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Programme introduced by Zia Mohyeddin. The first item is a studio interview with the pop group The Three Degrees. Hilary Minster talks to the group about their career and then they perform their song, ‘Dirty Old Man’.
Next in the studio Paula Ahluwalia talks to the Guyanese poet David Dabydeen who has recently won a Commonwealth poetry prize. He talks about his work and reads one of his Creole pieces.
The final item is a Hilary Minster studio interview with Don and Gerald Smith who run the Birmingham based Organisation for Sickle Cell Anaemia Research (OSCAR). They talk about the medical condition and the funding for their organisation.
Contributors: David Dabydeen; The Three Degrees; Don Smith; Gerald Smith
VTR Editor: Graham Thompson
Production Team: Paula Ahluwalia; Hilary Minster; Vera Gilbert; Peter Emina; Mita Hackett; Polly Rock; Lynne Stevens
Director: Sid Kilbey
Producer/Presenter: Zia Mohyeddin
Production number 5743/85.