British television and the Anti-Apartheid Campaign 1950-1990Tal Zalmonovich, OUP, £64GIVEN the apartheid regime’s strict censorship laws and banning of television until 1976, Tal Zalmonovich’s book Broadcasting Apartheid focuses on how the issue was covered here in Britain.She opens with a description of the BBC’s televising of the Free Mandela at 70 concert that took place on July 11 1988 at Wembley stadium and argues that it “is remembered as the greatest achievement of the British Anti-Apartheid Campaign.”

NADIA JOSEPH welcomes a survey of the role that TV played in the debate over apartheid and race relations in Britain

From Morning Star via This RSS Feed.