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[Man] An island is one great eye, gazing out,
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a beckoning lighthouse, searchlight,
a wishbone compass, or counterweight to the stars.
When it comes to outlook and point of view,
a figure stands on a rocky ledge peering out
towards an archipelago of glass on the mainland,
a seagull's wings touching the tip of a high wave,
out to where the brain may stumble.
[Violin music]
[Music fades]
[Woman] Once you can speak, you can learn to sing.
[Piano flourish]
[Piano music]
[Piano music stops, resonates]
- [Operatic singing] - Oh, I began teaching in... er... 1971.
I returned to Vienna and then I built up a choir.
But I had a 40-voice choir.
And this choir was so professional.
They sang in about seven languages.
Because I taught them to sing in German, in Italian,
in French and even Russian.
So, the first thing I asked them to do,
I said, "Sing anything."
And then when I hear where the voice is
I know whether it's a low voice, or a middle voice,
or a high voice; I can tell.
The power, actually, you can use in the right way.
Because you don't always have to sing very loud...
you can control the singing, sing softly
but yet that could reach out beyond. You know.
[Clattering, reverberation]
[Clattering stops, resonates]
[Slow, ominous instrumental music]
- [Music stops] - [Woman] Uh, I met Ed when I was 15.
And we just... we travelled around.
There was no work in this country.
People were absolutely starving to death.
And then a friend of mine gave me a copy
of Grapes of Wrath.
And I read it and thought it was the most beautiful thing.
It was like my life story.
It was like being blind and all at once you can see,
because it just showed me a...
a whole new side of myself and my family.
I had never seen us as a people.
Poor people are very fragmented.
They don't tend to identify with each other.
It was like somebody was writing about me
and about my grandmother, Molly Bell.
[Sparse instrumental music]
I know when I first became aware of my own racism
was when the bus boycott was in Montgomery Alabama,
I was living there at the time
and I saw Reverend King knocked down and beaten
and I saw grown men pick black women up
and throw them into the buses to try to force them to ride.
I saw things that I had never seen before.
Um, I like to think that I was human enough
that when I saw some of the...
violence that goes along with racism...
that I... understood...
what it had done to me and my people, southern whites.
[Music continues]
[Man] And what do you think it was about you
that made you change and hasn't made
other members of your own family change in the same way?
[Woman] I don't know. I truly don't.
I wish I knew.
[Music continues]
[Man] Is it possible to have love without justice?
Is it possible that we think too much in terms of charity,
in terms of Thanksgiving Day baskets,
in terms of Christmas baskets
and not in terms enough
of eliminating poverty?
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[Music stops, low drone]
[Man] Well, most of the young patriots,
they were part of a migration from the South
that went to the North, looking for a job.
Uh, there were probably, any given time,
40,000 to 80,000 people from the South from this one community called Uptown.
Uh, and that's where the people went because
of the... uh... you know, the rent, it was pretty much,
a slum neighbourhood.
Uh... And I went there when I was about 17 years old,
just turned 17, I'm from Tennessee.
And went there looking for a job...
and my elder brother, he was already there.
But he had already been involved with a street gang,
called Peacemakers.
And through the Peacemakers
they got involved with a group
from Students for a Democratic Society, called JOIN.
Jobs Or Income Now.
We had gotten recognised for some of the things
that we had done.
- [Tense violin music] - And, uh...
And so we were approached by the Peace and Freedom Party
out there from California,
they were looking to run somebody for President of the United States.
Uh... so they wanted to choose a black person
and a white person.
And they chose Eldridge Cleaver to be running for President
and they asked Peggy Terry, who was a poor welfare mother
part of the Young Patriots too.
We were recognised by the Black Panthers
and we started forming a coalition with them.
And eventually set up some free health clinics
and breakfast for children programme, legal services,
and followed their model, police patrol units, all that.
And that's what really pissed Mayor Daley off.
And so he came out with the war on gangs,
criminalised us and he brought in J Edgar Hoover and COINTELPRO.
[Muffled, resonating beat]
[Applause, cheering]
Freedom is something to be cherished.
I mean like, we are free to a certain extent,
we can have functions like this, and we can enjoy it.
People have come out to show solidarity and bands have gone up there to play
and show how much they care, you know.
