The Clash perform and talk politics with mp Joan Lestor , silly things happen on the London Tube, there's a report about Community Service Orders and we talk to advertising director Patricia Mann about the -' teenage image ". We even go over the sea to Skye! '
Eight young people from the Manchester area got together to produce tonight's programme, which includes music from The Jam and Joy Division; Cyril Smith, MP, on the subject of teenagers and booze; punk poet John Cooper Clarke being embarrassing in the shopping centre; a documentary by an 18-year-old single parent; and some views on violence and the police.
Eight young people from in and around Birmingham produced this programme. There will be films about Rastafarianism, a black community centre and the problems of being a young Asian, music from The Specials and poems from Linton Kwesi Johnson , a discussion on fashion and - humour?
Eight young people from Devon and Cornwall got together to produce this programme, which features music from Siouxsie and the Banshees and some local bands. There are film reports about the problems of school-leavers out in the sticks, the notorious Union Street in Plymouth, and the music scene in the South West. Mary Whitehouse talks about some shocking things, and some unlikely things are smuggled in from the Cornish coast.
A group of people from Belfast between the ages of 16 and 20 produced this month's programme. Music from Rudi and The Undertones. Films on entertainment in the city, sectarianism, the punk scene in Belfast - plus more from young people who live in a city that you can only know by living there,
The last in the present series Something Else from Glasgow. Tonight's show has been master-minded by and stars The Glasgow Youth Theatre, with music from The Skids and The Revillos. We see a revolutionary thing to do with a Coke can, there's a fab wee story about the perils of a pencil skirt and there's plenty of muscle in the shape of some of the city's bouncers.
From Skelmersdale - the promised land. A visit to a northern soul all-nighter at Wisan Casino. A report on gang violence, some funny sketches and live music from Sad Cafe and Secret Affair.
Tonight's programme comes from Southend. ' If you are jolly, clean-cut and fun-loving you may not need Something Else ... but if you're jolly, fun-loving and into sex 'n' drugs 'n' rock 'n' roll, you won't be disappointed. Tonight's show includes a look at Southend past and present, glue-sniffing, some funny gags, and rock music in the studio from Dexy's Midnight Runners and The Regulators.'
Tonight's programme comes from Cardiff. ' Nine young people got together to make this show, which includes an interview with the Moonies, a short film made by the Rastas in Butetown - the oldest black community in the country - and a film about Cardiff's new music co-op. ' There are jokes, commercials and a guest appearance by the Cardiff Dirty Macs (about which the less said the better). The music comes from The Damned and Young Marble Giants.'
This evening's programme comes from Reading. ! ' The story so far: A bomb drops on Reading; you can't believe a thing you read in the papers or see on television, people subject you to racial insults. and you can't get a job - or anything - because you don't look like a robot. We've all been there. So have: The Specials and Reading band General Accident ...
This evening's programme comes from Greenock. 'Greenock's a wild place really,' says one of the production panel of seven, but their films, music and discussion go to prove it's something else as well. They tackle the major themes of drink, girls' opportunities, education and setting up a band. Stiff Little Fingers and local band Pretty Boy Floyd provide the music.
Tonight's programme comes from Londonderry. ' If anyone's looking forward to a few bombs and a bit of rioting, they've got the wrong show. This is "something else" from Northern Ireland; golden metal under the ground, silver suits in the streets, and a revolutionary new aid to prevent sex discrimination (all we can tell you is that it's big and red and you stick it on your head). With music from Ian Dury and the Blockheads and Derry band The Sect.'
Tonight's programme comes from Coventry. ' Some people might say we're the people Mary Whitehouse warned us about. In this show we meet a lot of people classed as " different." Some are gay, others caught up in the crossfire of East/West cultures. Then there's the guy with his own alternative to the music press and the girl who actually likes the theatre! And more ... Live music from Siouxsie and the Banshees and Coventry band Gods Toys.'
