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A new three-part series in which actress CathyTyson looks at the history of black people in American cinema and how this reflects the changing nature of American society. Today's programme recalls the radical shift from
DW Griffith's 1915 classic
The Birth of a Nation, which glorified the Ku Klux Klan, to Norman Jewison 's 1967 film In the Heat of the Night, which featured black actor
Sidney Poitier as a cop. Producer Alison Vernon-Smith

Contributors

Unknown:
Norman Jewison
Unknown:
Sidney Poitier
Producer:
Alison Vernon-Smith

Don Black concludes a series profiling George Melly, the singer, author, art expert, broadcaster and critic.
A look at the reunion with John Chilton and the Feetwarmers, and at Melly's place on the wall in the National Portrait Gallery.

Contributors

Presenter:
Don Black
Subject:
George Melly
Musicians:
John Chilton and the Feetwarmers

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