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Brick Lane | |
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Genre | Documentary |
Directed by | Minoo Bhatia |
Country of origin | United Kingdom |
Original language | English |
Production | |
Producer | Minoo Bhatia |
Production locations | London, United Kingdom |
Running time | 50 minutes |
Original release | |
Network | BBC Two |
Release | 25 March 2006 |
Brick Lane is a 2006
Overview
First were 15,000 Huguenots Protestants who fled
Next were the Jewish settlers who came from eastern Europe in the late 19th century and settled into the rag trade. The playwright Bernard Kops' late parents, Joel and Jenny, came to Brick Lane at the turn of the 20th century from Amsterdam. They were two of tens of thousands of Jewish immigrants who climbed financial survival.[3]
In the 1950s, came the Bangladeshis, majority of them from the poor farming region of Sylhet. Shafiq arrived from Bangladesh in 1958, by the mid-1960s he was the first Asian manager of the Wimpy Bar chain and married a white woman Pamela. His contemporary Abdul Gaffer brought over his Bangladeshi wife,[3] and despite not knowing English, he settled down to work and 50 years later is still there.[1]
In addition, a Huguenot church turned into a Methodist chapel, then into a synagogue, and in 1976 became the Great London Mosque (Brick Lane Mosque).[3] The Huguenots faced riots from jealous native textile workers. Kops witnessed the Battle of Cable Street, in which Oswald Mosley's fascists were finally taken on by his people. The Bangladeshis in the 1970s endured the attentions of the BNP and National Front, and responded with a sit-in that saw them off.[3]
The story was of tolerance,[3] overcoming prejudice in the hope of a brighter future in England[2] and while Brick Lane has been enriching for some, others have only found extreme poverty.[1]
Broadcast
Brick Lane was originally screened at
See also
References
- ^ a b c d "BBC series focuses on Bangladeshis in Brick Lane". Asians In Media. 9 March 2006. Retrieved 1 May 2014.
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(help) - ^ a b "BBC TWO - Winter/Spring highlights 2006". BBC - Press Office. 7 December 2005. Retrieved 1 May 2014. Brick Lane
- ^ a b c d e f g h Billen, Andrew (3 April 2006). "East end spice". New Statesman. p. 49. Retrieved 1 May 2014.
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(help) - ^ "East End Film Festival 2006". London: IndieLondon. Retrieved 1 May 2014.
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(help) - ^ "Screen talent endorses film festival". London: BBC London. 27 April 2006. Retrieved 1 May 2014.
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(help) - ^ "Grant's 'Wah-Wah' to open festival". Variety. 20 April 2006. Retrieved 1 May 2014.
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