On this day 49 years ago, The BBC screens a documentary about a famine in the Wolo region. Scenes of starving Ethiopians are intercut with footage of Haile Selassie’s famously lavish banquets at his palace. He is deposed the next day.

Aug 26, 1974: The BBC screens a documentary about a famine in the Wolo region. Scenes of starving Ethiopians are intercut with footage of Haile Selassie's famously lavish banquets at his palace. He is deposed the next day.