Skip Channel4 main Navigation
Explore Channel4
Food
Homes
Film
4Car
News
See All
Origination: The rich mix of British culture and history
Javelin9 JSP compilation errorCompilation of JSP File '/culture/microsites/O/origination/SSI/options.jsp' failed:
options.jsp:3:5: No tag library could be found with this URI. Possible causes could be that the URI is incorrect, or that there were errors during parsing of the .tld file.
<%@ taglib uri="/WEB-INF/tlds/origination.tld" prefix="origination" %>
    ^----^
options.jsp:3:5: No tag library could be found with this URI. Possible causes could be that the URI is incorrect, or that there were errors during parsing of the .tld file.
<%@ taglib uri="/WEB-INF/tlds/origination.tld" prefix="origination" %>
    ^----^
 

My New Home

Writer: Daisy Asquith

A long term documentary series that looks at Britain through the eyes of newly-arrived children. Watch series two on C4 Mon 13 Aug 2007 at 9pm.

Introduction | The way I work | The children | Moving here | Staying here

Introduction

Imran - from the programme

Imran – from the programme
Channel 4

The idea of cows and goats wandering around the streets sounds wonderful to my own kids who live in a terraced house in a car-lined street in Brighton. But to Imran, one of three immigrant children I have been filming for the past two years, the lack of goats in Peterborough was a definite plus.

When I met him off the plane from Lahore in September 2005, he was wearing traditional Pakistani clothes and couldn't speak a word of English. We communicated at first by drawing pictures for each other and signaling with our hands. He thought my attempts at speaking Urdu were hilarious. And I expect they were. Probably something along the lines of "You like it yes the pudding of Yorkshire?"…!

The way I work >

Channel 4 is not responsible for the content of third party sites

Related Articles

The Race Debate

The Race Debate

Watch a video clip from series one
watch video

More4: About the Programme

My New Home

Exploring immigration from a child's point of view.
visit website

More4: About the Programme

Daisy's Blog

Daisy Asquith's blog on the making of the series which includes video and information not shown in the programmes
read blog

Return to top

Channel 4 © 2009. Channel 4 is not responsible for the content of external websites.