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How We Used to Live is a British educational historical television drama written by Freda Kelsall and sometimes narrated by Redvers Kyle and John Crosse, both employed as continuity announcers at Yorkshire Television at the time of production. Production began in 1968 at the YTV studios in Leeds. The series traced the lives and fortunes of various fictional Yorkshire families from the Victorian era until the 1960s, in and around the fictional town of Bradley, using self-contained short dramas interspersed with archive footage.
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Episode 1 - 1936 Head of the Family
Release Date: 1981-09-23The Hodgkins family lives in a new suburb of a Yorkshire manufacturing town. Arthur, a railwayman, is buying the semi-detached house on a mortgage, having moved from rented accommodation in a terrace during the building boom of the early 'thirties. His wife, Mabel, devotes herself to the home and their family of four children, Jimmy (14), Patricia (12), Avril (8), and Edward (2).
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Episode 2 - 1937 Counting the Cost
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Episode 3 - 1938 Holiday with Pay
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Episode 4 - 1939: Hospital Case
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Episode 5 - 1939: Goodnight Children Everywhere
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Episode 6 - 1940: Home from Home
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Episode 7 - 1942: Stars and Stripes
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Episode 8 - 1943: Make Do and Mend
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Episode 9 - 1943: Take a Man’s Place
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Episode 10 - 1944: Peace on Earth
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Episode 11 - 1945: Let us Face the Future
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Episode 12 - 1946: Full Supporting Programme
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Episode 13 - 1947: Cold Comfort
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Episode 14 - 1947: A New Look
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Episode 15 - 1948: Full Steam Ahead
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Episode 16 - 1948: On the National Health
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Episode 17 - 1949: On the Move
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Episode 18 - 1951: A Tonic for the Nation
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Episode 19 - 1952: We Have Travelled a Hard Road
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Episode 20 - 1953: Your Undoubted Queen
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