Skin

Country

United Kingdom

How it feels

This British programme was a TV magazine show for African-Caribbean and Asian audiences in London. It covered current events and cultural topics. The show aired on Sunday lunchtimes from 1980 to 1982.

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What happens

Skin was a British television documentary programme, aimed at a British African-Caribbean and British Asian audience, between 1980 and 1982. The half-hour programme was produced by London Weekend Television (LWT), and aired weekly on LWT in a Sunday lunchtime slot. Skin was the first production of LWT's London Minorities Unit (LMU). It introduced the current affairs magazine format later continued by programmes like Black on Black (1982), Ebony (1982), Bandung File and Black Bag (1991). (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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