Migrants Mean Business
The Documentary Podcast
BBC
4.3 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 28 November 2018
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Kim Tserkezie explores how migrants have used their entrepreneurial skills to become part of British communities, and finds out whether the experiences of successful businesses accrued over generations still resonate with migrants arriving today.
Kim begins her journey by the golden sands of England’s North East coast, where we hear the Italian family history of England’s ice cream champions. Michael Minchella shares the experiences and struggles of generations of his family setting up and running their seaside business. Some 75 years later, Michael now leads their much loved ice cream empire.
We then head to North Yorkshire to meet one of the 8000 Syrian refugees who have arrived in the UK in recent years. Razan, a pharmacist from Syria, explains how she is making a new life as a traditional Yorkshire cheese maker.
Kim also travels over the border to Edinburgh to meet Talal and Nour, two Syrians who met for the first time in Edinburgh and went on to recreate a facsimile of the baker’s shop that Noor was forced to leave behind when fleeing Aleppo.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello Kim. |
| 0:05.0 | Hello Michael. I'm really well. How are you? |
| 0:08.0 | I'm really well. How are you? |
| 0:09.0 | I'm fine. |
| 0:10.0 | So Michael, if you're good. Show me round that ice cream parlor, is that okay? |
| 0:15.0 | Yes, I'm excited. |
| 0:16.0 | I love to. |
| 0:17.0 | I'm very proud of it. |
| 0:18.0 | I'm very proud of it. |
| 0:20.0 | I'm Kim Sikherzi, and I'm by the golden sons of England's northeast coast. |
| 0:27.0 | Right on the seafront in South Shields is Michael Mancela's famous Italian ice cream taller. |
| 0:35.0 | He said some of the Sundays would do, |
| 0:37.0 | pistachio Sunday, |
| 0:38.0 | Terramisou, strawberry and ice cream, |
| 0:42.0 | bubblegum Sunday, which is, you see the little cone on the picture on the top, |
| 0:45.6 | that's filled with bubblegum sauce. |
| 0:47.4 | Oh, I think my daughter was quite like that one. |
| 0:50.3 | You can try one as well, you know. |
| 0:59.0 | Being brought up in a family of Greek migrants, I've always been fascinated by how people find their place in their adopted home. |
| 1:05.0 | And in this program, migrants mean business on the BBC World Service. |
| 1:10.0 | I'm going to find out whether the experiences of families like them in cellas who |
| 1:15.9 | build successful businesses after coming to the UK with nothing still resonate with |
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