Abolition Season
Examining the modern day legacy of slavery
³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ Two's The Culture Show: Slavery Across Britain looks at how Britain's landscape is peppered with monuments to slavery, whether we are aware of them or not. In this programme The Culture Show examines the tangible evidence in the UK.
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Race Through Time on ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ Four takes a look at how modern conceptions of race emerged during the Age of Exploration in the 15th century – and came to dominate Western thinking during the slave trade, the early colonial period and the so-called Enlightenment. Subsequent episodes look at the development of racism in the 19th and 20th centuries.
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Slave Children on ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ Two follows Rageh Omaar as he travels the world to examine the plight of modern slave children.
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³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ Radio 3 presents The Essay: Britain's Hidden Slave Trade where two Britons, one white and one black, visit four less well known sites in the UK associated with the transatlantic slave trade.
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The network also broadcasts Riches From Freetown in which Kwame Kwei-Armah visits Sierra Leone, one of the centres of the slave trade, to discuss its influence on generations of artists, writers and musicians.
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In Wisteria – Twilight Songs From The Swamp Country, Kwame Dawes evokes the legacy of slavery today in a small town in the American south, incorporating the performance of poetry and music.
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³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ London 94.9 FM broadcasts The History And Legacy Debates – a series of debates about the legacy of slavery, discussions and lectures around the role of London and the slave trade, art and slavery, and phone-ins.
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³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ Radio 4 presents an extensive investigation into the far-reaching economic connections of a number of key British institutions and their ties with the highly lucrative slave trade in Trade Roots. The programme looks at manufacturing industries, arts and cultural institutions, banking, the church and the aristocracy. The presenter is Michael Buerk.
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Julian Worricker, Nicky Campbell and Matthew Bannister will be exploring issues around the slave trade and its contemporary legacy in the UK, the Caribbean and Africa on ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ Radio Five Live, with additional reporting from Nick Davis.
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³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ One presents Inside Out – comprising three stories.
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Programme one is Dido Belle, the mixed race niece of the Earl of Mansfield, presented by Kwame Kwei-Armah; programme two is Built On Slavery in which Lucinda Lambton looks at London's connections to the slave trade; and programme three Mental Slavery focuses on Professor Kwame McKenzie as he looks at the emotional and mental legacy of enslavement.
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The series Inside Out West will examine modern day race relations in the context of the abolition anniversary. A documentary will tell the story of the Codrington family from South Gloucestershire who ran a plantation on the island of Antigua.
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