1961: ROBIN DAY Visits FIDEL CASTRO's Cuba | Panorama | Classic BBC documentary | BBC Archive
By BBC Archive, April 8, 2024

"The most free man you can find in all America is the Cuban man." - Fidel Castro. Newsnight's Robin Day reports from Cuba on the changes that have taken place since Fidel Castro's revolution. Castro takes Day, and a group of international reporters - including the first American press to visit since the failed US-backed invasion - on a tour of some of the farms and villages of Cuba. The journalists are also brought to some of the sites of the aforementioned invasion, some of which still hold remnants of the battle. Day then conducts a brief interview with Castro, who responds to his questions in English. Can relations between the US and Cuba be repaired? Are reports of economic struggles in Cuba true? Is Castro a Communist? Is Cuba neutral in the Cold War? Will Cuba hold democratic elections?Day then interviews a middle-class member of the citizens' militia, how does he feel about the revolution, and about Castro himself?Clip taken from Panorama, originally broadcast on BBC Television, 26 June, 1961.