A history of Britain's mixed-race community. George Alagiah tells how Britain escaped laws preventing interracial marriage and...
Series tracing the changes to British national life brought about by the first major influx of people from the Caribbean in 1948. The initial warm rece...
The true story of the Mangrove restaurant, a lively community hub in London's Notting Hill that was the subject of relentless police raids during the...
This programme looks at experience of Caribbean/Black community of Britain and their cultural heritage.
This programme looks at experiences of Black women, growing up and working in Britain.
The 1959 Notting Hill riots and the first racial killing.
Lovers Rock tells a fictional story of young love at a blues party in 1980. The film is an ode to the romantic reggae genre called lovers rock, an...
Focusing on the education of black children, their search for an identity through their music and lifestyle, and the tragedy of the New Cross ...
Programme looking at the culture, music, food and dress that make Caribbean carnival special.
After seeing his father assaulted by police officers, a young black man is driven to join the force, with hopes of changing racist attitud...
The 1990s saw the emergence of a new black British identity, with black peers in the House of Lords and black celebrities in sport, entertainme...
The true story of award-winning writer Alex Wheatle, who spent his childhood in a mostly white institutional care home and was jailed after the B...
This programme looks at the contributions made by black people from literature and the arts.
When 12-year-old Kingsley is transferred to a special-needs school, a group of West Indian women uncover an unofficial segregation policy preventing...
The sounds of riots outside bring up confusing and upsetting memories for Cyrus.
Cyrus tells the story of how he met and fell in love with Eunice.
Yvonne confronts her emotions about the death of the biological father that left her mother when she was pregnant.
Malcolm and David consider how their different upbringings have shaped their lives today.
Lenny Henry is joined by a host of famous faces as he celebrates his Caribbean-British heritage and explores how his cultur...
Lenny looks back on his coming of age and explores how he and other second and third-generation British-born Caribbean kids...
Kev talks about his relationships with this family and the experience of being the only black mechanic at his work.
Documentary looking at those who support UKIP, from fishermen who say that their livelihoods are being destroyed by EU legislation to those wh...
Seventy years since the Windrush's UK arrival, two kids head to the Caribbean to discover why their grandparents left...
The compelling story of a group of teenagers with a cause in a musical drama based on the true story of the Glasgow Girls. What started as a grassroots petitio...
Michaela explains the importance of valuing her black heritage and understanding the struggles that her family have been through.
Adrian Chiles uses rarely seen archive film and talks some of those who were newly arrived in the west Midlands about the racism th...
Eunice tells the story of how she met an Englishman called Michael and how he left her with a baby.
Having just moved to England, Eunice discusses the other people that live in her building.
Kev talks about the everyday racism he experiences as a black man living in England.
Samantha talks about the experience of being the only white person in her husband's family.
Yvonne explains how attitudes towards her have changed in the aftermath of the New Cross Fire.
In July 1981 riots broke out in Liverpool, following longstanding tensions between police and the black community. David Olusoga inv...
How black immigrants who made Britain their home came face to face with the government's 'hostile environment'. David Olusoga exposes...
A collection of short snippets of stories from the Windrush generation.
A visit to David's university bar unlocks a secret that Malcolm has tried to repress.
West Indian residents in the UK and their experience of applying for UK jobs and colour bars they encounter. Also interviews with white UK ...
Michaela introduces herself and her family in a sociology project about her heritage and the windrush generation.
Contains racially insensitive language. Stories of interracial marriages are told by women who have crossed the racial divide in and explor...
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