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The opening is a montage of buy British signs in shop windows (mainly MEB - Midlands Electricity Board) with Union flags cut to Rule Britannia. After brief shots of the badges of Triumph and MG cars John Edwards talks to industrialists asking if consumers are patriotic and a discussion comparing import tariffs on the Spanish made Ford Fiesta with the British made Leyland Metro. Bob Hall then vox pops with people on the street asking if they buy British goods. We then see views inside Marks and Spencer showing people browsing the clothes on sale. Hall talks to an M&S spokesperson about their St Michael brand of British made clothing. Brief exterior of British Home Stores. Bob Hall piece to camera explaining that neither BHS nor Littlewoods would allow them to film inside.
Next Bob Hall visits the Wednesbury factory of Servis Ltd who make washing machines. Views inside the factory. Interview with a Servis manager who is proud of their British origin and critical of competitors like Hotpoint and Bendix who manufacture abroad. Views of washing machines on display in shop. Views of foreign made cars in showrooms.
Bob Hall next reports from an empty textile factory about the problems faced by this industry from foreign competition. We see shoes being manufactured by Barker's of Earls Barton in Northamptonshire who still use traditional techniques to hand make footwear. Interview with Gordon Stewart of the shoe worker's union. Shots of women machinists at work at Ideal Clothiers in Wellingborough.
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Eight episodes of Focus were broadcast by ATV from 23 October 1980 to 19 March 1981.