Sveriges mest populära poddar
The History Hour
Samhälle och kulturPersonliga dagböcker

Roots - The TV Series

50 min•21 januari 2017

The epic mini-series about slavery in the US hit TV screens in January 1977. We hear from actor Leslie Uggams, who played the character Kizzy, recalling how "Roots" revolutionised perceptions about African-American history. Plus: when peace deal ended El Salvador's brutal civil war, the murder of prominent Turkish Armenian journalist, Hrant Dink, life in the world's largest refugee camp, and how Dungeons and Dragons came about.

(Photo: Actors LeVar Burton, Todd Bridges and Robert Reed in Roots. Credit: Alamy)

Fler avsnitt av The History Hour

Visa alla avsnitt av The History Hour
The discovery of the Terra Nova shipwreck and Echo the elephant
•1 tim 1 min
A papal visit and German reunification
•1 tim 1 min
The 'Cyprus Emergency’ and India’s nuclear mango deal
•1 tim
Movie history: Seven Samurai and Casablanca
•1 tim 1 min
Sweden and the USA's diplomatic freeze and Elvis in the UK
•1 tim 2 min
Blood diamonds and the meeting between Florence Nightingale and Aga Khan III
•1 tim
The Shetland Bus and toxic shock syndrome
•1 tim
Italian history
•1 tim 1 min
Creating Mr Men and the Austrian wine scandal
•1 tim 1 min
Chile’s Penguin Revolution and the 5,000-year-old frozen mummy
•1 tim 1 min

The History Hour med BBC World Service finns tillgänglig på flera plattformar. Informationen på denna sida kommer från offentliga podd-flöden.