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Poor Britain....

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Four programmes about life on - and below - the breadline.
1: Ordsall Flats
Salford's Ordsall flats were built In the 1940s as part of a brave new world to replace the squalor of 19th-century back-to-back housing. In 1982 many windows are boarded up, sewage flows from broken pipes, rats Inhabit piles of rotting refuse - and 130 families still live there.
Ian Breach reports
Producer ALASTAIR WILSON A File on 4 special series BBC Manchester

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Producer:
Alastair Wilson
Source: Radio Times

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