Inside Story

Inside Story· Season 5 · Episode 1

Behind The Front

S05E01·February 15, 1978·BBC One

On one day in October last year 7,000 policemen were on the streets of Greater Manchester at a cost of over a quarter of a million pounds to defend the Englishman's right to free speech. But these Englishmen were members of the National Front, and their speeches - avowedly racist - would be in direct contradiction to the very idea of freedom. In 'the story of that day, and in interviews with the leaders and rank-and-file members of the National Front, a portrait emerges of England's fourth largest political party.

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