A weekly programme which focuses on people and the situations which shape their lives
Reporters: Jim Douglas Henry, Jeremy James, Jeanne La Chard, John Pitman,
Gillian Strickland, Desmond Wilcox, Harold Williamson

This week: Born to Lose
A Twilight Zone sounds as though it might be something natural, even attractive. But it's the name given by planners and pundits to a condition of despair. In nearly every city in this country there are Twilight Zones: where the poor are powerless, the needy neglected and the future is dark and without help. Those born into this kind of twilight can expect nothing but the worst schools, the worst hospitals and the worst housing, and should expect nothing more for their children and their children's children. If you get on, you get out. But most are trapped-in a cycle where aspiration, even self-respect, dies young.
In London at Whitsun, some of them marched from one Twilight area to another. While most of us relaxed they tried to protest. Man Alive marched with them and looked at what they are struggling to escape; and asks-is there any way out if you are born to lose?
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