| Description | Tracks 1 - 12: Actuality with a young Londoner from the East End, Mohammed Ali, and Charles Parker. Ali describes the parts of the East End that he has lived in, including Stepney and Sidney Street, Whitechapel. He talks about his education at a London grammar school and his family: his father is Bangladeshi and his mother is white Welsh. Ali talks about growing up below the poverty level, with reference to his brothers and sisters and what the housing was like. Ali speaks about how his Islamic faith set him apart from some of his peers. He talks about tensions within his family over the amount of time he spends studying instead of finding work. He talks about this parents' experiences as immigrants to London. He talks about what he liked about attending grammar school. Ali talks about the 'roughness' of his local area and the street confrontations he experienced. Ali talks about how he felt marginalised by getting free school meals. Ali talks about his father's second family with a different wife who are all Asian. He talks about his identity as an Asian and an English person.
Total: 32.37 mins
Dubber's reference number: PLA KF571E0102280 |