Tonight from BBC North Moving On
What's it like to be virtually imprisoned by an inability to read and write?
This film, originally made to mark the first year of the national adult literacy scheme, and the BBC's On the Move programmes, looks at how four people are overcoming problems that go back to their schooldays: the housewife with poetry in her head but unable to write it down; the lorry driver who couldn't understand road signs; the woman whose mother read aloud to her until she was nearly 50; the youth who wanted to be a mechanic but couldn't read a handbook.
Narrated and produced by ALLAN KASSELL
Series oo-ordinator FRANK GILLARD