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Bob Hall piece to camera on a Leicester rooftop about the gradual decline in jobs within the local textile industry. We then see the exterior of Pool, Lorrimer and Tabberer Ltd which has recently closed and the exterior of Admiral Sportswear in Wigston which opened three years ago but has recently gone bust despite the firm having the contract to supply the England football team. We then see female textile workers in a factory that is still operating. Bob Hall piece to camera inside a factory near Mansfield that has closed. We see some of the machines being removed and scrapped. The owners Pretty Polly are not offering them for resale, preferring to take the £12 scrap value because they are concerned that they will be bought by smaller operators who will undercut them. We then see one such operation, in a lock-up garage in Leicester where two men have one machine and are turning out garments. Next we see successful factory owner George Taylor in his Mercedes car. We see inside his busy factory (Taylor himself is seen working on the factory floor). We then see Howard Ellis walking outside his family's firm Donisthorpe Mills which is also bucking the trends and surviving. Their secret is to modernise the business and we then see views of a new computer system they have installed. Finally we see financier Peter Bailey in his office - his firm is making children's wear.
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The Focus series was broadcast from October 1980 to March 1981.