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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Episodes - Season 1
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...
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. Agains...
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 fi...
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 ...
Cast
Lenny Henry
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Doreen Lawrence
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Valerie Amos
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Diane Abbott
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Paul Boateng
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Jazzie B
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