Re-connecting the Diaspora

Multicultural TV served as a point of reconnection between Black and Asian Britons and their nations of origin.

  • Total running time 122min

Ebony

BBC 1983. Series Producer Keith Sheather. 30min. Digital

Bandung File: Gathering Storm

Channel 4 1987. Director Peter Emina. 40min. Digital

Bandung File: Smile Jamaica

Channel 4 1988. Director Christopher Spencer. 52min. Digital

Dreams of returning punctuated many migrant experiences and TV served to foster connections to stories back home, offering depictions of the realities for returners. They offered depictions of the realities of returners. These documentaries kept people in the diaspora up to date on the social climate of their home nations, even focusing on holding to account scam artists who were trying to extort those attempting to navigate returning home.