Alan Brind interviewed August 22, 2010. A packaging engineer by trade, he describes himself as a practical person who understands how machines work. First of five videos.	1/29:56
Alan Brind interviewed August 22, 2010. Alan Brind talks about various family matters: his father, his mother and others. Second of five videos.	2/27:09
Alan Brind interviewed on September 12, 2010. Alan Brind talks about his father, who died when Alan was still a small boy. He mentions his grandfather, John Brind, who was a powerful figure in one of the printing trade unions, and also a powerful drinker of beer. He talks about his mother's family, who came from the small Norfolk village of Banham. This video is the fourth in a series of five.	3/31:16
Alan Brind interviewed September 19, 2010. On the cards. The job of a convenor. Ghost story. How he became a councillor. Fourth of five videos	4/30:32
Alan Brind interviewed September 12, 2010	5/30:51
Alan Brind interviewed September 19, 2010. Norfolk in the war. Alan and Merlyn wedding. Photos of me when I was a baby	6/13:45
French spy buried on Clapham Common: Alan Brind (my father) talks about meeting Charles de Gaulle and the Free French during the Second World War. He reveals how MI5 reacted when the French shot a traitor. He tells how he became a telephone engineer despite lacking one of the basic qualities required (he's colour blind). And he discloses an unlikely use for a packet of cigarettes.	7
My grandmother Hilda Brind (original name Hutton) was born in a cottage, really one of a row of very small terraced houses, in Banham, Norfolk. In this video she describes what life was like there before the First World War. My father, a Londoner, tells what it was like to visit Banham in the years before the Second World War.	8
This video is about the Williams family. Towards the end of her life, I asked my mum if I could make a video about her, but she declined saying she couldn't remember anything any more. I was quite surprised about this because she had always seem to have the best memory in the family, better than mine anyway. I made this video thanks to a sound recording I made when my parents visited our house in Leyton. My brother Christopher was there at the time. He lived nearby.	9/10:58
Mum Dad and Arthur sitting in my parents garden in Welwyn Garden City in 2003 or 2004 talking about America.	10
Mostly Laura and Arthur when they were very young. Some of Clare and a sister. Clare can be seen pushing an amazing pram we had around Whipps Cross.	11
Frenlite Flour Mill where my family lived from the late 1950s to the 1960s.	12

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