Hello, you're about to listen to Old Newscast.
This is our new style of podcast where we take a big moment from recent history and give it the newscast treatment,
almost as if it's happening in the news now.
And then we do a second episode where we look at the ripples that came out of that moment and what the consequences were further down the line.
And part one of each series will be available on Saturdays,
wherever you get your podcasts, with part two available on Sundays.
only on BBC Sounds.
Hello!
During the summer, Laura Kay's Sunday show is not on air,
but we didn't want to leave you in a newscast lurch at the weekend,
so we've recorded some more episodes of old newscasts in response to audience feedback saying you liked the previous episodes.
So over the next few weekends we're going to give you some of the most consequential news days,
the newscast treatment.
Basically the classic episodes of newscasts you get normally but looking at big momentous days from the past.
Today we are going to look at the 11th of February 1990.
That is the day Nelson Mandela was released from prison after 27 years behind bars.
Initially he'd been jailed
for using sabotage to resist South Africa's racist apartheid laws but this was the moment that he was finally free.
And we'll be talking through that moment and the many important moments that came afterwards with some of the BBC's best brains who experienced it all.
That's on this episode of Old Newscast.