BBC4 set to broadcast social history documentary about Romany Gypsies

14 May 2018
unnamed man and lad at Gypsy protest at Westminster – 21/10/68

BBC4 are set to broadcast a social history documentary on Romany Gypsies and how their lives have changed since the 1960’s.  

Children Talking
Children Talking
Children talking Gypsies on television 1960's history

Slide above: Romany Gypsy children on TV series 'Children Talking' 1/07/1967

Rural Media (who host the Travellers’ Times) are working with BBC4 and are keen to talk to the people themselves, or relatives or friends of Gypsies and Travellers who appeared in BBC documentaries in the 1960’s.

Jim Riley Much Wenlock appearing on 'Where do we go from here' 07/10/1969
Jim Riley from Wenlock appearing on 'Where do we go from here' 07/10/1969

It’s a serious social history documentary charting the changes in Gypsy Traveller life since the 1960’s.

Rosemary Buckland from Bristol appearing on 'Where do we go from here?' broadcast 07/10/1969
Rosemary Buckland from Bristol appearing on 'Where do we go from here?' broadcast 07/10/1969

If you are – or know - any of the people in these 1960s photographs and TV images and you are interested in finding out more, please FB message us on our FB page, email us at travellerstimes@ruralmedia.co.uk or call us on 01432 344 039 and ask for Julie Colman.

Unnamed woman on 'Where do we go from here' broadcast 07/10/1969
Unnamed woman on 'Where do we go from here' broadcast 07/10/1969

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(Photographs all © BBC and we have included what captioning there is. Main photo – unnamed man and lad at Gypsy protest at Westminster – 21/10/68)

Brian Thompson or Thomson Bromley on 'Man Alive' broadcast 05/03/1968
Brian Thompson or Thomson Bromley on 'Man Alive' broadcast 05/03/1968
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