Between 1947 and 1949 the British government, desperately short of workers in the "essential" industries, turned to the millions of East Europeans living in displaced persons camps in Germany.
Nearly 100,000 were brought here as "volunteers" and the many who stayed founded the East
European Communities of Northern England. In the early 1980s, the Bradford Heritage Recording Unit interviewed dozens of Ukrainians, Latvians,
Estonians and Yugoslavs about their often difficult early days in Britain. Producer Mark Whitaker