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Respect was a ground breaking seven part documentary
Documentary film

Documentary film is a broad category of visual expression that is based on the attempt, in one fashion or another, to "document" reality. Although "documentary film" originally referred to movies shot on film stock, it has subsequently expanded to include video and new media productions that can be either direct-to-video or made for a televis...
 television series featuring some of the biggest names in British
United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom , the UK or Britain,is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe....
 sport and was screened each Sunday at 5.00pm in the Central
Central Independent Television

Central Independent Television, more commonly known as just Central and now ITV Central, is the United Kingdom ITV contractor for English Midlands, created following the restructuring of Associated TeleVision and commencing broadcast on 1 January 1982....
 region during November/December 1995.

Produced at Central Independent Television
Central Independent Television

Central Independent Television, more commonly known as just Central and now ITV Central, is the United Kingdom ITV contractor for English Midlands, created following the restructuring of Associated TeleVision and commencing broadcast on 1 January 1982....
 studios in Birmingham
Birmingham

Birmingham is a city status in the United Kingdom and metropolitan borough in the West Midlands of England. Birmingham is the most populous of England's English Core Cities Group, and is the List of United Kingdom cities by population British city after London, with a population of 1,010,200 ....
, the series of half hour programmes focussed on sportspeople of African Caribbean origin who have gained "respect
Respect

Respect is esteem for, or a sense of the worth or excellence of, a person, a personal quality, ability, or a manifestation of a personal quality or ability....
" through their single minded determination to their chosen sport.

Subjects in the series were Lennox Lewis
Lennox Lewis

Lennox Claudius Lewis, Order of Canada, Order of the British Empire is a retired boxing who won gold for Canada at the Boxing at the 1988 Summer Olympics as an amateur boxing....
 (Boxing), Judy Simpson
Judy Simpson

Judith Earline Veronica Simpson , is a former British heptathlon. She competed in three Commonwealth Games, 1982, 1986 and 1990, winning a silver, gold and bronze respectively in the heptathlon....
 (Athletics), Martin Offiah
Martin Offiah

Martin "Chariots" Offiah Order of the British Empire is an English former rugby league and, briefly, rugby union footballer of the 1980s, 90s and 2000s....
 (Rugby league), Diana Bowles (Disabled Tennis), Tony Daley
Tony Daley

Anthony Mark Daley is an England former football , who made the vast majority of his appearances for Aston Villa F.C., playing mainly as an out-and-out winger , known for his pace....
 (Football), Gladstone Small
Gladstone Small

Gladstone Cleophas Small is a former English cricket team cricketer.Small moved to England shortly after his 14th birthday, usually the point after which a change of nationality is not permitted....
 (Cricket) and John Regis
John Regis (athlete)

John Lyndon Regis Order of the British Empire is a retired England Athletics . He mainly competed in the 200 metres and was the first British athlete to run under 20 seconds for the distance....
 (Athletics).






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Respect was a ground breaking seven part documentary
Documentary film

Documentary film is a broad category of visual expression that is based on the attempt, in one fashion or another, to "document" reality. Although "documentary film" originally referred to movies shot on film stock, it has subsequently expanded to include video and new media productions that can be either direct-to-video or made for a televis...
 television series featuring some of the biggest names in British
United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom , the UK or Britain,is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe....
 sport and was screened each Sunday at 5.00pm in the Central
Central Independent Television

Central Independent Television, more commonly known as just Central and now ITV Central, is the United Kingdom ITV contractor for English Midlands, created following the restructuring of Associated TeleVision and commencing broadcast on 1 January 1982....
 region during November/December 1995.

Produced at Central Independent Television
Central Independent Television

Central Independent Television, more commonly known as just Central and now ITV Central, is the United Kingdom ITV contractor for English Midlands, created following the restructuring of Associated TeleVision and commencing broadcast on 1 January 1982....
 studios in Birmingham
Birmingham

Birmingham is a city status in the United Kingdom and metropolitan borough in the West Midlands of England. Birmingham is the most populous of England's English Core Cities Group, and is the List of United Kingdom cities by population British city after London, with a population of 1,010,200 ....
, the series of half hour programmes focussed on sportspeople of African Caribbean origin who have gained "respect
Respect

Respect is esteem for, or a sense of the worth or excellence of, a person, a personal quality, ability, or a manifestation of a personal quality or ability....
" through their single minded determination to their chosen sport.

