The Long Hour by JO ANDERSON
Narrated by Kenny Lynch Dawn: 3 April 1792.
William Pitt stands up in the House of Commons to set the clock ticking towards the hour when all slavery will end.
He did not live to see British
Abolition in 1833. Abolition was in no small part due to thousands of ordinary men and women and their desire for freedom of choice under the Chartist Movement. Since then, successive campaigners have kept up a continual cat-and-mouse struggle with slavers as the clock ticks on ... African music by drummers and singers from AKLOWA directed by FELIX COBBSON BRIAN SUPPLE (bagpipes) Directed by ALEC REID BBC Bristol