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Timewatch Season 9 · Episode 10

One of the Reasons Why

28th November 1990 50 mins Season 9 Episode 10

Charles Wheeler tells how the colonial policy of the post-war Labour government led to the start of a 30-year war in Vietnam.

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Season 9 · Episode 11

White Man's Grave, Black Man's Grave

On January 23 1915, black insurgents broke into a house on the biggest plantation in British colonial Nyasaland. The rebels killed the white manager, cut off his head and carried it home. The planter's name was William Livingstone. The rebel leader was the black Baptist pastor, John Chilembwe. Two men trapped by a clash of civilizations.
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