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His Big White Self 9pm, More4 Nick Broomfield Week, celebrating the work of the documentary-maker, kicks off with this follow-up to his ground breaking 1991 film, The Leader, His Driver and the Driver's Wife. Broomfield returns to South Africa to meet again with Eugene Terreblanche (above), leader of the Afrikaner Resistance Movement (AWB), a paramilitary outfit that fought against democracy, and of course failed. Terreblanche has just been released from prison and is trying to reinvent himself in a country that has been transformed since the end of apartheid. -
The Plague 9pm, History This mammoth two-hour documentary looks at the virulent plague, the 15thcentury pandemic that wiped out almost half of Europe's population in the space of just three years. The Germans were quick to point the finger of blame at the Jews, going as far as burning them at the stake, even though they were dying of the virus themselves.See the full content of this document
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