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The Makers of the Colony Documentary Answer Questions

The makers of a documentary about the history of eugenics in the US respond to listeners.

The documentary The Colony tells the story of a eugenics programme which began almost 100 years ago in Virginia, USA. It saw around 70,000 people forcibly sterilised and it only came to an end in 1979. Independent radio producers, Peter Lang-Stanton and Steven Jackson got together to make the programme which had many of you wanting to know more. We put listeners' questions to them.

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