Synopsis
David Olusoga discusses the Windrush Generation.
- Programme: Black and British: A Forgotten History
- Episode: The Homecoming
- Channel: BBC Two
- Broadcast year: 2016
- History | Britain: Migration, empires and the people: c790 to the present day | Migration to & from Britain c.790 to the present day | 1900-c.2010
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