Peterborough Playbus
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Peterborough's Playbus offers a fun and welcoming space for ethnic minority families to improve their English language skills.
Not being able to speak the language a society uses can be a barrier to taking an active part in that society. In Peterborough, a multi-coloured converted double decker bus, The Playbus, provides a fun and welcoming space for grown-ups and their children, whose first language is not English, to improve their English language skills through play scenarios. Anglia TV meet Mahebub Ladha from the PCCR, the ‘Peterborough Council for Community Relations'.
Not being able to speak the language a society uses can be a barrier to taking an active part in that society. In Peterborough, a multi-coloured converted double decker bus, The Playbus, provides a fun and welcoming space for grown-ups and their children, whose first language is not English, to improve their English language skills through play scenarios. Anglia TV meet Mahebub Ladha from the PCCR, the ‘Peterborough Council for Community Relations’.
From local news to feature film, through home movies and TV documentaries, this collection showcases South Asian Britons in front of and behind the camera. The contribution of colonial troops is illuminated through the earliest newsreels, while hardhitting current affairs programmes highlight the struggles faced in the 1960s, 1970s and beyond. Public information films produced for South Asian audiences feature alongside Hindi-language films made in Britain and interviews with prominent Asian-British figures. A bold wave of British Asian filmmaking in the 1990s is represented through early works by the likes of Gurinder Chadha and Asif Kapadia.