South Africa, they couldn't have a thing like this happening.
[Piano note resonates]
[Woman] The Anti Apartheid Movement really took off in the mid 1980s
and it was because of two things, really.
Um... the first was because of the Conservative government here,
led by Margaret Thatcher,
who was a hugely oppositional leader
although she won three elections in a row,
but the international dimension of that
was largely people joining in and saying
we want to do something about apartheid.
Linking up with anti-racist struggles here to do that.
And then the other thing was that the movement inside South Africa
became really, really big in the '80s.
And then there was a kind of eruption in, like, music
and you know T-shirts and badges
and just kind of symbols here of what you could do.
You know, it was very easy, kind of, to go and boycott oranges
or to wear your Boycott South Africa,
Boycott Apartheid T-shirt and your badge.
And that really took off and music was a big part of that.
[Cheering and applause]
Erm... I'm here and the band are here
because we believe that what today represented was worthwhile.
So, I mean, that doesn't affect me,
if it becomes a trend, then that's not a bad thing.
[Man] This one, true it do so much for me in the charts...
I personally I do it for Africa. South Africa.
[Woman] It's a long story but I started off
with an organisation called Black Action
to Liberate South Africa, BALSA,
which used to meet in Lambeth Town Hall in the mid '80s.
And then I decided I wanted something that felt
a bit more like it was heading towards
the kind of pressure and structures that were needed,
so I then joined the Anti-Apartheid Movement, nationally.
And they'd put you in touch with your local groups, because by that time
there were local groups all over the country.
So I got put in touch with Southwark local group, where I lived.
[Woman] I was very much a grassroots activist,
worker bee person at Clapham Common.
So, what I remember is I wasn't on the big march
because I had to go to the Common to help set things up
and we had a tent with exhibitions
because we wanted to use the occasion to show people
what apartheid was like and we had this exhibition in a tent.
And then what I remember most is trying to collect some money
because it was a very expensive event.
[Woman] People now assume that Anti-Apartheid Movement was easy
but it wasn't. It took decades to get to the point
where voices were heard of any sort
and there were some quite good, powerful people involved.
So, I am really now a believer in collective voice
as a mechanism to effect change.
[Man] Free Nelson Mandela! Free Nelson Mandela!
[Cheering, applause]
[Applause stops, resonates]
[Droning instrumental music]
[Music stops, resonates]
[Reverberant instrumental music]
[Music fades, computers beep]
[Man] To lie down in remembrance,
is to know each of us is a prodigal son or daughter,
looking out beyond land and sky,
the chemical and metaphysical
beyond falling and turning waterwheels
in the colossal brain of damnable gods,
a Eureka held up to the sun's blinding eye,
born to gaze into fire.
[Muffled beat resonates]
[Tense instrumental music]
Light edged along salt-crusted stones,
across a cataract of blue water,
and lost sailor's parrots spoke of sirens,
the last words of men buried at sea.
[Music continues]
[Music fades, computers beep]
[Distorted, droning voices]
[Computerised voices stutter] The - the - the - the - stories
Stories - of - of - our lives.
[Multiple voices] The stories - stories - of our lives...
Of our lives...
[Man] After conquering frontiers,
the mind comes back to rest, stretching out over the white sand.
[Music - "Could this be magic" by Barry Manilow]
* Come, come, come into my arms *
* Let me know the wonder Of all of you *
* And baby I want you now Now, oh now *
* Oh now and hold on fast
* Could this be the magic At last *
* And could it be magic Oh come on, come on *
* Oh come into my arms
* Oh let me know the wonder Of all of you *
* Baby I want you now Now oh now *
* Now and hold on fast
* Could this be the magic At last *
* Could it be magic, come on Come on, come into my arms *
* Oh, let me know the wonder Of all of you *
* Baby I want you now
* Now, oh now Oh, now and hold on fast *
* Could this be the magic At last *
* Could it be magic
* Come on, come on Come, oh come into my arms *
* Oh let me know the wonder Of all of you *
* Baby I want you now
[Music continues]
* Baby I want you!
[Music continues]
Subtitled by Elaine Lillian Joseph and Adriana Hoyos
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[Music concludes, resonates]