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| 1989 - Day By Day Omnibus | ...President FW de Klerk meets with NELSON MANDELA, Chile elects a civilian president to replace Augusto Pinochet, and East Germany discusses what do to after dismantling the Stasi.... |
| 1989 - Day By Day | ...President FW de Klerk meets with NELSON MANDELA.... |
| Archive Hour, The | ...Marcel BERLINs recalls one of this century's greatest political trials. In the dock were nine men - six black, two white and one INDIAn - including NELSON MANDELA. All were charged with sabotage and conspiracy to overthrow the state by revolution, and all but one were given life sentences for a cause for which they were prepared to die.... |
| Breaking News | ...Colin Blane hears from Rodney Pinder, a journalist who followed NELSON MANDELA from prison to presidency.... |
| Choir, The | ...Aled Jones presents music from a concert given at the Hall for Cornwall, Truro, by multi-Grammy Award-winning a cappella vocal group Ladysmith Black Mambazo, on one of their longest-ever UK tours. They have been hailed by former South African president NELSON MANDELA as the country's 'cultural ambassadors'.... |
| Concert For Mandela [world Service] | ...Highlights and news from the concert celebrating NELSON MANDELA's 90th Birthday in Hyde Park, London.... |
| File On 4 | ...NELSON MANDELA (Speaker)... |
| Friday Documentary, The [world Service] | ...... |
| Hamish Henderson - A Various Man | ...Henderson has been called 'the most important Scottish poet since Burns', yet he is better known overseas than elsewhere in Britain. NELSON MANDELA sought him out after his release from Robben Island, Pete Seeger gamely attempted some of his Scots dialect poetry and the historian EP Thompson called him 'that rare man, a poet'.... |
| It's My Story | ...Raised in the leafy suburb of Stellenbosch, Melanie Fourie married the grandson of Henrik Verwoerd, the assassinated South African Prime Minister credited as being the architect of apartheid. Their studies abroad convinced them that change was necessary, and a meeting with NELSON MANDELA in 1991 prompted Melanie to take the leap and actually join the ANC. She went on to be elected as an ANC member of parliament.... |
| Knowing Nelson Mandela | |
| Marc Riley's Musical Time Machine | ...In our first episode we travel back to witness the year that NELSON MANDELA was jailed for life, when the Sun newspaper was born and when the British and French Governments announced their commitment to build a tunnel under the English Channel.... |
| Memory Experience, The | ...Cognitive neuroscientist Professor Faraneh Vargha-Khadem explains why John knows who NELSON MANDELA is, yet doesn't remember day to day events.... |
| Monday Documentary, The [world Service] | ...After a week in prison in which he was tortured he and his team were released following personal appeals to the then President, Charles Taylor from, amongst others, NELSON MANDELA and Jesse Jackson.... |
| More Than Just A Song | ...God Bless Africa, was composed in 1897 by a Methodist teacher in the Eastern Cape, Enoch Sontonga. Later, it was adopted by the African National Congress and became an inspirational anthem in the struggle against apartheid, forever associated with NELSON MANDELA and the other prisoners on Robben Island.... |
| Operation Vula | ...The amazing story of the ANC operation which set up a communications link between agents in Lusaka, terrorists in South Africa and NELSON MANDELA's prison cell on Robben Island.... |
| Out Of Darkness - The Triumph Of Nelson Mandela | |
| Painting The Rainbow | ...How much does South AFRICA's peaceful transition to majority rule owe to a series of secret negotiations at an ENGLISH country house? Julian O'Halloran reveals the inside story of the talks that paved the way for NELSON MANDELA's first official meeting with the white government ten years ago.... |
| Profile | ...Grant Ferrett looks at the life of South African President Thabo Mbeki. He took on the unenviable challenge of stepping into NELSON MANDELA's shoes in 1999, but to many he seems more comfortable in the back rooms of political power.... |
| Reunion, The | ...Sue MacGregor goes to Johannesburg to reunite a group of former political prisoners who were incarcerated on Robben Island when NELSON MANDELA was there throughout the 1960s and 70s. Robben Island was a world of chains and torture during South Africa's darkest apartheid years. But it also became a place where many of the country's future leaders learnt the skills which would later bring them to power. We hear the extraordinary stories of five former prisoners.... |
| Something Understood [world Service] | ...What, if anything, do Beowulf, Abraham Lincoln, Elizabeth I and NELSON MANDELA have in common?... |
| Week Ending | ...SBH:Year Ending - A satirical look back at the year's news. With sketches about the poll tax, TV coverage of the release of NELSON MANDELA, the Strangeways riot, the Iraqi Supergun, Labour Party 0898 number, the fall of Margaret Thatcher, John Major. With Bill Wallis, David Tate, Sally Grace & guests. Written by Richard Herring, Stewart Lee, Ged Parsons, Simon Bullivant, Robert Milliongton, Robert Linford, Colin Swash, Iain Pattinson, Julian Dutton, Michael Dines, Andrew Glover, Peter Baynham, Mark Green, Richard Matthews, Alan Moss, Peter Roache. Compiled by Simon Bullivant. Produced by Sarah Smith.... |
| Westminster Hour, The | ...The first of a new series of programmes about songs which have had a political impact. Nkosi Sikelei Afrika, God Bless Africa, was composed in 1897 as a hymn by a Methodist teacher in the Eastern Cape, Enoch Sontonga. Later, it was adopted by the African National Congress and became an inspirational anthem in the struggle against apartheid, forever associated with NELSON MANDELA and the other prisoners on Robben Island.... |
| When Pop And Politics Meet [radio Scotland] | ...Free NELSON MANDELA... |