Musical about the slave trade

Copies of programmes about the slave trade collected by Charles Parker, which were probably intended to be used as source material for his own programme about the slave trade, which was never made.

The programmes are 'The Colour War', by David Wheeler (1968);

'Let My People Go', a series of three programmes subtitled 'The Slave Trade', 'The Peculiar Institution', and 'Freedom is a Hard Road to Travel', a musical account of the history of black people in America written and produced by Charles Chiltern (1968);

‘I Have a Dream: a Portrait of Martin Luther King’, presented by Jonathan Parr, produced by Daniel Snowman, and broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on 4th August 1968;

'Violence in America' by H.C. Allen, transmitted on 18th August 1968;

'Black Power', a history of the Black Power movement in America, transmitted on 24th April 1968.

There is also a series of seven tapes labelled 'Slave Trade 1-7', which include interviews with Professor Dan Fader, Department of English, University of Michigan, and Charlotte Brooks, a teacher from Washington DC, about America, slavery, racism, and education, and an interview with the South African composer Tod Matshikiza about his musical 'King Kong'.

Scripts, transcripts, press cuttings, and other related paper material is at MS 4000/2/130.