| Description | Tracks 1 - 9: Actuality recording with 'Mrs Miryam Harris', and Dilip Hiro. Mrs Harris describes arriving in Britain in 1952 from India and meeting her former (English) husband through contacts given to her by a mutual friend. Mrs Harris describes her parents' opposition to her marriage to an English man, and she describes her family background; her father was a muslim civil servant in India. She describes the difficulties she encountered adapting to the way of life in England. She speaks about breaking her engagement to a muslim Indian man in order to marry her English husband. She describes the differences in culture between India and England with reference to marriage and courtship traditions. There is some feedback on track 4.
Total: 16.26 mins
Dubber's reference number: PLA KF571E0554780 |