Three immigrant communities reflect on the role that music plays in bridging the cultural divide between their homelands and their new lives in Britain. 2: Kiribati - Islands Here, Islands There
Palestinian singer and musicologist Reem Kelani continues her series of musical journeys around migrant communities in Britain. This week she meets the tiny community of around 30 women from Kiribati in Micronesia. Coming from a wide area in the West Central Pacific, the islanders have married Englishmen and are again dispersed, but now throughout the UK. They come together to laugh, cry, sing and dance at special occasions such as marriage and birth - and, as in this case, death. They recreate the Kiribati maneaba, or assembly house, in Fareham, Hampshire, producer Tony Phillips