The Empire Pays Back + Q&A

Robert Beckford, academic, theologian and award-winning film maker, introduces his hard-hitting documentary, which looks at how much Britain profited from the transatlantic slave trade. He argues that Britain should repay its debt to the descendants of slavery in the same way that the German government gave settlements to former slave labourers under the Nazis, and that an American bank funded a $5 million scholarship fund for Afro-American students. He also suggests that the British government should apologise and fund education and local projects that would be of benefit to the African and Afro-Caribbean communities. Dr Beckford discusses the film and the issues it raises in the Q&A.