Tape Letters

TL England 9. Behind the Project: Karamat Iqbal - A Hostile World

<p>Karamat Iqbal is an education professional based in Birmingham. He contributed an oral history and 7 cassette tapes to the Tape Letters Archive. In this episode he describes the discrimination Pakistani’s faced during the 1970s in Britain. </p><p>A Modus Arts Production. Audio Production and Sound Design by Oliver Sanders, Producer Leona Fensome, Executive Producer Lucia Scazzocchio, Funded by National Lottery Heritage Fund and Arts Council of England.</p>

Tape Letters shines light on the practice of recording and sending messages on cassette tape as an unorthodox method of communication by Pakistanis who migrated and settled in the UK between 1960-1980. Season 1: Tape Letters England. Season 2: Tape Letters Scotland. This series features original tapes collected from families in Pothwari, Punjabi, Urdu, and English, as well as oral history recordings and behind-the-project interviews with the people involved in collecting this body of work.