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 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?"…!

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