CLIP: White views of immigrants to the UK, 1964
February 11, 2021
White residents of Smethwick express their opinions of immigrants in the community. The report includes a secret recording of an Indian man refused a hair cut from a local barber.
First broadcast in ‘Enquiry’ on 18 November 1964.
Release date:
15 August 2012
Duration:
3 minutes
Click link to access video: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00xf44b
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