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Tape Letters: A Cassette Tape Love Story

Modus Arts (UK 2021)

Modus Arts (UK 2021)

15min Episode 3 of 6

Tape Letters shines a light on the practice of recording and sending messages on cassette tapes by Pakistani migrants who settled in the UK between 1960 and 1980. In this six-part documentary we listen to first-hand accounts of these migration stories through original recordings, interviews with their Britain-born families and commentary by Tape Letters founder and director Wajid Yaseen.

This episode features a special story of a soon-to-be-married couple, who got to know each other more deeply and fell in love entirely through sending cassette tapes to each other between Pakistan and the UK for over 5 years. Telephones were usually expensive and not private, which is why cassettes were their chosen method of communication. We also discuss the retention and loss of cassette tapes, and therefore stories, over the years as people either held onto tapes for sentimental or evidential reasons or threw them away as they simply looked to do some spring cleaning.

Presented by Wajid Yassen (Modus Arts)
Production and Sound Design Oliver Sanders

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Oral History, Migration, Tape Lucia Scazzocchio Oral History, Migration, Tape Lucia Scazzocchio

Tape Letters: A Cassette Tape Love Story

Modus Arts (UK 2021)

Modus Arts (UK 2021)

15min Episode 3 of 6

Tape Letters shines a light on the practice of recording and sending messages on cassette tapes by Pakistani migrants who settled in the UK between 1960 and 1980. In this six-part documentary we listen to first-hand accounts of these migration stories through original recordings, interviews with their Britain-born families and commentary by Tape Letters founder and director Wajid Yaseen.

This episode features a special story of a soon-to-be-married couple, who got to know each other more deeply and fell in love entirely through sending cassette tapes to each other between Pakistan and the UK for over 5 years. Telephones were usually expensive and not private, which is why cassettes were their chosen method of communication. We also discuss the retention and loss of cassette tapes, and therefore stories, over the years as people either held onto tapes for sentimental or evidential reasons or threw them away as they simply looked to do some spring cleaning.

Presented by Wajid Yassen (Modus Arts)
Production and Sound Design Oliver Sanders

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Time and Tide Museum : Migration, Heritage and Belonging

Oliver Payne at Eastern Ear. (UK 2021)

Oliver Payne at Eastern Ear (UK 2021)

29 min Episode 2 of 6

Podcast featuring Dr Sarah Lowndes of Time and Tide Museum in Great Yarmouth, interviewing members of the town's migrant communities. The podcast features excerpts from interviews with 30 people from first, second and third generation migrant communities in Great Yarmouth including people from China, Cyprus, East Timor, France, Germany, Ivory Coast, Lithuania, Madeira, Mozambique, Poland, Portugal, Romania and Russia, all of whom have made Great Yarmouth their home.

Produced by Oliver Payne from Eastern Ear


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