1910-1939

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Episode 1 of 3

Duration: 1 hour

The previously untold history of Britain's mixed-race community and the many love stories that created it.

In the first of this three-part series, George Alagiah tells the story of romance in the First World War between female workers and foreign seamen, the street riots it led to, and how Britain just escaped laws preventing mixed marriage and the excesses of race science.

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Wed 16 Nov 2011 02:20 BBC One except Wales

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Series Producer
Fatima Salaria
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George Alagiah
Executive Producer
Darren Kemp

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