In the 20s and 30s there were many depressed areas in Britain, but Jarrow on Tyneside was one of the worst hit. Some men had been unemployed for 15 years. Jarrow's MP, Ellen Wilkinson, called it "the town that was murdered". In 1936, 200 unemployed Jarrow men marched some 300 miles to London to lay a petition before the House of Commons. They called it a Crusade and organised it with military efficiency. The story of that march is told in tonight's programme by Alderman David Riley, the marshal of the march; Alderman Paddy Scullion, J.B. Symonds and S.J. Rowan, his lieutenants; Mrs. Jean Clark, on the administrative side; and Lord Ritchie-Calder, then a journalist on the Daily Herald.

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