The last in the present series of seven programmes, made by young people for young people, comes from the London Borough of Hammersmith. ' ... Once upon a time. somewhere in the big city, seven little children met a man from the BBC who asked them if they'd like to be in the movies and see their name in lights. "Gosh! Super!" they said " We will all be stars! " ' But things never turn out the way you expect, do they? ' This is what they did instead and Adam and the Ants and Linx did it with them.'
The first in a new series made by young people for young people. Can Skinheed (bullet-proof and homicidally insane) overcome his social problems? And which vicar is described as ' the nastiest holy man outside Iran ' ? Will Tracey escape from the supermarket and meet the man of her dreams? ... and why do people keep throwing Micky out of pubs? Tonight the answers to these and all the other questions you never asked, with music from Angelic Upstarts and Tygers of Pan Tang.
Tonight's programme was made by PAUL WELLER from The Jam, and some of his friends; STEVE CARVER , ANNE CLARK and ROBIN RICHARDS. Inequality Rules OK? Does what class you're born into still shape your future even in these days of ' equal opportunities '? And what chance is there of young writers' work finding its way out of the fanzines and into books sold in the High Street shops? And there's music from THE QUESTIONS, DOLLY MIXTURE and THE JAM - poems from AIDAN CANT and ANNE CLARK , and words of wisdom from George Orwell , The Sex Pistols, George Santayana (who?) and others ...
Tonight's programme comes from Bristol. 'What is the meaning of the universe? ' ' Why are we all here? When a multi-racial group of nine young people from Bristol got together to make tonight's programme they found they had more in common than the ' media' would have them believe. They used their time to talk (about unemployment, education, street violence ...) and make music with Dave Wakeling and Ranking Roger of The Beat. And there's more music from Talisman.
Tonight's programme comes from Bangor, North Wales. ' Wales has been invaded many times. Romans, Vikings, Normans -you name them, we've been overrun, battered and besieged by them.' The modern invaders are more in the form of caravans, second-home owners, pollution and nuclear power stations. Tonight the empire strikes back ... Music from The Raincoats and Fay Ray and a clip from the controversial film The War Game.
Tonight's programme looks at how divorce affects kids. Once upon a time there were three bears ... a mummy, a daddy and a baby. But who's this lady called Goldilocks breaking up a happy family? For baby bear, as for a quarter of a million other kids, things will never be quite the same again at home. How do they cope? Should parents be more honest with their kids? Music from DODO VISION and KIRSTY MACCOLL
Tonight's programme comes from Aberdeen. With the oil business booming, you'd think Aberdeen was the Dallas of the frozen North. But it's only a boom town for some ... every week dozens of young people take the bus to try their luck down south. We also hear what it's like living with an alcoholic parent. On a lighter note: the British premiere of Video Focus presented by another Jimmy Hill, who'll be looking at the future of video games; and on a philosophical note: why do men wear trousers?
Tonight's programme started life in Soho. Bolt the bunker doors at Number 10! Yes, another attack on the values of bourgeois Britain is mounted from the heart of the capital. Three different critical viewpoints are offered: the youth who live rough on the streets of the West End; the Chinese second generation whose experience spans two cultures; and a London-Irish girl who knows that we're all being conned. There's also a film about Leila McCallum who explains the virtues of Super-8 film making and music from Orange Juice and Depeche Mode.
Adam and the Ants, The Clash, Dexy's Midnight Runners, The Jam, Joy Division, Linx, Siouxsie and the Banshees, The Specials, Talisman... just some of the bands featured in three years of Something Else, the programme made for young people by young people. This special compilation is just that - just the music.
Some dream of playing football for England, others seek solace in a pub and teddy boys look to an age gone by. But a group of YOPs in East Lancashire have found the heartbreak of the jobs they do has given them a new and different perspective. Their jobs,' however, are temporary, so where do they go from here? Jackie and Deborah tackle their supervisor, Tony Stone , about their future.
