Somewhere in Hackney - ACE100.6

Participants in Hackney & Islington Music Workshop. Man singing "It was on the Ball’s Pond Road one morning I did stand" to banjo accompaniment. Woman explains the ethos of the Workshop to the audience. Singer introduces song based on William Morris’s tribute to a dead political demonstrator, set to the tune of Peat Bog Soldiers (Moorsoldaten). Woman talking to the audience about Centerprise’s programme of publication of work by young people. Young Asian woman reads her poem, The Cage. Afro-Caribbean man reads poem (Me Remember) When I Walked the Streets of These Foreign Lands – heard over views of Hackney streets, people, deserted market, church-goers; man and Centerprise audience. Visitors to festival outside Caribbean House, street theatre, stalls etc. VO "There’s always something going on somewhere in Hackney." The cinema. Credits over festival scenes, etc.