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Radio 1,21 Jan 2026,15 mins

Small music venues

Newsbeat

Available for 29 days

Liam is one of the 6000 people to lose his job at one last year, telling us what it's been like for him and why the industry has been struggling. We ask the charity Music Venue Trust, what the solutions are. Produced in Birmingham by BBC News for BBC Radio 1, BBC Radio 1Xtra and BBC Asian Network.

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