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Goddess Back to Earth

Date released

29 Oct 1962

Series name

Pathe News

Issue no

62/87

NoS ID

110405

Story no

3 / 5

Extras

1 film clip

Bengali Indians hold spectacular religious festival.

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River Called Titas, A (2002)

aka: Titas Ekti Nadir Naam

Subject

Media studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 161 minutes), £19.99

Based on a Bengali novel by Advaita Malla Barman, A RIVER CALLED TITAS was filmed in Ghatak’s home of East Bengal after the independence of Bangladesh. Overwhelmed by the changes in his native land, Ghatak...

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People’s Romeo (2010 Radio)

Series

Weekend Bengali

Radio music and entertainment programme in Bengali. Director Mukul Ahmed talks to presenter Mahbub Hussain about a new theatre production, People’s Romeo, which weaves together Shakespeare’s verse and...

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Race relations in Spitalfields (1981)

Genre

Interview

Interview with Mufti Amin, a member of the Multiracial Bengali Association in Spitalfields, Tower Hamlets in the East End of London. They aim to discourage violence between the races in the area. Female...

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Praful Patel on plans to segregate Bengali residents (1978)

Genre

Interview

Praful Patel (of Committee on UK Citizenship) criticises the Greater London Council’ s plan to house Bengali immigrants in a separate area to protect them from racial attack, saying it would create a...

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Two die in Brick Lane fire (1982)

Genre

News report; Interview; Vox pop

Report about a fire at a squat at 111 Brick Lane in London, a mainly Bengali area, where two men were killed and one injured. Speaking are: Chief Inspector John Fairfield of Bethnal Green Police; male member...

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Public meeting on Bengali housing in Brick Lane (1978)

Genre

News report; Speech

Report on a public meeting on London housing, in which Greater London Council’s Chairman of Housing Management, Jean Tatham responds to angry residents. Tatham claims that the press has exaggerated...

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Prince Charles visits East End (1989)

Genre

Interview; News report; Speech

Michael O’Neill reports on a visit by the Prince of Wales (Prince Charles) to a run-down area of London’s East End. On a visit 18 months ago the prince attacked what he called the appalling sweat-shop...

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India - Bengali Religious Festival

Date released

Apr 1973

Series name

Roundabout

Issue no

131

NoS ID

328144

Story no

4 / 4

COI synopsis: The Indian festival of Durga Puja.

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Ali Ishaque murder (1978)

Genre

Interview; News report

Interview about the refusal of the police to recognise the killing of a Bengali tailor, Mr Ali Ishaque, in East London as a racial killing. Male speaker and female interviewer not identified.

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