{"id":16758,"date":"2011-10-06T21:58:17","date_gmt":"2011-10-06T21:58:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=16758"},"modified":"2016-06-10T18:06:53","modified_gmt":"2016-06-10T18:06:53","slug":"mixed-britannia-bbc-two-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=16758","title":{"rendered":"Mixed Britannia, BBC Two, review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/culture\/tvandradio\/8806488\/Mixed-Britannia-BBC-Two-review.html\" target=\"_blank\">Mixed Britannia, BBC Two, review<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\" target=\"_blank\">The Telegraph<\/a><br \/>\n2011-10-06<\/p>\n<p><strong>Josephine Moulds<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Josephine Moulds reviews the first episode of BBC Two&#8217;s documentary <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=16093\" target=\"_blank\">Mixed Britannia<\/a>, presented by <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/George_Alagiah\" target=\"_blank\">George Alagiah<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The first part of an ambitious documentary series, <em>Mixed Britannia<\/em>, ran last night, continuing BBC Two\u2019s season about mixed-race life in the UK.<\/p>\n<p>Over the course of three programmes, it aims to show the experiences of mixed-race people living in Britain from 1910 to the present day. The problem was it tiptoed so lightly around the subject of race, the first episode at least fell rather flat.<\/p>\n<p>Last night covered 1910-1939, so presenter George Alagiah could shudder at how racist our country once was rather than tackle the thornier issue of the current climate. (That is saved for the last instalment.)&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/culture\/tvandradio\/8806488\/Mixed-Britannia-BBC-Two-review.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mixed Britannia, BBC Two, review The Telegraph 2011-10-06 Josephine Moulds Josephine Moulds reviews the first episode of BBC Two&#8217;s documentary Mixed Britannia, presented by George Alagiah. The first part of an ambitious documentary series, Mixed Britannia, ran last night, continuing BBC Two\u2019s season about mixed-race life in the UK. Over the course of three programmes, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,1196,8,26,394,10],"tags":[5697,7150,7151,5699,7739,5698,7738],"class_list":["post-16758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-literary-criticism","category-media-archive","category-politics","category-socialscience","category-uk","tag-bbc","tag-bbc-two","tag-british-broadcasting-corporation","tag-george-alagiah","tag-josephine-moulds","tag-mixed-britannia","tag-the-telegraph"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16758"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16758\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47510,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16758\/revisions\/47510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}