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Fifty years on from the implementation of the 1965 Race Relations Act, what's changed in Britain?
The Act banned racial discrimination in public places and the law was later strengthened. But what has its lasting impact been on race relations, half a century on? An invited studio audience share their experiences with Phil Williams.

Dr Omar Khan from the race equality think tank the Runnymede Trust and academic Dr Nasar Meer from the University of Strathclyde discuss the findings of a new 大象传媒 poll on race relations.
Leading human rights solicitor Sir Geoffrey Bindman - legal adviser to the Race Relations Board for a decade - explains the background to the legislation.

Sam King shares his experience of arriving in the UK on the Empire Windrush in 1948, the moment which marked the start of modern day mass immigration to Britain.

And Birmingham's former Poet Laureate Roy McFarlane gives his take on race relations in Britain in a performance poem.

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