The first of six programmes.
She was four when she came to Yorkshire, a small heathen to be saved and civilised by white Christian society. Ostracised as a child - for the heathen was black, therefore dirty and devilish - she learned resilience and independence of mind. Now in her 70s and living in London's East End, Kathleen Wasama resists with humour and a sense of common humanity the prejudices about black people she finds still entrenched in English society.