The programme is introduced by Zia Mohyeddin. The first item is a studio interview with the black Shakespearean actor Joseph Marcell. Hilary Minster talks to him about his latest role which is Brutus in Julius Caesar at the Haymarket Theatre in Leicester. Stills of Marcell on stage are also shown and he recites one of his character’s best known speeches.
Next on film Anjali Singh visits the William IV pub on Foleshill Road in Coventry which has recently won an award for the best pub food in the Midlands. The Mitchell and Butler pub is run by Perminder and Jatinder Baines and is known locally for its Indian menu. Exterior shot of the pub and views inside showing diners eating curries and shot of the menu board. Views of Mr and Mrs Baines working in the kitchen and Jatinder Baines shopping for fresh vegetables. Interview with Perminder Baines who explains that they began by introducing a single chicken curry to the menu. Interview with Jatinder Baines who says that before running the pub she had not been into one before. Interview with brewery representative Simon Trainer who praises the couple and their pub.
Back in the studio Zia Mohyeddin introduces a performance from The Great Indian Dancers who perform a Bhangra dance, a folk dance that originates in the Punjab. The final interviewee is Sam King who talks to Hilary Minster in the studio about his arrival in the UK from Jamaica forty years ago on the Empire Windrush. He tells Hilary what it was like for the 500 immigrants who arrived on the boat at Tilbury and how they all found work within three weeks and most settled in Brixton. Sam King eventually rose to the role of Mayor of the Borough of Southwark in London. During the interview clips from a Pathe newsreel showing the men of the Windrush at Tilbury in 1948 are shown.
Contributors: Joseph Marcell; Sam King; The Great Indian Dancers
Film Camera: John Varnish
Film Sound: Vaughan Roberts
Film Editor: Paul Brown
VTR Editor: Grant Watters
Designer: Tom Carter
Production Team: Paula Ahluwalia; Hilary Minster; Vera Gilbert; Anjali Singh; Pogus Caesar; Jenny Wright; Lynne Stevens
Directors: David Maloney; John O'Brien
Executive Producer: Zia Mohyeddin
Production number 2084/88.