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7 audio cassette recordings

7 Audio cassette recordings of Bernie Grant’s meetings, interviews and speeches dealing with a variety of local, national and international concerns. Includes items such as Bernie Grant’s parliamentary questions re the Local Government Bill [6 Jul 1987], and re government policy towards South Africa [18 Dec 1987]; recording [dated 28 Nov 1991] concerning the Tottenham Three; and recording of Bernie Grant’s interview with ‘The Voice’ [dated 23 Feb 1995].

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BBC2 Programme on Reparations. July 1995.

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Complete programme: Two extracts: “We are talking about a systematic system which deliberately took black people, no other people, black people from Africa to the Caribbean and exploited them

BBC Open to Question

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Whole recording: Extract 1: (Question – “I live in Hackney which is a neighbouring borough to Tottenham. The general feeling among youth of my age of all racial backgrounds

House of Commons Prime Minister’s Question Time 24 November 1999

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“Mr. Bernie Grant (Tottenham): Has my right hon. Friend had the opportunity to see the recent Channel 4 documentaries on slavery, in which it was stated that one in five

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