Demolition squads and building contractors are changing the face of London's East End. The slum houses are going, the local families are being uprooted and moved either to new flats in the same district or to areas right outside London. But what about the old way of life-the friendly pubs, the street markets, the neighbourliness and solidarity-is all this going too?
Peter Willmott and Michael Young, both sociologists, describe what is happening in the Borough of Bethnal Green and introduce the recorded voices of people who live there.

(The recorded broadcast of May 14)