The Independent - London, August 30th, 2002
TODAY'S BIG television shows often trade in nostalgia as one vintage programme after another is revived, but it would seem with one major exception. There is a revisionist history of television as we seem embarrassed that the UK ever watched The Black and White Minstrel Show, still less that it was the leading variety show in the 1960s. The controversy surrounding the show bewildered the mild- mannered arranger, George Mitchell, who certainly never meant to cause offence.
Mitchell was born in Falkirk in 1917 and grew up with a love of classical music. Except for two of his own records, his ch...
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