When the Dog Bites

Film questions whether the encouragement of very low paid jobs and schemes both in general and specifically how they function in the area affected by the closure of the Consett steelworks in 1980 is a sufficiently visionary response to the question of survival in postindustrial Britain Local people talk about their experiences an escapologist performs and a drag act sings Plus drama sequence in which Bill tells Rose that making a fortune is easy BFI