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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