Friday morning, Toynbee Hall: seven boxes of priceless work by artists, writers and photographers from the UK's South Asian diaspora, demanding a safe house in Uxbridge. With the help of playwright, Judith Johnson, who oversees the SALIDAA office, I loaded up the car and took the latest material from our collection to their new home at the Special Collections room at Brunel. The room is big and airy, unlike the poky little space that previously hosted the archive. At the moment, there are just four collections there, one of which is ours, beautifully displayed against a side wall:) The improved conditions still fail to meet the standards set by the National Archives, but each step takes us closer to the ideal.
The drive to Uxbridge gave me time to ruminate on the TV idea, which during the course of a lunch earlier in the week had morphed into a game show. How does that happen? How does a conversation started many weeks ago about making a programme for women over 45 who are returning to, or retraining for, work, morph into a family game show with the suggestion that Jonathan Ross might like to present? This is an interesting thread and one I may have alluded to before. The creative process is so non-linear that even when one is a part of it, it doesn't make sense!
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