Journey into the past
What's on TV|October 16, 2021
Hugh Quarshie and David Harewood discover their ancestral links to slavery…
JUDY EWENS
Journey into the past

NEW FACTUAL 1000 Years a Slave

Tuesday, 10 pm Channel 5

Back in 1977, the US miniseries Roots told the story of the enslavement of author Alex Haley’s African ancestor Kunta Kinte through to his descendant's liberation and became a global hit.

Now, a four-part series is sending famous faces on similar journeys, to discover their personal relationship to the evil 1,000-year history of slavery.

This story is from the October 16, 2021 edition of What's on TV.

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