Dear Gemmers,
This is nothing to do with my job at the Petrie, but I thought some of
you might be interested in this new release from the BBC Archive.
All the best, Debbie
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BBC Archive
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*New BBC Archive Collection on Apartheid *
*15^th June 2009 *To mark the tenth anniversary of Nelson Mandela
stepping down from the presidency in South Africa and twenty years since
the first steps were made to dismantle apartheid; the BBC release ‘Life
under Apartheid: Racial Segregation in South Africa’, a new online
collection of interviews, documentaries, news items and related
documents from the BBC Archives.
The collection, made up of 22 programmes and eight documents is designed
to give audiences an understanding of what life was like for South
Africans under apartheid during the political unrest and reform in the
1980s and '90s. BBC News items about racial classification and full
length BBC documentaries considering conditions for black South Africans
illustrate how the apartheid system controlled everyday life. Major
events such as the Sharpeville Massacre and the assassination of Dr
Verwoerd are also highlighted within this collection.
The collection includes an interview with Nobel Peace Prize Winner Chief
Albert Mvumbi Luthuli from 1954; Harold Macmillan’s ‘Winds of Change’
speech in full with the response from Dr Verwoerd and an eye witness
report on the Soweto Uprising in 1976.
Through the creation of these online collections, the BBC hopes to
release hidden treasures providing a fascinating source of
socio-political history. The BBC archive, which holds nearly 1m hours of
TV and radio programming, serves as a reminder of how the BBC evolved,
and has an unrivalled record of modern history.
This collection is the latest in a series to be released online which
explore the cultural and political developments that shaped the 20^th
century. The new collection goes live on June 16^th and you can view
the collection by going online to www.bbc.co.uk/archive/apartheid
<https://mail.google.com/mail/html/compose/static_files/www.bbc.co.uk/archive/apartheid>.
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