Have ya been to the Bristol Estate yet?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00nfr2h/Panorama_Undercover_Hate_on_the_Doorstep/
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/oct/19/bbc-panorama-racism-bristol-report
Two BBC reporters of South Asian origin who lived for eight weeks on a housing estate in Bristol, posing as a married Muslim couple with limited English, were racially abused more than 50 times, a documentary will show tonight. The edition of Panorama, titled Hate on the Doorstep, also features the pair suffering physical assault. Reporter Amil Khan, who was pretending to be a part-time painter and decorator, was punched in the head by a local man. Tamanna Rahman, who wore a hijab headscarf and acted as if she spoke very little English, was pelted with stones and glass and on one occasion an 11-year-old boy tried to steal her purse, threatening to kill her.
The programme will be shown in the week the British National Party leader, Nick Griffin, appears on BBC1's Question Time. While there was some canvassing for the party for June's European elections during the period the pair spent on the 1930s estate, a few miles from the centre of Bristol, there was no other sign of BNP activism there.
Using secret cameras, Rahman and Khan filmed themselves being abused regularly, both for their race – "****" was a common term of abuse – and over their religion, with a number of jibes used related to terrorism, including "Taliban" and "jihad". A good deal of the abuse on the estate is shown to come from children and teenagers, although adults are also involved.
Rahman tells the film that while the reaction to her "husband" from local people was unpredictable, she is "bullied and abused just about every time I step outside the door", an experience ranging from physical attack to muttered insults.
The programme hears from a local charity, Support Against Racist Incidents, which says that such cases are routine. Incidents it has dealt with recently include people being threatened with a knife and having eggs or water bombs thrown at their houses.
