Despite TV was an video group founded by Mark Saunders in 1982. The group operated out of the Tower Hamlets Arts Project on Whitechapel Road East London and produced video magazines that explored local issues, showcased local talent and promoted community organisations.

DTV 11 (1987):

Community Cuts: a group fights for their funding
Local Band
Benefit event for Res Eric Joseph
History Showreel for the East End Video Group
Well Done Girls: Anti page 3 demonstration
Health Cuts to Tower Hamlets hospitals
“Scrub it” – song by Sue Rossiter about cost of keeping women in prison
Demonstration of Somali Refugees against the dictatorship in Somalia
Travellers talk of their experience of harassment in Hackney and Tower Hamlets
The growth of the City of London + Docklands Development
Women fight the Alton Bill
Shut Up and Listen – Poetry from Netifa

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