Network
- Title
- Network
- Genre
- Interview; Documentary; Vox pop
- TX Date
- Unknown
- Year of production
- 1982
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- Duration
- 00:48:11
- Description
- Network - Paint it Black: A Portrait of Handsworth. Part 2. A series produced and presented by Brian King. The role of the police in Handsworth and local people’s attitudes to and thoughts about the police. Visits local community centre, pub and school and Thornhill police station. Includes lengthy vox pop from local people. Interviews with Martin Burton, police superintendent; Sergeant Barry Boat; PCs Dick Board, Bob Sweet, Joe Mulvaney, Malcolm Lay, Darryl Brickland, Dave Bates(?) and Tim Green; community worker Robert Store(?); Home Secretary Willie Whitelaw; special constables; local pastor; Asian resource centre organiser and teacher. Trailer for part 3 follows. Engineer: Bob Lidden(?); Location Recording Assistant: Angela Rowse(?). Programme originally from BRMB Radio Birmingham.
- Contributors
- William Whitelaw; Brian King; Dick Board; Joe Mulvaney; Martin Burton; Bob Sweet; Bob Lidden(?); Angela Rowse(?); Barry Boat; Tim Green; Robert Store(?); Malcolm Lay; Darryl Brickland; Dave Bates(?); BRMB Radio
- Keywords
- Social conflicts; Crime; Interethnic relations; Police; Violence; Birmingham; Racial discrimination; Riots; Policing practice; Black peoples; Ethnic groups; Multiethnic societies; Handsworth; Institutional racism
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