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We have started to interview our people in order to start the editing of our recording. Firstly we interviewed a parent of a mixed race child, who gave us his personal experience of how society has perceived his marital mixed race relationship with his wife and also how members of his family had reacted towards him having a mixed race child. Some of the questions we asked was 'Has society changed their perspective of mixed race children?' he answered that 'society had certainly changed their perspective of mixed race children only for the better'. Secondly, we interviewed a group of black and white girls and asked them of how they generally perceive mixed race children and whether or not they are as accepted within the community as other races. The girls enthusiastically contributed well and gave us a variety of examples and analysis which gave us an understanding of contemporary society's view on mixed race pupils. We than interviewed an older mixed race person, who is also a teacher at our school to give us her interpretation and experience of being mixed race, she openly discussed issues such as racism and her family's response and her upbringing. We also asked whether she felt to be more black white or neither she answered that she preferably not tie herself down to a particular race her background enables her the freedom to be both therefore, she embraces her cultures from both sides and accepts the variety to be found within her. We are currently editing the clips and are looking forward to our final interview with a mother of a mixed race child, we have already discovered the paternal perspective of having a mixed race child however, we are now determined to explore the maternal perspective of having a mixed race child in today's society.