Tessa Sanderson

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Tessa Sanderson (ATV Today)

Media Archive for Central England
Wednesfield
1977-11-10
Sound
6m

Balancing training with an office job, Wolverhampton's Tessa Sanderson is tipped to be the greatest javelin thrower ever.

With no sponsor and living at home in Wolverhampton Tessa Sanderson seemed an unlikely prospect for Olympic glory. But her drive and determination by 1977 had already taken her within a whisker of the javelin world record even though she had not won a major event. She had five more Olympic appearances ahead of her, including her gold medal success at Los Angeles in 1984, when she spoke to Lynda Berry of ATV Today.

Black Lives

Portraits of public and private lives against the shifting social climate of 20th century Britain.

Black communities, like many Global majority groups, have long been ill-served by a mainstream British media accustomed to reflecting predominantly white, middle-class lives - a problem entrenched in the second half of the 20th century with the rise of television. Yet a rich tapestry of work from across the boundaries of fiction and non-fiction, film and TV, made for (though not always by) black people, does exist. This selection contains many surprises – some joyous, some sobering, some heartbreaking – and highlights the often painfully slow progress in addressing negative representations and stereotypes on screen. Impassioned and sometimes violent dispatches from the front line in the fight for racial equality can be found here, but so too can records of progress: in the pioneers breaking new ground in culture, politics and sport, and in the more mundane glimpses of everyday life. And this story is not just London’s story: the selection takes a journey around Britain, to a Nigerian wedding in 1960s Cornwall, an ‘African village’ in Essex and a Caribbean restaurant opening in West Bromwich; Newcastle