by Alan Plater
Starring Thora Hird, Robert Keegan, James Grout and Henry Knowles

A hundred men are sacked from a major Furness plant. Another three hundred are threatened with the loss of their jobs in a couple of months' time. This has serious consequences in an area of underemployment like Furness. Will Tarrant, George Kingston, and Sarah Danby each react to the situation in their own way and their respective attitudes typify much of the malaise of Britain today. Perhaps even more telling, though, is the way that author Alan Plater has depicted the reactions of the main sufferers of the event, one of the sacked men - Jameson - and his wife.