''Skin'' was a British television documentary programme, aimed at a

British African-Caribbean British African-Caribbean people are an ethnic group in the United Kingdom. They are British citizens whose ancestry originates from the Caribbean or they are nationals of the Caribbean who reside in the UK. There are some self-identified Afro-C ...

and

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audience, between 1980 and 1982. The half-hour programme was produced by

London Weekend Television London Weekend Television (LWT) (now part of the non-franchised ITV London region) was the ITV network franchise holder for Greater London and the Home Counties at weekends, broadcasting from Fridays at 5.15 pm (7:00 pm from 1968 ...

(LWT), and aired weekly on LWT in a Sunday lunchtime slot.Eric Croston, 'Minority Television in Action', ''Television and Radio 1983'', December 1982
Republished
by transdiffusion.org, 21 May 2018. Accessed 24 July 2020. ''Skin'' was the first production of LWT's

London Minorities Unit London is the capital and largest city of England and the United Kingdom, with a population of just under 9 million. It stands on the River Thames in south-east England at the head of a estuary down to the North Sea, and has been a maj ...

(LMU). It introduced the

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magazine format later continued by programmes like ''

Black on Black ''Black on Black'' is an album by American country music artist Waylon Jennings, released on RCA Victor in 1982. Background By 1981, Jennings excessive lifestyle had caught up to him financially. Despite a string of #1 albums and sellout concer ...

'' (1982), ''Ebony'' (1982), '' Bandung File'' and ''Black Bag'' (1991).

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