.

    • @Jade_holloway
      @Jade_holloway Місяць тому +3

      Accurate

    • @DL-go1xh
      @DL-go1xh Місяць тому +4

      Attention deficit today due to prevalence of screens - and nothing is real to audiences now.

    • @lillymay3632
      @lillymay3632 Місяць тому +2

      Today Mark would not be 'very' busy; he'd be 'super' busy. Language was more eloquent in those days.

    • @WillScarlet1991
      @WillScarlet1991 Місяць тому +1

      Dumbing down. It's all deliberate. Was planned for years. Easier to control the population.

  • @stevecooksley
    @stevecooksley Місяць тому +3

    I remember watching these as a kid and thinking how boring work looked compared to school. I was right.

  • @Highland_Moo
    @Highland_Moo Місяць тому +20

    Thank you so much for uploading these. I was born in the late 70s and it’s great seeing the programmes I watched as a kid.

    • @stevenjackson3906
      @stevenjackson3906 Місяць тому +1

      The same here. I went on a school trip circa 1989 to Liverpool and saw Fred Talbot doing his weather forecast running around his giant map of Britain that was moored in the docks. The camera panned over to us kids and we all waved!

    • @benfisher1376
      @benfisher1376 Місяць тому +5

      I'm the same. Born in 1978. I recall things like Look and Read, Words and Pictures and Zig Zag.

  • @andyt8216
    @andyt8216 Місяць тому +5

    I was 9 years old…and now I’m 49 and wondering what I can do to retire early 😅

  • @naysmith5272
    @naysmith5272 Місяць тому +7

    very good - long before I even thought about getting a job

  • @MagratheaLegend
    @MagratheaLegend 28 днів тому

    Mark - aged 19/46 🤣What a brilliant young man. Need more of him today.

  • @maverickhistorian6488
    @maverickhistorian6488 Місяць тому +5

    Here I am now, knackered and unable to work due to various health issues.

  • @sie4431
    @sie4431 Місяць тому +7

    What a great resource, I wonder if the companies themselves have copies in their archives and what the story behind this channel is
    Pat must be in her early 50's now. I wonder if she has ever seen this episode and if she'll ever come across it. It'd be quite unusual for anyone over 40 to have footage of themselves

  • @martinhsl68hw
    @martinhsl68hw Місяць тому +9

    Wow - post apocalyptic Liverpool! 8:29

    • @DL-go1xh
      @DL-go1xh Місяць тому +2

      Like a scene from 'Threads' isn't it? Nuclear winter.

    • @freedomvigilant1234
      @freedomvigilant1234 Місяць тому +1

      Was this filmed just after a riot?

  • @AntonFanify
    @AntonFanify Місяць тому +4

    Daytime on 2 continuity announcer was Mike Gamble.

  • @yesdemp
    @yesdemp Місяць тому +4

    Utter devastation in Everton but the indomitable Scouse spirt in young and old shines through...

  • @AlecFlackie
    @AlecFlackie Місяць тому +2

    I recognise the model in the background from when I worked at Hammersmith Hospital.

  • @mistofoles
    @mistofoles 22 дні тому

    The television we had at our school was huge thing on a stand with wheels ( Probably a Ferguson ) It also had lockable doors over the screen when it wasn't in use.

  • @AddyBittler-
    @AddyBittler- Місяць тому +5

    Excellent idea for a channel 👍

  • @cantstopthemusic456
    @cantstopthemusic456 Місяць тому +5

    awesome bit o music for the bbc?

  • @stephenguppy7882
    @stephenguppy7882 Місяць тому +1

    If only M&S was like that today, with over 95% of its goods made in Britain.

  • @Rob-qn6od
    @Rob-qn6od Місяць тому +20

    BBC SCHOOLS - Becoming a wage slave - working with slaves

    • @klawlor3659
      @klawlor3659 Місяць тому +8

      Ain't that the fucking truth! "Satisfying aspects of going to work"....don't make me laugh!😅

  • @yanikkunitsin1466
    @yanikkunitsin1466 28 днів тому +1

    6:18 - wait a minute, where did that fancy nurses uniform went? Never seen one like this.

  • @flutterbyenterprises8452
    @flutterbyenterprises8452 Місяць тому +2

    Make a program about these people getting near pension age.....

  • @goldieandblackie
    @goldieandblackie Місяць тому

    The Squash courts only closed in 2019 and Mark was still working at age 58.

  • @user-eg8pv2om7j
    @user-eg8pv2om7j Місяць тому +1

    Got the big Telly trolley out with the VHS video in the bandit proof, kiddy resistant metal box time.
    What will it be ? Sex , biology ?
    Oh this !
    Damn

  • @jackiemartinez2513
    @jackiemartinez2513 25 днів тому

    Update on Mark please!!!!!!! ❤

  •  Місяць тому +2

    Oh for an England now lost to us.

  • @FoxyFox999
    @FoxyFox999 Місяць тому

    Working with people has many drawbacks. Must be solitary !!
    Can't hurt myself.

  • @alzeNL
    @alzeNL Місяць тому +1

    Dumb down broadcasting has really helped society hasnt it... bring back BBC Schools, I might start to think the licence fee is worth paying

  • @Ladygaga4047
    @Ladygaga4047 Місяць тому

    I do the same job as mark. He's cool

  • @Rob-uv8bu
    @Rob-uv8bu Місяць тому +1

    No wonder state broadcaster don't get people watching it

  • @rachelwest6429
    @rachelwest6429 Місяць тому

    Shame to see how bad hospitals are nowadays. World of difference back then. Ward sisters strict cleaning and very organised. 😮😮

  • @DL-go1xh
    @DL-go1xh Місяць тому +1

    M&S - St. Micheal's branding. 'Twee' uniforms 'ala' Laura Ashley country.

