FIRST THEY IGNORE YOU: Part Three - The Fight For Race Equality in the UK
Reasons Revisited
Geoff Lloyd
4.8 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 6 December 2021
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
In the latest episode of our series about progressive advances, we're taking a look at the history of the fight for race equality in the UK. It is one that goes back centuries but we want to explore what progress has really been made in modern times and what have been the drivers--the combination of activism, movements, law and cultural change both in the UK and abroad.
This week's guests are historian and activist Patrick Vernon, Sunder Katwala director of the think tank British Future and Diane Abbott ---we hear her story of being the first black woman to be elected to Parliament.
Plus, Ed and Geoff discuss hair salon etiquette.
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| 0:00.0 | This is reasons to be cheerful with Ed Millivand and Jeff Lloyd. |
| 0:12.0 | Hello. |
| 0:13.0 | Hello, well there. |
| 0:14.8 | Somebody must be having new business cards printed? |
| 0:17.4 | Yes, D.D. |
| 0:19.0 | What is this new Shadow Department called then? |
| 0:22.2 | It's one of those things that trips off the tunnel. |
| 0:25.5 | Go on. |
| 0:26.5 | Shadow Secretary of Climate Change and Net Zero. |
| 0:30.6 | DCCNZ. |
| 0:32.7 | And in government it will be the first Department of Net Zero in the world I believe. |
| 0:36.4 | That's incredible. |
| 0:37.8 | Yeah. |
| 0:38.8 | That's exciting. |
| 0:39.8 | And internally are you calling that Ducans? |
| 0:42.4 | Yes. |
| 0:43.4 | Exactly. |
| 0:44.4 | Trifts off the tongue. |
| 0:45.4 | In a way it reminds me of my old days setting up the Department of Energy and Climate |
| 0:50.8 | Change. |
| 0:51.8 | Oh my god it's like the Beatles and get back. |
| 0:53.6 | I mean that's what people are comparing it to actually. |
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