BBC - Portillo's State Secrets: Series 1 (2015) Part 5 Sport and Politics
Portillo’s State Secrets: Series 1
Michael Portillo trawls through the National Archives at Kew in south-west London to dig out stories from previously classified documents.
Part 5: Sport and Politics
Portillo unearths documents from the National Archives revealing why Britain didn't boycott Hitler's Olympics, Churchill's attempt to ban the world's first black heavyweight champion, and a royal proclamation to ban football.
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