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You're listening to the Today Programme podcast from BBC Radio 4.

And this one brings you all the highlights from one of our Christmas guest editors.

The Formula One world champion, the man who won sports personality of the year this year,

Lewis Hamilton, who is increasingly doing quite a lot of

talking off as well as on the track. For his programme, he wanted us to explore black British history,

how it was taught, animal rights, a particular passion of his, the environment and the power of

sport. We'll hear from Lewis talking more about these themes at the

end of the podcast. 2020 was defined not just by the coronavirus and the lockdowns that followed,

not just by the search for a Brexit deal, but also by the global movement, Black Lives Matter.

Our guest editor today is the Formula One world champion and sports personality of

the year, Lewis Hamilton. He's been a prominent supporter of Black Lives Matter, taking the knee

on the grid and persuading his team Mercedes to adopt a black livery for the season. Brought up in

Stevenage by a black father and a white mother, he's argued that he didn't learn about his own

heritage at school. He's been speaking to Professor David Olusirgo, author of the Black

and British History Books about the impact of the killing of George Floyd in America and the

global protests. It unleashed. For me, it was, you know, it brought up a lot of emotion that what happened with George.

And I don't know how it was for other kids like me that had come through, you know, a normal

council estate and had certain experiences growing up in the UK.

All of a sudden, there's these things that have just been suppressed

of all this over my lifetime that I channeled into my passions, bubble to the surface. And I was

like, I can no longer stay quiet. And I know, I saw there's so many great people out there also

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