Free Nelson Mandela. In the first of a season about the end of apartheid, eyewitness accounts provide source material for a dramatisation of the events of 11 February 1990. That was the momentous day when the South African government answered campaigners' prayers by finally releasing anti-apartheid activist Nelson Mandela , who would later become the country's president.
Director Srik Narayanan ; Executive producer Richard Bradley
Repeated tomorrow at 8.30pm on BBC4 Songs of Praise for Easter from South Africa is tomorrow at 5pm on BBC1