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Sunday Best: It's My Story - Race

BBC Radio 4
on BBC Radio 4 FM

In a rare interview, Tommie Smith talks about the "silent gesture, heard around the world", when he and team-mate John Carlos made their black power salute on the Olympic podium in Mexico in 1968. Guardian and BBC athletics commentator
John Rawling speaks to Smith, Professor Harry Edwaras and sprinter Jim Hines about how the black power salute changed their lives. Producer Simon Crosse (R)

Contributors

Talks:
Tommie Smith
Unknown:
John Carlos
Commentator:
John Rawling
Unknown:
Professor Harry Edwaras
Unknown:
Jim Hines
Producer:
Simon Crosse
Source: Radio Times

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