Uploaded July 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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What happens when a girl becomes the only female engineering apprentice in a large factory, or a young husband has to bring up his family by himself? Scene follows the lives of three people who do not accept the traditional view of the 'woman's role'.


Clip taken from Scene: A Woman's Place, originally broadcast on BBC One, 23 September, 1971.




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