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David Olusoga Lays Bare British TV’s Racism Problem In Blistering Edinburgh TV Festival Address

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Jake Kanter International TV EditorBritish historian and producer David Olusoga has delivered an excoriating assessment of race and racism in the UK television industry in a deeply personal address at the Edinburgh TV Festival.The A House Through Time presenter delivered the MacTaggart Lecture on Monday, the centerpiece address for the entire festival, which is being hosted online this year amid the coronavirus pandemic.Olusoga opened up about his own experiences of racism and inequality, including seeing Black colleagues being served food after their white counterparts while filming on a reconstructed slave plantation in Jamaica.

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