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Movietone’s News - Reported by Leslie Mitchell: Far East News - Burmese Water Festival

Date released

20 May 1946

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

885

NoS ID

013866

Story no

6 / 9

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Burmese Water Festival. DESCRIPTION: In Rangoon the Burmese New Year is ushered in with a Water Festival and everyone gets a real soaking. SHOTLIST: KS GV Burmese throwing water over...

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I’m British but... (1989)

Director

Gurinder Chadha

Subject

Music; Sociology

Using the sound beats of Bhangra music and testimonies of young people from Glasgow, Belfast, London and South Wales, Gurinda Chada’s first film offers an insight into how a new generation of British...

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Asian Voices: Dharmesh Patel (2011 Audio, Multimedia)

Audio recording. Dharmesh Patel, the first British-Asian Hamlet talks to Suman Bhuchar about making his Shakespearean debut in the Royal Shakespeare Company’s 70-minute young people’s version of the play...

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Skinhead on riots (1981)

Genre

Interview

Interview with a white skinhead on his dislike of black and Asian people, in context of recent riots in Brixton and clashes between skinheads and local Asian youths in Southall, London. Female interviewer...

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Labour conference - Black and Asian sections (1984)

Genre

Interview

Interview with an unidentified female speaker on Black and Asian people wanting special sections in the Labour Party. Interview at the Labour Party conference in Liverpool. Male interviewer not identified

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Demonstrations in Bethnal Green (1990)

Genre

Interview

Elena Curti interview with Peter Shore MP, on a planned march organised by white people living in the Tower Hamlets area, and a counter-march organised by Asian activists, in response to an attack on a white...

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Demonstrations in Bethnal Green (1990)

Genre

Interview

Interview with leader of the Labour Party group in Tower Hamlets, East London, Phil Maxwell, on proposed demonstrations against a planned march organised by people living in the Bethnal Green area, in...

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Southall riot (1981)

Genre

Interview; News report

Report on the clashes in Southall, London between the Asian community, skinheads and police. Local people say outsiders were drafted into the area to start violence. Speaking are: Community Relations...

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Chief Medical Officer on plague (1994)

Genre

Interview

Although 8 suspected cases of plague emerged in Britain, five patients have now been sent home after testing negative for the disease - still raging through parts of India. Three people are still in...

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David Waddington on new immigration laws (1986)

Genre

Interview

Conservative MP, David Waddington reacts to claims that new immigration laws affecting Asian people are causing a log jam at airports including Heathrow. He defends the system of visas and denies that the...

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