Today's History Sunday 12 June, 2.00pm Channel 4 AJP TAYLOR described the 'People's Historian' talks about his new autobiography which have dominated his life.
Despite nIs faults, Taylor has done more to popularise history from a more-left-than-usual position than anyone else, and he is entertaining to watch.
Vietnam Monday 13 June, 9.00pm Channel 4 THIS column can't second therellen series too MUCH you've missed it, you've missed one of the best exposes of imperialism at work that's been made.
This week it looks at the effects of the war on Americans at home and the growth of the antimovement. There's brilliant film of the attack by Chicago Mayor Daly's police the outside the 1968 Democratic Convention.
Also covered is the killing of demonstrators at Kent State University by the national guard.
Red Monarch Thursday 16 June, 9.30pm Channer 4 PERHAPS they should have called this 'Stalin -the Movie' Makers Jack Gold David Puttnam describe it as a black comedy which revolves They have not been 'mere servants of the state' but they have 'offered their definition U WIl black people as a policing problem, definition which both reflected the institutionalised racism of the stale socier a large and reinforced it.
The book leaves no one doubt that it 1S the cystem SUCLEC which is racist and not just the odd bad apple, be that rotten apple a copper, a However the book is in part frustrating in that fails to support its claim for the central importance of racism 'to the struggle for social, economic and political freedom.
This is partly due to the book's failure to provide any historical background to racism in Britain and also to its fact-bound, empirical mode of argument.
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The aptly titled 'Whitelaw' by Paul Gordon is a book crammed with information about the racism