1. Radio 1812 jingle
2. West Midlands Strategic Partnership (interview with Clare Daley)
3. Interview with Zak Brophy (volunteering in refugee camps in Lebanon)
4. Diwali programme/feature - significance and traditions for Hindus and Sikhs
5. Interview with Bernard Canavan (Irish migrants in the 1950s and 1960s)

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1. Radio 1812 jingle/promo (0' 31")
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2. Interview with Clare Daley, WMSMP (4' 23")
The Asylum & Immigration Act 1999 introduced a new and often controversial system of dispersal for asylum seekers into Britain.  Clare Daley is a policy officer at the West Midlands Strategic Migration Partnership, one of 11 regional consortia set up across the country as a result of the new Act.  Since then, as the name indicates, the partnerships have been extended to include migrants as well as asylum seekers.  In this interview, recorded at the Refugee Week conference in London in November, Clare Daley explains the work of the Partnership. Reporter: Cathy Aitchison
  Interview with Clare Daley: click here to download and play (MP3 - 4.1MB, 4' 23")

For information about dispersal, migrant support and Strategic Migration Partnerships in other parts of the UK, follow the links below:
~ East Midlands Strategic Migration Partnership
~ South West Strategic Migration Partnership
~ Wales Strategic Migration Partnership
~ COSLA (The Convention of Scottish Local Authorities) Strategic Migration Partnership
 
~ Migration Impacts Forum
~ News reports:  BBC News Q&A on sylum seeker dispersal (2001)
                         BBC News report:  Asylum dispersal plan postponed (Glasgow) - 2006
                         The Guardian - A city based on sanctuary (Sheffield) - June 2008

3. Freedom to travel? Interview with Zak Brophy (5' 26")
Zak Brophy studied Arabic and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Edinburgh. He has travelled widely around the Middle East, including spending time as a volunteer for Unipal in a refugee camp in Lebanon. For Radio 1812, he talked to Cathy Aitchison about his experiences there and about how the people who he met influenced his own attitudes to life and travel.
  Interview with Zak Brophy: click here to download and play (MP3 - 5MB, 5' 26")

4.  Programme about Diwali (short themed magazine programme/feature - 12' 27")
Manprit Dayal, Rashmi Varma and Rajinder Khabra explore the significance and traditions of Diwali for Hindus and Sikhs. Including an interview by Aman Dhaliwal.  The programme was produced as part of the PEARLS Radio Production and Presentation Course at Desi Radio in Southall.
  Programme about Diwali: click here to download and play (MP3 - 11.4MB, 12' 27")

5.  Interview with Bernard Canavan (4' 56")
Bernard Canavan is an artist and teacher of history at the Irish Cultural Centre in Hammersmith, West London. His paintings focus on the experiences of people who left Ireland in the 1950s and 60s to come to Britain in order to make a living. It's a world he knows well, as he himself came to London as a migrant in 1959. In this interview for Radio 1812 he talks to Richard Ellis about the experiences and influence of Irish migrants at the time, about his paintings and about his exhibition 'The Faithful Departed' at the Irish Cultural Centre in Hammersmith.
  Interview with Bernard Canavan: click here to download and play (MP3 - 4.6MB, 4' 56")

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