Choosing what to watch night after night the flicking through the endless

searching is a nightmare we want to help you on our brand new podcast off the

telly we share what we've been watching

Cladie Aide.

Load to games, loads of fun, loads of screaming.

Lovely. Off the telly with me Joanna Paige.

And me, Natalie Cassidy, so your evenings can be a little less

searching and a lot more auction listen on BBC sounds This is the Witness History Podcast from the BBC World Service. I'm Frahana-Hey

and today we go back to the summer of 2001 when race riots gripped towns in the north of England.

The violence over a six week period in Oldham, Burnley and Bradford saw communities split along racial lines.

Right, serial sexy, Bravo, shields out of the van, and former behind these please. It was the worst writing Britain had seen for a generation.

Whenever I go back to old and whenever I go back to Bernie and whenever I go back to Burney and whenever I go back to Bradford,

I can still smell the smoke. I can still see the places where I had petrol bombs chucked at me. I can still hear the echoes of violence

and it's still something that I live with.

This is Barney Jowdrey.

In 2001, he was a BBC reporter and one of the few people

who had already been covering the rising racial tensions in Northern England

between white and South Asian communities in areas which were some of the most socially deprived in the UK. He was sent to report on the violence that broke out in

Oldham on May the 26th 2001. I got the phone call around about quarter to

midnight I had just gone to bed so I arrived in Oldham at around about 3 o'clock in the morning and all I could see was the town on fire and as I

reach glottic where the main things were happening, all I could smell was rubber,

and all I could see were giant, giant flames in the air.

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