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The book Angela's Ashes is a pretty solid read. Life in a poor area of Limerick Ireland.
by rbobby 8y ago
The book Angela's Ashes is a pretty solid read. Life in a poor area of Limerick Ireland.
- DanBC 8y agoThe film Ratcatcher (1999) is about a boy growing up in tenements and dreaming of moving out to a new housing development. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0171685/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1 https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0171685/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1 The Scheme is a tv documentary about an estate in Kilmarnock. I don't like programmes like this, but it's not the worst of its kind. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9X6KfCYJx_g https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9X6KfCYJx_g Poor Kids (2011?) shows children living in poverty in the UK. It's pretty grim for one of the richest nations in the world. Note that austerity started only a couple of years before the programme was shown, and the "bedroom tax" and the benefit cap were introduced after this programme was shown: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9aSp9bFmMg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9aSp9bFmMg https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b011vnls https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b011vnls
- arethuza 8y agoBill Forsyth (who went on to make Local Hero) did a nice wee comedy set in Glasgow in the 1970s - That Sinking Feeling: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/That_Sinking_Feeling https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/That_Sinking_Feeling