Bradford's dark satanic mílls are the backdrop for the powerful designs of Indian fashion student litlil PullingThrough,about survival; and for a local club where new bands from different cultures can play together. Despite this creamWM that black people are being mugged by the State. Funboy Three join them aH, live, in the studio.
Hundreds of young bands are springing up all over Britain. This programme is made by two of them. Blue Poland from Liverpool show us the build-up of one of their gigs - rehearsals, soundchecks, the tension and excitement before going on stage. Dr Fantasy's Devils play their music-punk Glenn Miller - on the streets of London. They talk about the music business with George Melly.
' It's a vicious circle - you can't get a job-so you go from boredom to bother-you get into trouble - you wind up in borstal-and when you've got a record - there's no way you're gonna get a job.' Crimes/cops/courts/beaks/borstal A particular view from a group of lads who have all been in trouble with the law. Additional words and music by the groups STEEL PULSE and CLINT EASTWOOD AND GENERAL SAINT
' No more stereotypes, no more false assumptions. Being girls means being free to choose the way we lead our own lives. See us to explode the myth of marriage! Expose the nonsense of the nuclear family! Examine the deceit of doctors! You'll wish that girls like you were girls like us.' Girls from London and Scotland join forces to produce their own programme which includes filro, drama, and live music from SOPHISTICATED BOOM-BOOM and JAM TODAY.
Five young people look at issues which affect them personally. For Steve it's the mining community in which he lives; for Veena, it's the prospect of an arranged marriage; Juliana and Mike explore different ways of setting up a buisiness; and Magsey tells us how it is to be a Charismatic Christian. Live music in the studio from U2.
Tonight: Always Bite the Hand that Feeds.... 'Young upstart takes over programme. Feelings were running high at the BBC today as programme controllers viewed this latest production. A spokesperson said, " It's a disgrace, we disown it." Early reports suggest that the programme is disrespectful and anarchic. Self-styled " artistic adviser" Michael Jones (1230, Scottish new-wave writer, refused to comment, but told a close friend: " It was a bit of a laugh, I liked the roller-skating best." '
Boy: I think I'm lost. Girl: Man is never lost, only confused in his surroundings. Boy: I think I'm confused. Girl- Man is never confused, only lost in his surroundings. Years of living with 75-year-old, antique-dealing theatrical costumiers and holiday makers, drunk for a day in the shadow of an oriental pavilion, have taken their toll on the Brighton production panel that made this programme. They perform pieces based on events from everyday life with their own peculiar perspective. Waking, walking, eating, meeting. But life is never as simple as that, neither is the programme. Boy: Isn't life strange? Girl: Compared with what? Music from Birds with Ears
Don't just sit there complaining. Get on your bike and do something about it ..." It's all very well for politicians to come up with silly suggestions - after all, it's their job - but what happens to Frank, a provincial punk poet With more reasons for complaint than a Tranmere Rovers fan, when he decides to cycle to London in an attempt to do something about the way his life is being run? Find out in tohight's programme, which was made by mike NIX , PETE SINCLAIR and FRANK STRIDENT, three young men who have recently given up cycling.
It's crass, it's outrageous, it's in really bad taste. You need a strong stomach and an evil mind to sit through this lot! ' Still, there is Aswad live in the studio, Proper Little Madams singing in the supermarket, Abacush doing their thing in Brixton and a nasty sexist little number from America by Barnes and Barnes. You can always turn the sound down for the bits in between.
What if you fancy the opposite sex but can't do anything about it? What if the opposite sex fancies you but you don't fancy the opposite sex? What if the opposite sex likes you but you want to be the opposite sex? What if the opposite sex doesn't fancy you and you don't either? What happens if you want to be the opposite sex and fancy someone of the same sex who turns out to be the opposite sex, but fancies you because they don't know you want to be the opposite sex? Confused? You won't be ... because jo, SUE and HUGH (plus friends and friends of friends) have put together some Intimate Confessions. Other revealing moments come from cabaret act THE JOEYS, dancers FLEX and the individual ME.