In this, the last programme of the series, Jesse Owens, the greatest athlete of his time, who would have been a champion in any era, retells the story of his triumph in Berlin when he won four Olympic gold medals. But Owens's victories must be told against the political climate of the times, when Nazism was in full spate and intimidation of creed and race was the order of the day. It is hard enough to win an Olympic gold in normal times, but for a coloured athlete to win four in Berlin in 1936, against a background of hysteria and fanaticism, makes his achievement all the more remarkable.

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