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The Longest Winter - Early Days (Episode One)
Television (Full Length Episode) – 1974
New Zealand’s economy is in serious trouble in the first episode of this award-winning drama series about The Great Depression. An ailing Prime Minister and a weak government seem powerless in the face of a downward spiral caused by rising unemployment and falling export prices. Meanwhile, the plight of a boot maker seeking work while people are being laid off all around him, and a jeweller struggling to keep his business afloat and food on his family’s table bring home the human cost and social divisiveness being caused by the worsening crisis.
If we trace what happened to the individuals, we can’t help but trace the main happenings of the time — the riots, political debate, the Depression’s impact on people ...– Executive producer Michael Scott-Smith, in The Listener, 7 December 1974
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