GCSE Videos: Poems from Other Cultures and Traditions

This page contains links for a series of educational videos produced to support the NEAB/AQA syllabus and originally broadcast on BBC Two in 1999.

1. TATAMKHULU AFRIKA, ‘NOTHING’S CHANGED’ – FROM THE COLLECTION MAQABANE (1994). READ THE POEM HERE. dramatisation and analysis:

2. Kamau Brathwaite, ‘Ogun’ – FROM The Arrivants: A New World Trilogy (1973). dramatisation and analysis.

3. Sujata Bhatt, ‘Search For My Tongue’ – FROM BRUNIZEM (1988). dramatisation and analysis.

4. arun kolatkar, ‘an old woman’ – from the collection, JEJURI (1976). DRAMATISATION AND ANALYSIS.

5. TOM LEONARD, ‘THE SIX O’CLOCK NEWS’ – FROM THE COLLECTION UNRELATED INCIDENTS (1976). DRAMATISATION AND ANALYSIS.

6. moniza alvi, ‘Presents from my Aunts in Pakistan’. dramatisation and analysis.