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From Riots to Rights

on BBC Radio 4 FM

The last of two programmes in which Zareer Masani draws on official documents, eye-witness memories and the BBC sound archive for new insights into
British race relations. 2: Enoch Powell 's infamous "rivers of blood" speech brought dockers and meat workers out on strike in his support. The government, though aghast in public, in private began to make plans to limit immigration. And in so doing, they inadvertently laid the foundations of Britain's race relations policytoday. Producer sue Davies

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