Hello and welcome to the History Hour podcast from the BBC World Service with me Max Pearson, the past brought to life by those who were there.

This week from the 1920s Arnold Funk, the German filmmaker who went to extraordinary lengths and heights to make his mountain movies.

It was something completely new.

This film showed pictures that no one had seen before.

Also, Beavers reintroduced to Scotland after 400 years.

Neanderthals redefined after 200,000 years, and the American crime writer Chester Himes rediscovered.

His father was a very, very dark skin man and his mother was a very, very light skined woman.

The sort of racial dynamics that were playing out across the country were also

reproduced within the family unit.

That's all coming up later in the podcast.

But we begin this week with a significant moment in the history of South Africa.

Ever since the end of colonial rule in the early part of the 20th century,

black South Africans by far the majority, who'd been denied voting rights and excluded from most land ownership, had campaigned

for a better deal.

The African National Congress came into being in 1912, but it was a relatively low-key

and nonviolent campaign.

However, despite the ANC's lack of success in overturning the racist power structure,

in 1960 the ANC leader, Chief Albert Lutuli, became the first African to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

He was recognised for his campaign of resistance to the White Supremacist apartheid rule.

In 2010, Rob Walker spoke to his daughter, Albertina Lutuli, about her father.

In years gone by, some of the great men of our century have stood here, right here, to receive this award.

It's December 1961, Chief Albert Lutoulli, the President General of the African National Congress,

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