Dread Beat and Blood - ACE065.7

Johnson talks about his early working life and going back to college. Having gained an Honours degree in Sociology from Goldsmiths College, he couldn’t find a job. Johnson sitting in on music recording session. His VO describes the demoralisation of being out of work. Johnson arranging books and doing deskwork. His VO describes getting a job with the Keskidee Centre. Johnson with group of young people, one of them reading aloud. Groups of young men playing cards. Johnson’s VO. Discussion group: young man describing police raid on a party. Johnson’s VO explains that many of the youths at the Keskidee centre have been in trouble with the police, often for no reason. Another young man relates a personal experience of being arrested – having committed no crime – while waiting at a bus stop.