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May 30, 1998

Season 1

01. Arrival

This part follows the initial warm reception, the growing sense of rejection and isolation, and the first flash point of racial intolerance in Britain.

57min
May 30, 1998

02. Intolerance

The 1959 Notting Hill riots saw the murder of Kelso Cochrane, the first acknowledged racial killing in Britain. But the story is not all bleak. Against increasing racial division came the black churches, the growth of communities and the beginning of the fight to be recognised.

59min
June 6, 1998

03. A New Generation

Focusing on the education of black children, their search for an identity through their music and lifestyle, and the tragedy of the New Cross house fire in 1981.

58min
June 13, 1998

04. A British Story

The 1990s saw the emergence of a new black British identity, with black peers in the House of Lords and black celebrities in sport, entertainment and broadcastin

59min
June 20, 1998