| Description | Tracks 1 - 11: Actuality with a mixed-race man from the East End (Taploe Johnson), his white partner (Lesley Eastel) and a Gujarati man (Muksoot Shaikh)from the East End, and Charles Parker. The group talk about playing truant from school and their criminal activity as teenagers. They talk about museums that they would visit, and people they would meet, while playing truant. The group talk about feeling left out and treated badly at school for being from poorer families than the other children. Eastel speaks about a friend who was sent to a children's home for playing truant. she describes the things that she would like to do instead of attending school, including going to a youth centre at Toynbee Hall. The group speak about the large class sizes. Eastel speaks about the pressure her family put on her for having a relationship with a mixed-race man. She talks about her father's intolerance for her mixed-race relationship although he does not exhibit colour prejudice in any other areas of his life. Eastel talks about overcoming her own racist attitudes, and about raising her daughter without the support of her family.
Total: 35.02 mins
Dubber's reference number: PLA KF565D0875580 |