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Programme introduced by Paula Ahluwalia. The first item is a film report from Mita Hackett about natural methods of birth control. She visits the Aston Health Centre to find out more about a Commission for Racial Equality funded project. Interview with Doctor Anna Flynn from Birmingham Maternity Hospital who is running the project. Interviews with women who are taking part about wanting to avoid the powerful hormones provided by the pill. There are shots of literature in non-English languages. Back in the studio Paula Ahuluwalia introduces a performance by the Australian Aborigine group ‘No Fixed Address’ who sing their own song ‘From My Eyes’. Next on film, Hilary Minster profiles Father Giuseppe Giacomoni who runs the Italian Catholic Mission to the West Midlands. Minster meets Father Giuseppe at his mission on Portland Road in Birmingham. His first duty of the day is to hold a mass for a young boy killed in a road accident. There are interviews with members of the Italian community about Father Giuseppe’s work, dedication and long hours. Minster interviews him about the mission which stretches from Oxford to Stoke on Trent. He uses the telephone directory and maps to try to trace all the Midlands Italian families and then visits them. We see Father Giuseppe holding mass, visiting a new Italian community centre in Kidderminster and helping out at an outdoor meal organised by Italian people on Victoria Avenue in Worcester. The programme ends with two members of No Fixed Address playing the didgeridoo (partly under the closing credits).
Contributors: No Fixed Address
Film Camera: Bob Bolt
Film Sound: Bill Dodkin; Frank Minton
Film Editor: Ian Hutchison
VTR Editor: Graham Thompson
Production Team: Paula Ahluwalia; Hilary Minster; Vera Gilbert; Peter Emina; Mita Hackett; Jenny Bowman; Lynne Stevens
Directors: Michael Hayes; Sid Kilbey
Producer: Zia Mohyeddin
Production number 5081/84.