40 Minutes Season 1989
S1989 E20
Nov 23, 1989
Heart of the Angel Nov 23, 1989 This acclaimed observational documentary by BAFTA award winning director Molly Dineen is set at London’s Angel tube station in 1989, three years before its desperately needed renovation. The programme provides a humorous account of 48 hours in the life of the tube station, from the daily round of fraught commuters, overburdened lifts and cancelled trains to the nightly activities when 'fluffers', women who clean human hair and rubbish of the tracks to avoid a fire hazard and ‘the Permanent Way’, gangs of men who work with pickaxes in almost pitch-black conditions to renovate parts of the track, spring into action to prepare the line for the following day.
Two Sides of a Street John PITMAN looks at the residents of Cardross Street, Hammersmith W6. Young prof people are living side by side wth the older residnts who have rented their houses all their lives. Is it a cause for disharmony or do they all get along?