The first of three programmes about race relations in Britain. 1: The Way We Live Now

'There is a big rift, and it is getting deeper and deeper, between the blacks and the whites ... the hostility is between black and white and not between the police and the blacks, and my opinion unfortunately is that it will get worse.' (Police officer, 1977)

Is he right to be gloomy about race relations? Reporter Richard Lindley went to Britain's 'blackest borough' - Brent, in London - to discover how Blacks and Asians see themselves in a mainly white community, and how their white neighbours regard them. This report is not all gloom. Many white people are on good terms with their Black and Asian neighbours, but this remains a disturbing picture of a multi-racial community.

Presented by Charles Wheeler