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The programme is introduced by Zia Mohyeddin. This week's edition is given over to a single film report in which Vera Gilbert visits London to find out about the black publishing scene. Vera introduces her report with a piece to camera inside the New Beacon bookshop in the city. She talks to book shop owner John La Rose about his business which he has run since the 1960s and his work in publishing black writers. Vera then talks to writer Abdul Malik Decouteau about the rise in black writers from the 1960s and he then reads his poem 'The Whirlwind'. Next Vera visits the officers of publishers Allison and Busby Ltd and talks to owner Margaret Busby about how the business operates. Next she meets poet Desmond Johnson who recites one of his works and the talks about his business which is called Akira Press. Finally the Jamaican poet Lorna Goodison reads one of her pieces over library pictures of the Caribbean.
Contributors: Abdul Malik Decouteau; Lorna Goodison; Desmond Johnson
Film Camera: Peter Salkeld
Film Sound: John Marshall
Film Editor: Tom Horrocks
Research/Reporter: Vera Gilbert
Production Assistant: Polly Rock
Director: John Prowse
Producer/Presenter: Zia Mohyeddin
Production number 5748/85.