Hello, you're listening to We Are History. I am Angela Barnes.

And I'm John O'Farrell.

Yay!

We are doing an episode this week where we're just catching up with...

It's the end of Black History Month.

So we're a little bit late with our history homework.

Sorry.

But we are getting there.

We wanted to pick a story that was a very British story and sort of relevant today in

black British history. Raising a couple of kids in a South London state school. They did loads of

black history, but it was always Rosa Parks. It was always Martin Luther King. It was always like,

oh, racism is over there. You know, we're going to tell you about... It doesn't happen here. I don't know if that was the intention, but I think that was the sort of byproduct of it.

So we're doing a story about British racism with a nod to that stuff I was just talking about.

This is a story, John.

I'd never heard of.

I'd never heard about the Bristol Bus Boycott until you suggested it as an episode.

Okay. Well, we're going back to 1960s and although we should tip our hats to Alabama in the

1950s and if Angela's very good, we'll go back even further because she likes a bit of

background. We might mention Ireland in the 1870s. But the Bristol boycott itself happened in

1963. Which incidentally, John, is the same year as the subject of our very first episode, which

was Profumo.

Oh, yes.

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