{"id":11060,"date":"2025-05-01T08:53:17","date_gmt":"2025-05-01T07:53:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/?p=11060"},"modified":"2025-05-01T08:53:17","modified_gmt":"2025-05-01T07:53:17","slug":"vp-overseas-student-committee-1979","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/vp-overseas-student-committee-1979\/","title":{"rendered":"VP Overseas Student Committee: 1979"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I chose this interview because it&#8217;s the earliest STOIC recording that discusses overseas students. David Ghani was the presenter of this particular item, and he was talking to Kumar Singarji, who was then the Vice-President of the Overseas Students Committee. This interview is from the <em data-start=\"1262\" data-end=\"1274\">Lunchbreak<\/em> series and is also one of the first in colour, recorded on 6 June 1979. We had to be creative when recording this because we still only had one colour camera, so we shot it in a single-camera style, similar to how films are shot.<\/p>\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fl0XqDbVuJM?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-GB&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n<p><strong>Colin Grimshaw May 2025<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the earliest STOIC news programmes in colour and it featured a discussion on Overseas Students. 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