A Coventry artist has recalled what it was like growing up in the city during the 1970s and 80s. Hardish Virk is an actor, director, producer, writer, visual artist and DJ whose family came to the West Midlands in the 1960s.

He grew up in and around Stoke and later Ernesford Grange in a period of industrial decline in Coventry, with racism and National Front thuggery on one hand, and counter anti-racism movements on the other. Though a tumultuous time in many ways, Hardish says the period shaped him into being the artist he became.

He is now telling the story of his own youth and his family's experience of moving to Coventry - both against a backdrop of the city at that time and the wider context of colonial Britain.

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