| Description | Tracks 1 - 10: Actuality with young men (teenagers), Trevor Phillps, George McArdle and Alan Rasleman from Cable Street, East End, London and Charles Parker. The interview takes place in the Basement youth club in a Tower Hamlets high school. The young men talk about playing truant from school, and one of them talks about deciding to start attending school again and how the youth club they attend has influenced them. The young men talk about their reasons for not wanting to attend school when they began high school. One of the youth workers/ teachers at the Basement club speaks about the education policies at the time in Tower Hamlets, with reference to unemployment in the area. The young men then discuss their identity as Londoners. One of the young men describes visiting his family in St Lucia, West Indies. The group talk about how education is given at the Basement club, and compare it to mainstream schools. The group discuss what they know of the history of their local area, and the Battle of Cable Street.
Total: 32.51 mins
Dubber's reference number: PLA KF565D0078980 |