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2016-12-12T08:00:00+00:00 2016-12-12T08:00:00+00:00 /blogs/genome/entries/2dec465f-6eb0-4975-b9fa-2e8b7d020788 <div class="component"> <img class="image" src="https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/320xn/p04l2vht.jpg" srcset="https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/80xn/p04l2vht.jpg 80w, https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/160xn/p04l2vht.jpg 160w, https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/320xn/p04l2vht.jpg 320w, https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/480xn/p04l2vht.jpg 480w, https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/640xn/p04l2vht.jpg 640w, https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/768xn/p04l2vht.jpg 768w, https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/896xn/p04l2vht.jpg 896w, https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/1008xn/p04l2vht.jpg 1008w" sizes="(min-width: 63em) 613px, (min-width: 48.125em) 66.666666666667vw, 100vw" alt=""><p><em>John Hilton, a Professor of Industrial Relations, helped create clubs for the unemployed in the 1930s and broadcast a weekly talk for them.</em></p></div> <div class="component prose"> <p>On today's Advent Calendar window, <a title="Ö÷²¥´óÐã Genome - This and That" href="http://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/038c4f1e6e6744688e78460cff61e948" target="_blank">a poignant look at the 1930s Great Depression.</a></p> <blockquote> <p>Today John Hilton is going to talk about the little gadgets and fitments an unemployed man can make out of cheap materials with simple tools (in the craft room at the Club if he has no tools of his own) to make the house more cosy and to make things easier for the wife. If he starts at once he can have something ready and the paint nicely dry for Christmas; and what's nicer, Hilton asks, than to give your wife a Christmas present made with your own hands?</p> </blockquote> <p>This was the Christmas edition of This and That, a programme <a title="Ö÷²¥´óÐã Genome - This and That" href="http://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/f0b70d38624c42efbde595d2ac39554d" target="_blank">set up in October 1934</a> by John Hilton, a professor of Industrial Relations, to be broadcast to listeners in Unemployed Clubs. Listeners said they looked forward to the 20-minutes-long talk <a title="Ö÷²¥´óÐã Genome - This and That" href="http://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/1c5966405f51487a955f3d79aa5edcd0" target="_blank">"because it distracts as well as instructs.</a> Minds are occupied and interested, and when life is difficult it is good to be able to forget for a moment one's own concerns."</p> </div>