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Podcast: Wild Tales | Nature Podcast
Episode: WWII ‘Brown Babies’ | A Hidden History
Description: Historian David Olusoga tells the story of the children born to white British mothers and black American servicemen during the Second World War, dubbed Britain’s ‘Brown Babies’ in the African American press at the time. Â
Carol and Ann, now in their 80s, revisit their childhood home, Holnicote House in Somerset. During the 1940s, the building was used for the care of around 30 children of black GIs, from birth to the age of five.     Carol and Ann were among some 2000 children born in wartime Britain to black GI fathers and white British mothers. Under many pressures in...