Focus West [Programme 08]

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Summary

Programme examining attitudes to travellers. Includes visits to a festival in Wisbech and Wolverhampton where the borough council has a policy of providing travellers with a place to live.

Year:

1988

Duration:

0:24:00

Film type:

Colour / Sound

Company:

Central Television

Master format:

1 Inch Type C

Description

Studio presenter Mike Prince links to two reports from Angela Clarke. In the first she visits a gypsy festival held in Wisbech. She meets travellers who have been introduced to Christianity and the event's organiser Davy Jones. She also interviews Derek and Julia Mallinder who have put up a 'no travellers' sign outside their pub, the Bridge Inn. In her second report Clarke visits Wolverhampton where the local council are providing permanent places to live in houses on Broome Road in the Low Hill area of the town. She interviews several people including resident Michael Dunne. Back in the Focus studio Michele Guinness chairs a debate about the Wolverhampton film between: Sister Liam of the Convent of Mercy, Wolverhampton; traveller Con McCarthy; Eli Frankham of the Romany Rights Association and Wolverhampton councillor Ray Swatman.


Credits

Presented by Mike Prince
Interviewer: Michele Guinness
Reporter/Researcher: Angela Clarke
Photographs from Medieval Brigands by Peter Gardner
Production Secretary: Alison Bruce
Production Assistant: Sue Pearson
Executive Producer: Philip Grosset
Film Director: Jane Hambley
Producer: Nigel Gibbons
Directed by Michael Hart


Notes

Production number 2124/88.