talk on this, dame esther rantzen the founder of the silver line — a helpline for older people, shiv malikration — referring to his generation asjilted, and sean o'grady from the independent. do the young complain too much? they do. like the title of the book jilted generation there is nothing jilted about this generation, no sense in which we in my generation have eaten their lunch, we made their lunch for them. there was an idea abroad that everything was easy in the old days, it was a kind of nirvana of economics but it was not. the 19705 and 19805 were an orgy of high inflation, mega high interest rates, negative equity when we had housing cra5he5. rising unemployment, public services continually under 5train. the economy went bust in 1976. these were terrible years and we lived through them, we built the country we have now today. by seeing that through, by reducing union power, reforming the economy and making all the changes that made all the wonderful things, wonderful new building here at the bbc, all these things po55ible. the only good thing about the 19705 was television was be