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This week's show visited the seaside, looked at the world of work, and surviving downturns and traveled back in time to the days of the teleprinter. Links and further information for this week's programme below:

• What support is there for apprentices who lose their jobs before completing their training? Tipped-off by an email from Melissa Bassil about her husband's grandson Luke we investigated the issue, talking to Luke and to local apprentice training providers, and . Finally we spoke to to find out what the government planned to do to help apprentices during the downturn.


• Many of your comments on the blog stressed the need to keep positive during recessions. offered some advice. We're still interested in hearing from you about your experiences of dealing with the stigma of unemployment, do email if you've something to add to that.


• The percussive poetry of the football classified check (as delivered by teleprinter) provided the excuse to head down memory lane in the company of Mark Lawrenson and the man who introduced the teleprinter to our screens -

Finally, many of you were keen for us to do more on Thought for The Day. We've not ruled that out for later programmes and we have been discussing how we might return to the subject in a fresh and informative way that reflects the vigorous debate on the blog. Suggestions and thoughts on how we might do that and who we should talk to would be welcome.

If you've any views on this week's iPM please do leave a comment or send an email ipm-at-bbc.co.uk.

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