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Series of programmes about company history using items from various company archives (including Sainsbury's) including extracts read from written documents and audio from film clips.

Summary of content:
199_A, 256_A: 'Poise and Deportment'. Women's experience at work. Sainsbury's employment of women during the First World War. £1 a week. Initially served tea and sugar but eventually to be trained to cut bacon. Recruitment included homes inspected by company officials. Women in insurance offices. March 1941 Ernest Bevan wastage of women labour speech.

214_A, 217_A, 250_B: 'Now Hear This'. Topics include United Biscuits Network factory radio, communication inside companies, company excursions for staff. Includes item from Sainsbury's Daily Bulletin [22:20] about poultry trussing.

214_B, 217_B, 250_A, 250_B [26:30]: 'And Jolly Good Company'. Topics include works outings, holidays, health and wellbeing of employees, company films.

250_A [07:30] 'More Time Than Motion'. Includes item [13:00] read from JS Journal giving the account of a Welsh man who had recently started work at Sainsbury's Surbiton branch.