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and women. In The Decameronn, a group of
people tell tales to pass the time, as they
shelter outside Florence, to escape the
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of their show stopped due to Covid-19, they
turned the show into an aural experience
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thetimes.co.uk/bulletinsThe Yorkshire Jobcentre
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he Yorkshire Jobcentre
had one of the most
unintentionally hilarious
introductions that I have
seen in a while. A job seeker
explained to his “work coach” that
he’d had a lot of applications rejected.
Why was that? “’Because I’ve just
come out of jail for kidnapping and
threats to kill,” he said. Ah. But the
work coach’s professionalism did not
falter. A man who had committed an
armed robbery recently got a job, he
said, so all was not lost. Yes, but mycrime was “putting someone in the
boot of a car” came the deadpan
reply. Ah.
The humour may have been
deliberate, because this was a very
jaunty look at unemployment set to a
funky soundtrack including the theme
tune to Big Little Lies. Perhaps the
producers, who filmed in the lead-up
to the pandemic, wished they had
downplayed the jolliness now that
Covid-19 is causing massive job losses.
However, it was still strong stuff
thanks to cracking case studies on
both sides of the desk, illustrating
the “challenge” of people who are
“a long way from the job market”
and providing enough material for
two Alan Bennett plays. Karen, 61,
a former bookkeeper desperate for
a job if only to meet other people,
was just lovely.
Kenneth, 32, who sounded a bit like
Keith Lemon, had one of the most
cheery, positive attitudes I have seen
in a human being living off £13 a week
after bills. Hard to believe that he had
kicked off in the job centre, calling his
work coach a “slag” and saying he was
going to rip their jaw off. Then we
learnt more about Kenneth. His sister
had recently killed herself, Kenneth
having found her and attempted CPR.
His father died shortly afterwards. The
PTSD was written all over his face. A
film that began looking like a bit of a
piss-take ended as a poignant lessonin not judging anyone until you have
walked a mile in their shoes.
Socially distanced dramas are all
the rage, but Unsaid Stories, a series
of 15-minute films, are narratives
inspired by the Black Lives Matter
movement. The first, Generational by
Jerome Bucchan-Nelson, took its
energy from the friction between a
father, Oliver (Nicholas Pinnock), and
his 16-year-old daughter, Justina
(Yasmin Monet Prince), over protest
marching. In a simple but serious way
it pitted young idealist against older
cynic worn down by harsh reality.
Oliver forbade his daughter from
attending the rally because he said it
would change nothing. She accused
him of lazy complacency. “You’re part
of the problem.” But Oliver was hiding
a tragedy — his best friend had been
beaten to death by far-right thugs at
a protest rally when he was younger.
The police turned a blind eye, the
culprits were never caught. He was
clearly terrified of the same thing
happening to her, and what parent
wouldn’t feel exactly the same?
There were moments in this
two-hander when the script drifted
towards “political lecture”, telling
rather than showing, and it was all
resolved a bit too quickly (although
with the time constraint, perhaps that
was inevitable). Yet it was obvious that
it came from the heart. You felt that
Kenneth, in The Yorkshire Jobcentre, survives on £13 a week the tears of the actors were real.Deadpan laughs, but also a lesson in empathy
RYAN MCNAMARA/CHANNEL 4Carol
Midgley
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