EXPERT IntervieweeS INCLUDE

Rees Lloyd

An American/Welsh lawyer from California. He campaigned to have NBC cancel Anne Robinson’s contract for her attack on the Welsh.

Professor Gail Kennedy

Biological anthropologist at UCLA.

Bennett Greenspan

Head of “Family Tree DNA” in Houston. His company perform DNA tests to identify racial genealogy.

Professor Michael Perez

Sociologist specialising in race at Fullerton.

Professor Sabrina Agarwal

Anthropologist at UC Berkeley.

John Baugh

A linguist who specialises in the misuse of language and linguistic profiling. He is well known for his debates with Johnnie Cochran about the original OJ Simpson trial.

Kwame Anthony Appiah

A Ghanaian philosopher and novelist living in New York. He is a renowned expert on the philosophical problems of race and racism.

Dana Collins

Assistant professor of sociology at Fullerton.

Professor Bill Tucker

Psychologist at Rutgers, New Jersey, specialising in the misuse of social science to support oppressive social polices, especially with regard to race.

Dr Maher Hathout

Senior advisor to the Muslim Public Affairs Council.

Professor G. Reginald Daniel

Sociologist at UC Santa Barbara.

John Entine

Journalist, TV commentator and author of the best-selling book Taboo.

Martyn Jones

MP for Clywd South and chariman of the Welsh Affairs Committe at the time of Anne Robinson’s comments.

Rabbi Nachum Kosofsky

Congregation of Shaarei Tefila Orthodox Jewish Temple in LA.

Claudia Mitchell-Kernan

Executive Vice Chancellor at UCLA and an anthropologist by discipline. Her seminal research in the late 1960s and early 1970s on speech patterns of African Americans continues to be widely cited.

Lulwa Mutawi

Jordanian writer with special interest in the Generation X of the Middle East.

There will also be sound bites from celebrities, sport personalities and many
members of the great American public.

The first mainstream movie about race...

...interviews with fifteen world authorities

This movie was inspired by the reaction to the TV presenter Anne Robinson's disparaging comments about the Welsh in 2001, she is reported to have said she found the Welsh “irritating and annoying”, and asked “What are they for?”.

It was reported at the time that Robinson faced possible prosecution under the UK Race Relations Act. It was suggested that she had caused hatred toward the Welsh race.

Presenter Paul Duddridge, a Welsh man, wasn't offended by Robinson's comments but was surprised to discover that he belonged to a Welsh Race.

As he had been born within the same area of South Wales as international superstar Shirley Bassey, he reasoned that the definition of race that was being used would suggest that he and Shirley Bassey belong to the same racial group.

Whilst attempting to organise his “mini olympics” in LA Paul Duddridge searches for contestants on radio stations, takes a road trip to Houston, scouts out a venue, buys some cheap sports bibs, and tries to arrive at a scientific concensus on which teams should be competing - the teams themselves get to select the events. Anything is allowed, so long as it's a race of some sort.

The object of this documentary is to present an entirely dispassionate quantitive approach to the sometimes tricky definition of race. There is a serious sub text to this subject. If we can't define race easily, why does it seem so easy to define racism. This may seem naïve but it sometimes seems the topic of racism is discussed and understood by the few but not clarified for the many.