| Description | Tracks 1 - 7: 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. Shaikh talks about encoutering racism when he moved to London from Gujarat, and describes his family life in India with reference to why his family moved. The two men speak about how it felt to be financially poorer than other children at school, and speak about feeling victimised by teachers. They discuss their first jobs, and going to the Labour Exchange but finding that they had been pigeon-holed into certain areas at a young age; Eastel joins this discussion adding her experience of this situation. Shaikh speaks about the caste system in India, and the group discuss inequalities in Britain. They make reference to neo-Nazism and anti-semitism in their local area.
Total: 35.02 mins
Dubber's reference number: PLA KF565D0878280 |