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A football match between professionals, pitting black players against white players. It sounds crass, but it happened in England in 1979. What's more, as one of the black players recalls, there was no controversy. "Nobody ever rang us up and said, 'Do you realise the implication?' Nothing at all." Adrian Chiles talks to some of those who played in the match, about how they navigated the racism of that era as professional sportsmen.

The match that pitted white players against black players

This story is part of the BBC's Black and British season, which is running throughout November. Other stories in the series include:

IN PICTURES: Moments that made Britain's black stars,

DAVID HAREWOOD: Will Britain ever have a black prime minister?

ANIMATION: Why a black child is 12 times less likely to become PM

Between Serbia and Croatia is an uninhabited stretch of marshland that one man is trying to claim as a state. He signed up nearly half a million prospective citizens but has since been banned from setting foot on the territory. Yet, for different reasons, neither Serbia nor Croatia have wanted the land. Vit Jedlicka, first president of so-called Liberland, is undeterred: "We want to show that we are real people who are able to do real stuff, but in a romantic way."

The man who created a tiny country he can no longer enter

Jenny Nater met Eric Cornish in Dover in 1941 when she was 21 and he was 26. War was raging and neither wanted to fall in love. But their romance flourished - and Nater, now 96, carried on writing after Cornish went missing at sea. "I convinced myself that he was either a prisoner of war or he was somewhere in France making his way back, which a lot of them did," she says. "I never, never, never gave up hope."

Remembering my World War Two fiance

"There was no safe space on our estate for young people to hang out, nowhere for them to go, nothing to do. The level of violence was unbelievable." Lorraine Jones's son, Dwayne, told her he was determined to do something to change things in that part of Brixton, south London. He did. But then he fell victim himself to the violence he had been trying to prevent. "My son died trying to save a life, and I felt compelled to continue his work," says Lorraine. Now she's working with 300 people of all ages and word about Dwaynamics, the project her son started, is spreading.

Fighting back in the name of Dwayne

The GP surgery that treats patients no-one else can cope with