Subjects in the series were Lennox Lewis
Lennox Lewis

Lennox Claudius Lewis, Order of Canada, Order of the British Empire is a retired boxing who won gold for Canada at the Boxing at the 1988 Summer Olympics as an amateur boxing....
 (Boxing), Judy Simpson
Judy Simpson

Judith Earline Veronica Simpson , is a former British heptathlon. She competed in three Commonwealth Games, 1982, 1986 and 1990, winning a silver, gold and bronze respectively in the heptathlon....
 (Athletics), Martin Offiah
Martin Offiah

Martin "Chariots" Offiah Order of the British Empire is an English former rugby league and, briefly, rugby union footballer of the 1980s, 90s and 2000s....
 (Rugby league), Diana Bowles (Disabled Tennis), Tony Daley
Tony Daley

Anthony Mark Daley is an England former football , who made the vast majority of his appearances for Aston Villa F.C., playing mainly as an out-and-out winger , known for his pace....
 (Football), Gladstone Small
Gladstone Small

Gladstone Cleophas Small is a former English cricket team cricketer.Small moved to England shortly after his 14th birthday, usually the point after which a change of nationality is not permitted....
 (Cricket) and John Regis
John Regis (athlete)

John Lyndon Regis Order of the British Empire is a retired England Athletics . He mainly competed in the 200 metres and was the first British athlete to run under 20 seconds for the distance....
 (Athletics). The narration was provided by sports presenter Garth Crooks
Garth Crooks

Garth Anthony Crooks Order of the British Empire is a retired England Football player of Jamaican ancestry. He currently works in broadcasting with the BBC as a journalist....
.

Says series producer and director Pogus Caesar
Pogus Caesar

Pogus Caesar is a United Kingdom artist, television producer and director. He was born Pogus Elroy Caesar in St Kitts, West Indies, and grew up in Birmingham, England....
. "Over the past decade Britain has seen the tremendous impact and contribution of black people in sport on a worldwide scale.

"This will be the first series of its type which concentrates exclusively on black sports people, looking at their life stories and lifestyles and perhaps more importantly finding out what gives them the will to win." - contributors to the series included Sharron Davies
Sharron Davies

Sharron Elizabeth Davies, Order of the British Empire is a successful swimming from the United Kingdom. Having won two gold medals at the Commonwealth Games and a silver at the Swimming at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, Davies has built a successful second career as television presenter and patron for charities for disabled children an...
, Ian Botham
Ian Botham

Sir Ian Terence Botham, Order of the British Empire is a former English cricket team Test Match cricketer and Test team captain, and current cricket commentator....
, Nigel Benn
Nigel Benn

Nigel Benn is an England former Boxing who held world titles at both middleweight and super middleweight and was known as "The Dark Destroyer." He also served in Her Majesty's Armed Forces....
, Henry Cooper
Henry Cooper

Henry Cooper may refer to:*Henry Cooper , British boxer*Henry Cooper from Tennessee*Henry Cooper , English recipient of the Victoria Cross...
, Denise Lewis
Denise Lewis

Denise Lewis Order of the British Empire is a British athletics who specialises in the heptathlon. Her greatest triumph was winning the gold medal at the 2000 Summer Olympics....
, John Barnes
John Barnes (footballer)

John Charles Bryan Barnes MBE is a Jamaica-born former professional English football player whose most successful spells were for Watford F.C....
, Roger Black
Roger Black

Roger Anthony Black Order of the British Empire is a retired United Kingdom Athletics who now works as a television presenter and motivational speaker....
 and Kriss Akabusi
Kriss Akabusi

Kriss Kezie Uche Chukwu Duru Akabusi Order of the British Empire is a former Athletics who went on to become a television presenter and motivational speaker....
.

Respect was produced and directed by Pogus Caesar
Pogus Caesar

Pogus Caesar is a United Kingdom artist, television producer and director. He was born Pogus Elroy Caesar in St Kitts, West Indies, and grew up in Birmingham, England....
, and is a Carlton Television
Carlton Television

Carlton Television is the United Kingdom ITV Broadcast license for Greater London and parts of Home counties from 9:25am every Monday to 5.15pm every Friday....
 UK production and a Central Independent Television
Central Independent Television

Central Independent Television, more commonly known as just Central and now ITV Central, is the United Kingdom ITV contractor for English Midlands, created following the restructuring of Associated TeleVision and commencing broadcast on 1 January 1982....
 programme.