Windrush
Windrush is a 4-part series of one hour television documentaries originally broadcast on BBC2 in 1998 to mark the 50th anniversary of the arrival in Britain of the Empire Windrush, the ship which brought the first wave of post-war West Indian immigrants.
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1.Arrival
30-05-199857mThis part follows the initial warm reception, the growing sense of rejection and isolation, and the first flash point of racial intolerance in Britain.
2.Intolerance
06-06-199859mThe 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 c...
3.A New Generation
13-06-199858mFocusing 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.
4.A British Story
20-06-199859mThe 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
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