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| This film, specially commissioned for this Channel 4 series and successfully premiered at last November's London Film Festival, is one of the most easily accessible Eleventh Hour presentations. THE BEAT, BLACK SLATE, TOM ROBINSON, OK JIVE and ALEXEI SAYLE top the bill of the last concert to be filmed at the Rainbow. But the film is more than an enjoyable record of those performances - though it is certainly that as well. In between the comedy and the rhythms of reggae and two-tone comes testimony from young people about the situation that created this concert. For the time was November 1981, unemployment was already topping three million, and the TUC staged the event as a concert for the unemployed. In the film young people trace links between slavery, 'the new technology' and the dole queue in which they now find themselves. As Clive Hodgson wrote in the London Film Festival programme notes "As an urgent social document, Maxim Ford's film inevitably raises more questions than it answers. But perhaps the most unanswerable material it confronts us with is the well-articulated grievances of a generation whose aspirations may never be realised." Prod: Sally Hibbin Dir: Maxim Ford Prod co: Parallax Pictures C4 commissioning editor: Alan Fountain | |
| Broadcast | 11:00pm on Monday, 10th January 1983 |
| Strand | The Eleventh Hour |
| Alternate Title | - |
| Duration | 78 minutes |
| Genre | Documentary, Music |
| IMDb ID | tt1260673 |
| Director | Maxim Ford |
| Writer | |
| Cast | The Beat, Martin Besserman, Barry Ford, Tom Robinson, Alexei Sayle, Black Slate |
| Language | English |
| Repeat | No |
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