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Black GIs: Brown Babies and Broken Hearts (Ep 5)

12/22/2025 • 38 min

What does the hysteria around white women sleeping with Black GIs tell us about race and class in wartime Britain? Why were Black GIs banned from marrying their British sweethearts? What was the sad fate of many of the mixed raced babies left behind as a result of this encounter? Sarah Churchwell and David Olusoga tell the final chapter in the story of Black… Play episode

Black GIs: American Mutiny On British Streets (Ep 4)
Black GIs: The Battle of Bamber Bridge (Ep 3)
Black GIs: We Ain’t No Slaves, This Is England (Ep 2)
Black GIs: When Jim Crow Came To Britain (Ep 1)
Introducing: The Rest Is Science
Harriet Tubman: The Woman Who Led An Army (Ep 4)
Harriet Tubman: How Most Wanted Woman Never Got Caught (Ep 3)
Harriet Tubman: The Underground Railroad From Slavery To Freedom (Ep 2)
Harriet Tubman: The Freedom Fighter Who Escaped Slavery (Ep 1)
49. The Paris Commune: France Wages War On Its Own Capital (Ep 4)
48. The Paris Commune: Can The City Of Lights Govern Itself? (Ep 3)
The Paris Commune: The City That Ate Its Zoo (Ep 2)
The Paris Commune: France’s Bloodiest Revolution (Ep 1)
The Gunpowder Plot: Why Do We Remember The Fifth Of November? (Ep 4)
The Gunpowder Plot: Conspirators Caught Red-Handed (Ep 3)
The Gunpowder Plot: The Recruitment of Guy Fawkes (Ep 2)
The Gunpowder Plot: Britain’s Most Famous Traitors (Ep 1)
Salem Witch Trials: The Legacy (Ep 3)
How The Salem Witch Trials Became Deadly (Ep 2)
What Started The Salem Witch Hunt? (Ep 1)
The Man Behind Big Brother: Why We’re Hooked on Reality TV (Ep 4)
From Big Brother to Donald Trump: The Story of Reality TV (Ep 3)
Reality TV: The Art of Manipulation (Ep 2)
Why We’re Obsessed With The Traitors: The History of Reality TV (Ep 1)
Cotton Will Bring The World To its Knees: The Craziest Gamble in History (…
Prince Albert’s Dying Wish: Stopping An American-British War (Ep 2)
From Lincoln to Obama: A History of the Special Relationship (Ep 1)
Martin Luther King: I Have A Dream (Ep 2)
The March That Changed America (Ep 1)
The Downfall of Billy the Kid: Gun Fights and Prison Breaks (Ep 2)
Billy The Kid: The Outlaw Who Became A Legend (Ep 1)
The Trial That Made Hitler Famous (Ep 2)
The Failed Nazi Coup (Ep 1)
The Marketing of Fear: Selling Guns to America (Ep 3)
Cowboys, Gangsters, and Assassins: How Gun Laws Died (Ep 2)
The Gun Myth That Shaped A Nation (Ep 1)
The Great Fire: London Rises From The Ashes (Ep 2)
The Great Fire: London’s Burning (Ep 1)
How Sci-Fi Became Reality: The History of AI
The Wrath of God: England’s Greatest Natural Disaster (Ep 2)
England’s Hurricane: 10,000 Dead (Ep 1)
Britain vs America: The Deadly Culture War (Ep 2)
Carnage in New York: Killing Over Shakespeare (Ep 1)
Showdown at Sea: Pirates vs Bounty Hunters (Ep 2)
The Real Pirates of the Caribbean: Sex, Scandal, and the Golden Age of Pir…
The Woman Behind the Welfare State
Murder Trial of the Century: Execution, Dissection and Revenge (Ep 2)
Scotland’s Most Notorious Serial Killers (Ep 1)
1983: The World on the Brink (Ep 2)

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