  • @shadowside8433
    @shadowside8433 29 днів тому

    Wasn't this program made in 1981? Quite a gap between production and transmission.

    • @MrBfdpkave
      @MrBfdpkave 27 днів тому +1

      It was probably a repeat, schools programmes were usually repeated annually

    • @shadowside8433
      @shadowside8433 27 днів тому

      @@MrBfdpkave good point!

    • @WillScarlet1991
      @WillScarlet1991 6 днів тому

      @@shadowside8433 What makes you think this was in 1981?

    • @shadowside8433
      @shadowside8433 6 днів тому

      @@WillScarlet1991 Maybe I miss read it, but isn't the Roman Numerals at the end 1981?

    • @WillScarlet1991
      @WillScarlet1991 6 днів тому

      @@shadowside8433 That was the end of an earlier programme.

  • @assistantto007
    @assistantto007 Місяць тому

    Where Mark nowadays?

  • @DavidMander-rs4uk
    @DavidMander-rs4uk Місяць тому +1

    Working for a minimum wage in a hum drum job doing the same ol' thing week in week out to pay for very expensive places to live...What a boring life with barely any money for enjoying yourself!

  • @martinsmith1870
    @martinsmith1870 Місяць тому +20

    Now all these lucky baby boomers are retired with massive pensions and mortgage free houses worth hundreds of thousands. While the generation who watched this at school live in rented homes struggling on minimum wage with no prospect of retiring. Thank you Britain 👍

    • @AndrewDaley-lr9qg
      @AndrewDaley-lr9qg Місяць тому +5

      You really believe that don't you.

    • @TinaLouise73
      @TinaLouise73 Місяць тому +5

      yup! it's a great divide between poor and rich! being a single person divorced no young children living at home I find my life boring sad and lonely most of the time and I worked for years in my past but due to severe health issues now I can't work an entry level job and I have 0 skills to work in an office type of job 50 years old n may aswel be on the garbage heap 😐

    • @numberstation
      @numberstation Місяць тому

      Hang on a minute. I’m the generation that watched this and left my failing comprehensive school a year later when there was massive unemployment. Like a lot of other kids I took every shitty job going in factories, often travelling on buses and trains from one side of the city to another and sometimes further than that, just so I could earn a wage. Eventually I paid into a pension (though I needed every penny I could get to raise my kids and buy a house) and if I’m lucky enough to live that long (after a lifetime of shift work, dust and fumes) I might get to put my feet up at the end of it in a few years. But do you know what? My parent’s generation had it WAY harder than me. And yet you sit there jealousy whining about people who slogged for decades and finally got to own their own home and draw a pension, as if it was all handed to them on a plate? Grow up and stop whinging, you tit.

    • @numberstation
      @numberstation Місяць тому

      What a repulsive person you are, jealous of working class people who grafted hard all their lives in tough jobs just so they could buy a house, raise a family and draw a pension for a few years at the end of it, yet you act like it was given to them on a plate. They earned everything they got. Grow up and stop whining.

    • @louisesomers5560
      @louisesomers5560 Місяць тому +1

      Born 1970 house bought and paid for

  • @mistofoles
    @mistofoles Місяць тому +3

    Is this Mark guy an impostor ? I'm sure that's the same guy who was called "Andrew" in another episode of GTW and he was a trainee hairdresser !

    • @debrarufini6906
      @debrarufini6906 Місяць тому +3

      Mark also had a hit in the charts in 1984 with a song titled: Somebody's Watching Me. Mark, aka Rockwell, was very busy during 1984.

    • @mandysjuice2811
      @mandysjuice2811 Місяць тому +3

      Not Rockwell 😂

    • @debrarufini6906
      @debrarufini6906 Місяць тому

      @@mandysjuice2811 ;-) ;-) ;-)

    • @commandingjudgedredd1841
      @commandingjudgedredd1841 Місяць тому +1

      No surprises from the BBC. Shysters then, shysters now.

    • @tonyhancock3912
      @tonyhancock3912 Місяць тому +2

      I thought the BBC were great back then. More of a laughing stock now sadly ☹

  • @keymeter1917
    @keymeter1917 Місяць тому

    Thought mark was a dr, when i first saw him.

  • @AnnaBellaChannel
    @AnnaBellaChannel Місяць тому +1

    GOING TO WORK: Work With People = Torture!

  • @commandingjudgedredd1841
    @commandingjudgedredd1841 Місяць тому

    Going to join the Rat Race.

  • @user-wb7lv7qj2t
    @user-wb7lv7qj2t Місяць тому

    When I was a trainee porter back in 78 it was great,sometimes you’d be on your own so it was a brilliant excuse to sneak off and have a kip somewhere,then when my boss asked where ide been I would say “I’m new here and got lost but I’m getting better now” great stuff

  • @TinaLouise73
    @TinaLouise73 Місяць тому

    a gritty reality old style look into entry level jobs! no encouragement and drive to carry on into further education which for the "select" few is a privalidge but diversity shud be for ALL no matter wot their socio economic status is! great programme anyway into this sort of work!

  • @user-wb7lv7qj2t
    @user-wb7lv7qj2t Місяць тому

    Get these ridiculous morning tv programmes off air and replace them with these,the kids need a good laugh in school