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The first African to win the Nobel Peace Prize

The anti-apartheid campaigner, Albert Luthuli, plus a Neanderthal discovery, the first successful African-American crime writer Chester Himes and the reintroduction of beavers.

When Chief Albert Luthuli won the Nobel Peace Prize he was living under a banning order in rural South Africa. He won the prize for advocating peaceful opposition to the Apartheid regime. We hear from his daughter Albertina and speak to a South African historian about his legacy. Plus the cave discovery in France that changed the way we think about Neanderthals, the best-selling African-American crime writer Chester Himes, celebrating 100 years since a cinematic first and the reintroduction of beavers that's helping restore Scotland's ecosystem.

(Picture: Albert Luthuli receives the Nobel Peace Prize in 1961. Credit: Keystone/Hulton Archive)

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53 minutes

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Tue 15 Dec 2020 00:06GMT

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