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Topic Originator: veteraneastender
Date: Sun 3 Feb 23:13
Monday at 12:50pm.
About Jackie Robinson the first black player in Major League Baseball - highlights the racial issues of the period.
Don’t be put off if you don’t like baseball, that is background setting.
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Topic Originator: calpar
Date: Mon 4 Feb 01:29
Pbs america 😂
Goodlife and fawlty towers, make me larf
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Topic Originator: veteraneastender
Date: Mon 4 Feb 09:40
Maybe they broadcast different stuff in the USA ?
Or you are thinking of BBC America perhaps ?
Largely documentary and historical content here from what I've seen.
An excellent programme on Prohibition recently.
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Topic Originator: elvis_lives
Date: Mon 4 Feb 10:03
All the Ken Burns films are excellent.
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Topic Originator: veteraneastender
Date: Tue 5 Feb 18:31
Absolutely, the Civil War series was superb.
The Jackie Robinson story was fascinating, a very brave man to breach the unwritten colour ban in MLB.
I knew he had been court martialed (not guilty) as an officer in the US Army 1944 for refusing to move seat on a bus on a military camp.
Did not know his older brother Mark was a silver medalist at the 1936 Olympics - would have been gold except Jesse Owens was also in the 200 sprint.
Or that Joe Louis had pulled strings to get him a commission in the military.
The programme was an expose of racism in its various ugly forms in the USA at the time.
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