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A series of hard-hitting documentaries which will offer insights into the nature and extent of contemporary poverty. Josephine moved to North Shields as a refugee from Zimbabwe 13 years ago. Her hu...sband Michael works as a nurse in care homes and they send home between 4 and 7 hundred pounds a month to support their relatives back in the village. Although they are seen as rich by their family in Africa, they live on one of the most deprived and stigmatised estates in Britain, Meadow Well. What perspective does this give them on the poor British families that surround them? The Queen of North Shields is a study of relative poverty in Tyneside and Zimbabwe and an exploration of the attitudes, identities and circumstances which define poverty in both places.
A series of hard-hitting documentaries which will offer insights into the nature and extent of contemporary poverty. Josephine moved to North Shields as a refugee from Zimbabwe 13 years ago. Her hu...sband Michael works as a nurse in care homes and they send home between 4 and 7 hundred pounds a month to support their relatives back in the village. Although they are seen as rich by their family in Africa, they live on one of the most deprived and stigmatised estates in Britain, Meadow Well. What perspective does this give them on the poor British families that surround them? The Queen of North Shields is a study of relative poverty in Tyneside and Zimbabwe and an exploration of the attitudes, identities and circumstances which define poverty in both places.
| Series: | Living with poverty |
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| First transmission date: | 2013 |
| Original broadcast channel: | BBC |
| Published: | 2013 |
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| Duration: | 00:29:00 |
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| Producer: | Daisy Asquith |
| Contributors: | Memento Charinga; Audrey Jolly; John Marvell; Elizabeth Mudzingwa; Josephine Mudzingwa Siziba; Michael Siziba; Michelle Siziba |
| Publisher: | BBC Open University |
| Link to related site: | OU website: http://www.open.edu/openlearn/whats-on/tv/ou-on-the-bbc-living-poverty |
| Production number: | ERZA052A |
| Videofinder number: | 83571 |
| Available to public: | no |
